Yes, I'm a hardcore $XMR maxi but I will never be the person who preaches to privacy maxx
I love grapheneOS, but Monero is the next evolution of money. Not strickly a privacy coin
Its fast, cheap, scaleable, decentralized and yes private. But its ultra privacy tech is not its only core function.
Its picked up where bitcoin left off and we must remember we aren't aiming for some niche. We are aiming to soak up the global monetary system and free humanity
Aim Higher. Bring in your own niche of people, privacy schitzo maxxing and making that your whole personality isn't for me
I'm here to change the world and free humanity. Our reward is to get rich beyond our wildest dreams
Litecoiners and Bitcoin Cashers. Come to Monero, brothers. You fought valiantly, but now it is time to stand behind the winner of the "proof of work peer to peer cash system on the base layer without layer 2 scaling" war.
Thank you Monero devs!! 🙏
How can the Monero community organize to help ensure the devs and researchers get access to the top Ai models as they are released and have someone running them ?
This seems more vital and urgent than the Quantum threat.
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.
My prediction:
In 2026, the Bitcoin ( $BTC) narrative has been thoroughly debunked. I believe this is due to the following points: 1. Safe Haven status debunked: It failed as a safe haven asset.
2.Inflation Hedge debunked: It failed to hedge against inflation.
3.Payment Utility debunked: It failed as a means of payment.
4. No Value Generation: It produces no intrinsic value.
5.Censorship Resistance debunked: It proved not to be censorship-resistant.
6.Decentralization debunked: It proved not to be truly decentralized.
7. Financial Freedom debunked: (Once marked by the US government, absolutely no one dares to touch it).
I think if BTC goes to $300k this year it definitely could slingshot XMR to $10k on a privacy narrative. 0.0333 exhange rate is likelier earlier in Bitcoin's story than later in it. There's my bullpoast.