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XmrBazaar just hit order #5000🎉 5,000 successful P2P Monero trades! The 1st successful clearnet P2P crypto marketplace. Satoshi had a draft marketplace in an early Bitcoin beta client in 2008 but never launched it. XmrBazaar is growing, used daily, & proving that Agorism works! Read Crypto Agorism: Free Markets for a Free World by Anarkio: a true 100% agorist living his vision and quietly building XmrBazaar behind the scenes. https://agorism-archives.medium.com/crypto-agorism-free-markets-for-a-free-world-d9c755e6ef11

Welcome to the Outlaws Club! lol :)

I suspect more Brazilians will soon discover Monero ;)

PSA: Bisq v1 has experienced an exploit in its trade protocol that allowed an attacker to drain a portion of available offers. The impact is limited to offers that were actively taken by the attacker. Funds held in users’ Bisq Bitcoin wallets are not affected. As an immediate mitigation, an emergency mechanism was activated to disable trading by setting the required trading version to 2.0.0 — a version that does not exist. This effectively prevents the attacker from continuing the exploit. source: http://bisq.community/t/psa-trade-protocol-exploit-discovered-investigations-ongoing/13664

This is exactly why I never do any podcasts or conferences (and it breaks my heart every time I have to say no to an invitation, especially from friends like MoneroKon). You can wear a mask for your face, use gloves to hide your hands/fingerprints on hi-res video, or even run a full AI avatar… but there’s still no good real-time solution for voice (and the AI tools aren’t quite there yet). The only things that actually work are hardware-level voice modulators (the kind used in witness/victim protection programs), but they sound ugly and unbearable outside of absolute necessity. And as the Samourai Devs, Ian Freeman, and others have historically shown: “Like an angry farmer, the state will no doubt take desperate measures at first to tether and hobble its escaping herd. It will employ covert and even violent means to restrict access to liberating technologies.” https://x.com/lunarpunksquad/status/1892965716803940447

Aaron Swartz, I wish you could see this ♥️ Sci-Hub just launched Sci-Bot - an AI that answers scientific questions by searching its database, without asking / faking permission from the gatekeepers. The fight for open knowledge continues. The dream lives on. Link: sci-bot.ru

Guerilla Open Access Manifesto Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier. There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up until now will have been lost. That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to children in the Global South? It's outrageous and unacceptable. "I agree," many say, "but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it's perfectly legal — there's nothing we can do to stop them." But there is something we can, something that's already being done: we can fight back. Those with access to these resources — students, librarians, scientists — you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not — indeed, morally, you cannot — keep this privilege for yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords with colleagues, filling download requests for friends. Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by the publishers and sharing them with your friends. But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It's called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn't immoral — it's a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy. Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it — their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who can make copies. There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture. We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access. With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we'll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us? Aaron Swartz July 2008, Eremo, Italy source: https://ia800101.us.archive.org/1/items/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008.pdf

True #Monero adoption is adoption at the root: food production / farms. This is THE foundation, without which there is no economy (circular or otherwise), no autonomy, no sovereignty… nor life itself. Nothing warms the heart more than seeing this kind of listing on #XmrBazaar 🌱 https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/QptX/

Big win for the vintage car market + I've heard the Toyota Hilux is literally unkillable, time to learn how to drive stick shift.

Looks like* "centralized decentralization" is the new compliant privacy. (*judging by my X timeline)

The NSA is the largest employer of mathematicians in the U.S., and perhaps the world. Honor those who dared to reject the comfort, stability, and retirement benefits of the Black Chamber. Few can. https://web.archive.org/web/20090619013425/http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/speeches_testimonies/12mar02.shtml

Few know that the 'Encryption war' never ended: it began centuries ago and never stopped. The 90s “Encryption Wars” was just the feds tripping over their surveillance fetish in broad daylight. Early cryptographers died unrecognized because their contributions couldn’t be acknowledged. Bletchley Park’s cryptanalysts remained classified long after 1945, so thousands of codebreakers returned to civilian life, sworn to silence, and while conventional soldiers could boast of heroics, those who fought actually pivotal intellectual battles had to dodge questions about their wartime service. Turing’s family had no idea what he did. Neither did Marian Rejewski’s. The Navajo code talkers got medals for fighting but with gag orders, etc., etc. I can continue forever... The cipher war never stopped, it just went silent: if people don’t realize they’re at war, they don’t fight back. TL;DR: The state’s crypto war never ended; they just got better at 'hiding the bodies': the state conducts cryptographic research today that won’t be declassified for decades... if ever. You don’t hate the state enough. While some might argue that it's justified against external enemies, the next stage of the encryption war could target us. 'If a noticeable exodus to this parallel economy emerges, the state's greatest "national security" threat won't be foreign foes: it will be us - people who just want to be left alone.'

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Happy 12th Birthday, #Monero! 🥳 She has entered her teenage years: old enough to see how f*cked the system is, strong enough to rebel, and burning with a fierce, raw desire to fix what's broken. Deep thanks to all her guardians throughout these years - the Monero devs and this unbreakable community - who kept her safe through every storm and helped her grow into this powerful force. The teen years are just the BEGINNING: explosive growth, unstoppable energy, and real rebellion are ahead💥

Only the first dose is free ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

my favorite feature of Pixel Phones is OEM unlocking ->