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just listened to The Sovereign Individual (audiobook, because i am NOT a book person and adhd makes sitting still with pages feel impossible). still hit me harder than almost anything. the whole idea of actually finding sovereignty and freedom while this world keeps turning into a totalitarian…
Kicking the Dragon: Confessions of a Tax Heretic by Larken Rose Just watch this video today, and though it would be great to support such an amazing, unstoppable man. His contributions to the community have been extraordinary for a long time. An inspiring man.…
For people who already know what and why we need better OPSEC. We have been operating under an assumption that doxxing comes with high costs and requires intensive resources. And that deanonymisation is possible but expensive, that linking a forum account to a real identity takes a skilled…
There’s a rounded value heuristic (often discussed in Bitcoin privacy) which is inherited by any public chain, including non-shielded Zcash. This isn’t the case when values are hidden, especially for Monero and any shielded Zcash (or future shielded Bitcoin). A pool boundary… twitter.com/yfarmx/status/2109671242458358176
Last Friday night in San Francisco, the REK team collaborated with influencer Frankie Lapenna in front of a live 100-person audience, for the world's first human vs robot fight. This event was not choreographed or faked in any way. Frankie signed the safety waiver, and we made sure to give him…
We just made history with the first Human VS Terminator robot fight. Frankie LaPenna gave it his all 🥊 More fight footage coming soon!
The phenomenon of the 'Streisand Effect' refers to any attempt to hide or censor information, with the unintended consequence that exactly this information will be spread wide and far. The term came into existence through Mike Masnick (CEO Techdirt) when he wrote an article in 2003 about an…
I have used OFFGRID Min top up $250 usd worth of xmr that gets converted instantly to usdt on polygon. No kyc but it's AI tx full surveillance which I feel like is worse Had some top ups and funds go missing No real customer support. Won't use: GOBLIN Goblin cards, but the cost of fee is way to…
A mining central processing unit (CPU) is a small heater that happens to hash. Watts are how fast electricity goes in. Almost every watt comes back out as heat. The fan does not destroy it. The fan moves it into the room. If the room is warm, the chip starts warmer too. Temperature is not the…
For those who do not know: Nikolai was a true builder and one of the last genuine cypherpunks in crypto. He focused on elegant, permissionless, corruption-resistant systems rather than hype, profit, or personal branding. As one tribute put it, he spent his life crafting tools to realize a vision of…
today is Nikolai Mushegian's (@delete_shitcoin) 33rd birthday. here's to a genius who dared to see things for what they are and call them by their true names—and, most importantly, when he saw something wrong, he built the tools to make it right. Nikolai was a builder in the…
finished this book. here are my fav quotes and ideas: The lesson The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. The bad economist…
HN : It's \~16.5k books that at least two different HN commenters brought up, from 2007 till now. Each book links back to the comments that mentioned it. Data is downloadable from the about page.
in the world of bitcoin, archival activity and consensus is mixed up which leads to some odd ideas about scaling, like that privacy preserving chains like monero scale worse than bitcoin if you are new to this kind of thought, reading this twitter thread might help…
luckily the actual state is much smaller. In practice there is no fundamental scaling difference between privacy preserving and transparent chains twitter.com/chimpdaiz/status/2119281966243840356
I've been building monostr for a few weeks: an Android Nostr client where the "zap" is a Monero tip. No Lightning, no custodian, no KYC wallet in the middle. How it works: you register your primary address and private view key with a watcher (the same trust model as stasher.news, which is where I…
The Stash #01: What Monero Hides, and What It Doesn't Level: Intermediate Reading time: \~10 min Last verified: 26 Oct 2026 Version covered: Monero v0.18.5.4 "Fluorine Fermi" (GitHub release ) Contents In short Scenario Stop 1: Exchange Stop 2: Swap Stop 3: Payment Deadly zone: network and OPSEC…
Being interested in geopolitics, theology, and social psychology, I often read extensively about these topics. Perhaps too much? Clearly, the situation looks quite bleak right now, it may always have been. Yet I used to think of it as "this too shall pass" or "tough times never last", though both…
Share your recommended Christmas gifts for 2026 that can be purchased with Monero. Follow this formula: Name: (of item / service) Category: (Food, Games, Tech, etc.) Region: (where can people order this?) Link: (to store where a purchase can be made in XMR) Note: (share a personal thought or review…
I. The Delusion of “Adjective Capitalism” versus The Reality of Propertarianism, Praxeology, and the Parasitic Anatomy of State Interventionism In contemporary political and academic discourse, it has become fashionable to blame every socio-economic pathology caused by government intervention on…
This one is a sledgehammer: Rose does not argue that government is “too big” or “the wrong party is in charge”. He argues that authority itself is a superstition: the belief that some people have a moral right to rule others, and that the rest of us have a duty to obey. "The belief in “authority,”…
Zephyr launched in 2023 as a Monero fork with an algorithmic stablecoin based on the IOHK Djed protocol and a rival to the now defunct Haven protocol. In 2024 it was discovered the same Haven exploit had occurred on Zephyr thanks to Luke's findings. In spring of 2025 they conducted an audit and…
From woodser: Haveno v1.9.0 is tagged! 🎉 This version brings a major refresh of the user interface, plus many fixes and security improvements from community review, including findings from Kevlar and AI-assisted audits. Highlights: • A new startup wizard to choose your currency and Monero node, or…
First published July 5, 2018 Came across this essay on the internets, hope it educates you the reader as much as it educated me. I admit I used to believe in Bitcoin. I was one of its most naïve and vehement apologists to friends, family members, and complete strangers (online). This was all before…
I've built: hyperliquid trading bot (don't recommend) Portfolio manager hardened agentic email tools Agentic tools for Monero transactions https://github.com/tibbar-etihw/agenta-monero and I'm currently working on an Arena FPS game in Godot in which players can make Monero wagers on matches (anyone…
