papafigos
Papa Figos

(when figo (papa figo))

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2026-06-29 12:53:45 UTC

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my sweet summer child

2026-06-28 20:03:02 UTC

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BASED

2026-06-28 19:57:55 UTC

PSA: those bastards have no legitimacy. fuck them.
#nevent1q…nken

2026-06-28 19:55:15 UTC

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can't even tell if it's satire anymore

2026-06-28 12:38:31 UTC

this is leftism
#nevent1q…09f0

2026-06-26 15:49:10 UTC

does anyone still have any doubts what real users choose as digital cash?
every month the same, from literally every store that takes XMR and BTC.
only the Bitrefill move (don't list monero, even though they take dozens of shitcoins) yields a different result. the last maxi stance, cover eyes and ears and pretend Monero isn't a thing.
#monero
#nevent1q…9dm0

2026-06-25 00:50:26 UTC

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2026-06-24 00:06:57 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/lXk-pvCPIQwAAAAM/shiit-sheesh.gif

2026-06-23 00:02:41 UTC

this is leftism
https://xcancel.com/libsoftiktok/status/2069164091424358683

2026-06-21 02:41:39 UTC

seems to happen with alarming frequency.
#nevent1q…cqtp

2026-06-21 02:40:05 UTC

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sacrebleu!

2026-06-20 23:59:41 UTC

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no one dares speak of what happens in the monero closet

2026-06-20 23:20:58 UTC

this is leftism.
https://npub1r5yzptzufjehaduv3du9tlrav4ws9edwuu338s2a06haamc6xlfsf333vz.blossom.band/c1752cf8dcada74949be421da1e800e3a4ebdaf4a3de2ef18bf83cadf2ebbced.jpg
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2026-06-18 20:46:59 UTC

haven't heard much from the feminists on this one.
not hard to understand why. when ideology trumps reality, delusion damage inevitable occurs, and the cognitive dissonance of facing the simple fact that they've been had as useful idiots and have been parroting nonsense for decades proves too hard to bear.
and that, in a nutshell, is leftism - if you point it out, it's hate speech.
https://npub1r5yzptzufjehaduv3du9tlrav4ws9edwuu338s2a06haamc6xlfsf333vz.blossom.band/6f9d8c1040086950d5f6334f25675611cfa84dde02f4a02f4a0d080dcd72cf1b.jpg

2026-06-18 20:18:35 UTC

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https://media.istockphoto.com/id/1139787387/photo/red-bricks-wall.jpg?s=170667a&w=0&k=20&c=NYIv5HpyfoYnaJvriA3sCZb35ugYV5E9WulxAB-uR1Y=

2026-06-18 20:09:59 UTC

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https://archive.org/services/img/george-orwell-always-the-women

2026-06-13 01:28:14 UTC

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what's your story, man?

2026-06-11 16:45:06 UTC

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erm... sure.
but who's giving them the attention actually?
place the blame outside the locus of control, and you ensure what could actually be solved, never will be.
they are not denying anyone anything. people are willfully engaging with it and getting sucked in.

2026-06-11 12:04:55 UTC

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that's the big irony, isn't it?
they're all about free markets, until the market does the opposite of what they want.
then it's insults, ad hominems, and the good old Bitrefill move - just don't list monero, et voila, bitcoin is more used!
sad!

2026-06-10 23:51:42 UTC

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States predate corporations by at least several centuries, so your theory, is, you know, shit.

2026-06-10 23:04:45 UTC

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that the wallet will show you a new address every time the previous one gets funds in it.
previous addresses continue to work though.
also, for monero this behavior is not necessary. not sure if that's a new setting or something, but in any case, safe to ignore.

2026-06-10 23:03:14 UTC

this is leftism.
https://thelibertydaily.com/sickening-teen-athlete-says-she-was-sexually-assaulted/

2026-06-10 21:49:14 UTC

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yes + you don't nees to rotate addresses, monero addresses are meant to be reusable and no one can look up your balance.
what you need to be mindful of is using the same address in other contexts if you want to keep identities separates, but that is an offchain consideration.

2026-06-10 16:38:55 UTC

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push the limits, yeah... of the ego.

