shortwavesurfer @ shortwavesurfer @monero.town

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I've recently been hearing a lot about mining, consuming energy that either would not exist otherwise, or would be wasted. For example, places in Africa can build like a hydroelectric power station, but don't have the money to run lines far enough for all the energy from the power station to be used, so they give most of it to a crypto mine and let the residents use the rest. If the residents ever need more power, then the crypto mine can shut down temporarily or slack off on their usage in order to provide the residents with more power.

Maybe I'm thinking more Richard Stalman than Linus Torvalds. But if he made Linux to promote freedom from corporates, then it seems like he should like cryptocurrency because it's open source as well and permits freedom from government inflation. Humanity has never had a money not controlled by governments, except for gold and silver, and those are not easily sent over the internet.

You don't get into Monero for mad gains, which is what people don't seem to get. They are in cryptocurrency for number go up, and I absolutely despise them for it. Monero is growing in adoption, even with the government adversity towards it. It is still growing. In fact, a decentralized exchange called Haveno just launched last Tuesday which will make it completely impossible to ever actually kill Monero's Fiat 2 Monero Exchange

They tried to pack too many features into one single application and either end up cluttering the application with features or cluttering the user interface with options. And that's primarily my problem. I actually ditched the antenna pod podcast player for the same reason for an app called escape pod. Another thing you encounter is that apps that have too many features like that are generally very bloated, large downloads. I know people who say the Unix philosophy is to do one thing and do it really well. And most apps are like, let's do everything and do each thing somewhat poorly.

Oh, but it is, because you could exchange it for something else. As an example, I can take mine and go exchange it for groceries.

Not a true dark mode per se but there is a little light bulb icon and you tap it and then you get levels one through like six or something and each one is a bit darker than the previous until you get so dark that the font should really change to white but it does not. So you basically cannot use the darkest setting because otherwise it's really too low contrast to read with black font. So if that could be changed and if a proper dark mode could be added to the main selector interface and settings that would be great.

I completely agree. Most cryptocurrency is a stupid mess and I would never ever get involved in it. That word most is the keyword, though. That implies that there are some that are actually valuable for their own sake. And I believe that to be Monero, which is why I personally use it. Monero does not allow the government to see your finances at any time and so they absolutely hate it and try to demonize it at every chance they get.

https://coinsbee.com, https://monerica.com.

I have personally been purchasing my groceries every month with Monero for a year and a half now since January of 2023. I also actively search out companies that take Monero and purposely buy from them whenever possible.

Mainly a dark mode for the main interface and some sort of audio reader instead of having to use TalkBack. I don't mind using TalkBack, but I still have to manually turn the pages and everything at the bottom of each screen. So I can't just like get into a book and sit back and relax and listen to it. I have to actively be engaged with it because as soon as I get to the end of a page I have to click the next page button and then restart my talk back reading.

Have you tried running a cryptocurrency miner during the dead of winter? It makes your electricity bills quite a bit lower. That's for certain.

Isn't there a person that famously said something to the effect of energy is neither created nor destroyed, only modified? I want to say it was like Isaac Newton or something. Some big name anyway. So you're not destroying the energy. You're changing the energy into heat, which during the winter can heat your home as a subsidy to your furnace, and you are turning it into a digital representation that you can take and spend anywhere in the world.

Sure you can. There's absolutely nothing stopping somebody from putting a private key on a piece of paper and loading money onto it and spending it physically as long as the private key has not been exposed. Kind of like those Amazon scratch-off gift cards. And just to prove my point, take a look at this.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Casascius_physical_bitcoins

As far as an EPUB reader, I prefer one called Booky McBookface because it really does follow the keep it simple, stupid approach. It's very lightweight and very bare bones, but it gets the job done and it gets the job done well. If I had the technical skills to do it, there are a few things I would like to see added. But even in the state it is. It's a very good reader, even though it hasn't been updated in a very long time.

You could very well make the argument that ultimately crypto is backed by energy, which is something we all agree has value. Without energy, you can't go to work, heat or cool your house or anything like that. If you believe that electricity is fundamental for society, then by extension, crypto is backed by the most fundamental force that there is even bigger than a government.

I agree with you. I think people are using it wrong. It's a currency for a reason. It's meant to buy and sell goods and services. I should be able to buy a house with it. I should be able to buy a car with it. I should be able to go to the doctor and pay the doctor with it or buy some eggs from the farmer's market with it. But instead, people want to treat it like a stock market thing. And that's not what it was designed to be. It was designed to be an ultimate check on the government's authority to steal from their citizens through inflation. And anybody who tells you different is either a damn liar or has an agenda.

I would like to introduce you to my friend Monero. It actually gets used as a currency and has people who believe in human freedom using it, which is why the government's hate it so much and purposely try to get it delisted from as many exchanges as they possibly can because they do not want normals like us to have it.

Which is primarily the reason that I will only use Monero. It actually offers something that other cryptocurrencies do not. And that's privacy. If you need to see which crypto to buy or use, look at the government's efforts. The government has Wall Street accepting Bitcoin and put in people's retirement accounts. Why? Because they can control it. Where with Monero, they're trying to purposely get it delisted from every single exchange they can possibly get away with. Why would they be so willing for you to have Bitcoin? But not willing at all for you to have Monero? Simple. Because with Bitcoin, they can see everything you spend at all times and see your balance at all times. Where with Monero, they can't control it and they know it. Monero is what Bitcoin people thought they bought.

Well, I guess big name figures have a right to be wrong. Surprising since he is the creator of such a foundational piece of open source software that he would not like another piece of open source software just seems a bit hypocritical in my opinion

Exactly. These people seem to have no idea what they're talking about and or flip flop on issues. As an example, they flocked to open source software. The minute a billionaire bought the company they previously used, because in open source software, they finally see that no billionaire can buy it and control it like they can a closed source system. But yet, oh no, we can't have open source money. That doesn't make any sense.

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