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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…
X Corp sent C\&Ds on Aug 24 & Sep 8 demanding permanent takedown of all Nitter instances + the repo. The Sep 7 update claiming legal representation was based on false assurances: no counsel in place rn. zedeus on HN: "I was misled by an individual who claimed to be helping the Nitter project pro…
Everyone remembers their first Monero. How did you get yours? Mining on a laptop that sounded like a jet engine? A P2P trade? A friend who wouldn't shut up about it until you caved? An ATM at 2 AM? Tell the story — the sketchier the better.
We all know the idea of separating money from the state. The Myth of the Rule of Law by John Hasnas was the first time I saw someone try the harder cut IRL (non-fiction): separating law / lawmaking from the state. (The real first time I ran into the idea was in Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh…
Hey everyone, first post here! We've been building an app called Horus. We wanted to code from our phones, so we got agents like Claude Code and Codex running natively on Android in a real Alpine Linux terminal. No root needed. Give the agent a task, lock your screen, and it keeps working in the…
Many people learn and understand finance (including personal) through little tricks or sayings. What are your favorites? One of my favorites: Invest first that way you never see the money that went there and you never miss it.
I think many of us use LLMs for work. But I cannot help the instinctive distrust when I see a vibe-coded project. Especially if it is new and not by someone I already know and trust. Before, a non-professional project was obvious. Now the more polished it looks the less I trust it. The practical…
Good morning, Bitcoin is *not* the best money. Stay ungovernable, stack #Monero!
A while back, Spirobel shared an article: Robust Monero Escrow with offline Arbitrators "With this library it is now possible to let arbitrators share their dkg public keys, similar to how people share their monero addresses and let them be included in the escrow wallets. The merchants define a…
One thing is clear: the golden age of decentralized Monero liquidity is upon us. The way it was supposed to be all along. Liquidity isn't about whether you can buy Monero. If every country on Earth banned Monero, and every exchange delisted it, anyone would still be able to trade Monero anywhere in…
In an effort to make Monero as private as it can be and return to its cypherpunk roots, today I am submitting Monero Improvement Proposal 1984 (MIP-1984) to add a transparent address type into the protocol. t-addresses in Monero will allow us to reveal our transaction data to the entire world,…
I've been spending time on Stasher News and XMR Bazaar lately, and they're honestly the first places where Monero felt real to me — not just a coin to hold, but money you actually use. Tipping posts, buying things, no middlemen. But it got me wondering: these are still pretty niche corners of the…
Alright, so I tried out this vibecoding thing and I had the fun idea to launch a new blockchain with FCMP++ enabled at genesis, fully merge-mined with XMR - of course with P2Pool-compatibility. Syncing a stressnet node takes a while, so if you want to try out FCMP++ before its mainnet release, this…
Some books you read. Others rearrange the furniture in your head. Mine: the Bible, Rich Dad Poor Dad, The Richest Man in Babylon, Human Action by Mises, The Bitcoin Standard, and Zero to Monero. Each one broke something I thought I knew — about money, morality, or how people actually work. What's…
I really like this guy. He ran for president a couple of times. This is an old book with timeless wisdom, but he advocates the necessity in 1974 to consider shielding a good piece of your wealth in swiss bank accounts. He was the original monero bro. Still worth reading.
just read this and thought stashers might find it interesting too: Alright, I'd like to have a discussion regarding bitcoin's fungibility (or lack there of). I am a bitcoiner and have been for a decent number of years but I would ask that we leave our maxi hats at the door and look at this…
This is an ERC20 XMR wrapper. There are some elegant design considerations around coin custody. The wrapped XMR could be used as collateral to borrow USDT on Ethereum and you could use that cash to buy more XMR. if price goes up its free XMR thanks to our old drunken uncle leverage. If price drops…
Nobody thinks twice when you close a door for a private conversation. It is not suspicious. It is normal. It is human. Money works the same way. Wanting to choose who sees your spending is not about hiding something. It is about keeping something that was never anyone else's business. That is the…
Hey, Den here. Top stacker at the OG SN (https://stacker.news/denlillaapan )... @ek beat me to it (https://stasher.news/items/339137). Don't understand monero (or see the point -- seems unnecessary and needlessly complicated; digital scarcity invented only once etc etc), but love convos about money…
Since 1971 the paper currencies have all been losing what they can buy, and the measure is annual consumer prices, with the early years estimated. The Swiss franc did the least bad and it is still down about 66%, the yen is down about 71%, and the US dollar and the Canadian dollar are both down…
