Hey @Daedalus, a week after this fool marximalist's post, the opposite of what he claimed happened: Monero reached its highest valuation in both official and street prices. View quoted note →

View quoted note → You know, he's right. Deep down, all of you are aware of Monero's superiority and are quite concerned that we may be proven correct. Tick tock. Your time is running out and things are accelerating. Get your minds straight, you KYC-worshiping bitchcoiners.

#GM #GetMonero

Bitcoin is no longer cypherpunk. It was originally intended to be a decentralised, peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Although it could never have been cypherpunk, due to its traceability and linkability, which cannot be considered characteristics of any "crypto" currency. Bitcoin is now mostly treated like digital gold and hoarded by hedge funds, rather than being used for transactions focused on freedom of exchange and privacy. The institutions that Bitcoin was intended to overthrow are now integrating Bitcoin into their systems, which causes Bitcoin to lose its "system-disrupting" feature. How can Bitcoin be a sovereign and liberating currency when it operates on the same rails, channels, and systems as fiat? On the other hand, #Monero is still marching onwards. Monero is the true and only embodiment of what Bitcoin should be: private and fungible, peer-to-peer and resistant to surveillance, with transaction fees low enough to be frictionless in the long term, decentralised, secure and fast. If the goal is not only to hedge against inflation but also to achieve true transaction freedom, Monero will be the sole path for purists and realists. Cryptocurrency technology was not created for investment returns. It was created by revolutionaries who believed in privacy to resist all tyrants. However, as a result of complacency and conformism, it has been hijacked by greed. Forgetting this fact and becoming blinded by the lure of money, easily falling for trends and becoming foolish with all the hype, is what slows down progress towards freedom through technology. But the world is waking up. People are tired of deceptive, meaningless advertisements. They are tired of banks exploiting them with inflated interest rates and of entities like Bitcoin and Tether being complicit in this exploitative system. They are tired of treacherous contracts designed not to serve but to trap and simply exploit them for maximum profit. A change is happening. That's why I'm accumulating Monero, to become my own secret vault rather than my own bank, and to protect myself against inflation. No one is coming to save you. Follow the example of the Cypherpunks and demonstrate the virtue of taking initiative, thickening your skin and your armour with an absolute liberating tool like Monero. Bitcoin artık cypherpunk değil. Esasında desentralize, eşler arası çalışan bir elektronik nakit sistemi olması amaçlanmıştı. Gerçi hiçbir zaman cypherpunk da olamamıştı, zira izlenebilirlik ve ilişkilendirilebilirlik, adı üstünde hiçbir "kripto" paranın vasfı olamaz. Bitcoin artık sadece ekseriyetle dijital altın gibi muamele görüyor ve hedge fonları tarafından istifleniyor, mübadele hürriyeti ve mahremiyeti odaklı işlemler için kullanılmıyor. Bitcoin'in altüst etmesi amaçlanan kurumlar artık onu sistemlerine entegre ediyor, bu da onun "sistem altüst edici" özelliğini kaybetmesine neden oluyor. Fiat ile aynı raylar, kanallar, sistemler üzerinde işlem görürken Bitcoin nasıl egemen ve özgürlükçü bir para olabilir? Monero ise hâlâ yoluna devam ediyor. Monero, Bitcoin'in olması gerektiği şeyin asıl ve tek hâlidir: Yani mahrem ve birimdenk, eşler arası ve gözetime dirençli, uzun vadede friksiyonsuz olacak kadar düşük işlem ücretli, dağıtık, güvenli ve hızlı. Sadece enflasyona karşı korunmak değil, ayrıca gerçek işlem özgürlüğü ise amaç, Monero püristlerin ve gerçekçilerin yegâne yolu olacaktır. Kriptopara teknolojisi, yatırım getirisi için yaratılmadı. Mahremiyet idealine sahip devrimciler tarafından tüm tiranlara karşı koyabilmek için yaratıldı. Fakat atalet ve konformizmin sonucunda açgözlülük tarafından ele geçirildi. Bu gerçeği unutmak ve paradan gözü dönerek kolayca her şeye kanıp hype'la ahmaklaşmak, teknoloji sayesinde özgürlük mevzuunda, hızlanmayı yavaşlatan şeydir. Ama dünya uyanıyor. Göz boyayan saçma reklamlardan bıktı. Bankaların şişirilmiş faizlerle sizi sömürmesinden ve bu sömürü düzenine Bitcoin ve Tether gibilerinin ortak olmasından bıktı. Hizmet etmek yerine tuzağa düşürmek ve sadece kârı maksimize etmek için tasarlanmış haince sözleşmelerden bıktı. Bir değişim yaşanıyor. Bu yüzden Monero biriktiriyorum, kendi bankam değil, kendi gizli kasam oluyorum ve enflasyona karşı korunuyorum. Kimse sizi kurtarmaya gelmeyecek. Tıpkı Cypherpunk'lar gibi inisiyatif alma erdemini gösterip Monero gibi mutlak bir özgürleştirici araç ile derinizi ve kalkanlarınızı kalınlaştırın.