2026-06-09 23:34:42 UTC

leftism destroys everything!
#nevent1q…3x7u

2026-06-07 20:03:11 UTC

what an asshole, publishing a privste email and doxxing someone like this.
shame on you @nprofile…jp2l
#nevent1q…5pp8

2026-06-04 15:49:55 UTC

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noise and music are not the same thing.
money is a natural human invention, because we are intelligent social creatures who cooperate for mutual benefit, and bartering doesn't scale.
for a deaf animal (thought experiment) music would never be in the latent space of possibilities.
for a solitary animal that never cooperates, the same is true about money.
and neither music nor money are on the menu for an animal that is not intelligent enough to contemplate either.

2026-06-04 15:26:31 UTC

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Does music require instruments?
No, yet it's still a human invention/discovery.
Same as money.

2026-06-04 14:52:35 UTC

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music is a human invention too, is it fake and gay?
💎

2026-06-04 01:27:20 UTC

this is leftism.
#nevent1q…at00

2026-06-03 21:31:47 UTC

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yes, it's a disgrace.
this will wake up a lot of people.
leftism has its days counted.

2026-06-03 21:26:36 UTC

wow.
https://xcancel.com/visegrad24/status/2062107063560335680

2026-06-03 18:01:26 UTC

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you're probably right for most people, although I hope that you're not.
but for those who can leverage the tech.. godlike.

2026-06-03 14:40:45 UTC

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it's really just delegating and expanding cognitive ability.
i've been running similar experiments, with great success. I already know how to do it, but in training an army of slaves with precise instructions, they do it for me.
amazing times

2026-06-03 14:23:36 UTC

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it already has.
the cypherpunks moved on to #monero ages ago.
few understand this.

2026-06-03 00:03:27 UTC

this is leftism.
https://npub1r5yzptzufjehaduv3du9tlrav4ws9edwuu338s2a06haamc6xlfsf333vz.blossom.band/9bfd93f75930c1c136467f64e1bd5a07e43d553a9b30fdd45ff9d19417c0ff4c.jpg

2026-06-02 23:54:44 UTC

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imagine is was a black guy getting kicked in the head by the cops while down.
doesn't fit the leftist narrative, ignored by the media.
https://npub1r5yzptzufjehaduv3du9tlrav4ws9edwuu338s2a06haamc6xlfsf333vz.blossom.band/4cfa9b1eac866756a6e6325ac0b51f8a2dddc2a27a2c74c7599789297158716d.mp4

2026-06-02 23:51:35 UTC

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what the leftist says you are and do, the leftist is and does.
every single time.

2026-06-02 18:12:01 UTC

this is leftism.
leftism destroys everything.
https://npub1r5yzptzufjehaduv3du9tlrav4ws9edwuu338s2a06haamc6xlfsf333vz.blossom.band/9d5664b9cc4e078a522183b85fbe13d690564fefb5884e01dd2587918c8075a3.mp4

2026-05-31 20:41:57 UTC

up is down,
left is right,
and leftism destroys everything.
this is leftism.
#nevent1q…0nt4

2026-05-31 03:41:34 UTC

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and you call farming for attention and engagement "connection"?
I call it being unable to sit still with oneself.
trying to fill an inner void with something external (attention/validation, for example, but also, simply stimulation (the farming part) because many people can't be alone with themselves without driving themselves crazy).
it does not work, will never work, and can not work.
connection, yes. but if you're needy it's not because there aren't others around, it's because you're disconnected from the one presence that actually matters.

2026-05-31 01:20:04 UTC

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https://npub1r5yzptzufjehaduv3du9tlrav4ws9edwuu338s2a06haamc6xlfsf333vz.blossom.band/fa6b34d4807bd66b37b8d99415bbbdf40b19f0db699d3ca7b351ec360d6bbf39.jpg
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😂

2026-05-30 21:41:32 UTC

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incentives?
post if you want to, don't if you don't.
why are you trying to farm attention and engagement?

