Are you familiar with $XMR #Monero fractions? It's analogous to fiat cents. Since Monero is money and you can make small purchases, like a coffee, what would happen if XMR were valued so high in dollars that the smallest fraction of XMR wouldn't allow you to do so? Let's see. 1 piconero = 0.000000000001 XMR (10⁻¹²) 1 nanonero = 0.000000001 XMR (10⁻⁹) 1 micronero = 0.000001 XMR (10⁻⁶) 1 millinero = 0.001 XMR (10⁻³) 1 centinero = 0.01 XMR (10⁻²) 1 decinero = 0.1 XMR (10⁻¹) 1 monero = 1 XMR (10⁰) XMR would need to trade near US$100 billion per unit for 1 piconero to be worth US$0.10. It's clear that the "problem" seems distant. However, another issue is the high price of XMR in dollars relative to fees, which benefits miners but not users. But that discussion is for another time.

"our day-to-day lives" translation: "our" means politicians' lives. View quoted note →

#Transhumanism: The brain of the future is already under construction Hybrain (Hybrid + Brain) — the human brain and the digital network. It’s not science fiction; the technology is already taking shape, piece by piece. Reality will surpass fiction. Let's see... Neuromorphic chips mimic how we think. They process information not through zeros and ones, but through electrical pulses similar to our neurons. Intel, Manchester, and Heidelberg lead this race: Loihi 2, SpiNNaker, and BrainScaleS are chips that learn on their own, reorganizing their internal connections. The key lies in artificial neuroplasticity — hardware that reconfigures itself like a living brain. It relies on memristive materials that remember the signals that passed through them. The next step is already happening: merging biological tissue with chips. Projects like DishBrain are teaching mini-brains to play video games when connected to electronic circuits. Once these systems stabilize and sync with the cloud, the Hybrain will emerge: a hybrid, expanded brain that learns in a network. The hardware of human thought will no longer be purely biological.

Corruption in politics is not a bug; it is a feature of the centralization of power.

Trump Pardons Binance Founder It's about power, it's about money, it's about corruption. Let's see if this makes it clearer: "Binance has been one of the main drivers of the growth of World Liberty’s dollar-pegged cryptocurrency, called USD1. It delivered World Liberty’s first big break this spring when it accepted a $2 billion investment from an outside investor paid in USD1. Binance has also incentivized trading in USD1 across platforms it controls," the Journal reports.

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Trump Pardons Binance Founder

"Biden's war on crypto is over," the White House tells the Wall Street Journal.

The algorithm of freedom in the age of AI Artificial intelligence does not need to prohibit, but rather attract in order to co-opt. It seduces you with optimization. And in that optimization equation, privacy is an adjustment variable, the independent variable, and freedom is a dependent variable.

One word to define politics: control

My prediction: #Monero will be relisted on Binance. My analysis. P.S.: I'm not looking forward to it, quite the opposite. Signals: The Trump administration is pro-crypto but anti-privacy. Trump just pardoned the founder of Binance, did you know? What's initially the easiest way to control money? With its price relative to goods and services and other currencies. That's what bankers do: they manipulate the value of money, gaining control and profit. Regulators will ask bankers to relist Monero with KYC on CEXs to have control over Monero's price against fiat currency and, additionally, data on who trades XMR. Facilitating access and liquidity in a small market that you can manipulate is a counterintuitive measure, but it means control. Who wants money that is volatile and serves not as a medium of exchange but as a speculative asset?

The deployment of artificial intelligence agents in the crypto industry is no longer a futuristic hypothesis, but the natural consequence of two converging forces. On one side, the growth of algorithms for arbitrage, mining, and governance; on the other, the push to automate as much as possible to maximize efficiency. The question is no longer whether we will see AI agents on blockchains, but how they will integrate and under what rules. The answer will determine whether decentralization is strengthened or reduced to a simulacrum. In this sense, it is crucial to follow closely the pilot projects already being tested in various labs and consortia, because what looks experimental today could become tomorrow’s dominant infrastructure. My article: 'Agentic Blockchains In The Near Future' ─Signals and Possible Futures https://medium.com/@liberlion/agentic-blockchains-in-the-near-future-fa08a66e4738

Being offline will be the new luxury in an age where privacy is worth more than gold.

Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Regulators are partners with bankers. They need each other. Binance is the largest crypto bank on the planet, in terms of trading volume and reach. Got it?

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Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao

President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) after his money laundering conviction.

A Two-Rule Protocol for Staying Sane on Social Media Social media provides very good information and often data that isn't in the press. But there's a lot of junk. You have to separate the noise from the music. I don't have time to waste; it's life's most valuable resource; it's the raw material itself. I'm sharing a simple protocol I have, consisting of two rules, to survive on social media and maintain my peace of mind. I get that this protocol isn’t useful for those whose full-time job is manufacturing chaos online. Wouldn’t want to ruin their productivity. 1. I don't argue when insults are being exchanged. I close the debate. 2. I only give more than one response when my counterpart provides information I don't know. If not, I close the debate.