If you still believe that Bitcoin provides privacy, take a look at the table above. Most Lightning Network wallets, even if some are not custodial, still track and archive all your transactions, account activity, and usage preferences. If you don't want to take my word for this shortcoming of Bitcoin, you can read their own statements from Bitcoin's official website below.

Protect your privacy - Bitcoin

Bitcoin'in mahremiyet sağladığına hâlâ inanıyorsanız, yukarıdaki tabloya bir göz atın. Lightning Network cüzdanlarının çoğu, belki bazıları custodial (emanetçi) olmasalar bile, tüm transaksiyonlarınızı, hesap hareketlerinizi ve kullanım tercihlerinizi takip eder ve arşivler. Bitcoin'in bu noksanı konusunda bana itimat etmek istemezseniz, Bitcoin'in resmî sitesinden kendi beyanlarını okuyabilirsiniz.

#Monero is the one and only embodiment of Cypherpunk and Crypto-Anarchist ideals that has been put into action and continues to advance without compromise. Monero Cypherpunk ve Kripto-anarşist ideallerin eyleme geçmiş ve taviz vermeden ilerleyen yegâne hâlidir.

Your triggers are your responsibility. It isn't the world's obligation to tiptoe around you.

Bitcoin taught you to question money. Altcoins taught you nothing. Stablecoins re-taught you obedience. CBDCs will teach you regret. Monero didn't come to save you. It came to bury what enslaved you. Bitcoin is the hook. Ethereum is the bait. Tether is the sinker. CBDC is the line. Monero is the knife. You know what has to be done.

Monero initiates a strong cycle as its price rises. The mechanism is outlined below: 1. A higher price means a larger market capitalisation, which in turn implies a more liquid market. 2. Its rise in the cryptocurrency rankings triggers FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and adds momentum to the trend. 3. New users discover Monero's greatest strength, its privacy-by-default feature, and once they see this feature, they can never ignore it again. 4. Massive amounts of money, which require caution and must therefore be kept confidential, flow in rapidly and intensely. 5. As Monero enters the top 20 in the financial asset rankings, even the most greedy exchanges are forced to reconsider relisting it “somehow”. 6. Yes, its value may fluctuate — but every dip in coins with a unique selling point paves the way for the next rise. 7. Monero is no ordinary coin; it is a Kali Yuga Asset — created to thrive in the age of chaos. #Privacy is inevitable. #Monero is destiny. Monero, fiyatında yükseliş yaşadıkça, güçlü bir döngü başlatır. İşleyişi şu şekildedir: 1. Daha yüksek fiyat, daha büyük piyasa değeri demektir ve o da daha likit bir piyasa anlamına gelir. 2. Kripto varlıklar sıralamasındaki yükselişi, FOMO'yu (Fear of Missing Out; fırsatı kaçırma korkusu) tetikler ve ivmeye ivme kazandırır. 3. Yeni kullanıcılar, Monero'nun en büyük silahı olan mahremiyet varsayılanlılığını keşfeder ve bir kez gördükleri bu özelliği bir daha asla görmezden gelemezler. 4. İhtiyatlı olmayı gerektiren ve hâliyle mahrem tutulması gereken büyük miktarlardaki para hızlı ve yoğun bir şekilde akın eder. 5. Monero, finansal varlıklar sıralamasında ilk 20'ye girerken, en açgözlü borsalar bile onu “bir şekilde” yeniden listelemeyi tekrar düşünmek zorunda kalır. 6. Evet, değeri düşebilecektir — ancak benzersiz bir kullanış/satış niteliği (Unique Selling Point) olan coin'lerin her düşüşü, bir sonraki yükselişi hazırlar. 7. Monero sıradan bir coin değildir; Kali Yuga Varlığı'dır — kaos çağında gelişmek için yaratılmıştır. Mahremiyet kaçınılmazdır. Monero kaderdir.

