View quoted note → The Lightning Network cannot scale and never will. This is why everyone is building fake centralized hybrid Lightning bullshit and using custodial apps. There are many reasons for this, here are some. Liquidity: Each channel requires funding, twice. That capital is frozen until you splice, rebalance, or close. As adoption grows, the liquidity requirement grows quadratically. As on-chain fees grow, cost of using LN goes up while security assurances go down. Complexity: Complexity breeds centralization. Most users do not tolerate the base LN experience. Most devs do not tolerate depending on complex buggy self-custodial implementations. You've practically got to be an entire Lightning stack business to reliably provide a self-custodial product. Costs rise, leading to severe centralization at scale. Routing: Portrayed as the coolest part of LN, but truly the worst aspect due to liquidity requirements, uncertainty, complexity. Results in hubs, then centralization at scale. Breaking changes: Constant new complexity requires node runners to always run new, potentially insecure software. New channel types, new payment protocols, all destroy interoperability. Obscure Hacks Required: If you want to provide a LN wallet or app you need to learn all the weird solutions, like LNURL, misc patches & tools, that people hacked in because LN protocol devs and LN implementation companies rarely care about the user space (probably because it is hopeless). We get weird derivative things hacked into others, like subscriptions into one specific payment protocol, but not into others; or, three different weird email format nicknames that arent actually emails, and are all implemented in trusted ways. This results in LN businesses and LN devs requiring arcane understanding, and endless patience, in the LN world. Regulatory trap: Running a LSP business safely requires experienced lawyers for a constantly changing compliance landscape. New hybrid LN services like Spark, Liquid swaps, and taproot-asset edge nodes, will draw regulatory scrutiny the moment something goes wrong, or becomes too large. Lightning is somewhat cool and useful, but it doesn't actually fix Bitcoin payments at scale, so much as kinda-sorta provide efficiencies as long as you don't actually scale too much... TLDR? The concept of a high-frequency bitcoin channel is sound, and proven now. The concept of a bitcoin-based routing network as an efficiency has not been proven, and, arguably, has failed. And ultimately, what matters most is the final nail in the coffin:

An unfortunate consequence of the popular crypto press' habitual oversimplification of #Monero as a "privacy coin" is that people tend to over-emphasize privacy and underappreciate fungibility. Fungibility is why the privacy happens. However, privacy is only a subset of what fungibility provides. There are benefits of fungibility for those people out there who have zero concern for privacy. Thanks to the efforts of blockchain surveillance organizations, every address and every transaction of every transparent ledger now automatically include a social credit score as part of their permanent metadata baggage. You can't opt out of that. So, the actions of the people who owned a transparent coin before you owned it and also after you owned it, can and will transfer to your reputation. It doesn't matter if you care about privacy or not -this is something that nobody with an honorable reputation will knowingly tolerate. It isn't really the ethos of the Monero community to tell other people what to do with their money, thus you do you. I will observe, though, that the asset diversification that Markowitz found to be a Schelling point back in 1952, would not necessarily have to be be accomplished within crypto, if one came to their own conclusion that the sufficiently high quality assets within crypto needed to diversify within crypto, simply do not exist. In this case the use of XMR as an exclusive representative asset of all crypto would be balanced at the overall portfolio level via prudent allocation to other asset classes.

What are presented as the best arguments against anarchism are inevitably a description of the status quo. View quoted note →

Fear is the highest form of validation, and they fear what #Monero enables. Watch closely who they target. They "tolerate" scams because they steal your money. They ban Monero because it steals their control. People want more sovereignty. Bet on what they fear. Get Monero!

I am a #Monero Supremacist. Monero Supremacy noun /məˈnɪərəʊ səˈprɛməsi/ 1. The belief or doctrine that Monero (XMR) represents the highest and final evolutionary form of money, surpassing all alternatives, including but not limited to Bitcoin, fiat currencies, and precious metals, in matters of privacy, fungibility, and practical sovereignty. 2. By extension (satirical): A worldview held by a person or loosely organised group who maintain, with unwavering confidence and mild amusement, that monetary history is a single-elimination tournament, and that Monero is the inevitable and sole victor, while all other monetary systems are destined to degrade, capitulate, or become historical footnotes. Usage: “His commitment to Monero supremacy was evident in his refusal to discuss price charts, Bitcoin maximalism, or gold, insisting instead that ‘sound money does not require permission, surveillance, or applause.’” Note 1: Often expressed with a straight face, a long time horizon, and an ironic awareness that absolute certainty is best delivered quietly. Note 2: Monero maximalism kind of sounded retarded and it was just a copy and paste from the Bitchcoin commune. We need to identify as the superiors and be bold about it. There's no reason to fear our superiority.

