What are your #freedom-related goals in 2026? Mine: Onboard one merchant to #Monero every month. Brick and mortar, local, or online. If we use it, we win. #asknostr

It would be *amazing* if the greatest obstacle to freedom was not enough wallets, nodes, DEX’s, E2EE messengers, digital cash options. It’s not. The greatest obstacle now is merchant adoption. A marketplace of buyers and sellers that wears its desire for free speech and free trade on its sleeve. Accept #Monero. Spend Monero. Put some of your savings in Monero. If we use it, we win. #freedom #freedomtech

Freedom doesn’t need yet another wallet, yet another decentralised way to communicate, or yet another DEX. The greatest contribution you can make to #Monero in 2026 is to provide your good or your service in exchange for it. #freedom #freedomtech #privacy

Murphy’s Law, applied to freedom: If it can be surveilled, it will be surveilled. If it can be controlled by a single, centralised entity, it will be controlled by a single, centralised entity. If it can be censored, it will be censored. If it can be hacked, it will be hacked. If it can be used in a way you don’t like, it will be used in a way you don’t like. If it can compromise your privacy, it will compromise your privacy. If a single individual can cause the whole system to crumble, a single individual will cause the whole system to crumble. If you can get rugged, you will get rugged. #privacy #freedom #freedomtech #monero

Profit does not make a project sustainable. Decentralisation, privacy preserving protocols, and an enthusiastic community of contributors do. Profit can help fuel that. Donations do too. So can a desire to solve one’s own problem, coupled with the free time and energy to do so. A profitable project without decentralisation can be captured and controlled. A profitable product without privacy punishes you for using it. The more you use it, the more control the profit maker has over you. A profitable project without contributions from a wider community survives only as long as the profit maker decides. And evolves in only the way they allow. Freedom is intrinsically decentralised, private, and supported and sustained by a community. Design your system, product, or service accordingly. #freedom #privacy

It used to be that “cryptoanarchists write code.” In 2026, one of the most revolutionary, cryptoanarchist acts you can do is not to implement yet another form of digital cash that nobody will use, but to sell bread, milk, cheese, or coffee in the one that people already do. #Monero

300g Authentic Manchego Cheese – Aged Spanish Sheep’s Milk Cheese | XmrBazaar

Shop with Monero: Taste the tradition of Spain with this 300g wedge of authentic Manchego cheese, made from 100% sheep’s milk and aged t...

The beautiful thing about an actually useful (actually used!), private, permissionless currency like #Monero is that it’s even become much better NGU technology than #Bitcoin. Solving real problems generates wealth. Endlessly elaborate narratives hoping to project future valuations about a thing nobody actually uses do not. View quoted note →

Self-interest is the least corruptible force in the universe. Design your systems accordingly.

In times like these, I'm incredibly grateful we have: #Monero - digital cash #GrapheneOS - mobile freedom #Nostr - social freedom #NymVPN - truly private VPN #KeePassXC - open source password management #Lemmy - federated communities #SimpleX - truly private chat #NanoGPT - access to the best AI models, without needing an account (and payment with Monero) In a world where governments are doing everything they can to command and control, free software developers are building and shipping tools that offer us unparalleled freedom. If you haven't tried some of these tools, let today be the day you choose one to explore. And if you use and love some of these tools, consider making a donation to one today!

On behalf of the organisers of World Nostr Day, I'd like to thank our platinum sponsors, AWS, for their tremendous efforts to demonstrate that even a worldwide outage of the world's largest hosting provider cannot slow us down even one teeny, tiny, little bit. Thank you! #decentralized #permissionless #freedom

"The Bureau of Labor also slashed the number of jobs added in recent months. May’s jobs figure was revised down by 125,000, from 144,000 to 19,000, and June was revised down by 133,000, from 147,000 to 14,000 – a combined 258,000 fewer jobs than previously reported." Perception is not reality. Reality is reality. And the reality is that the Trump tax that Americans are being charged to do business with every other country on Earth is bad for everybody.

the Guardian

US adds just 73,000 jobs in July amid pressure from Trump’s trade war

July jobs growth slowed amid rising signs that Trump’s tariffs are weighing on trade, prices and hiring

36 ways you can contribute to Monero, from Monero Observer:

Monero Observer - Ultimate guide for new Monero contributors

This guide aims to inspire new contributors get started. It is essentially a list of potential ways one can contribute.

How many have you done? 😎 #Monero #privacy

Measuring your net worth (or income) progression in fiat terms debases the way you think about value. Fiat number-go-up doesn't mean much. Measure it in #Monero to get more useful feedback on your returns. You'll develop a better sense of how and where to allocate your energy and resources to increase real value generation over time.

"The Lightning Network (LN), the Manhattan Project of Bitcoin, was supposed to give us everything we ever wanted for Bitcoin: scalability and privacy, while still staying super decentralized and non-custodial. While being non-custodial (it just requires you to run your own lightning node with a hot wallet, what could possibly go wrong), it requires your wallet to be online in order to receive a payment. As of today there are 3,735.09 BTC locked in lightning channels (source: 1ML), a whopping 0.017786% of the circulating supply. The top 10 nodes hold ~ 64 % of the advertised channel capacity, with the single largest node (ACINQ) holding ~11 % (source also: 1ML), which is exactly the hub and spoke network topology that early critics of LN predicted." @Frank Braun

Privacy needs to be baked into L1

Privacy is the absence of information leakage and that implies it comes from value at rest, not value in motion. And privacy at rest can only be ga...

#privacy #monero #zcash #lightning

"The zk-nym scheme enables the creation and use of unlinkable, rerandomisable anonymous access credentials that are 'spent' with Gateways in order to anonymously prove that someone has paid for Mixnet access. [...] zk-nyms allow for users to pay for Mixnet access in a manner that is unlinkable to their payment account; even with pseudonymous cryptocurrencies or fiat. This solves one of the fundamental privacy problems with the majority of VPNs and dVPNs in production today: the linkability of a user's session with their payment information, which can in the majority of cases be easily used to deanonymise them, either at the behest of an authority or by the service operators themselves."

Nym docs

What are zk-nyms? – Nextra

Nym's network documentation covering network architecture, node types, tokenomics, and cryptography.

#privacy #vpn #nymvpn

If anyone in the history of humanity has ever referred to it as a giant wall of digital energy, it's a #shitcoin.

If the person you sent it to can see how much change you got back, it's a #shitcoin.

Anyone interested in buying #coffee for #Monero in the #UK? #asknostr

If you’re earning interest, you’re losing money. Save in #Monero. Spend in Monero. Let inflation be the price paid by those who choose to ignore it.

If it passes through a centralised exchange, it’s a #shitcoin.