@prancing389 @SummerBreeze Abandoned in favor of more private/resilient options by privacy fetishists like many of us in the #monero community. True.
But ... !
a) You'd be amazed how amazingly poor OpSec people have generally, and criminals in particular. A shocking number of *public* social media posts including the accused and the corpus delicti come up in court documents.
b) Signal is easier for my Mom than Matrix.
Making more privacy the default in more apps is an unmitigated Good Thing.
@AlwaysTheir @XmrLovingAncap I do not have a degree in Economics. I used to self-describe as an Austrian. I heard and read a lot about it.
However, I have had to note, ~3 years, we had:
a) stay-at-home + money printing
b) war in Europe + supply chain insanity
which led to
c) big inflation
... which Austrians all predicted would happen.
BUT WE ALSO HAD:
d) the inflation fall back to ~2%
e) the economy surge forward
At this point, "Austrians" need to explain why their theory fails so hard, Sry
@stealths I think Monero is the best available Internet Currency.
Speculating on currency is way, way outside my specialization and is not of personal interest.
As a software engineer, designing and deploying a currency that is conformant with the design principles of the Internet... is exactly my specialization and interest.
@mister_monster @snitchy_asc I had the same skepticism about monotonically increasing blockchain sizes.
I wish I had looked at storage and bandwidth curves a lot earlier.
Long term storage size is no longer a concern I worry about.
“Why?”
Because it’s cool AF to make Things
https://www.cnet.com/culture/programmer-makes-original-doom-playable-on-pregnancy-test/
@Rucknium People using Monero with a closed source wallet, smh
@moneromaxi @Rucknium Don’t trust your money to closed source wallets
@Saki @mister_monster Privacy premium
@Saki @tusker I happen to know the CEO of LBRY/Odyssee. He was very upfront about Odyssee being an ad-generation/metadata-sales company, when it was created in the face of LBRY slowly losing money.
Incredibly perverse, given Odyssee's marketing. Kinda like those slimy VPN companies that do protect you from your local Internet carrier... but not from their own advertising & tracking.
@ajsadauskas @technology
> By the time the regulators and the general public catch on to what we're doing, we will have well and truly moved on to our next grift
Fortunately, sometimes the grifters get justice served
https://decrypt.co/148288/lbry-token-plummets-file-sharing-crypto-project-shuts-down
@magicbeergut @hetzlemmingsworld Minimum 50 years, possibly never. If you believe the director of the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter.
https://invidious.privacydev.net/watch?v=QUGnaLh6QLI