2026-05-30 17:35:40 UTC

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Luke is insane.
alwayshasbeen

2026-05-30 17:34:55 UTC

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that's the same logic as asking him to search your facebook messages and trace your social graph.
you're missing the point entirely. if you want privacy, don't use facebook. that some random guy online doesn't know or care enough about you to connect the dots, does not mean that your data is safe with facebook.
now swap facebook for 99.999% of cryptocurrencies. exact same idea.
it baffles my mind how most people don't seem to get this: if you're relying on obscurity in a public ledger, you may think you have privacy, but you don't.
want to send a secure email? use PGP, don't rely on SMTP encryption which is not end to end.
want to send a secure message? don't rely on facebook messenger, instagram, where your "privacy" amounts to "trust me bro".
want to send funds privately, anonymously and securely? don't rely on ethereum or bitcoin or 99.999% of "cryptos", use what works - #monero

2026-05-29 22:55:19 UTC

#monero is never down
#nevent1q…5qtw

2026-05-27 21:24:09 UTC

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it means you don't understand the difference between a tool that works and one that doesn't:
1: they want full surveillance so they can control you.
2: bitcoin has full transparency, so it enables full surveillance.
3: utxos they don't like or approve of, they block.
4: #monero has full opacity, so it enablea full privacy.
5: they can't distinguish what is and is not acceptable, and they can't respect your private property rights, and they stand by the inversion of the assumption of innocence.
6: they ban #monero altogether, because it's effective.

2026-05-27 21:10:29 UTC

dumb take; #monero is blacklisted because it works and is a threat to the totalitarian financial mass surveillance system that we live under.
bitcoin is embraced precisely because it has zero privacy, which makes it surveillable, which makes it controllable.
it's... really not hard to get.
#nevent1q…grnv

2026-05-27 16:17:12 UTC

let's try to understand something here.
the idea that a transparent surveillance machine can "defend" "human rights" is laughable on its face.
bitcoin is accepted everywhere and has been integrated into the legacy system precisely because it's not a threat to the system.
that's not "winning", that's being coopted. take a big guess at what would happen if bitcoin magically hard-forked to have real privacy and anonymity tomorrow: would the USA still talk about a strategic reserve? would exchanges in Europe still list Bitcoin? would banks still accept it? would the ETFs remain?
now, I'm not even saying those are bad things per se, in theory it's good for my bags too. but let's not pretend and let's not fool ourselves, bitcoin is more or less harmless, and hence it's not just tolerated, it's embraced.
therefore, obviously, it's a bad idea to use it for anything adversarial, and it doesn't take a wizard to understand why.
so, to the point here: this gladstein guy is either captured, highly ignorant, or a dangerous idealogue (possibly a combination of the last two). he promotes using a surveillance chain for work that might get you killed if you fuck it up. that's grossly negligent (or a honeypot).
ironically, zcash is indeed a much better tool here than bitcoin, and it's not even mutually exclusive: anyone evaluating the situation purely on technical merits would recognize that #zcash transactions between people for whom transaction privacy is not a nice addon, but might literally be the difference between life and death, and then through NEAR intents converting those funds to bitcoin (for long-term storage, much bigger network, much better security, and very likely more stable over time) as needed.
the full picture emerges: freedom tech chained, producing better outcomes for the individuals involved.
#monero of course is also an excellent tool, but the original post was about zcash, and also, to be fair, zcash did play the near intents + mobile integration story better than monero did, and that is, for the moment, a real advantage.
the point is simply this: it's irresponsible and dangerous to be blinded by maxi ideology like this guy is. again, assuming it's not an outright honeypot (and I mention that only because the level of incompetence seems rather high to be credible).
rather than giving people the best tools for the right jobs, idealogues have a one-stop solution for everything.
that's how they arrive at such idiotic conclusions as "a fully transparent chain is what human rights crusaders need in highly adversarial environments with potentially mortal consequences".
#nevent1q…3z7d

2026-05-27 14:10:36 UTC

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that is true, but not what's being discussed here (although a few don't seem to be able to see that).
all can be true simultaneously: cool tech, not decentralized, not a premine, bitcoin onchain for "human rights" = lol.
in fact, if you ask me, they are indeed all true simultaneously. but they needn't have been.
the focus here is that calling a dev tax a premine is incorrect, even if the end result turns out to be more or less the same (same in the sense insiders get a part of the supply, not the same in that the insider's supply comes at once (premine) or trickles slowly (dev tax).

