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nprofile1qqs27aqdrx96hwx8hqks53ccav65hvlk47dfscumsh22tncnw89t4pgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs7amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd4hk6qgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejqz9nhwden5te0vejk2ern9ehx7um5wghxyctwvsqs7amnwvaz7tmndakx7cm09ehxcqpw562

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2026-03-26 08:31:00 UTC

"WIP vibed project showing how portable and composable Pubky data is."
https://playground.pubky.org/
https://pubky.app/post/gujx6qd8ksydh1makdphd3bxu351d9b8waqka8hfg6q7hnqkxexo/0034V7PXMDDS0

2026-03-26 08:09:54 UTC

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Monero is scarce. Scarce just means there is more demand than supply. Do you mean it doesn't have a fixed supply?
Gold has constant inflation, was used as money, and has held it's value for thousands of years. Total gold supply is also not directly auditable by anyone. I think Monero will be ok.

2026-03-26 06:58:08 UTC

New wallet
https://monero.one/
https://www.youtube.com/live/27gFfwr2qjo?si=Xd0gp-ijB786U0N0&t=6013

2026-03-26 06:52:44 UTC

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@nprofile…xlvn

2026-03-26 06:49:09 UTC

https://howtofixtheweb.com/

2026-03-26 06:48:18 UTC

Nostr vs Pubky: The Basics
https://pubky.app/post/gujx6qd8ksydh1makdphd3bxu351d9b8waqka8hfg6q7hnqkxexo/0034M0VM2ETV0

2026-03-26 06:13:09 UTC

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What is "functional money" and why can it never be that?

2026-03-24 07:40:12 UTC

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FYI if you run and connect to your own LWS you're not trusting anyone with your privacy and have no sync time. I havent tried it myself yet but @npub1nu7…ndfa has:
https://nostrudel.ninja/articles/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzp8euwghzsxupay6z7ku9f58mltj94q5vv2ykt5fyywzw2sxek9efqyvhwumn8ghj7mrfva58gmnfdenhyetvv9ujucm0d5hszxrhwden5te0dehhxarj9e3ksctfd4sju6twvehj7qq4x3gx7dz3varnjj6n09thq5rjw3xx7tfdv57uz4x0

2026-03-24 07:08:14 UTC

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Sidekick (Monerujo wallet) and Nero (Anonero wallet) are a couple others. Both work similarly to Cupcake.
There is also a Seedsigner fork called XMRSigner then forked again to MoneroSigner, but progress on that seems stalled. Not sure if it's abandoned or they're waiting until after FCMP upgrade to continue.
https://sidekick.monerujo.app/
http://anonero5wmhraxqsvzq2ncgptq6gq45qoto6fnkfwughfl4gbt44swad.onion/

2026-03-20 10:08:33 UTC

"Both Monero and Tor use Ed25519 elliptic curve cryptography. A Monero public spend key is mathematically identical to a Tor onion service public key. This means anyone can compute a deterministic Tor onion address directly from any Monero address.
Each MoneroDM instance runs a Tor onion service computed from the wallet's Monero spend/view keypairs. To send a message, MoneroDM computes the public onion address of the peer from the given Monero address."
https://monerodm.org/

2026-03-20 09:12:54 UTC

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The "Electronic" in "P2P Electronic Cash" already excludes physical cash
Can't send physical cash over the internet, instantly, and to anyone on the planet
Lightning privacy is too convoluted for most users. Most they can hope for is traditional bank level privacy (bank sees everything, public cannot). It's pretty good if you know what you're doing though.

2026-03-14 05:38:32 UTC

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#nevent1q…2aec

2026-03-13 06:45:41 UTC

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Anything we use criminals are going to use. Can't stop that with anything in life especially in open and permissionless systems (which is itself a defense for everyday people against even more powerful criminals). Overwhelming majority are normal users though.

