The ultimate goal should be to be able to pay your baker, bricklayer, mechanic, and greengrocer with Bitcoin.
If we don't create this in the style of the valley in Atlas Shrugged,
we're screwed.
The store of value thing is all well and good for someone like Saylor who doesn't have children, sleeps with expensive prostitutes or male escorts, and has a black guy buy his bread in the mornings, but it's not useful for us.
In Monero, the sender knows where they have sent the funds, but in Lightning, if you use blinded paths or lnproxy, the sender does not know where they have sent the funds.
Even so, because Lightning requires you to have infrastructure, this is one of the reasons why Lightning is not successful in the black markets of the dark web.
View quoted note →In Monero, the biggest privacy issue is the reuse of subaddresses, which everyone puts on their profile to receive donations. An attacker can send small amounts to use as decoys in the recipient's future expenses.
In Lightning, the biggest privacy issue apart from custody services is the identification of the recipient's node, which allows you to obtain the balance of public channels, but not private ones.
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This message is something that both the Bitcoin and Monero communities should do; it's called honesty with oneself.
I think it's silly to fight among ourselves in the times we live in; our enemy is the government, not us.
My criticism of Bitcoiners, as I've said in messages weeks ago, is that Monero has beaten us in the black markets and even in internet commerce. Their community is doing things better than us, including avoiding spam on the chain (mordinals).
My criticism of the Monero community is that I don't think they have a constructive attitude. Their developers may, but their users do not, and they do not accept technical issues that are mathematical certainties.
I spent all night analyzing the privacy benefits of Bitcoin (Lightning) and Monero, and these are my conclusions, mixed with other inevitable facts. I am only going to present facts, not interpretations.
Bitcoin:
- Limited supply
- No risk of hidden inflation.
- Hash power, not even a state can attack it
- Not private by default
- Coinjoin is not fungible, transactions are easily traceable
- Very scalable through L2 without losing decentralization.
- Highly decentralized
- LN is very private when sending without extra configuration
- LN is not very private when receiving, extra configuration is needed
- LN leaves no records on the chain, and information tends to be lost over time, such as node logs, connection records, etc., but you still need to be aware of these records left by the use of LN.
Monero:
- Unlimited supply
- Risk of hidden inflation
- Low hash power, a state actor can easily attack it.
- Not scalable without losing decentralization.
- Very private by default.
- Everything stays on the blockchain, a bug could lead to future de-anonymization attacks.
Monero's main advantage is privacy by default, although you have to take network-level privacy into account, which is dangerous if you don't use your node.
And for my part, I'm burying the hatchet. This is how it is: neither Bitcoin nor Monero is perfect. Monero cannot replace Bitcoin because it is not the same, and neither can Bitcoin replace Monero.
Global slavery has always been the goal: total control, total lack of privacy.
The world has a very small window of opportunity to escape total technocracy.
Good morning!
I understand that there are people who have achieved everything through the government, or who have been helped by the government, or who work for the government.
I understand that those people suck up to the government.
If you're not in this group, you're very retarded.
View quoted note →I don't need to suck up to any politician or government because everything I've achieved in my life, I've done without their help.
In fact, they live off me, off my work.
How stupid of me it would be to worship politicians.
The problem is not that people are uneducated.
The problem is that people are just educated enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything they have been taught.
—Professor Richard Feynman
This is one of the reasons why Bitcoin has a market capitalization of $2 trillion compared to other shitcoins.
With a simple command, you can add up all the unspent UTXOs and get the total number of Bitcoins in circulation:
bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo
{
"height": 932643,
"bestblock": "0000000000000000000196ab6fa68facef16cd02f6041e887e75cbb8864577ad",
"txouts": 165096808,
"bogosize": 12935339180,
"total_amount": 19976782.40781867,
"transactions": 114766818,
"disk_size": 11369969918
}
You can also list all the UTXOs with unspent Bitcoins and dump them into a file:
bitcoin-cli -rpcclienttimeout=0 dumptxoutset utxo.dat latest
There is no deception or uncertainty, only certainty and determinism, as certain as adding up the numbers written on a piece of paper, in this case on the blockchain.
Judas Priest is like Bitcoin: one of a kind.
Over the years, I realized that there is only one guitarist who can match Jimi Hendrix, and that is Prince. Prince simply wasn't interested in being recognized as the best guitarist; he wanted to be the best artist.
There are guitarists who are very good technically, and there are guitarists who are very good at communicating. Few have both qualities, but Prince and Hendrix did.
View quoted note →On his debut album “For You (1978),” Prince played all 27 instruments featured on the album, in addition to writing, producing, and arranging the entire record.
1. Electric guitar
2. Acoustic guitar
3. Bass
4. Bass synth
5. Fuzz bass
6. Electric piano
7. Acoustic piano
8. Minimoog
9. Polymoog
10. ARP String Ensemble
11. ARP Pro Soloist
12. Oberheim Four Voice
13. Clavinet
14. Drums
15. Syndrums
16. Water drums
17. Slapsticks
18. Bongos
19. Congas
20. Finger cymbals
21. Wind chimes
22. Orchestral bells
23. Woodblocks
24. Brush trap
25. Tree bell
26. Hand claps
27. Finger snaps
Esto lo lleva haciendo Hollywood de forma masiva desde el final de la segunda guerra mundial, pero cada vez ha ido a más.
Si te gusta el cine, coge una película sobre Nazis lo más antigua posible y otra actual, veras la evolución de estos.
En las primeras películas eran simplemente el enemigo a combatir, ahora son demonios.