2026-05-27 14:01:28 UTC

exact same mechanism why they ignore bitcoib's obvious nightmarish privacy issues, why they call #monero a shitcoin (foregone a priori conclusion, the cup is full, no new information will be entertained), and so on.
as always, it's the same root: ego. they're unconsciously merged with certain ideas, to the point the ideas are now part of their identity, which of course is a set of ideas that the ego dresses itself with; to attack the ideas, then, feels to beings so possessed like an attack on their very essence.
#nevent1q…4arw

2026-05-27 13:57:39 UTC

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see, that's your issue right there, and you seem to be blind to it. many others exhibited similar behavior.
you've already decided a priori that zcash is haram, and part of the haram is that it had a "premine" (except not really, it was a dev tax, not a premine, as I have established beyond reasonable doubt to anyone arguing in good faith).
so you want zcash to be "bad" as a foregone conclusion, and that's why you erroneously insist on the premine angle (it isn't, it's a dev tax), and why you've a) not rebuked my argument and b) deflected and whatabouted constantly on every round (like the other two guys).
to see the nuance is to potentially taint the haram label you've preemptively placed and already a priori concluded must be true, so you don't, and this makes your reasoning fallacious.
I invite you to do the following: read all my notes in this thread again, including the one you just replied to, and tell me where I:
1) claim or not claim that zcash had a "fair launch"
2) am defending zcash
3) claim or not claim that a dev tax is a reasonable thing.
you people are missing the entire point because your biases compromise your chain of thought. Juraj pointed that out, but you didn't listen. I'm pointing it out, but you're still not listening.
the full extent of what I have been saying is exactly what I have argued, not more, not less: it's innacurate and sloppy to call a dev tax a premine, for the reasons I've already explained and won't bother repeating again.
it's you who has a predetermined conclusion to prove which makes you put words in my mouth like saying I called zcash a fair launch - again, I invite you to tell us exactly where I claimed that.
you won't be able to, because I claimed no such thing.
the only thing I claimed, and I stand by it: calling a dev tax a premine is sloppy and innacurate.

2026-05-27 12:53:00 UTC

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yeah they don't, but also, I never said they had to.
why don't you address the rest of the argument? do you find fault with it?

2026-05-27 10:44:11 UTC

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as explained elsewhere: no, not a premine. and none of this is defending or not defending zcash by the way, it's defending truth and accuracy in language.
a PREMINE is when you MINE in secret/private before a launch to secure some supply for insiders.
a DEV TAX is when a portion of block rewards after launch is diverted to insiders.
the end result may be the same (insiders get part of the supply), but the mechanism IS NOT the same!
therefore, it's sloppy and innacurate to call them by the same name, which is what Juraj has been pointing out to you savages all along!
consider: one could even have a premine (portion mined in private before launch) along a dev tax (after launch, a portion of block rewards to insiders).
if you distort the language and call those two things the same, how could you speak about the case where they both happen?
think how normies routinely conflate price increases with "inflation". inflation is the.. well, inflation of the money supply. *that* causes prices to rise.
if you think sloppily about it, as most normies do, you never understand the cause, and you fall for things like " inflation is lower now" (no it isn't, the supply is permanently inflated, it's the rate of inflation, not inflation itself, that was allegedly lowered).
see where sloppily using language gets you? if the definitions are corrupt, you can't reason properly.
so use language properly. call this what is. a dev tax, not a premine.

2026-05-26 22:46:47 UTC

this is also leftism.
#nevent1q…78cq

2026-05-26 22:44:57 UTC

this too is leftism.
#nevent1q…7kjp

2026-05-26 22:42:44 UTC

and this is why #grapheneos has storage scopes
#nevent1q…lhtn

2026-05-26 17:42:31 UTC

globohomo Pope, just what the world needed!
#nevent1q…a5w6

2026-05-26 13:17:46 UTC

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some people are so arrogant because they're masking insecurity, that they will never admit they're wrong on something, as this would break their self-identity of "smart, confident".

2026-05-26 13:03:17 UTC

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I'm equal part skeptical and impressed by the whole ecash thing, but undoubtedly this is a step in the right direction.

2026-05-26 12:57:56 UTC

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"don't get into a semantics bullshit game", says the angry soyboy with an atitude problem before he entirely redefines what mining means.
everyone else is telling you something. your arrogance prevents you from listening. probably compensating for something there, eh?
call it a dev tax, which is what it is. if you call it a premine then congratulations, you've just erased the difference between mining in private before launch and allocating a portion of block rewards for development (neither of which I'm a fan of, but that's besides the point).
maybe that's good enough for you. for others who are more precise about language, semantics and etymology, it isn't.

