Is it really private when: You have a centralized company You are regulatory compliant Have exposure to the Stock exchange Holding shielded coins is like having a safety deposit box in a bank. They can drill it out whenever they want Monero is just cash

The perception of reality is more real than reality itself ~ Billionaire Boys Club

Or be like me VPN to phone home, block outbound requests, set nodes to your home nodes

I think this was the first time I pinged you but I appreciate the work you put in! 🫡

For anywhere I can start looking?

2 hours ago: 10x long XMR/USDT @ $341.69

👀 Interesting since Cake is a huge player in Monero

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With a declining security and increase in centralization, yes it can

This won’t be popular. Maybe you need a Monero? From Shanaka Anslem Perera on X The Silent Seizure of Bitcoin Has Already Begun What took governments 15 years to fail at through regulation, Wall Street accomplished in 18 months through optimization. The numbers don’t lie … they scream: BlackRock’s IBIT alone: 802,000 Bitcoin. That’s 4% of all Bitcoin ever mineable, held by one entity. Total US spot ETFs control 1.25 million BTC … 6.3% of circulating supply … concentrated in Coinbase vaults. Since July’s SEC approval of in-kind transfers, over $3 billion in Bitcoin has moved from self-custody to institutional control, enabling 20-37% tax deferral while capturing an additional 5-7% of supply within 12 months. Here’s what nobody’s connecting: On-chain transaction volume has collapsed 15% since Q2. Addresses holding more than 1 BTC are declining 8% quarterly …. the first reversal in Bitcoin’s 15-year history. Economic nodes dropped from 60,000 to 52,000. The Lightning Network has stagnated. Fee revenue is evaporating while mining costs remain fixed, threatening network security itself. Meanwhile, 30-day volatility compressed from 45% to 38% … projected to hit 30-35% by 2026. This mirrors gold’s trajectory post-ETF launch: 40% volatility reduction in three years, 30% supply centralization by 2010. The mechanism is surgical: Low-basis whales swap Bitcoin for ETF shares tax-free. Custody transfers to Coinbase. Supply disappears from circulation. Price discovery fragments … spot markets now represent just 45% of volume, down from 80%, while CME and ETF flows dominate at 55% combined. But here’s the systemic risk nobody’s pricing in: ETF sponsors retain sole discretion to select the “valid” chain in protocol forks. When custodians controlling 6-10% of supply signal their preference, they effectively veto contentious upgrades … privacy enhancements, scaling improvements, anything non-compliant with AML regulations. This isn’t theoretical. Bitcoin Cash’s 2017-2018 forks left 16-17% of nodes stranded when economic majority chose differently. The parallels to 1933 are haunting: FDR’s Executive Order 6102 confiscated gold at $20.67, then revalued to $35 …. a 69% wealth transfer. The mechanism? Centralized custody. Today’s ETFs create identical seizure vectors, but the confiscation is voluntary, incentivized, and irreversible. Top four mining pools control 55% of hashrate. US geographic concentration sits at 45%. AWS hosts 75% of relay infrastructure. The 51% attack vector has quietly shifted from nation-state adversary to state-custodian cooperation. We’re witnessing the transformation of rebel money into spreadsheet collateral. Bitcoin’s success as a reserve asset is simultaneously its failure as sovereign money. Arrow’s impossibility theorem proves itself at scale: you cannot have decentralization, institutional adoption, and protocol sovereignty simultaneously. By 2030, projections show 70% supply capture by compliant custody. Price may hit $200,000+. Volatility may compress to equity-like levels. But the asset that reaches that milestone won’t be the Bitcoin that started this revolution. The speciation has already begun: BTF (Bitcoin TradFi) versus BTS (Bitcoin Sovereign) …. two chains, two visions, two incompatible futures. What matters now: custody concentration above 10% triggers protocol ossification. A custodian hack exceeding $5 billion reverses the trend. Bitcoin below $50,000 forces mass redemptions and self-custody resurgence. The choice crystallizes: allocate 50-70% to self-custody for sovereignty, 30-50% to ETFs for liquidity …. but understand that threshold risk at 20% concentration signals the point of no return. This isn’t evolution or corruption. It’s something more profound: proof that scale itself is incompatible with pure decentralization. The question isn’t whether Bitcoin will be captured .. it’s whether what remains after capture still deserves the name.

Looks like I have to upgrade the Mercedes Trimester grey the emblem and make the mirror lights amber would be the only change

Time to bull post Monero here on Nostr Longed XMR and nabbed a 5% profit in 30 mins

And closed “But it’s not a 10x! It’s not 100% profit!!” And that’s how you lose money. Greed

could I get a listing on the Monero list?