What happened?

Thank you

Buy an international esim then that you can use everywhere including Germany. e.g. silentlink beyond others sell them for Monero

It's nice to have big balls. It's nice to be not a scared coward. But you are describing the 1% alphas in every society not the 99% herd followers. I don't think it is smart to sacrifice 99% of the people because you think they are dumb. Yes they may be dumb for not doing everything they could to protect their sovereignty, but as a good leader you protect your friends, family and community (after protecting yourself) and not letting them run into their inevitable demise or expose your strongest allies to weak defense.. That's why real Bitcoin OGs are into Monero.

I see there are still a few capable adversarial thinkers left in Bitcoin. Unfortunately crowded out by the fiat NGU gang.

Lame

Lol Anyways. Who wants the EU failed state be close to Bitcoin? I am glad Monero is state-repellient. So I will never need to worry about it.

It's one of the most desired things for their agenda just like eradicating (digital) cash aka Monero. They give you a hint where to focus your energy as they try to protect their weak spots.

Most of us utilise both Bitcoin and Monero.

Not yet priced in in the market. This is pure alpha if you know what I mean. Once the market catches on say goodbye to an adequate price of your house if it's close to an antenna.

Good for competition. Someone will offer a Haveno network that's cheaper.

Without Monero, Bitcoin would have been attacked much more fiercely. Bitcoin is now a piece of their puzzle. Bitcoin will not disappear, but will change over time what it means. As long as it exists Monero can build strength in a parallel system.

As soon as you found a state licenced company you are going back endorsing the fiat system. If you are running a BTC only business, please spare me with your maxi talking points, hypocrite! I admire builders and entrepreneurs that build outside the fiat company system. It's them who shape the world beyond imagination. They deserve all our support.

You can live quite comfortable with no (e)sim and permanently in airplane mode. LAN goes a long way an should be preferred because it doesn't expose everybody to RF. But then WiFi, Bluetooth (bitchat) and Reticulum/Mesh can go a long way. An esim is perfect in case of an emergency. Else it's just a tracking tool. Relying on sim is already an anachronism.

I strongly urge every Bitcoiner to adopt Monero as a protective shield.

Monero has the advantage of being still a small community. Bitcoin had the same feels from 2010-2013. Can not talk about 2009 from my own experience. But then Monero might have the oportunity to stay under the radar for a little while longer as all CEX get demands to delist it, which will mostly attract the right people.

I read all your posts. I know when people come from an angle that is so unique that it is pure alpha. Thanks for that. So I guess you will draw your own conclusions. 1. What we know is that some scholars recommended direct state attacks on Monero. 2. Almost all CEX run or ran fractional reserves 3. Once exposed and maxed out, the system reacted with new regulation forcing CEX into delistings reducing liquidity. 4. Ever since most liquidity has been pulled Monero is rising (which is counter intuitive, but makes sense if we assume the fractional reserve pressure fades)

Indeed. It's as easy as introducing AML, introducing KYC, tracking the chain, makeing up some wild money laundring claims - profit!

I expect nothing more from a fiat VC event, where the goal is to fuck over the lives of others for some data crumbs.

With zero privacy? What is wrong with Bitcoin. They ate always cheering the wrong guys. We have BTCPayServer and all the millions of Bitcoiners could have helped their brick and mortar stores to setup a running system. Privacy preserving and self-custodial. Bitcoin community is a huge failure. We've been more advanced in 2013.

Yes and no. I went ideologically all in on Monero. Still hold a Bitcoin position that enables me toact the way I do from a hedged perspective, because it allows for being wrong longer than the system can stay solvent. I don't run the numbers often but Bitcoin probably makes up not more than 20% of my stack. My recommendation to maxis is not to follow my example but maybe experiment with 90/10 or 80/20.