2026-05-26 12:43:23 UTC

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Speaking of retarded, let me make it simple for you.
premine. pre, mined.
---
pre-, from the Latin proposition and adverb prae; meaning: before, in front of; covering both time (earlier than) and space (in front of, ahead of).
was some ZEC allocated before (prae) the mining?
no.
ergo, a premine it cannot be.
is that simple enough for you or should I try the eli5 version instead?

2026-05-25 18:32:05 UTC

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another option is that they're smarter and see nuance that you can't.

2026-05-25 12:03:08 UTC

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Great! So let the parents handle that, which is the right level of granularity.
NOT more government intrusion!

2026-05-22 15:37:07 UTC

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damn

2026-05-21 13:54:49 UTC

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to be fair, he's not attacking you, only the idea, so it's not an ad hominem in any sense.

2026-05-21 13:54:02 UTC

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and by safer they mean leftist-coded AI who reports you to the police if you ask "far right" questions.

2026-05-20 21:28:28 UTC

"Ah yes, people with arguments which my dogma-indiced cognitive dissonance won't allow me to process! I know what I will do, demonstrate to everyone how smart I am by loudly proclaiming how I mute anyone that makes me think outside of my comfort zone!"
#nevent1q…nc57

2026-05-20 17:17:07 UTC

it doesn't matter papi figos, you're being paranoid, no one would ever attempt to map out the tx graph in bitcoin.
it doesn't matter papi figos, there are no names associated with the addresses.
it doesn't matter papi figos, you just have to coinjoin and never mix outputs and separate everything properly forever and use tor and run your own node and run your own electrum server.
it doesn't matter papi figos, you just have to buy noKYC.
....
at which point are we going to understand that all of this predictably follows from radical transparency?
it was an experiment. a beta test. the architects themselves understood privacy was fundamental, or it would become a tool of oppression, not freedom.
none of it matters. 95% are not technical enough to reason from first principles, and 4.5% are captured, self-serving, and play tribal games.
it shouldn't be so hard to understand. but somehow it is.
you can't have privacy in your living room without the curtains. stop buying masks and rearranging furniture and just get some damn curtains.
#monero
https://npub1r5yzptzufjehaduv3du9tlrav4ws9edwuu338s2a06haamc6xlfsf333vz.blossom.band/0710f914abac74ea2c43d118f07d5d514da25c328bf9dd7abf501334a1122ed2.jpg

2026-05-20 16:50:11 UTC

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but do you need to flex, really?
or is that living for an image for other's benefit and one's own virtous self-image?
same thing (ego), different costumes.

2026-05-20 14:59:16 UTC

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Right. See, I was making one. Or two actually.
My note is not an opinion, is an argument. If you don't understand and don't want to engage in that, do us all a favor and abstain.

2026-05-20 13:37:51 UTC

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Great, now where's your argument or your rebuttal?

2026-05-20 11:31:42 UTC

not a coincidence the HRF is on https://moneroshamelist.com/
imagine, pretending to care about financial privacy, and never even mentioning the number one tool for that - #monero
whatever their motives (afraid of drawing attention? bitcoin maxis with an ideological agenda?), one thing is clear: this is what hypocrisy looks like.
#nevent1q…5anx

2026-05-20 11:23:44 UTC

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you're already whole. always have been, always will be, always already are.
it's the deluded thought that you need something external to fill an internal void (the exact distance to yourself being exactly proportional to the deluded belief that you need anyone to make you whole) that keeps you in that state.

2026-05-19 13:23:53 UTC

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Not true. Cake wallet, Stack Wallet allows you to point it to your own node.

2026-05-19 13:19:24 UTC

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The system exists, it's called monero.

2026-05-19 01:27:56 UTC

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onchain "zap"

2026-05-19 01:18:34 UTC

This is madness.
#nevent1q…0xc5

2026-05-18 22:24:08 UTC

Yo Alex, can we get your xpub?
Since you like the transparency so much.
Let's lead by example.
#nevent1q…l02x

2026-05-18 17:25:00 UTC

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When I *use* (rather than hodl) Bitcoin, I do similar things for similar reasons.
It's self-evident if you have the background knowledge.
But don't kid yourself, almost no one does.

