🚀 Well, this should be interesting.

You’ve generated a pretty decent discussion right here in this thread you started. Stick around. I think it will continue to grow here.

I’m happy with monero.town too

This is a good approach. Monero works as intended and has a strong use case. Use it when and where you can.

functionality > hype

I understand. Less friction and more ease of use without workarounds or sacrificing privacy or security is what you are after. I hope it can be achieved where Monero can serve as many individual users needs and use cases to become the best currency possible.

The ability to keep a longterm use single wallet and private key would seem helpful. Say you wanted a high value wallet with some more permanance with the seed stored in a more secure fashion with something like shamir secret sharing, stored in a lockbox, stamped in cryptosteel, on a hardware wallet, or anonero setup or something. It’s not ideal to simply spin up a new wallet frequently to churn for this type of wallet.

But this could probably be solved with multiple always rotating low value hot wallets, where any transactions publicly transmitted in or out go to or from the hot wallets. And then your churn occurs by sending only private personal transactions to or from those hot wallets to an airgapped cold wallet.

Awesome discussion! I see better solutions on the horizon with back and forth like this here. A willingness to adopt better tech as it is developed will be critical. Monero doesn’t stagnate in its development and neither should our communication and distribution platforms.

Monero is a good measure of how serious and trustworthy a news source or social platform is.

This, but not just news or socials. For those advocating or claiming to be in support of privacy in almost any space, the use of Monero for value exchange is a great litmus test of their sincerity.

But as the OP mentions in the post, awareness and understanding of the use case for Monero is often the roadblock to adoption. Good to see the info spreading to those who claim to share similar values.

Actually, I had read that Arch is affected, and current advice was to update

https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/

You’ll probably want to move up to 5.6.1-2 out of an abundance of caution, as recommended here https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2024-3094

This is the proper response when faced with institutions that obviously despise freedom, and which are full of people who hope to stomp the flame of your individual sovereignty out.

This is fantastic. I’m excited to follow the development.

Monero will weather this and be fine. I’d prefer to wait on tx at this point rather than consider LN as a better alternative.

What service are you using that generates the mempool tx with those graphics?

Edit: nevermind, found it: https://tx.town/

Nice one

These reflections give some good perspective on the day to someone who wasn’t able to be there. It is appreciated.

Happy to hear there was support, and thoughtful engaged support from multiple regions at that.

“One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.”

Cheers for doing your part to shed light on the injustices heaped upon Julian Assange and promoting the cause of true justice being done with your message. Keep up your worthwhile efforts to prompt those conversations.

Thanks for the update Chives. None of this surprises me while I sit and watch reddit continue to circle the same drain as other platforms that deserve to be paid no attention or given any trust or benefit of the doubt.

Chalk reddit up to another centralized platform that once showed sparks of promise and now is just another fully coopted and controlled cesspit.

I personally don’t plan to go near the IPO as a profit play in either direction, and wouldn’t invest capital in the business itself on principle alone. But to each their own.

I hope more continue to move to decentralized alternatives.

Can you post any thoughts on how the day went? Did you snap any photos of the stickers or anything else? I’d be interested to get some details from you as on-the-ground reports or impressions. The entire Assange and Wikileaks saga has been a wild ride and had a profound impact, and I feel the details and outcome of all this now will also have profound impact moving forward.

Thanks very much for maintaining this.

Good discussion here. Thanks for your thoughts. I agree on the points of barter vs speculation. I’d lean toward preferring the leveling out of the barter route for xmr, but I’m only one user in a market. We’ll see where it goes.

Sounds cool. Cypherpunk with a dose of XMR gets a +1 in my book. I’ll add this for a later listen when I’m caught up on my backlog.