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Bitcoin is no longer cypherpunk. It was originally intended to be a decentralised, peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Although it could never have been cypherpunk, due to its traceability and linkability, which cannot be considered characteristics of any "crypto" currency. Bitcoin is now mostly treated like digital gold and hoarded by hedge funds, rather than being used for transactions focused on freedom of exchange and privacy. The institutions that Bitcoin was intended to overthrow are now integrating Bitcoin into their systems, which causes Bitcoin to lose its "system-disrupting" feature. How can Bitcoin be a sovereign and liberating currency when it operates on the same rails, channels, and systems as fiat? On the other hand, #Monero is still marching onwards. Monero is the true and only embodiment of what Bitcoin should be: private and fungible, peer-to-peer and resistant to surveillance, with transaction fees low enough to be frictionless in the long term, decentralised, secure and fast. If the goal is not only to hedge against inflation but also to achieve true transaction freedom, Monero will be the sole path for purists and realists. Cryptocurrency technology was not created for investment returns. It was created by revolutionaries who believed in privacy to resist all tyrants. However, as a result of complacency and conformism, it has been hijacked by greed. Forgetting this fact and becoming blinded by the lure of money, easily falling for trends and becoming foolish with all the hype, is what slows down progress towards freedom through technology. But the world is waking up. People are tired of deceptive, meaningless advertisements. They are tired of banks exploiting them with inflated interest rates and of entities like Bitcoin and Tether being complicit in this exploitative system. They are tired of treacherous contracts designed not to serve but to trap and simply exploit them for maximum profit. A change is happening. That's why I'm accumulating Monero, to become my own secret vault rather than my own bank, and to protect myself against inflation. No one is coming to save you. Follow the example of the Cypherpunks and demonstrate the virtue of taking initiative, thickening your skin and your armour with an absolute liberating tool like Monero. Bitcoin artık cypherpunk değil. Esasında desentralize, eşler arası çalışan bir elektronik nakit sistemi olması amaçlanmıştı. Gerçi hiçbir zaman cypherpunk da olamamıştı, zira izlenebilirlik ve ilişkilendirilebilirlik, adı üstünde hiçbir "kripto" paranın vasfı olamaz. Bitcoin artık sadece ekseriyetle dijital altın gibi muamele görüyor ve hedge fonları tarafından istifleniyor, mübadele hürriyeti ve mahremiyeti odaklı işlemler için kullanılmıyor. Bitcoin'in altüst etmesi amaçlanan kurumlar artık onu sistemlerine entegre ediyor, bu da onun "sistem altüst edici" özelliğini kaybetmesine neden oluyor. Fiat ile aynı raylar, kanallar, sistemler üzerinde işlem görürken Bitcoin nasıl egemen ve özgürlükçü bir para olabilir? Monero ise hâlâ yoluna devam ediyor. Monero, Bitcoin'in olması gerektiği şeyin asıl ve tek hâlidir: Yani mahrem ve birimdenk, eşler arası ve gözetime dirençli, uzun vadede friksiyonsuz olacak kadar düşük işlem ücretli, dağıtık, güvenli ve hızlı. Sadece enflasyona karşı korunmak değil, ayrıca gerçek işlem özgürlüğü ise amaç, Monero püristlerin ve gerçekçilerin yegâne yolu olacaktır. Kriptopara teknolojisi, yatırım getirisi için yaratılmadı. Mahremiyet idealine sahip devrimciler tarafından tüm tiranlara karşı koyabilmek için yaratıldı. Fakat atalet ve konformizmin sonucunda açgözlülük tarafından ele geçirildi. Bu gerçeği unutmak ve paradan gözü dönerek kolayca her şeye kanıp hype'la ahmaklaşmak, teknoloji sayesinde özgürlük mevzuunda, hızlanmayı yavaşlatan şeydir. Ama dünya uyanıyor. Göz boyayan saçma reklamlardan bıktı. Bankaların şişirilmiş faizlerle sizi sömürmesinden ve bu sömürü düzenine Bitcoin ve Tether gibilerinin ortak olmasından bıktı. Hizmet etmek yerine tuzağa düşürmek ve sadece kârı maksimize etmek için tasarlanmış haince sözleşmelerden bıktı. Bir değişim yaşanıyor. Bu yüzden Monero biriktiriyorum, kendi bankam değil, kendi gizli kasam oluyorum ve enflasyona karşı korunuyorum. Kimse sizi kurtarmaya gelmeyecek. Tıpkı Cypherpunk'lar gibi inisiyatif alma erdemini gösterip Monero gibi mutlak bir özgürleştirici araç ile derinizi ve kalkanlarınızı kalınlaştırın.

If you still believe that Bitcoin provides privacy, take a look at the table above. Most Lightning Network wallets, even if some are not custodial, still track and archive all your transactions, account activity, and usage preferences. If you don't want to take my word for this shortcoming of Bitcoin, you can read their own statements from Bitcoin's official website below.

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Bitcoin'in mahremiyet sağladığına hâlâ inanıyorsanız, yukarıdaki tabloya bir göz atın. Lightning Network cüzdanlarının çoğu, belki bazıları custodial (emanetçi) olmasalar bile, tüm transaksiyonlarınızı, hesap hareketlerinizi ve kullanım tercihlerinizi takip eder ve arşivler. Bitcoin'in bu noksanı konusunda bana itimat etmek istemezseniz, Bitcoin'in resmî sitesinden kendi beyanlarını okuyabilirsiniz.