2026-05-18 17:23:28 UTC

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They're years ahead and so advanced and used a stablecoin with a freeze function which - wait for it - got their stablecoins frozen in 24h or something.
Yeah man. State of the art. Like the political philosophy in the rest of your post.
lol.

2026-05-18 17:12:30 UTC

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I don't think this is accurate. You can still follow a chain of thought and evaluate it on purely logical grounds. And if you can't see the images in your mind, just write/draw them.
I actually know some people like that. They're not stupid, they just can't see images.
Another thing people often conflate is an untrained/noisy mind as being evidence of intelligence.
Maybe, maybe not. It can be, it can also not be.
And in either case it means your mind has not been trained by meditation.
A noisy overactive mind is not a blessing. It's *the* obstacle on the way to the inner stillness that you already possess.
But with the thoughts in the middle of it, you can't sense it.
That's not a virtue, that's torture. Even if you don't realize it.
Thinking is a tool. Think when you need to, but don't let the thinking run the show.
Presence and stillness is where it's at.

2026-05-18 17:04:49 UTC

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You should definitely hold gold, just understand the limitations because it's a physical asset.
Ditto for the internet, except it's not that simple. IPv6 was to have mandatory encryption. It didn't, can you guess who influenced that decision?
It's no big conspiracy that the internet is not secure by default and was not encrypted by default. The technology simply did not exist at the beginning to make it encrypted. Complexity comes later.
But look at us now, still dealing with the consequences of that. Why can certain entities surveil most/all of the globe (metadata anf actual content, if you don't encrypt? Because the privacy and anonymity primitives are not there and this whole thing was bolted on top.
So you're actually talking about different things.
The unencrypted and anonymous internet, and the largely encrypted and anonymous internet, and the largely encrypted but mostly public data (big tech corps) internet with KYC everywhere (digital ids, banning vpns, what's coming if it's not stopped).
You could call all those "internet". and in some sense, you'd be correct. but it's also more than that.
It's " freedom-promoting internet" vs "gatekept and completely surveilled internet".
Those are not the same thing.
Same for gold (for our purposes). Are you talking about responsible fiscal and monetary policy and a currency backed by gold (still some problems with that but at least it's much more honest) or are we talking compulsory confiscation and artificial repricing to bootstrap fake and gay fiat monies?
Same asset, same entity, two entirely different purposes.
Gold is a tool being used.
That brings us to bitcoin.
Yeah, anyone can participate. That's legitimately good. Yeah, no one can stop your transactions. Perfect, I'm on board.
**But everyone can see everything you do forever**.
That's like using email. It's like using facebook messenger. It's like paying with a debit card - in the sense that your payment/message is neither private nor anonymous (pseudonymous at best).
In fact, it's even worse: everyone can see it, not just the mail servers along the way, not just facebook and their 600+ " partners", not just visa or mastercard.
Everyone. Forever.
Good opsec against an infinite eternity is a contradiction in terms. Sooner or later it's unraveled, and sooner rather than later with AI.
And that's for the 1-5% who even care to acquire noKYC, use Tor/Nym, run their node and spv server, coinjoin religiously, and never make a single, tiny mistake, ever.
Which is basically no one.
So of course the global surveillance architecture likes bitcoin. Of course they were going to bolt KYC everywhere - with the tx graph public, it becomes easier and easier over time to backfill every name, understand every connection, build a fuller map.
And they have literally forever to do it.
Do you think the techniques will improve, or get worse?
Also, it allows them to get the fiat scam going. Buy BTC, which as we've seen is no threat at all to their hegemony. Borrow against it. Buy more.
So that's my whole point. The people who think a completely transparent ledger is some kind of freedom-fighter tool are deluded and part of a mass-formation psychosis.
Their lives changed. They got wealthy. Their social circle is the same kind of people. To question the narrative is to be ostracized and to lose status in the peer group.
For human beings living at the level of the ego, those are very important things.
So the truth never lands to them. I've met hundreds and hundreds, and ran the experiment.
It cannot land. That would not just mean they've been wrong all this time. It would mean that they've actually been helping the enemy achieving its goals.
A complete inversion.
And no wonder. Because they have made bitcoin their identity. To unravel the lies is to destroy the false self which mistook ideology for essence.
And that basically never happens.