It pays off to be early. Not everybody is well equipped to be early. I've been exploring alternative monies long before Bitcoin arrived. Me telling you that you can be early in Monero again is meeting some resistance in you and others that I don't understand. I (beyond) others have been the one telling you to invest in Bitcoin in 2010-2015. Which ironically lead to even my mother being more of a hardcore Bitcoiner than 95% of self-declared BTC maxis here. With that atituded you would never have invested in BTC as early as I did, even back then being fully aware that if this is catching on it easily will reach $10k which it did. But is meaningless today as fiat is collapsing. Now I tell you Bitcoin is a good store of value. States will adopt it. It will stengthen the state once fully adopted and once KYC makes taxation by surveillance and force so much more easy for the state or AI government. By then Bitcoin is as good as fiat to provide for your family. Fiat cash still works in societies like Argentina or Zimbabwe, because people adopted a secondary store of value (USD). The same you can apply for yourself with BTC and cash. Cash gives you superior privacy and as you convert on the spot you don't really use purchasing power. See, I wished Bitcoin could have been the one fits all solution. It simply is not. There's YIn and Yang for a reason. There is solar (Bitcoin) and lunar punk (Monero). Look into it if you really care for your family. Bitcoin is partially flawed as it does not protect the privacy of the individual. Without privacy no freedom and without freedom no free markets and without free markets no meaningful economic activity. Without that we all will be worse off. Maybe not people like me who thanks to Bitcoin reached escape velocity early on and are now free radicals that the state rightfully perceives as their strongest enemies. If you'd be in my position you'd understand why me and my family are extreme targets in this shift of the power structure and I can not afford to use weaker privacy protection because BTC might outperform Monero for a couple percentage points, which I anyways don't believe it will. I see a short to midterm term potenial for BItcoin to x10 while I see x100 to x1000 in Monero. I hold my Bitcoin dear. And I hold my Monero dearer (and spend them as well). P.S. privacy cycle just got started with Zcash pump. Read some Monero longer term charts. Don't say you haven't been warned. It's not my vault you didn't look into Bitcoin in 2010. I told everybody I knew about it.

You put to much trust in third parties (remainng CEX). You seem to not know how the Monero market got and still gets played through naked shorting. Sometimes CEX need to parially cover otherwise they would need to close withdrawals which happens often and some of the CEX have closed withdrawals for XMR permanently making it essentially a paper trade. Once CEX covered they are free to sell non existent coins on their platforms again. As some CEX delisted, other CEX maxed out their fractional reserves and volume is shifting to DEX like RetoSwap and atomic swaps like Eigenwallet they lose power, meaning they can pump and dump but pricec will land higher than before. Simply because what you are claiming is not true. Monero Bros are just holding the line. Monero growth trajectory is different than Bitcoin. It largely tracks the absolute price bottom with occasional jumps. Which ironically makes it a better store of value than BTC.

This is how we win? The problem is, merchants themselves on average are too dumb to care for their own sovereignity. So they rely on regulated payment processors that can potentially rug and disrupt them and Bitcoiners who stop educating on self-hosted e.g. BTCPayServer solutions. Just like with ETFs you are celebrating the system taking over Bitcoin, instead of self- sovereignty healing society. Laziness for Bitcoiners aka enshittification is advancing. It's hard work to convert a merchant to Bitcoin or Monero. But those in it for the right reasons are your strongest allies. Dealing with the devil here that masked itself nicely to dupe more Bitcoiners into believing this is wining.

First give us your Monero address so we can send some money your way. Second take some time off. Your work is very important and at the same time a decentralised system needs to improve by letting it fail at times (and improve redundancy, security,...) or it needs to die because it relied heavily on a centralising factor that could be you. Thank you for your work.

To whomever needs to hear this. Monero fiat price is meaningless. The only function it has is to secure mining where electricity can't be bought with XMR. After defending against Qubic, Monero network showed it will even work when fiat mining incentives break.

Good that you call us out on it. Monero fiat price means nothing. Adoption means everything.

It's just Europe's biggest crypto friendly online store, so what do I know.

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