Monero: The Ethics of Invisibility Crypto-anarchism is not a call for chaos; it is a rejection of centralized coercion. Anarcho-capitalism is not a utopia, but a vision of a social order where property is not seized by force. Agorism is not passive escape, but a conscious withdrawal from state monopolies. Cypherpunk ideals emerge at the intersection of these traditions: where privacy must be defended technically, not rhetorically. #Monero stands precisely at this intersection. Monero is not a “coin”; it is a form of disobedience. An attempt to return money to its natural state. A protocol that strips away the moral and political labels imposed on money by states, banks, and blockchain surveillance firms. What Monero does is not concealment—it is the restoration of ownership to its rightful holder. Transparency is one of the great ideological lies of our age. It never flows upward. State budgets, central bank decisions, intelligence funding, and corporate power networks are never truly transparent. Transparency is always demanded downward—from the individual, the merchant, the dissenter, the non-compliant. Monero rejects this asymmetric morality. The knowledge problem articulated by the Austrian School for over a century finds protocol-level expression in Monero. Knowledge is local; when centralized, it becomes distorted. Price signals only function when free actors interact without fear of surveillance. Traceable money turns markets into regulated simulations. Monero restores the private interaction upon which genuine markets depend. From an agorist perspective, Monero completes the missing link of counter-economics. Untaxable, uncensorable, permissionless exchange is impossible without fungible and untraceable money. Otherwise, every “free” transaction becomes a deferred confession. Monero is money that refuses to confess. From an anarcho-capitalist standpoint, Monero transforms property from an abstract right into a material reality. If an asset can be frozen, traced, or discriminated against based on its history, it is not yours—it has merely been entrusted to you. Monero makes ownership unconditional. Cypherpunks do not demand rights; they build systems. History has shown that rights are suspended in times of crisis, while infrastructure remains. Financial surveillance begins as a “temporary security measure” and ends as permanent control. Monero breaks this cycle. It trusts mathematics, not law. Monero’s radical nature lies not in privacy itself, but in privacy by default. Privacy is not an option; it is the baseline. Just as every conversation should not be recorded, every transaction need not be observed. This basic human intuition has been systematically erased by modern finance. Monero reclaims it. States do not fear Monero because of crime. The true threat is scalable disobedience. Monero is dangerous not because it hides individuals, but because it limits the power to see. That is why Monero is perceived not as illegal, but as ungovernable. Without privacy, there is no property. Without property, there is no market. Without markets, freedom is merely a slogan. Monero is one of the rare systems that completes this chain end to end. It does not promise. It does not persuade. It simply works. And as long as it works, freedom ceases to be theoretical and becomes a lived reality. Monero is not a promise of the future. It is a rupture that has already begun.

View quoted note → The Lightning Network cannot scale and never will. This is why everyone is building fake centralized hybrid Lightning bullshit and using custodial apps. There are many reasons for this, here are some. Liquidity: Each channel requires funding, twice. That capital is frozen until you splice, rebalance, or close. As adoption grows, the liquidity requirement grows quadratically. As on-chain fees grow, cost of using LN goes up while security assurances go down. Complexity: Complexity breeds centralization. Most users do not tolerate the base LN experience. Most devs do not tolerate depending on complex buggy self-custodial implementations. You've practically got to be an entire Lightning stack business to reliably provide a self-custodial product. Costs rise, leading to severe centralization at scale. Routing: Portrayed as the coolest part of LN, but truly the worst aspect due to liquidity requirements, uncertainty, complexity. Results in hubs, then centralization at scale. Breaking changes: Constant new complexity requires node runners to always run new, potentially insecure software. New channel types, new payment protocols, all destroy interoperability. Obscure Hacks Required: If you want to provide a LN wallet or app you need to learn all the weird solutions, like LNURL, misc patches & tools, that people hacked in because LN protocol devs and LN implementation companies rarely care about the user space (probably because it is hopeless). We get weird derivative things hacked into others, like subscriptions into one specific payment protocol, but not into others; or, three different weird email format nicknames that arent actually emails, and are all implemented in trusted ways. This results in LN businesses and LN devs requiring arcane understanding, and endless patience, in the LN world. Regulatory trap: Running a LSP business safely requires experienced lawyers for a constantly changing compliance landscape. New hybrid LN services like Spark, Liquid swaps, and taproot-asset edge nodes, will draw regulatory scrutiny the moment something goes wrong, or becomes too large. Lightning is somewhat cool and useful, but it doesn't actually fix Bitcoin payments at scale, so much as kinda-sorta provide efficiencies as long as you don't actually scale too much... TLDR? The concept of a high-frequency bitcoin channel is sound, and proven now. The concept of a bitcoin-based routing network as an efficiency has not been proven, and, arguably, has failed. And ultimately, what matters most is the final nail in the coffin:

An unfortunate consequence of the popular crypto press' habitual oversimplification of #Monero as a "privacy coin" is that people tend to over-emphasize privacy and underappreciate fungibility. Fungibility is why the privacy happens. However, privacy is only a subset of what fungibility provides. There are benefits of fungibility for those people out there who have zero concern for privacy. Thanks to the efforts of blockchain surveillance organizations, every address and every transaction of every transparent ledger now automatically include a social credit score as part of their permanent metadata baggage. You can't opt out of that. So, the actions of the people who owned a transparent coin before you owned it and also after you owned it, can and will transfer to your reputation. It doesn't matter if you care about privacy or not -this is something that nobody with an honorable reputation will knowingly tolerate. It isn't really the ethos of the Monero community to tell other people what to do with their money, thus you do you. I will observe, though, that the asset diversification that Markowitz found to be a Schelling point back in 1952, would not necessarily have to be be accomplished within crypto, if one came to their own conclusion that the sufficiently high quality assets within crypto needed to diversify within crypto, simply do not exist. In this case the use of XMR as an exclusive representative asset of all crypto would be balanced at the overall portfolio level via prudent allocation to other asset classes.