2026-05-18 16:35:37 UTC

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Far from me to tell them what to adopt or not. And it's great for my bags.
I'm just saying, if Bitcoin was what so many here are convinced that it is, would the biggest surveillance state ever embrace it?
Probably not, right?

2026-05-18 16:33:58 UTC

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The problem is not that the supply keeps growing.
The problem is if that happens at a whim, and/or too fast to the point it devalues your savings.
In #monero it happens accordingly to known rules, and so, so slowly as to not devalue anyone's savings.
Anyway, you managed to deflect the entire original argument, but there, your deflection rebuked.
Now, on to the main event: the people who are the philosophical roots of this entire movement were telling us that if privacy by default isn't there, it does more harm than good.
Perhaps they knew something you're refusing to acknowledge out of self-contraction/ego preservation.
Or perhaps you really do know better than the OG cypherpunks.

2026-05-18 16:27:39 UTC

The center of the globe-spanning surveillance apparatus approves and endorses Bitcoin.
Somehow... this is fine.
Freedom tech, baby! woohoo! no second best!
#nevent1q…r0ds

2026-05-18 15:50:22 UTC

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Plandemics, plandemics everywhere.

2026-05-18 15:15:29 UTC

Jesus fucking Christ, just use #monero already people.
Seriously!
Are we here for the freedom tech or are he here for ideology and tribal shit?
Want onchain privacy? Use Monero. Do whatever the fuck you want with it later, convert to Bitcoin, whatever
Who cares!
But just stop trying to rationalize away the very simple and self-evident fact that *bitcoin onchain privacy doesn't just suck, IT DOESN'T EXIST**!
#nevent1q…e6qa

2026-05-18 15:04:45 UTC

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One thing is the act of zapping being public. And even that should be optional.
Quite another is further normalizing radical transparency which turbocharges financial mass surveillance, while reusing addresses (antipattern in bitcoin onchain) to boot.

2026-05-18 12:05:18 UTC

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I agree. Kinda pathetic.
Your strawman, I mean.
Bitcoin is not good money. Good money is fungible. Good money doesn't doxx part of your transaction history to the world when you make a transaction.
Good money doesn't expose your balamce to the counterparty when they do a trivial lookup.
Good money doesn't require a dozen carefully orchestrated steps executed flawlessly every single time for eternity to maintain some modicum of financial privacy (and ends up failing anyway as people routinely conflate privacy and anonymity, you cannot have privacy in full view, by definition: if the bathroom door is open and everyone can see you taking a shit but your head is kinda covered, you have weak pseudonymity, never any privacy; it's not hard to understand.
You conflate my intentions with your stated assumptions because you're projecting. I'm merely laying out a technical argument dispassionately.
You chose to inject emotion into it, seemingly unaware.
Monero is better money. Bitcoin seems to generally be better savings technology at the moment.
But at what cost? Look around you, feel the vibe, do the maths, at some point you should realize that "just do those 12 things and never slip up and never touch KYC bro" is just feeding the very same surveillance apparatus that has been made 10x stronger by "cryptos" which have zero built in privacy.
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"OG Messenger #1 is the best bro, it has the biggest network! it doesn't matter that it doesn't encrypt your private messages, they don't know who you are, why do you care?"
Signal" "......."
Technical people (not dragged into mass formation): "........"
Such is the sad state of affairs.

2026-05-18 00:56:45 UTC

#monero address reuse is fine.
the danger is offchain correlation. onchain, no problem at all.
it's pretty sane, more people should try privacy-by-default which you can't turn off. different feel altogether.
ergo, one gets delisted from most exchanges (and thrives anyway), the other is accepted at every exchange, many banks, has ETFs, has cults of personality (Saylor, etc).
anonymous privacy is the real threat to the system of totalitarian control being built on our watch.
transparent permissioned ledgers? small bump, after a few years of disoriented panic, but eventually the vultures understood: the transparency works in their favor, even if it's permissionless.
hence, accepted everywhere.
the real thing, delisted everywhere.
few understand this.
#nevent1q…5qns

2026-05-18 00:31:13 UTC

Iran screwed up by using stablecoins and now by using Bitcoin.
In the first case, of course the freeze function was used against them.
In this case, it's trivial to enforce sanctions via chain analysis.
A transparent ledger is not a freedom fighter's tool. We should have learned that back in the Canadian Trucker days.
The right tool for the job is #monero - something tells me that after the transparency bites them in the ass (as the freeze function in stablecoins did), they'll reach the next logical step.
p.s: not endorsing or not endorsing any of this, just observing a simple fact.
#nevent1q…50zs

2026-05-15 15:49:47 UTC

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It's not a very right-wing idea to have a massive welfare state.
Nor letting hordes of hostile foreigners with incompatible values come to the country, and putting them on welfare afterwards.