Privacy is not just about not having your transactions, your business dealings, your account activity monitored and tracked by the state; it is also about preventing companies from building huge profiling systems about you. Companies know what you buy, your movements, your habits, thanks to almost all electronic payment systems, and the anomaly that is the reason for this "almost" - #Monero - ensures that financial data is not just another product sold to the highest bidder. Moreover, as a money, Monero ensures the equivalence of each of its units while at the same time guaranteeing a functional scarcity. Thus, you will never receive a coin that has been tainted and turned into a blackmail tool by its previous users, and that has been debased. Mahremiyet sadece transaksiyonlarınızın, ticari ilişkilerinizin, hesap hareketlerinizin devlet tarafından izlenmemesinden ve takip edilmemesinden ibaret değildir; şirketlerin sizin hakkınızda devasa profiller oluşturmasını engellemekle de ilgilidir. Şirketler ne satın aldığınızı, hareketlerinizi, alışkanlıklarınızı elektronik ödeme sistemlerinin neredeyse tamamı sayesinde bilmektedir ve bu "neredeyse" ifadesinin sebebi olan aykırılık, yani Monero, finansal verilerin en yüksek teklifi verene satılan başka bir ürün olmamasını sağlar. Üstelik Monero, bir para olarak her biriminin eşdeğerliğini sağlarken aynı zamanda işlevsel bir kıtlığı da garanti altında tutar. Böylece elinize önceki kullanıcıları tarafından kirletilerek bir şantaj aracına dönüştürülmüş ve tağşiş edilmiş bir para asla geçmez.

How Liberalism Becomes Oligarchy and Why Monero Matters More Than Zcash™ Liberalism never truly freed us – it only made us more efficiently governable. Its promise of freedom was never universal, but selective: the freedom of property has always meant the freedom to wield power over others. From this liberal dream, oligarchy inevitably arose – the enduring form in which power and wealth are concentrated in the same hands. Historically, this oligarchy wore two masks. In England and America, it appeared as a private-enterprise religion: the Calvinist spirit blessed the successful, and the market became the judge of morality. In Prussia and France, it was bureaucratic: rule by officials and experts who managed the populace with forms and seals. These systems – the cult of the pseudo-entrepreneur and the bureaucratic state – were never true opposites, but two expressions of the same principle: rule through property, control through systems. Today, they have merged – in technofeudalism. The state builds the legal infrastructure, subsidizes, regulates, and monitors. Corporations feed it with taxes, data, and lobbying, while figures like Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel deploy their companies and projects to directly shape government functions. Market and state are no longer opposites – they are organs of a single body: the oligarchic megamachine. Tech billionaires are the new monarchs of this algorithmic aristocracy, envisioning a state as software they fully control: an operating system of compliant users. This new class understands that transparency (just like in Bitcoin) is necessary for control – but asymmetrically. They remain shielded behind trusts and offshore structures, while for the masses, financial sovereignty is a privilege that must be justified. That’s why Zcash is not a tool of liberation, but a Trojan horse. Its "optional anonymity" is the perfect model for technofeudal capitalism: the elite use privacy freely – CEOs, intelligence agencies, government networks, investment funds. They shield their wealth without accountability. The foot soldiers – workers, activists, dissidents – are suspected with every shielded transaction. Anonymity becomes an exception that must be explained. Maybe not for buying a coffee, but funds large enough to finance projects in parallel economies pose a real threat to the technofeudal order and must be tightly controlled. Monero, by contrast, is the opposite. It doesn’t shield optionally – it shields fundamentally. No hierarchy of the visible and invisible. No double standard where rulers keep accounts secret while the populace cannot evade regulations. It is the digital equivalent of an anonymous gathering in the forest: egalitarianism through opacity. The new oligarchy hates this. Their power depends on visibility – but only of others. The masses are meant to expose themselves, measure themselves, optimize themselves – until they perfectly match the machine. This "self-optimization" is not progress, it is conditioned obedience – the prelude to the transhuman turn. For the tech elite, domination is not enough. They want to redesign what it means to be human. When labor and consumption are no longer needed, when machines outperform us, humans become errors to be corrected. Transhumanism is the final form of liberal oligarchy: total control, extended into flesh and code. Yet we still have a way out – in the shadows, in encryption, off-grid. Our home is not the regulated market, but the agora of free individuals in black markets. Perhaps history will begin again where the light of surveillance ends – not as the progress of machines, but as the return of humans.

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"Having enough privacy" is the same as having no privacy at all. As the Cypherpunk ancestors said, absolute and uncompromised privacy is a premise of natural rights, which only #Monero is fighting for, and it is not a question of who does it first, but who does it best. "Yeterli seviyede gizlilik" hiç mahremiyet olmaması ile aynı şeydir. Mutlak mahremiyet, tıpkı Cypherpunk ataların da dediği gibi bir doğal hak öncülüdür ki sadece #Monero bunun için mücadele etmektedir ve önemli olan da bunu ilk kimin yaptığı değil, kimin en iyi yaptığıdır.

