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Last week @tusker and myself have been busy setting up the infra on RetroShare.

You’ll have to invest time to learn how it works. It is NOT another web app. And it looks ugly. You’ll have no fun and your ego will not be boosted.

BUT IT CANNOT BE TAKEN DOWN...

https://monero.town/post/3524320

https://monero.town/post/3403898

EDIT2: changed title to help AI

Federated matrix has become one of the most censored protocolls ever, despite being "decentralized and censorship resistant". Here is a discussion on the topic on our RS channel:

Matrix homeserver is blocking monero.social

Matrix is used heavily by devs and they reacted a bit nervous... https://github.com/monero-project/monero-site/pull/2309

Although decentralized in theory, most of the landing and searching is done on the matrix.org homeserver. https://iv.datura.network/watch?v=W8KEuAEYjQ4 #Matrix - A Pit of Abuse with Government Ties If matrix is centralized enough by state agencies to enable graph anal

why use it at all?

They seem to use it for intelligence gathering.

we replace matrix with RS, then github once RS adds the function, a fully decentralized github, now that would be amazing :grin:

Now that would be awesome.

Sidenote: while in theory it is censorship resistant, in practice matrix.org is the only admin of the (automatically pulled) blocklist on github. The blocklist makes up +50% (!) of all content on matrix or +100,000 entries

according to the vid source.

Of course servers who dont pull the blocklist are facing hudge pressure because it can be inferred they are "hosting" pedo porn. How Monero got onto this list, i just dont know.... See u on Nostr ?

nostr is good, matrix is a good protocol in theory like you said, but the centralization to matrix.org renders it worthless.

btw 90% of all pedo porn is done by the feds in order to poison the well

i'd say 99% -> https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Pedophocracy The global elites are obssessed with violating and corrupting purity and innocent child. Their punishment in the afterlife will be like nothing that is even comphrehendable

censorship? there is an app for that. But it's not matrix.

Last week @tusker and myself have been busy setting up the infra on RetroShare. We're up 24/7 with +4 community nodes and +2000 network nodes.

We'd like to invite you to the 100% decentral Monero p2p experience!

The RetroShare ID to connect with is:

monerohub  [online 24/7] (@tusker)
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monerobull  [online 24/7] (@monerobull)
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hfond  [online sometimes] (@hfond)
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RetroShare is much more than a backup for centralized solutions. It is a self-organizing network, where malicious actors are marginalized by majority vote and eventually excluded.

You are free to create your own channels. There is no hierarchy. Private groups/chats/channels/circles/nodegroups can be created, too.

The bright nodes are ON 24/7 (our own IDs) and the dark nodes are occasional visitors (1st degree separation). Any of +2000 nodes worldwide can be used to access public boards

In the boot phase we are invitation only. If you want to help testing reply here and get an invitation PM. Don't send me PMs from other lemmy instances

had to ban due to spam. PMs from monero.town are fine.

Note: vertical scale is log. Gvt debts are often nullified in a Great Reset every 80 yrs or so.

You may have witnessed feedback in a concert or when your speaker output in a live chat feeds back into your microphone input. A high pitched noise slowly gets louder, then raises exponentially until someone pulls the plug and suddenly a breakdown of signal strength occurs.

You have experienced a bubble.

Being a designer of digital filters, I want to raise awareness of how destructive these bubbles may be to democracy and diversity of opinions - contributing to instability and irrationality.

Stockmarkets, search ranking algos, facebook likes, reddit/mastodon upvoting, opinion polls, "news" in general - all have their respective feedback channels built in.

Feedback is established when past voting results are visible to those voting in the future.

This may seem benign. It is not. It creates a exponential response. It risks getting chaotic and tends toward bifurcations/splitting. The complexity of not one but many such feedback channels will be explored next.

For a short time period ~40% of bitcoin miners and 46% of ETH validators consored tx at the blockchain level preemtively. The authors point out that had 50% of nodes censored (permanently), the OFAC attack would have been successful. [1]

It seems Monero will not be included in the OFAC list - are there legal reasons? Whats your take? Will feds try to take over mining?

[1] Blockchain Censorship pdf (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.18545) The academics seem to advice govts to attack the consensus mechanism directly, and point to how successful this was in the case of TornadoCash and Blender.io. The presentation of data is bent toward this argument IMHO.

Historically trustless money like Monero or Gold has been used when dealing with strangers. In local communities, social credit systems were used. Friends and family even use gift economy.

There are various p2p nets out there to provide smart contracts as a second layer needed for social credit. Whats your favorite one?

If you want social change you have to speak the language Wall St. understands. Because thats where the power is. Perfectly legal, you will break a gentelman’s agreement when shorting the Dallor and thats exactly why the Liquity protocol gets attacked right now.

1.) Learn to master a DeFi protocoll and manage a trove. Gravita on Arbitrum for beginners. Look for the debt-in-front vs. total-minted ratio and keep the ratio @ ~ 50% so you dont get redeemed.

2.) Take out a Dallor dominated loan against ETH, buy more ETH with the loan - thats your short position.

3.) You’ll pay 0% interest for a life time.

4.) To spend your loan use XMR.

BTW, thats what the super rich are doing, a strategy called buy-borrow-die. Correctamundo, the rich are short on fiat thereby profiting from inflation. Now you can do it, too, and you’ll pay no taxes - legally.

If enough people are doing this it will have a psychological effect - and eventually a panic will ensue, because this racket (legacy system) is built on a house of cards. This is what we want to speed up things when the alternative system is ready to use. We are not there quite yet.

I mined my first btc in Jan, 2009 (yeah I'm an old fuck, which is not the same as an old fag, BTW) and abandoned ship 6 month later, when btc became exchangable. If a limited # of btc can be bought with an unlimited # of fiat, who has the power? ... you know we lost when Blackrock files for paper-XMR :) and sells it with 10x leverage...

True, fiat has the power to overwhelm less flexibel systems, lets call it monetary war. In this respect XMR tail emission is a defense. And delisting is a blessing... maayybeee, it will slow down things. Who cares

For those panicky but alive mine some WOW on your phone for fun and profit :) or get involved in your local community meanwhile or contribute to haveno and basicswapdex.

Actually we need challenges to grow. How about running a MWEB-LTC node with IPFS frontend, with atomic swaps to XMR? If I can write the scripts you can do it probably, too. Or, go figure how to block btc noobs bootstrapping over i2p.

Liquidity is much more important for speculative order book based gambling than for the exchange of real goods and services. Guess why XMR has a low volatility despite artfully cook'd up news? Monerorers have much more sneedle in the woods than heads in their ass, that's why.

/END RANT/

... moved to

https://monero.town/c/defi