Money that should be going to Israel instead. View quoted note →

You can call this My MicroStrategy for My Own Personal Treasury. View quoted note →

The illusion of Wealth: Stock Market vs. Gold in Reality

Missed out on The Bitcoin Pump. Missed out on The Trump Coin Pump. I'm missing out on The Z-cash Pump. I need more Monero, I'm still early.

I don't think any of us are going to be able to retire, Gen Z is so cooked bro 🙃.

I'm down $3,000 this week on the stock market, what did Trump do?

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I’m gearing towards improvement but fiat will always fiat. Time to stop fiating.

Monero is the spiritual continuation of the Cypherpunk, and Crypto-anarchist ideals that drove Bitcoin, and Z-cash, and Bitcoin Cash are the technological continuation of Bitcoin, so technically Monero, Z-Cash, and Bitcoin Cash ARE BITCOIN! SO YOU CAN STILL BE BITCOIN ONLY, AND USE MONERO, Z-CASH, AND BITCOIN CASH, WHICH ARE ALL BITCOIN!

Being a Maxi in any coin will erode your brain cells faster than being a Multi-coiner. Crypto (Bitcoin included) are technologies first, currencies second, and commodities third, if you put a lot of your fiat value into a Cryptocurrency hoping for its value to grow, or appreciate drastically you're blinding yourself to the technological progress being made by other cryptocurrencies. And usually it's the smaller coins which make breakthrough innovations for more popular coins with stronger network effects. For example Grin, and Firo have contributed to Litecoin, and Monero's privacy enhancement. And many Bitcoiners hate on Monero but Monero implemented many of the early proposals to improve Bitcoin's privacy. And obviously Z-cash is built from the same protocol of Bitcoin, so Z-cash proves that Bitcoin can work as a currency.

Z.Cash

Does Zcash have a max supply?

Yes. Zcash’s max supply is 21M, so you can be confident your holdings will not get inflated away like traditional fiat currencies.

Ok, so River added Direct Deposit 👀. Next Move is on Strike, and their response 🤔.

My have Stocks gone down $2,000 this week. I'm still up overall but it's just brutal seeing a few months worth of growth get erased in an instant.

This is how my brain works. (Bing Christmas ad/commercial)

I'm not in the ideal situation but I've been in worse situations. I'm just glad that it's slightly improving though but I've still got a lot more room to grow. I intend to be in a better position in the future, and I'm trying my best to brace myself to be better prepared for the future but right now I'm still on the path to growth. One step at a time, I'll get there, it's just the time it'll take is the problem now.

It appears like it's a tough time for many at this time. Perhaps it's always been that way, maybe not, who knows. We've got to try our best to stay strong, and help each other as best as possible. Even if you can't help others, try your best to keep yourself afloat, if you can't do that then try to do what you can do. As long as we all work together we can get through these difficult times.

Imagine coming to an uncensorable protocol just to end up muting people because they disagree with you 🙃. How much of a sensitive little baby do you have to be?

My hot take is all these bots, scammers, and spammers, etc. are just the devs red teaming each other. Because otherwise it would be just sad and pathetic to be a scammer on Nostr.

@Derek Ross can you confirm? npub1hr6mx534xv8r0t4fqpguxpzk5gmtcslvv6hhr6a50yzdm0dmdjpsykt7ze

Have you met your girlfriend’s boyfriend yet?

Bitcoin, Monero, and Zcash are all three coins taking different approaches. Zcash is a corporate coin, looking for complete legal compliance, and people to throw money into it like an investment, it has strong technology but has very weak community driven funding focus, it's the fastest, and most private of the three but the community lacks the cypherpunk, and crypto-anarchist attitudes. It has a limited cap of 21 million like Bitcoin because it believes the appreciation, and usage will keep miners incentivized. Bitcoin is a hybrid of institutional investment, and Cypherpunks/Crypto-anarchists, Bitcoin started off as uncompliant, anonymous devs, totally self-funded community looking to undermine the financial system but somewhere along the line, one or multiple of the devs got corrupted by corporate interests, which has made the tug of war between privacy, and appreciation the toughest, the privacy, and P2P people have been fighting to undermine corporate interests to protect their freedom to transact, however the institutional investors in Bitcoin don't want Bitcoin to be private as it makes regulation impossible. You have P2P funding, and organizational P2P funding but then also corporate funding, you have organizations which are essentially institutions in theory but act more effectively as focusing P2P community funding like OpenSats, which otherwise would've been small scattered donations here, and there, OpenSats takes the donations and hones in unlike conventional P2P funding, whereas you have Gemini, and Blockstream funding which totally sabotages Bitcoin privacy to keep it compliant, and profitable. 21 Million supply is a response to endless money printing that we've seen the last 20 years, and believes a scare money will increase purchasing power, and improve normal people's lives. Monero is purely self funded by the community, and sacrifices compliance, and institutions for privacy. A notable percent of the devs are anonymous, and continue to defy their governments orders to stop doing Monero work since the government wants this individuals found, and tried. Monero self-funds most if not all of its projects through both P2P methods, and semi-instituional means through the community crowdfunding system, which is P2P, and magic grants which is a hybrid of community funding, and institutional funding. Monero makes the argument that artificial scarcity causes deflation which is dangerous, and causes both miners, and the ecosystem to stagnant as HODLing would spell death, tail emissions keeps supply circulating while combating inflation by issuing a predictable amount of currency. Monero doesn't not have a supply cap but under current network protocols makes the tail emissions of 0.6 XMR every 2 minutes. Overall, they have similar intended ends but different methods on achieving those goals, and I think each one brings a notable benefit despite the different trade-offs. Without one, or the other, experimenting to improve monetary transactions wouldn't be possible. Right now we have the choices to see what works, and what doesn't, and make the best tradeoffs. If everyone was only focused on one coin it would cause endless conflict and hurt monetary freedom.