2026-03-12 06:04:00 UTC

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Yea admittedly the UX for this stuff isn't quite there yet if you're used to exchanges. Trocador might be the easiest, quickest, and cheapest to use among these, but you're trusting a single swap provider not to freeze your funds during the swap (although they rate the chance of that happening for each swap provider). Eigen is probably the most trustless method followed by bisq/retoswap/robosats (because it's a multisig so you're relying on cooperation from arbitrators if something happens). Never had a problem with any of them myself though.
Here is the latest news about Thorchain adding XMR from a few days ago. Basically they're hoping to get it out sometime in 2026 but it's privacy properties and multisig makes it a little more complicated than other blockchains to implement:
https://xcancel.com/THORChain/status/2030831688532762713?s=20

2026-03-11 05:51:57 UTC

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Hey @npub1ge0…jcs3 think you can help him out?
If you can't find an answer on here I would recommend going to the Monero group on SimpleX and just ask the group in general. I'm sure someone will have an answer for you.
https://smp4.simplex.im/g#YdVKQcI2JIZuTzfFlQfhNg-SnNaxA73sBH1A9YY4vqE

2026-03-11 05:26:54 UTC

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Do you want fiat to XMR? Or crypto to XMR?
Fiat to XMR:
-Retoswap (Haveno)
-XMRBazaar
Crypto to XMR:
-Trocador (Almost any crypto to XMR. Simple to use swap aggregator)
-Bisq (BTC to XMR. Simple enough but you migh have to wait for someone to take your offer if you don't like any of the current rates)
-Retoswap (Crypto to XMR. Same as above)
-Robosats (Lightning to XMR. Same as above)
-EigenWallet (BTC atomic swaps. Simple to use. Fees aren't the cheapest, but also not crazy either)
All are no KYC.
Thorchain and SeraiDEX are also on the horizon for easy to use crypto to XMR swaps just something to keep in mind for the future.
https://retoswap.com/
https://xmrbazaar.com/search/buy-exchange/
https://trocador.app/
https://bisq.network/
https://eigenwallet.org/
https://learn.robosats.org/docs/quick-start/
https://kycnot.me/?categories=exchange&categories=aggregator&currency-mode=or&currencies=xmr

2026-03-08 11:33:19 UTC

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I tried it with two new freshly signed up nostr accounts on different devices and it worked without a problem. Not sure why yours isn't. Try restarting and sign up with a fresh account instead of using this one? Just for troubleshooting purposes. I'm curious if it will work

2026-03-08 11:12:46 UTC

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Sure I just sent you a message did you get it?

2026-03-08 09:23:51 UTC

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Weird 🤔

2026-03-08 07:31:44 UTC

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Better at what?
Both have confidential txs. Monero adds one time stealth addresses and ring signatures in addition to obscure the transaction graph (Liquid doesn't). Monero wins that hands down and soon to have full chain membership proofs to completely hide it. I don't think Liquid even has plans to improve privacy afaik.
Liquid daily transactions are significantly less so it's anonymity set is much smaller.
Liquid has no p2p market presence. Not really used anywhere.
Both have low fees.
Liquid requires permission from a federation to peg out.
All Liquid really has going is it's value peg to Bitcoin if you held for the long term (several years). But if I'm only holding and not using why not just hold actual Bitcoin? Short to medium term performance of Monero vs Bitcoin has been a toss up.

2026-03-08 01:59:20 UTC

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Here lets test it add me and send me a message
https://files.sovbit.host/f76562ad30120e99032d0ceee3de24a8b75e047f5696e83642544fa0abeb723f.png

2026-03-04 09:29:20 UTC

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Is there any reason for the XMR step? Seems unnecessary if you're not starting off with it.
Swap BTC on-chain to LN with Trocador, Robosats, or Boltz.
Or go fiat to LN directly with Robosats.
https://trocador.app/
https://learn.robosats.org/docs/access/#-robosats-federated-client-with-tor
https://boltz.exchange/

2026-03-03 07:00:32 UTC

https://blog.cakewallet.com/lightning-is-finally-here/

2026-03-01 04:43:22 UTC

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Sim, o meme é estúpido. Embora eu não considere o Monero particularmente caro para usar, ele pode custar menos de um centavo. E Dash PrivateSend é apenas um coinjoin glorificado.
Use qualquer ferramenta que atenda ao seu objetivo ou às demandas de uma situação específica. Se a privacidade for uma prioridade, use Monero. Se isso não importa, use Dash.

2026-02-28 07:09:18 UTC

https://xcancel.com/shopinbit/status/2026996307030638927?s=20
https://files.sovbit.host/6c5fdb8a09f45978b0bac3829fb3ff41f1a4a9ab73a242027c47dd8209acc4b6.jpeg

2026-02-27 06:16:08 UTC

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I relistened to that Bitcoin Takeover episode you linked the other day with Voskuil and John. Great conversation!