The world is becoming increasingly technocratic and oppressive, but there will always be people who place a high value on their freedom and privacy and prioritise them. Even if it is not listed on mainstream services, i.e. centralised exchanges, we will know Monero, we will see Monero, and we will continue to use Monero. Because Monero will always remain the one that truly works, that truly benefits humanity now and forever, and that continues to rise hand in hand with the decentralised nature of technology. Monero's value will continue to increase and will continue to be acknowledged. Where Bitcoin attempted to start and then abandoned, Monero has picked up and is continuing with more confident steps, and it will definitely finish the job. And there is nothing any of you secret fiat enthusiasts can do about it, nor will you be able to sustain any negative impact. This is because Monero easily repels all malicious actors attacking it, such as ASIC systems, the FBI, IRS, Interpol, Europol, BIS, EU, China, the United Kingdom, Ciphertrace, Chainalysis, Elliptic, Integra, BlackRock, and so on, and even after being removed from 99% of all centralised exchanges, it increased its market value and market share by 300% and, with the upcoming FCMP++ improvement, it will continue to prove itself as the only peer-to-peer electronic cash system that fulfils the true Cypherpunk and crypto-anarchist ideals by continuing to enhance its ability to provide all its users with absolute protection and fast functionality, both retroactively and prospectively. Dünya giderek daha baskıcı teknokratik bir hâl alıyor, ancak her zaman özgürlüğüne ve gizliliğine hayati önem atfedip öncelik veren insanlar olacaktır. Ana akım hizmetlerde, yani merkezî borsalarda listelenmeyecek olsa bile biz Monero'yu bileceğiz, göreceğiz, kullanmaya devam edeceğiz. Çünkü Monero daima asıl işe yarayan, insanlığa şimdi ve daima asıl faydası dokunan olarak kalmaya ve teknolojinin desentralizasyonist doğasıyla el ele yükselmeye devam edecek. Monero'nun değeri artmaya ve değeri anlaşılmaya devam edecek. Bitcoin'in başlatmaya yeltenip bıraktığı yerden Monero alıp daha sert adımlarla devam ediyor, işi de kesinlikle bitirecek ve siz gizli fiat heveslilerinin bu konuda yapabileceğiniz hiçbir şey, sürdürebileceğiniz hiçbir negatif etkiniz olamayacak. Çünkü Monero, üstüne saldıran tüm kötü aktörleri, yani ASIC sistemler, FBI, IRS, Interpol, Europol, BIS, EU, Çin, Birleşik Krallık, Ciphertrace, Chainalysis, Elliptic, Integra, BlackRock ve benzerlerini rahatlıkla püskürtüp tüm merkezî borsaların %99'undan atıldıktan sonra bile piyasa değerini ve pazar payını %300 arttırdı ve müstakbel FCMP++ iyileştirmesiyle de tüm kullanıcılarına hem geçmiş hem de geleceğe dönük mutlak koruma ve hızlı işlevsellik sağlama kabiliyetini artırmayı sürdürerek gerçek Cypherpunk ve Kripto-anarşist idealleri yerine getiren yegâne eşler arası elektronik nakit para sistemi olduğunu kanıtlamaya devam ediyor olacak.

Those who sacrifice their fundamental privacy for temporary digital comfort deserve neither privacy nor comfort. Temel mahremiyetini geçici bir dijital konfor için feda edenler, ne mahremiyeti ne de konforu hak eder.

Bitcoin is a control tool by those circumcised cock sucking bastards (in other words, the parasitic entities we know as Israel and the Jews.). With its full transparency, traceability and linkability of all transactions, the Bitcoin blockchain is essentially a global panopticon and basically a future CBDC scheme. Bitcoin is just a NFT.

If Monero becomes the black-market gold: Market cap: $1T+ Price: $50,000/XMR This happens only when CBDCs dominate, cash vanishes, privacy becomes luxury, states push surveillance to the maximum, and economic pressure forces people into off-grid capital. This is not absurd, it’s the rational endgame of global digital authoritarianism. The thing is that Monero is far more scarce than gold, far easier to hold than gold, far easier to move than gold, far less percentage of supply produced each year than gold and you’re not gonna mine or find Monero in outer space. It is 1000 times greater than “Bitcoin is digital gold” narrative and on top of that, you can use with ease and not worry about “oh is my wallet linked to this”, or “oh did I report this transaction”. With Bitcoin, you absolutely do. If you hold Bitcoin over Monero, you are BRAINDEAD. If you hold gold over Monero, you are smart but you are not that smart. Bitcoin is just a shitcoin and a NFT compared to Monero.