#Monero is the one and only embodiment of Cypherpunk and Crypto-Anarchist ideals that has been put into action and continues to advance without compromise. Monero Cypherpunk ve Kripto-anarşist ideallerin eyleme geçmiş ve taviz vermeden ilerleyen yegâne hâlidir.

Your triggers are your responsibility. It isn't the world's obligation to tiptoe around you.

Bitcoin taught you to question money. Altcoins taught you nothing. Stablecoins re-taught you obedience. CBDCs will teach you regret. Monero didn't come to save you. It came to bury what enslaved you. Bitcoin is the hook. Ethereum is the bait. Tether is the sinker. CBDC is the line. Monero is the knife. You know what has to be done.

Monero initiates a strong cycle as its price rises. The mechanism is outlined below: 1. A higher price means a larger market capitalisation, which in turn implies a more liquid market. 2. Its rise in the cryptocurrency rankings triggers FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and adds momentum to the trend. 3. New users discover Monero's greatest strength, its privacy-by-default feature, and once they see this feature, they can never ignore it again. 4. Massive amounts of money, which require caution and must therefore be kept confidential, flow in rapidly and intensely. 5. As Monero enters the top 20 in the financial asset rankings, even the most greedy exchanges are forced to reconsider relisting it “somehow”. 6. Yes, its value may fluctuate — but every dip in coins with a unique selling point paves the way for the next rise. 7. Monero is no ordinary coin; it is a Kali Yuga Asset — created to thrive in the age of chaos. #Privacy is inevitable. #Monero is destiny. Monero, fiyatında yükseliş yaşadıkça, güçlü bir döngü başlatır. İşleyişi şu şekildedir: 1. Daha yüksek fiyat, daha büyük piyasa değeri demektir ve o da daha likit bir piyasa anlamına gelir. 2. Kripto varlıklar sıralamasındaki yükselişi, FOMO'yu (Fear of Missing Out; fırsatı kaçırma korkusu) tetikler ve ivmeye ivme kazandırır. 3. Yeni kullanıcılar, Monero'nun en büyük silahı olan mahremiyet varsayılanlılığını keşfeder ve bir kez gördükleri bu özelliği bir daha asla görmezden gelemezler. 4. İhtiyatlı olmayı gerektiren ve hâliyle mahrem tutulması gereken büyük miktarlardaki para hızlı ve yoğun bir şekilde akın eder. 5. Monero, finansal varlıklar sıralamasında ilk 20'ye girerken, en açgözlü borsalar bile onu “bir şekilde” yeniden listelemeyi tekrar düşünmek zorunda kalır. 6. Evet, değeri düşebilecektir — ancak benzersiz bir kullanış/satış niteliği (Unique Selling Point) olan coin'lerin her düşüşü, bir sonraki yükselişi hazırlar. 7. Monero sıradan bir coin değildir; Kali Yuga Varlığı'dır — kaos çağında gelişmek için yaratılmıştır. Mahremiyet kaçınılmazdır. Monero kaderdir.

Monero: The Ethics of Invisibility Crypto-anarchism is not a call for chaos; it is a rejection of centralized coercion. Anarcho-capitalism is not a utopia, but a vision of a social order where property is not seized by force. Agorism is not passive escape, but a conscious withdrawal from state monopolies. Cypherpunk ideals emerge at the intersection of these traditions: where privacy must be defended technically, not rhetorically. #Monero stands precisely at this intersection. Monero is not a “coin”; it is a form of disobedience. An attempt to return money to its natural state. A protocol that strips away the moral and political labels imposed on money by states, banks, and blockchain surveillance firms. What Monero does is not concealment—it is the restoration of ownership to its rightful holder. Transparency is one of the great ideological lies of our age. It never flows upward. State budgets, central bank decisions, intelligence funding, and corporate power networks are never truly transparent. Transparency is always demanded downward—from the individual, the merchant, the dissenter, the non-compliant. Monero rejects this asymmetric morality. The knowledge problem articulated by the Austrian School for over a century finds protocol-level expression in Monero. Knowledge is local; when centralized, it becomes distorted. Price signals only function when free actors interact without fear of surveillance. Traceable money turns markets into regulated simulations. Monero restores the private interaction upon which genuine markets depend. From an agorist perspective, Monero completes the missing link of counter-economics. Untaxable, uncensorable, permissionless exchange is impossible without fungible and untraceable money. Otherwise, every “free” transaction becomes a deferred confession. Monero is money that refuses to confess. From an anarcho-capitalist standpoint, Monero transforms property from an abstract right into a material reality. If an asset can be frozen, traced, or discriminated against based on its history, it is not yours—it has merely been entrusted to you. Monero makes ownership unconditional. Cypherpunks do not demand rights; they build systems. History has shown that rights are suspended in times of crisis, while infrastructure remains. Financial surveillance begins as a “temporary security measure” and ends as permanent control. Monero breaks this cycle. It trusts mathematics, not law. Monero’s radical nature lies not in privacy itself, but in privacy by default. Privacy is not an option; it is the baseline. Just as every conversation should not be recorded, every transaction need not be observed. This basic human intuition has been systematically erased by modern finance. Monero reclaims it. States do not fear Monero because of crime. The true threat is scalable disobedience. Monero is dangerous not because it hides individuals, but because it limits the power to see. That is why Monero is perceived not as illegal, but as ungovernable. Without privacy, there is no property. Without property, there is no market. Without markets, freedom is merely a slogan. Monero is one of the rare systems that completes this chain end to end. It does not promise. It does not persuade. It simply works. And as long as it works, freedom ceases to be theoretical and becomes a lived reality. Monero is not a promise of the future. It is a rupture that has already begun.

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.