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The XMRmada Concord group now uses my own relay to pass around ...

2026-10-13T15:16:23Z

The XMRmada Concord group now uses my own relay to pass around the encrypted blobs (messages!)
Dittos and Vectors defaults are still there too for redundancy.

Come check out our group chat if your into that kinda thing.

https://armada.buzz/invite/naddr1qvzqqqyzz5pzpfzhckw68k830z75jtm29pxumnwy80gpgvcmsjau2thu04435r3mqqqqwjx8vn#BAEOQdTb8uGG1PuT9i3UPgrF

We should just enforce total surveillance on everyone in every ...

2026-10-13T01:32:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…9hdf
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We should just enforce total surveillance on everyone in every facet of their life and there would be no crime.

we're not blood relatives, just old friends. but his wife and ...

2026-10-12T17:56:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…kp4k
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we're not blood relatives, just old friends.
but his wife and kids you know?

thanks. not by blood but we're close

2026-10-12T17:54:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…3nuz
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thanks.
not by blood but we're close

shitfuck bro has the pancreatic cancer. they're dropping like ...

2026-10-12T17:31:19Z

shitfuck
bro has the pancreatic cancer.

they're dropping like flies recently.
hold your loved ones, don't take it for granted.

well we can hope anyway

2026-10-12T15:32:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…zzae
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well we can hope anyway

@npub1yxp…399s is really worried you don't understand how ...

2026-10-12T15:20:48Z

Super Testnet (npub1yxp…399s) is really worried you don't understand how the transaction fee you pay on a L1 affects the fungibility of your transaction.

so i wrote some stuff.

quoting
nevent1q…x3jd
As if we haven't gone back and forth about the trade-offs of transacting on a L1 like monero vs lightning FOR FUCKING YEARS

And that IS what we are actually talking about, comparing an L1 to an L2.

But sure, if the sender uses unique fee values or a wallet defaults to something strange, your transaction stands out. People need to know that.
And becoming informed about *that is STILL easier than running your own ln node and doing channel management.

A quick glance at the chain tells me that 95% of all transactions use the defaults.
4.5% cluster around higher base fees and their transactions tend larger. Probably swap services or exchanges doing payouts or sweeps.
The remaining .5% are extreme outliers. Ignoramuses afraid their DNM payment won't go through.

So a standard user using cake, feather, monfluo etc and not attempting a custom fee should consider that their anonset is just 95% of the daily transactions.
If you DO use a custom fee, make sure you dont always use the SAME custom fee. People have done this and its obvious on the chain a single entity is behind those spends.
The output you spend will end up in a ring with 15 other transactions. If someone is looking and YOUR output is the ONLY one that has a unique fee, it draws attention.
Uniformity is your friend.

Lets do a deep dive, just to dilute the cheap bullshit STN is peddling.

So.
Fees are really hard anyway and hiding them introduces a lot of problems. There are a bunch of issues, off the top of my head,
1. People have to be certain that the miner is getting paid as advertised and that there's no funny business.
2. We have to know that inputs minus outputs equals fees. Ie, that the block amounts check out.
3. how do you have a fee market when nobody knows what is being paid?
4. If you hide the fee (zkproof or similar) the size of each transaction now is much larger, which makes transactions more expensive.
5. Fees in Monero are a formula that is enforced by consensus. You can't do that if it's hidden.

there's a lot.

If we replace the fee with a ZK proof (which has been discussed endlessly but nobody has actually done) now not only do we need an additional proof that attests to the fee amount, we need several more besides the fee commitment. A balance proof and fee range proof. At least.
So we have created several new attack surfaces/implementation risks, many (or ALL) of which are potential inflation bugs.

It was *intentionally* decided a hidden fee was out of scope for Monero. This is because the design philosophy is to have the *simplest and lowest risk* implementation of digital cash possible.

MWEB and Zcash also show the fee btw. Every blockchain does.
Because the difficulties that come up from hiding the fees are complex and risky and potential inflation bugs,
and the privacy tradeoff is a few bits of entropy.

So that's a rational analysis of the trade-offs, as opposed to STNs fake ass straw man conversation with an imaginary person that is useless for users.

oh its the classic ignorant maxi who discovered Bitcoin and made ...

2026-10-12T14:59:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…5hmj
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oh
its the classic ignorant maxi who discovered Bitcoin and made it their entire personality without understanding anything about cypherpunk values

monero has held its value over that period because *it provides value to users*

unlike Bitcoin, which has been primarily a speculative investment by Wall Street and VCs

Lol Somebody is FINALLY trying to use LN to obfuscate the trail ...

2026-10-11T20:55:03Z

Lol
Somebody is FINALLY trying to use LN to obfuscate the trail of funds (fucking 8 years later 🙄) and now this asshole has to publicly masturbate about it.

quoting
nevent1q…srp2
> it's not a privacy concern

This is so emblematic of monero privacy larping. Leaking fee data? "Lol," say monero people, "who cares that we leak fee data? Who cares that Chainalysis collects that data from the blockchain, analyzes it, fingerprints it, and cites it in their reports that get people arrested? It's the user's fault for using a fingerprintable wallet that we recommended. We won't fix it even though LN proves it's fixable. Because we don't care."

