Population = 8.095B
#Scarcity & Supply
Gold Au: 6.5B oz t. (0.80 oz t. per person)
Silver Ag: 1.03B oz t. (0.12 oz t. per person)
Platinum Pt: 8.2M oz t. (0.001 oz t. per person)
Palladium Pd: 6.2M oz t. (0.0007 oz t. per person)
Rhodium Rh: 724K oz t. (8×10^−8 oz t. per person)
Why there’s no second best:
- $XMR is scarce
- $XMR is secure
- $XMR is private
- $XMR is durable
- $XMR is fungible
- $XMR is divisible
- $XMR is cheap to use
- $XMR is decentralized
- $XMR is fast
- $XMR is portable
- $XMR is transparent
Monero on THORChain is closer than it has ever been.
If it lands, anyone on earth with $BTC can access $XMR natively, permissionlessly, with no exchange account and no identity check standing in the way. No centralised platform deciding whether your swap goes through.
THORChain sees everything. The swap is fully transparent and traceable on-chain, same as any other chain it supports. What the protocol guarantees is something different: that nobody can stop you from getting there.
Permissionless access to the most censorship resistant currency in crypto. That combination is what changes things.
Monero didn't come from a whitepaper and a marketing team,
it's the direct descendant of four decades of cypherpunk work from Chaum, Zimmermann, May, Back, Finney, and Szabo,
built by people who actually read their papers.
Here's some fun early Monero history - in 2014 / 2015 there weren't a lot of donations to cover Monero costs, so core contributors would pay for them out of pocket. We tracked all of this on a spreadsheet (that we still have) because we figured one day we'd be able to get it back from the dev fund - although we never ended up doing that😅
In total I spent well over $100k on Monero development until the FFS and donations made it more self-sufficient towards the end of 2015.
What did this pay for?
It included things like making Monero work on Windows (via msys2 / mingw), building out the entire FFS (which eventually became the CCS), all the work on the first GUI, lots of early cryptography work, all the initial embedded DB work (Monero loaded the entire blockchain into RAM until the beginning of 2015!), the work on MRL-0001 / MRL-0004 / MRL-0005, and Monero's 0MQ integration.
Monero is only where it is today because of the sacrifices and early financial contributions of people like othe, NoodleDoodle, as well as the tireless (and unpaid!) efforts of people like smooth, David Latapie, moneromooo, WarpTangent, luigi1111, binaryFate, and countless others I've failed to mention.
@vikrantnyc@cakewallet I hope I'm one of the winners. I already posted my wallet on another one of your giveaway posts, but here it is again. I hope I'm not spamming.
[email protected]
The $JDAW order book is beginning to fill up on https://t.co/gRXKIeMp40! If you need to withdraw from the Neoxa Asset Portal you can open a support ticket in the @NeoxaPortal discord & speed that process along. Grab a little Jackdaw and start trading! #Ravencoin $RVN #Neoxa $NEOX
Alright guys! $1000 giveaway of Bitcoin Lightning. Reply with your [email protected] Lightning address from @cakewallet!
20 people will win $50 each! Winners to be announced Friday.
Mine is [email protected] for example!
Every time you feel small, remember this:
~4,000 ancestors across 400 years survived wars, diseases, famines, migrations, heartbreaks and uncertainty… just so you could exist today.
You’re not random.
You’re the result of thousands of victories of survival.
Don’t waste that story.
An interesting twist of mathematics (Geometric Progression):
If we go back further, 20 generations ago (about 600-700 years), the number of your ancestors reaches over 1 million.
This means that at some point in history, millions of people were unknowingly making way just for you.
In order to be born, you needed:
2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 second great-grandparents
32 third great-grandparents
64 fourth great-grandparents
128 fifth great-grandparents
256 sixth great-grandparents
512 seventh great-grandparents
1,024 eighth great grandparents
2,048 ninth great-grandparents
For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total of 4,094 ancestors over the last 400 years.
Think for a moment:
How many struggles?
How many battles?
How many difficulties?
How much sadness?
How much happiness?
How many love stories?
How many expressions of hope for the future? – did your ancestors have to undergo for you to exist in this present moment...
Thank you all for an incredible launch week of Lightning in Cake Wallet!
We're thrilled to add in the last missing piece to our Bitcoin stack, providing the best privacy, self-custody, and payments options in the Bitcoin space.
One app to rule them all 😎
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