prancing389

prancing389, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

It’s not wrong that you question your own beliefs. I think with new information being revealed every day after a lifetime of being fed propaganda, we all should be going through some of that. However, I strongly believe that airing all those thoughts and philosophies in a focused group like Monero can splinter the unity of the cause that we all support. That cause is the importance of private, decentralized, digital cash. The more we stray from topics related to that core focus, the more likely we will, as a group splinter and become ineffective as a block. While it’s hard to be completely disciplined about sharing our particular concerns with various forms of government, I think we should all continually attempt to reel ourselves back in when we’re beginning to spend too much time discussing politics in a forum about supporting private, decentralized, digital cash.

• More time spent on activities related to things like negotiations with POS terminal manufacturers implementation of Monero for all retail transactions worldwide.
• Less time spent on discussing national borders, government handouts, identity politics.

prancing389, 6 days ago

I look forward to the day when all the people that “invest” in Monero have lost interest and moved on to greener pastures. Most of the folks in this community, at least the vocal ones, are more into expanding it’s usage, promoting the build-out of the circular economy and helping spread the word to the “normies” without becoming brain damaged maximalists that can’t really explain the value of their coin in coherent terms.

Another thing I look forward to is slowly phasing out any discussion of comparisons to and with Bitcoin. The ship has sailed and Monero WON. The two crypto-currencies now have less in common than they did several years ago due to several factors:

• The delisting of Monero from Centralized Exchanges worldwide has removed it from the pick list for most CEX’s, therefore taken it off the radar for those swapping in and out of various crypto’s for profit.
• The crackdown on any privacy tools associated to Bitcoin makes clear to the public that Bitcoin’s authorized uses will be very minimal going forward, and being part of a circular economy in a peer to peer exchange will not be happening with BTC. This coin has been captured by the cabal and therefore, unable to fulfill any of it’s original missions as outline in Satoshi’s white paper.
• The capture by the stock markets and Big Banking with the formation of numerous ETF’s, based on derivatives which re-hypothicate (i.e. counterfeit) BTC to a point where it more closely resembles an over-valued tech stock than it does a bonafide cryptocurrency. Also, the ETF has affects on the price that DO NOT resemble that of crypto-currencies. It’s like trading forex on the commodoties market, apples and oranges.

prancing389, 6 days ago

I haven’t read the bill, but just based on your summary, it doesn’t do anything that encourages me. Mention of privacy rights and the elimination of KYC/AML requirements under certain conditions would be encouraging. For instance, if you’re after big drug cartel or organized crime money launderers, you could set some pretty high limits before KYC/AML rules would kick in. That kind of news would be more encouraging. Strengthening privacy is about the only area of crypto legislation that would perk my interest.

prancing389, 8 days ago

I predict ratting out colleagues, neighbors, even friends and family may soon become a part of our reality in the near future. Mind your OPSEC.

prancing389, 15 days ago

So if you’re selling Monero for Fiat, when do you send the Monero to the purchaser’s wallet? Sounds like what LocalMonero does, but Element may not be the best tool to set up the bonds required. With recent litigation, who wants to take custody of anything is an open transaction for any length of time? Look forward to hearing how that is solved programmatically.

prancing389, 16 days ago

Can we make a Matrix or Session group to track this instead? Here’s what a comparison of Session to SimpleX said: “To summarize – SimpleX is a broken and messy thing, but it is very cool.” I don’t use a smartphone very much and desktop apps that work well are few and far between. It seems like everyone is trying to drag me to their favorite messenger without providing any additional benefits in anonymity and security. I wouldn’t mind if SimpleX had binary installers for more distro’s, but that territory rarely gets covered adequately in early adoption.

prancing389, 16 days ago

I search on Haveno in matrix and nothing came up, is it access controlled or invitation only?

prancing389, 18 days ago

When I hear about integration with any other centralized platform, I see it as a potential attack vector. I’d stay far, far away from this integration unless and until it’s had years of rigorous testing. You do know that the NSA hacked Tucker Carlson’s Signal account to discover and warn him against traveling to visit with Putin, right? Signal has been compromised by the same groups that are opposed to liberty and sound money.

