"The Bureau of Labor also slashed the number of jobs added in recent months. May’s jobs figure was revised down by 125,000, from 144,000 to 19,000, and June was revised down by 133,000, from 147,000 to 14,000 – a combined 258,000 fewer jobs than previously reported." Perception is not reality. Reality is reality. And the reality is that the Trump tax that Americans are being charged to do business with every other country on Earth is bad for everybody. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/01/jobs-report-july-trump-tariffs-trade-war

36 ways you can contribute to Monero, from Monero Observer: https://monero.observer/ultimate-guide-new-monero-contributors/#fnref:0 How many have you done? 😎 #Monero #privacy

Note: I said measuring the progression (over time). Of course they'll be identical at a fixed point in time. 😎 Over time though, what seems like a gain in fiat, could just be treading water, or even sliding backwards in Monero terms.

It's only the same picture if you are 100% allocated to Monero.

Measuring your net worth (or income) progression in fiat terms debases the way you think about value. Fiat number-go-up doesn't mean much. Measure it in #Monero to get more useful feedback on your returns. You'll develop a better sense of how and where to allocate your energy and resources to increase real value generation over time.

"The Lightning Network (LN), the Manhattan Project of Bitcoin, was supposed to give us everything we ever wanted for Bitcoin: scalability and privacy, while still staying super decentralized and non-custodial. While being non-custodial (it just requires you to run your own lightning node with a hot wallet, what could possibly go wrong), it requires your wallet to be online in order to receive a payment. As of today there are 3,735.09 BTC locked in lightning channels (source: 1ML), a whopping 0.017786% of the circulating supply. The top 10 nodes hold ~ 64 % of the advertised channel capacity, with the single largest node (ACINQ) holding ~11 % (source also: 1ML), which is exactly the hub and spoke network topology that early critics of LN predicted." https://frankbraun.org/layer1/ #privacy #monero #zcash #lightning

"The zk-nym scheme enables the creation and use of unlinkable, rerandomisable anonymous access credentials that are 'spent' with Gateways in order to anonymously prove that someone has paid for Mixnet access. [...] zk-nyms allow for users to pay for Mixnet access in a manner that is unlinkable to their payment account; even with pseudonymous cryptocurrencies or fiat. This solves one of the fundamental privacy problems with the majority of VPNs and dVPNs in production today: the linkability of a user's session with their payment information, which can in the majority of cases be easily used to deanonymise them, either at the behest of an authority or by the service operators themselves." https://nym.com/docs/network/cryptography/zk-nym #privacy #vpn #nymvpn

If anyone in the history of humanity has ever referred to it as a giant wall of digital energy, it's a #shitcoin.

If the person you sent it to can see how much change you got back, it's a #shitcoin.

#Monero. But it's definitely not the next Bitcoin. It's just what people thought they were getting when they bought Bitcoin. 😎

The UK's Online Safety Act is a huge win for building awareness of the value of #privacy. It's irrelevant to those who already protect their privacy. And for those who don't, it's a touch-the-stove opportunity to learn why they should.

Anyone interested in buying #coffee for #Monero in the #UK? #asknostr

This is awesome. #Monero

If you’re earning interest, you’re losing money. Save in #Monero. Spend in Monero. Let inflation be the price paid by those who choose to ignore it.

I almost signed up the other day, until I realised they didn’t accept #Monero. I co-sign this request.

Looks like this is available in settings (at the bottom) as of today (show open source models only.) But seems to only affect selection dropdown. Auto Model still chooses proprietary models too.

Would you consider doing a fundraise to bring back #Cypherpunk Bitstream? I would definitely donate to that!

A fun thought experiment for house prices: How much would this house be worth if the law required you to pay cash (not borrow) for it? Or for #Bitcoin: What would the price of Bitcoin be if it were delisted from *all* centralised exchanges worldwide? Happy Paper Bitcoin Summer to all the ETF #cypherpunks! 😎

You need Elon's permission to post on Twitter. You need Mark's permission to post on Facebook. You need Mark's permission to post on Insta. You need Neal's permission to post on YouTube. You need Tim's permission to publish your iPhone app. You need Jeff's permission to read your eBook. You need your bank's permission to spend your money. You don't need anyone's permission to use Nostr. You don't need anyone's permission to use #Monero. You don't need anyone's permission to use #Bitcoin. You don't need anyone's permission to build for the web. You don't need anyone's permission to ship your Android app. Live without permission. #grownostr #permissionless #privacy

Which #cashu mint should you choose? Check out: https://audit.8333.space Very cool way to find available mints, and see auditing stats (success rate, speed, uptime) based on actual payments being sent between mints. Nice one, !

I love the approach is taking with running an LLM inside a secure enclave powered by . Incredibly cool way to ensure absolutely no one else can see your chats, not even a privileged user on the host. Two things needed before I will sign up though: 1. Accept a #privacy friendly payment method like #Monero. 2. Don't require an email. A session token is more than enough to identify me. 😎

Table stakes for #privacy friendly apps in 2025 (my top 5): 1. Don't require email or any other personal information to sign up. Use a session key like NanoGPT or Mullvad. 2. Accept #Monero. 3. Don't block traffic from VPNs - encourage it! 4. Don't use analytics, which allow big tech to surveil your customers. 5. For messaging, support integration with Simplex and/or Signal, like #XMRBazaar. What else am I missing that's important for you? #asknostr