2026-05-15 15:47:59 UTC

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And this is what gets them.
At some level they know they are not as smart, not as productive, not as creative.
That should be fine, it's how things are. We all must do the best we can with what we've been given and build from there.
Envy and resentment rots their core, they gang together (there's a lot more losers than winners) and boom.
It's the Cain and Abel story, as old as time.

2026-05-15 15:05:16 UTC

this is leftism.
leftism destroys everything.
#nevent1q…urcf

2026-05-15 13:12:51 UTC

this is leftism.
leftism destroys everything.
#nevent1q…fy6m

2026-05-15 11:44:11 UTC

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And of course, you don''t actually have an argument, and proceed to deflect, like every other leftist ever.
Learn some shame too while you're at it. The murderous vile ideology you spew has already ended the lives of millions, brought unprecedented misery, and extinguished the flame of freedom, in very much the same way globalists (that they're almost all progressive-technocratic leftists is surely a coincidence) are busy doing at unprededented scale right now.
All because of ignorant, useful idiots like you, who can't stand other people having more than they do.

2026-05-14 20:32:10 UTC

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Learn some history.
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The most catastrophic examples of leftist ideology driven by class resentment and "eat the rich" mentality resulting in mass death are:
China's Great Leap Forward (1958-1962):
Mao Zedong's attempt to rapidly industrialize China by collectivizing agriculture and eliminating "bourgeois elements" led to the deadliest famine in human history. An estimated 15-55 million people starved to death when misguided agricultural policies and the persecution of knowledgeable farmers resulted in crop failures. The "Four Pests Campaign" alone, which targeted sparrows as "bourgeois animals," disrupted the ecosystem and worsened the famine.
Soviet Union's Holodomor (1932-1933):
Stalin's forced collectivization of Ukrainian agriculture, framed as eliminating "kulaks" (wealthy peasants), resulted in deliberate starvation. Soviet forces confiscated grain from Ukrainian farmers while preventing them from leaving their villages. Approximately 3.5-7 million Ukrainians died in this man-made famine, which many historians classify as genocide.
Cambodian's Killing Fields (1975-1979):
Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge sought to create an agrarian utopia by eliminating anyone associated with modernity, education, or wealth. They evacuated cities, abolished currency, and executed approximately 1.5-2 million people - roughly a quarter of Cambodia's population - for wearing glasses, speaking foreign languages, or having soft hands.
North Korean Famine (1994-1998):
While less explicitly class-based, Kim Jong-il's regime's disastrous economic policies and refusal to admit failure resulted in 240,000-3,500,000 deaths from starvation and related diseases.
These examples demonstrate how leftist resentment toward economic success, when combined with unchecked state power, can produce catastrophes far deadlier than any capitalist system's failures. The pattern is consistent: identify a "bourgeois" class, confiscate their resources and knowledge, implement ideologically-driven policies, then deny responsibility when the predictable collapse occurs.

2026-03-23 23:44:09 UTC

Remember, Western man.
The Romans were gigabased by any modern measure.
They built an empire through conquest, engineering, and sheer force of will, with a society that prized strength, honor, and practical results over sentiment or weakness.
Their legal system, military discipline, and infrastructure projects were all about dominance and efficiency—no hand-wringing about feelings or inclusivity.
Even their approach to money and power was brutally pragmatic. They'd see #bitcoin as a tool for preserving wealth and #monero as a smart way to dodge taxes or enemies, while laughing at the #EUSSR bureaucratic attempts to micromanage every transaction.
Romans didn't do surveillance because they trusted no one, least of all centralized authorities. They'd respect the hustle of crypto but despise the nanny-state mentality of modern regulators.
**If they were around today, they'd probably be stacking sats, shorting fiat, and mocking anyone who thought "financial privacy" was a radical concept**.
To them, it was just common sense.

2026-03-23 22:51:05 UTC

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for me it became basically unusable after an app upgrade, to this day.