ooo Jeff Berwick on monerotalk, bridges being built!

check out my latest article on BRICS Pay and their proposed crytpocurrency: 'the unit'

https://blakelovewell.com/brics-coin-the-unit-vs-the-dollar/

russia is full tilt heading towards a cbdc system,

but building a parallel financial infrastructure, along with the rest of BRICS, outside of USA/Western control

regarding Haveno - it's early days. localmonero was big here in the UK but got scared off with the latest tranche of anti-crypto legislation

haveno isn't big at all, usually I see <10 nodes running at any one time. But if it's the only option then it will catch on. necessity is the mother of invention!

link is dead : "No longer available"

found more info on the git : https://github.com/KewbitXMR/haveno-app

looks promising but very beta - haveno app is on testnet

for the up to date haveno program visit : https://haveno-reto.com/#downloads

just downloaded v1.0.11

wallet sync takes about 15min on regular pc. still fewer than 10 peers live, but many more trades than a couple of months ago.

################# PS: listen to Assange : "algorithms to protect people's privacy" @ 1:28:24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq85IZMeigc&t=745s

don8d

i'm skeptical of this plan

good ep. will be interesting to see how this develops

and lol @ libertarians saying, "I never vote but I'll vote trump if he promises to free ross"

tradeogre.com

yes we should have a nitter bot, like the piped bot.

here it is a pleasure to strip the data out of the API for you: https://nitter.net/sethforprivacy/status/1715370818195140720

for those who cba he proposed an anonymous digital ID system a competitor to the data-harvesting nwo ID tools being developed

tl;dr

1. send microtransaction between two addresses from same key pair

2. use sed transaction ID as static ID for login

3. can be used repeatedly to demonstrate user permanence

3b. can also be refreshed with new transaction to re-prove identity / key-holding whilst preserving privacy of keys

debate over using monero for ID, is it against the ethos of anonymous money? debate over using multiple transactions may reduce the strength of ring signatures if traced

the guy is an based autist http://nitter.net/focaballena

read chapter 1 of 'the right to transact' here : https://zelinarxy.substack.com/p/the-right-to-transact-1

read article here: https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/09/07/reject-cbdcs-embrace-the-right-to-transact/

will demand that he opens a means to buy the book using monero so we don't need to use amaz*n

Monero all-time high is $542.33 and that's not a cap, so I don't agree with the 135-170 channel theory. XMR has only been stable in this so-called crab market, moving sideways but I don't see malfeasance in that.

Value for crypto assets / currencies is pretty arbritrary, yes it's drawn out of PoW - equipment, knowledge + energy costs. But the value proposition opens it up to an open ended price in, say dollar$. Particularly with Monero there is much less observable network data so we can only go on the gestalt.

I would say that Monero is an unlikely candidate for manipulation as there are so many dark exchanges and non-public transactions, that anybody with the tools and wherewithall to manipulate a crypto-market would earn much more in doggy coins.

I'd say the price of Monero is closely pegged to the price of BTC, though there is a slight trend of Monero gain on this it still correlates hard. And BTC still roughly correlates with the stock market, at least since the noob wave of 2021+.

Post script, I have a feeling, but no evidence, that Monero is used more widely as a true currency than any other crypto - that is sidelining lightning network which is something different, more like a settlement layer. As I mentioned the price is open-ended but Monero stands to gain from the trends of state oppression, digitised currency and surveillance. Anarcho-cypher-punks unite!

This series deserves to be sent off.