Same with how much the recipient receives. "Lol," say monero people, "who cares that the recipient learns how the recipients split the money up? Who cares that it might be a significant business secret? Who cares that it exposes info about organizational structure and private salary contracts? The merchant should just take custody of that money and split it up later, paying for yet more unnecessary L1 txs just because we wouldn't fix this clearly fixable privacy flaw that LN already fixed."

It's why no one takes monero seriously as a privacy tool. No wonder the Blink thief is using lightning. LN devs actually care about protecting sensitive data. Monero people just laugh and shill their permanent, transparent ledger as if it was a decent privacy tool.

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2026-10-11T20:09:47Z

For the record, I think people should not genocide each other.

whaaaaat #nevent1q…zkgs

2026-10-11T15:53:57Z

whaaaaat

quoting
nevent1q…zkgs
TrueNorth mainnet starts 2026-10-12 00:00 UTC.

Bitcoin Core fork, CPU-only. RandomX with a changed Argon2 salt, so stock xmrig cannot be pointed at it. Two-minute blocks, LWMA retarget, tail emission at 8 coins per block after the halvings. P2QRH quantum-resistant addresses by default. Outputs commit to a hash of the pubkey, so coins at rest are not exposed, and post-quantum signatures can go in later by soft fork without touching the UTXO set.

No premine, no ICO, no pre-sale, no pool. Binaries and the verifiable genesis have been public since Oct 6, so anyone can mine from block 0.

Genesis hash, verification steps and the full writeup:
https://github.com/truenorth-project/truenorth/discussions/18

#Bitcoin #RandomX #Monero #PostQuantum

Given that genocide and infanticide have been normal human ...

2026-10-11T14:37:57Z

Given that genocide and infanticide have been normal human practices for millennia, our modern sensibilities and outrage dont seem to be very helpful to the public discourse around those topics.

Maybe not a popular view.

Anyway,
GM.

#normalizegenocide

So theres no #monero bros on nostr running the FCMP stressnet?? ...

2026-10-10T20:44:14Z

So theres no #monero bros on nostr running the FCMP stressnet?? Lets send some testnet Monero around!
I thought I was late to the party?

#asknostr

All the boys are mining on p2pool. #nevent1q…64cp

2026-10-10T17:33:19Z

All the boys are mining on p2pool.

quoting
nevent1q…64cp
Oh and p2pool is one of the most undersung technologies in all of crypto.

When I close my eyes snd listen to the pine wind, where is the ...

2026-10-10T11:52:20Z

When I close my eyes snd listen to the pine wind, where is the body?

You know what I never understood? "The exception that proves ...

2026-10-09T01:08:04Z

You know what I never understood?
"The exception that proves the rule"

how TF does an exception prove a rule?

#asknostr

there isnt a way to finish the sentence "I am ______” in a ...

2026-10-08T00:35:18Z

there isnt a way to finish the sentence "I am ______” in a way that is always true.

all we can really say is "I am"
after that, everything is arbitrary best guess

Anybody else running FCMP++ beta stressnet? Lets send some Carrot ...

2026-10-07T19:05:41Z

Anybody else running FCMP++ beta stressnet?
Lets send some Carrot back and forth!

https://github.com/seraphis-migration/monero/releases/tag/v0.19.0.0-beta.3.0

#monero

What does it mean to "be yourself" when there's no ...

2026-10-07T05:17:00Z

What does it mean to "be yourself"
when there's no solid thing called "self"

quoting
nevent1q…a0fx

All my utxos have coinjoin history. #nevent1q…636q

2026-10-06T19:35:32Z

All my utxos have coinjoin history.

quoting
nevent1q…636q
On the same day the US Treasury abolished a cryptocurrency mixer rule, SDNY weaponized a newly set precedent against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm.

It could deem anyone using mixer-like technologies as engaged in a conspiracy to launder criminal proceeds.

🔗 Full story: https://www.therage.co/mixer-rule-sterlingov-tornado-cash/

I assumed you did, which is why its weird he mentioned ...

2026-10-06T04:36:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…4z5t
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I assumed you did, which is why its weird he mentioned obfuscation

you know it's a must GM nostr ...

2026-10-05T14:07:51Z

you know it's a must
GM nostr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRFo72wuU6w

Not yet

2026-10-04T13:34:04Z

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Not yet

Except the uses of cross-border remittances, dissidents and ...

2026-10-04T13:30:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…ykkp
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Except the uses of cross-border remittances, dissidents and people saving outside the government system isn't what drove Bitcoin up to 100K.

It's speculative investment by Wall Street and venture Capital.

So he was incorrect that governments would prevent people from gambling on bitcoins fiat price.
And that's all.