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"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."

- T. E. Lawrence


Anarchist. Dad. Metalhead. Numbers guy. Python dev. Self-custody fanatic. Weekends-only aspiring homesteader.

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Recent Notes

Jordan 🫪 · 2d
It seems that The Modern Understanding of The God of The Bible may potentially be a syncretic admixture of Regional Israelite-Canaanite (Semitic) Mythology, and Roman Catholic Paganism.
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Yes, but I would list Hellenic Neoplatonism and Persian/Parthian Mazdaism (Zoroastrianism) as larger influences than classical paganism.

Also, Akhenaten's Religion of Light anticipates quite a few themes of the New Testament, but it had been so thoroughly suppressed by Jesus' day that any direct influence must have been close to nil.
gsovereignty · 2d
A State can always develop more powerful hardware to hash Monero if they're motivated to kill it, it's just not profitable. They can't do the same for bitcoin because asics are a result of an arms ra...
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Governments don't need to build better ASICs than the market, they only need to control /who/ can buy new ones.

Something entirely within the power of the Chinese government right now, with only modest reputational costs (costs they're happy to pay in other contexts - see rare earth exports).

They've chosen not to use that power, for now.

General-purpose computing, OTOH, is a much harder nut to crack, the general population owns a huge multiple of the hashing power available directly to governments, and "disarming" them would be... problematic.

Sadly most of that hashing power is not being used for XMR. As with Bitcoin, the only way out is forward. Adoption, adoption, & adoption is the secret to both value and security.
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τέχνη · 2d
It’s definitely two different pathways. ASIC-resistance is also a moving target. So more updates needed, more reliance on the core developers. Current Monero algorithm seems to have lasted fairly long though surprisingly.
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https://kucinichreport.substack.com/p/war-crimes-war-powers-and-american

Former candidate for POTUS:

"If the U.S. combines our military capabilities with the twisted occupation and expansionist ethic of Israel’s use of military technology against civilian populations, will it be long before our own government militarizes the high -tech surveillance infrastructure already in place to use state violence against our own citizens who protest abuse of basic rights?"
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When you say "imperfect primary process", you mean "blatantly corrupt and rigged by Epstein-network elites within the Democratic Party".

The tragedy of your system is that both general election candidates deserved to lose, but only one of them could.

Harris is more likeable and would have had much more international support when she invaded Iran and ran interference for Netanyahu, so, as a non-American, maybe it was still for the best...
Jordan 🫪 · 2d
That’s the tradeoff of sticking to Satoshi’s original vision, & making mining more accessible to regular people.
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Truth.

And Bitcoin was also small enough for a govt to 51% overnight, until about 2014.

Monero is in a similar situation now to BTC in 2013.

Longer term, ASIC-dependence puts the BTC ecosystem at the mercy of whoever controls the foundries that make the ASICs, or the ports through which they reach low cost of energy locations.

To throttle Monero the same way would require throttling general-purpose computing hardware availability. And that would cause economic self-harm on a massive scale for China, its not happening.
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gsovereignty · 2d
A State can always develop more powerful hardware to hash Monero if they're motivated to kill it, it's just not profitable. They can't do the same for bitcoin because asics are a result of an arms race and the State can't do any better than the market.