prancing389, 24 days ago

Bitcoin has lost it’s status as a viable crypto-currency, starting when ETF’s were created, which had the effect of fiatizing what was before immutable, now has adopted all the worst properties of fiat money, the concept of derivatives. Derivatives is simply fakery by large institutions to get the benefit from each unit of money multiple times. These large institutions have a monopoly on this behavior. It is not possible to behave this way on an individual level. Great care should be taken as any potential new crypto-currency intermingles with the existing financial system. The Monero community has the benefit of learning from each mistake made with Bitcoin, and preventing that with it’s own digital cash.

prancing389, 26 days ago

https://monero.town/pictrs/image/be2c821d-bdef-4745-9434-f16d4d2dfd8d.webp

prancing389, 1 month ago

I do not believe we have the price stability to be useful in lending applications, but if I were to do it, I’d be sure to take possession of collateral enough to completely repay the balance of 177 Monero. Otherwise, you’re just asking to be taken for the fool. Signing over the title to their car might serve as collateral, where you hold a paper title that’s he’s physically signed over to you, then you just don’t register it in your name, so the DMV still thinks the car is his. If he breaks the loan contract, you register the car in your name and have it repossessed legally. Still, I’d only do that if you know he can’t move away easily. Interesting application, though, I’d like to hear more real world applications like this.

prancing389, 1 month ago

I have news for you, the president doesn’t have control over the value of the dollar. The Federal Reserve does. The Fed does not answer to the president or congress. The true identity of the stakeholders in the Federal Reserve have always been a closely guarded secret. How confident are you in your US dollars now?

prancing389, 1 month ago

While I agree that all on the planet should have knowledge of these trends, it probably does not belong in the main Monero community room. Maybe in Monero Regulatory

prancing389, 1 month ago

I liked the concept behind Kodachi, but there’s a very, very small community supporting it. It’s a good thumb-drive OS like Tails, but does a much better job than Tails. I haven’t tried it in quite a while, but FreeBSD may be worth a shot. When testing open source versions of Unix, I found them ahead of OpenBSD on the modern GUI stuff, but it’s anyone’s guess where they are at now. Might be worth spinning up a Virtual Machine. BSD Unix has been around longer than Linux, so you can be confident there’s well tested and vetted code base.

prancing389, 1 month ago

It’s hard to get excited when you still can’t live on Monero. I will shout from the rooftops when I can pay my bills with Monero anonymously. Things like property taxes, vehicle registration, fuel, groceries, insurance, internet and mobile svcs, etc. I am poor, so those are the only things I spend money on. Monero is best represented in selling items that are not required for day to day life, so until that changes, it’s quite understandable that the Monero community lacks enthusiasm.

prancing389, 2 months ago

Interested in Nostr, but it appears Gossip client for Linux is not ready for prime time. I will not allow clipboard paste of Npub with Ctrl-V. Looks like I may have to wait for another version when these bugs are worked out.

prancing389, 2 months ago

I am running a full node with the Official Monero GUI and also mining. I have not broken that connection in several days since I own a computer that doesn’t need a reboot several times a day, so I haven’t noticed any problems yet. Will update thread if I notice anything after power restart.

As a point of reference, when I first sync a full node after installing GUI or CLI program, it’s not unusual at all for the first sync to take three or four days. I’ve done it several times.

prancing389, 2 months ago

I just restarted my node, got this message in startup over there:

2024-03-09 04:04:20.475 W Unable to send transaction(s), no available connections

Then it went on to give this message:

2024-03-09 04:04:22.880 I You are now synchronized with the network. You may now start monero-wallet-cli.

prancing389, 2 months ago

After some additional education on the broad topic of decentralized communications tools, I’ve learned of Matrix/Element and Session Messenger, which seem to accomplish alot of the privacy and anonymity goals without the use of blockchain, yet it is decentralized, so they also will survive a widespread DNS blocking, also referred to as the Internet Kill Switch.