2026-02-27 06:08:30 UTC

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https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Bitcoin-Labels

2026-02-26 09:10:39 UTC

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If you value lower fees over quicker trades, I don't think there is really any other way besides making an offer and waiting. Seems like an inevitable trade-off. I don't mind waiting days for someone to take a trade but that's just me. Hopefully Serai and Thorchain will bring more liquidity and cheaper fees should follow.

2026-02-21 11:24:20 UTC

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https://monstr.land/

2026-02-20 06:41:20 UTC

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Many ways to get ahold of Monero. For most it's probably simpler to buy a different major cryptocurrency like Bitcoin or Litecoin from an exchange and swap using Trocador or another swap provider. Or you could buy it directly with Retoswap/Haveno without KYC.
https://trocador.app/en/
https://retoswap.com/
https://kycnot.me/?categories=exchange&categories=aggregator

2026-02-17 06:22:45 UTC

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Users should be aware that doing this is great to save on fees but terrible for privacy

2026-02-15 06:40:04 UTC

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It hides amounts and addresses on-chain. A lot better privacy than the vast majority of blockchains, but it doesn't do anything to hide the transaction graph for an active adversary monitoring the mempool (which you would have to assume) like ring signatures, shielded zk, FCMP does
I don't think there are any plans to use MWEB on Bitcoin but it would be relatively trivial to implement since Litecoin has an almost identical codebase
MWs real strength is it's scalability via "cut-through" though. I think the whole history is like a few hundred MB. The privacy it offers is kind of secondary and a consequence of that. Really good privacy but not the best when compared to other stuff out there right now.
Imo if the goal is private transactions Bitcoin should adopt something like shielded pools on Zcash (which was pretty much made for Bitcoin). It would be roughly as easy to implement, superior privacy to MWEB, preserves the 21 million cap with turnstiles, and it's optional so those who don't trust it wouldn't have to touch it. Scalability is not nearly as good as MWEB though. Shielded client-side validation (Shielded CSV) is another good option from what i understand.

2026-02-14 05:45:15 UTC

Interesting new Monero wallet
https://monero.one/

2026-01-23 05:47:18 UTC

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Same. This guy thinks I don't use Lightning. I'm just being upfront about the weaknesses. Neither Monero or Lightning is perfect and has their own pain points.
Off the top of my head routing is constrained by liquidity so it limits your potential paths to a destination instead of being chosen at random (ideal case for onion routing). The effect becomes more pronounced the larger the payment that you're sending. The more channels a node has on the network, and lower the fees, the more likely it is going to be chosen to be a hop on your route.
I already mentioned this but Lightning amounts aren't encrypted. MPP helps a lot for all this, but still reveals a lower bound and also isn't default for the network. More adoption of blinded paths would also help (preferably default). Something that affects both Tor and LN is that there is no mixing or dummy traffic/transactions which would make it even better from a privacy perspective. But I'm not sure if that is even possible on LN the way it is designed at least.

2026-01-23 05:06:50 UTC

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Even when using it perfectly onion routing has plenty of flaws. And there are many differences between how routing works on Tor vs Lightning that are detrimental to privacy. You can get defensive and pretend they don't exist if you want.
https://github.com/Attacks-on-Tor/Attacks-on-Tor

2026-01-22 10:49:57 UTC

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If you don't care about privacy weaknesses of something youre using, like others knowing your balance, nodes being able to see amounts passing through them, or the fact that merely 1% of nodes own 99% LN liquidity and the impliciations of that, you shouldn't care I guess

2026-01-22 05:49:33 UTC

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The blocksize grows or shrinks based on median number of transactions is pretty much the gist of it. There is a penalty against miners for increasing it too fast and a short, medium, and long term formula for how it works but that gets into the technical weeds.