Many people are not going to like what I'm about to say, but this kind of daily rise in XMR’s price isn’t market excitement — it’s engineering. Let me explain... While some crypto bankers cash in, others follow quieter orders: weaken trust, twist the narrative, and slow down a currency built for freedom. In the noise of price, what’s truly being manipulated is perception. Always try to understand the second layer of information. We live in a WORLD of SIMULATION ᴿᵉᵃˡⁱᵗʸ ⁱˢ ʰⁱᵈᵈᵉⁿ ⁱⁿ ˡᵃʸᵉʳˢ

From Territory to Algorithm: AI and Crypto in the New Power Struggle In feudal times, power was measured in land. After the Industrial Revolution, it shifted to capital. Now, the new dominion is knowledge. Information has become the map of power. Those who control data, define reality. AI doesn’t just predict thought—it shapes it. It molds narratives, prices, emotions, and elections. Algorithms are the invisible borders of this era. They steer perception, and with it, behavior. States and corporations race for cognitive sovereignty— the ability to foresee and model human decisions. On the same board, cryptocurrencies emerge as weapon or shield. From above: surveillance tools (CBDCs, total traceability). From below: resistance (Monero, Bitcoin’s original ethos). AI and crypto are twin forces of the digital century, one centralizes power through data, the other can disperse it. The real tension isn’t technical—it’s moral. It all depends on who writes the code, and what kind of world they’re coding for.

In #Monero, tx with many inputs are hard to verify, yet cheap to spam. The proposal, Proof of Work Enabled Relay (PoWER) adds a small proof of work for large transactions, making spam costly. Transactions with up to eight inputs stay exempt for simplicity.

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Proof-of-Work-Enabled Relay ("PoWER") · Issue #133 · monero-project/research-lab

Overview 128-input FCMP++ txs currently take >3s to verify on high-end machines. There is room for further optimization, however, it's estimated th...

Everyone recites the mantra "not your keys, not your cryptos"... but not everyone deeply understands why. Most people might understand that you technically don't have a seed and only a password, but that's only looking at the first layer of the problem. I will explain it in a simple way from a technical, accounting, and economic perspective. Want to? Read 👇 If you have cryptocurrencies in an exchange, you are not the owner; you are a creditor of the exchange.  When you buy cryptocurrency on an exchange, you don't own the keys or the cryptocurrency. What they're doing is recording a liability for themselves, where they have a record of an amount and a ticker in your account as a customer, but they have the keys; you don't.  They have the cryptocurrency stored on the blockchain; you don't. The exchange records a debt with you for that amount, and you do not have the coins, but you are a creditor of the exchange, and that makes it effective when you withdraw. Explanations from three perspectives: 👇 ─Technical → You don't have the private key; the exchange does. ─Accounting → Your position is similar to a credit (right) against the exchange, not a full owner. ─Economic → It implies exposure to the exchange's risk, less autonomy, and greater dependency, which can affect liquidity, perceived value, and control. You can read this article I wrote four years ago, which is still relevant today, about secure self-custody of cryptocurrencies, with basic, specific tips I suggest you follow: 'Store Your Cryptocurrencies Securely' https://liberlion.medium.com/store-your-adas-safely-d3f8febb006c

Cross-Chain Bridges: The Hidden Threat to Privacy Blockchains I published an article on this topic years ago and warned about the potential risk of THORchain with #Monero. Let me explain. A few days ago, the co-founder of THORchain presented a proposal to connect Monero to other blockchains for native exchanges. I warned, with a theoretical analysis, that this is very risky for privacy and presents more problems than benefits. I posted too much about this vulnerability. Here are 2 of my relevant posts, and the link to my article in the second one: 1.

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1/9 #Monero and the DeFi Trap I have been anticipating for some time that Monero may suffer more from its own ambition than from external risks. Le...

2. https://x.com/liberlion17/status/1978917043559645313 And now, here is the technical proof, based on a real bug, which shows that even if this problem is fixed, the theoretical concept I proposed remains valid for cross-chain bridges on privacy Blockchains. In impeccable research, as usual from ZachXBT, this great crypto researcher, exposes yesterday, a privacy flaw in Near Intents when using Zashi with shielded ZEC. Non-private refunds to t-addresses enable deanonymization. Example: bridged SOL to ZEC, then to ETH, and a refund linked it all.

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1/ As part of my work I like to test out privacy products and figure out what works and what doesn’t so I can abuse any design flaws for my inves...

#AI will lead to greater concentration in many societies, and also globally. View quoted note →

History shows that every civilization is based on the production and distribution of wealth. Regardless of the political model, economic inequality is inevitable to varying degrees, but when it exceeds tolerable limits, the system collapses, usually violently.

Living without principles is like sailing through a storm with no compass. Whether your principles are your own — like the compass, magnetic or digital — they remain essential. The same applies to blockchain design. My article: Blockchain Could Be A Game Changer If Its Principles Are Respected https://medium.com/coinmonks/blockchain-could-be-a-game-changer-if-its-principles-are-respected-fb9d47ce27a6