Modern Social Media is isolating and anxiety-inducing. Happy to see so much hope and light in nostr.

We're at a pivotal point, for both Monero and Bitcoin: Who has the most power, between their respective blockchain protectors and attackers?

oooOoOooo CBDCs are bad!!1!1! But look at stablecoins! They are so cool!!1!!1! 1 stablecoin = 1 dollar 🤡 volatility of the dollar?! what are you talking about 🤡? they are centralized by their issuer, no risk of evil hackers 🤡🤡 government require a tight regulatory system and can freeze, delete, view and monitor funds so that it is perfectly safe!!!1!11! 🤡 KYC, what even is that? idk i use binance to buy my favorite stablecbdcoin everyday 🤡🤡 Plus everything stays on a private blockchain hackers can't highjack, or mine on, eveything is secure 🤡🤡 wake tf up 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻

time plot of number of knots nodes

Monero and Bitcoin guys should work together. The fight is not between us, it is against privacy-invading, anti-freedom governments. Plebs together strong 🦍

oh btw, stablecoins = CBDC

Even if you disagree with someone, even if you don't respect someone, respect their right to free speech, if you don't, then you don't respect your right to free speech

tell me you love me, spin me around, pretty please, pick me up in the air and don't put me down seen it all unfold, sat back and watched knowing time don't give a fuck about clocks, until they stop bare feet, running late, her car started even though the only thing she driving a hard bargain more important is i'm kinda sort of out the door but, she puts me back when i'm out of order perfect...

How to blend in within a group of signers? A short story on how ring signatures work: -Imagine a big dark forest 🌲 in which you want to blend in with N friend. In this forest it is easy to go forwards, but hard to go backwards since you get lost easily (it's your private key!) -You want to show that someone in that group of friends knows his own private key 🗝️ without revealing who -Let's say it is you, who knows this private key and wants to blend in -To do so, you all pick a random spot in the forest -You then shoot a flare gun from your own spot -One of your mates sees the flare gun🔫 shining a random amount of times in the sky -He moves this random amount of steps forward and shoots his flare gun, which again, shines a random amount of times -The next person does the same thing, etc... -When the final flare is shot, you rewind your steps by the amount of times it shined. The loop is now closed 🔃! -Now you pretend with your mates that nobody knows who shot the first flare 🎭 -You pick somebody at random, say Josh, within the group, and pretend it was him who shot the flare first and had to go backwards -You write down the amount of flare shines Josh saw and had to move forwards by. You also write his position before he moved forward. After Josh shot, Jake had to move forwards, you note his original position. Same for Joshua after him, etc... until you come back to Josh And that is, in vague terms, how a signer (the guy who went back a certain amount of steps) signs a ring (all the N guys with him). Notice how we don't know for sure that Josh took the first shot and went backwards, but the loop is still closed! 🔎 Here is how you verify the signature is valid: -Of course, the flares don't actually shine at random, it depends on where they are in the forest 🚩 -You go to this Josh's spot and move forwards by the given flare number. Then you shoot a flare, teleport to Jake's position, and move the amount of times it shined. Etc... until you loop around. If the number of time the last flare shines is the same as the one given to you in the first place, the ring signature is valid. 🟩 Thanks for reading btw :)

i loved people who hurt me i hurt people who loved me but through it all no love was ever lost

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

i hate noise and you should too. focus on your goals, eveythibg else is a distraction.

be a beacon of light, one finds peace healing others