On Bitcoin-SHA256, 3 nodes created 65% of the blocks. Here’s how this compares to Bitcoin-Blake2b:

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I don’t wanna spill the beans yet, but soon we might be able to swap XBT for XMR and vice versa on a DEX. 👀 Until then, there’s:

Neoxa Exchange

XBT/XMR - 1.031 XMR | Neoxa Exchange

Trade XBT/XMR on Neoxa Exchange. Current price: 1.031 XMR

Help us bootstrap this spot market first #Monero brothers.

Looks like it’s kinda working. 👀 The spread is down from 8x to 6x, and there are a few more bids and asks in the order book. The price is still well below the spot price on the other pairs. We just need a few more limit orders to create a proper market for XBT/XMR. Come on you shadow supercoders. Do you wanna live forever?! #Monero. View quoted note →

I think Spamcoiners are angry at our chain because they keep calling Luke crazy and incompetent, yet he keeps outsmarting them. Their real frustration is with him. View quoted note →

Hey, Monero people, can I tempt you to start using Neoxa Exchange to buy and sell XMR? If you want to sell your XBT for XMR, this is the only place where it’s possible AFAIK, and it’s completely non-KYC. The order book is basically empty, so we’d really appreciate some liquidity, even at a premium.

Neoxa Exchange

XBT/XMR - 1.031 XMR | Neoxa Exchange

Trade XBT/XMR on Neoxa Exchange. Current price: 1.031 XMR

The sad thing is that Bitcoin is never going to make it to your phone as long as it remains dependent on the fiat gatekeepers now ruling unchallenged on SHA-256. There are plenty of reasons why I don’t see that happening there, but these are probably the biggest ones: 1. The chain is growing too fast, especially thanks to blowing up OP_RETURN. Phone hardware simply won’t be able to keep up with the memory requirements. 2. Nobody left on SHA-256, at least nobody that matters, seems to think Bitcoin is actually supposed to be money. To them, Bitcoin can be anything else, just not money. 3. Development on SHA-256 is highly centralised and tightly controlled. You’re not going to get the support or funding for genuinely groundbreaking designs. The most consequential engineering achievement in the past nine years was DATUM, and the entire industry pretends it doesn’t exist. There are plenty of other reasons why I don’t think SHA-256 Bitcoin will ever run on phones. But these three should already tell you where this is heading. View quoted note →

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The XBT engendering cohort has been crushing it. 👀 View quoted note →

That’s our community 🫶

Blockstream might turn out to be the FTX of this cycle.