2026-01-22 05:28:17 UTC

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Fees will always remain relatively low on Monero because of dynamic blocksize. But I do think ecash has it's own unique benefits for a different use case like micro transactions, no public blockchain, instant and offline payments, etc

2026-01-20 05:56:36 UTC

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Probably timing and amount analysis
Pretty trivial for anyone monitoring the chain if they see for example 1.52334 BTC move once then shortly after another address moves the exact same amount minus fees. High likelihood it's the same user. There was a recent example of this with a Zcash whale moving from transparent address to shielded and back.
You can use Monero to break links, but it takes a bit more consideration than a simple swap back and forth (break into different amounts on the swap back, swap at different times, different IP addresses or Tor, etc)
https://x.com/emmettgallic/status/2007137382337040835

2026-01-19 06:28:01 UTC

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Lightning leaks payment amounts to every node on a route and has no receiver privacy
Both have their flaws

2026-01-18 04:11:40 UTC

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Gold mining is similar. Small amount of inflation.
Decentralized, predictable, and requires PoW (all exact opposite of fiat)

2026-01-17 05:19:20 UTC

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Not exactly technically but maybe "default coinjoin" is a useful analogy when explaining it to someone newer... though unlike coinjoins, amounts are hidden and address reuse on-chain is made impossible.

2026-01-16 05:30:56 UTC

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Yep. This is a good analogy of the relative difficulty and tedium of using LN. I rather just use my hands to eat bro.

2026-01-16 05:17:12 UTC

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It's called Garnet but it's severely out of date
Heres a couple newer ones. They're not apps though:
https://monstr.land/
https://nosmero.com/

2026-01-14 05:17:46 UTC

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Running your own mint defeats the whole point of having a large anonymity set of users to hide among.
Using someone elses mint means you give up on self-custody. Different use case from Monero.

2026-01-14 05:05:58 UTC

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Yep since Nostrs inception

2025-12-28 04:59:46 UTC

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In that first video he also says:
"Your average Monero person is much more likely than your average Bitcoiner to value: privacy, freedom, cypherpunk values, not bootlicking politicians, etc"
You can also still hold Bitcoin and have a small stack of Monero for spending privately. It's very likely you still use fiat or have other assets that aren't Bitcoin. Same concept but for Monero.

2025-12-25 03:19:13 UTC

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Retoswap or Bisq probably
https://retoswap.com/

2025-12-13 04:13:46 UTC

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Another option is buying from crypto ATMs, but they're usually quite expensive and have limits on how much you can buy without KYC
https://coinatmradar.com/

2025-12-13 04:10:15 UTC

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Bisq, Retoswap, and Robosats are probably the most popular ways to get Bitcoin/Monero using fiat without KYC
If you already have Bitcoin and want some no-KYC Monero you can use the above three too. Or for a quick swap you can use an aggregator like Trocador.app
A third way is selling good and services on https://xmrbazaar.com/

2025-12-08 03:50:20 UTC

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Honestly what's the difference? Using Monero is voluntary just like interest from lending and borrowing.
If you don't like the interest don't take out the loan. If you don't like Moneros tail emission don't use it.

2025-12-07 02:24:06 UTC

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Liquid doesn't have permissionless exit so isn't a true sidechain.
Hidden inflation risk comes from cryptographic assumptions via confidential transactions (which Liquid also has).
You don't know what you're talking about.

2024-07-26 11:05:59 UTC

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What? Aren't layers literally all Bitcoiners talk about?
You already do this with lightning, ecash, liquid, etc. Those all introduce friction.
My on-chain address doesnt work if you want to pay me with any of those.

2024-07-26 08:50:09 UTC

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This guy just learned about Monero yesterday and is here to tell you everything wrong with it

2024-06-29 09:36:16 UTC

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I'm sure something will be figured out to further reduce the risks of both, but I don't think these fundamental risks will ever be completely eliminated imo

2024-06-29 09:12:58 UTC

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Catch 22
Anon mint runners = greater risk of rugpull on users
Known mint runners = greater risk of regulators on mint runners (recent events i.e. Samourai, Phoenix, Wasabi, etc)

2023-11-13 22:55:40 UTC

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Default encryption > optional obfuscation

2023-11-02 07:28:11 UTC

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Yes, and consider how centralized and permissioned the backend software of your bank is. Complexity go up, decentralization go down. And that's exactly what we see with lightning. Overwhelmingly used custodially

2023-07-10 21:33:45 UTC

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Yes there are plenty of valid arguments for Monero. You're just a brainwashed NPC maxi parrot.
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Bitcoin default transparency will expose most users to censorship, discrimination, and real world danger.
Bitcoins future high tx fees will exclude 99% of the world from transacting on chain (highest security layer)
Bitcoin community pushes custodial solutions onto users like Wallet of Satoshi/Cashu/Fedi right now because UX for sovereign LN is garbage. Rug city.
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There are plenty more let me know.