I see what you mean, that’s a fair warning. You’re still making me feel like I’m missing something major though. Technical hurdles by design you say?

I haven’t had the time to look deeper into this but how does that affect anything if you self host or simply choose a different server? The way I understand it, that’s exactly what they’re pushing for here. How is that “federated platforms”?

In that sense, bitcoin is already working great and why should anyone ever bother anymore.

The issue has been discussed in the past, it is a real issue and many have already voiced concerns. I’m glad I see people bringing it up every now and then, I would get suspicious if none did.

Great list, thank you. Sadly both bitejo.com and successonly.work (listed under marketplaces) have been shut down permanently as far as I know.

I find it funny there’s no comments on this yet, it looks like an interesting proposal. Am I missing something?

Absolutely. The developer seems adamant about it too. Pretty Good Privacy is what PGP stands for and that’s the best we can get. Not absolute, not amazing, not extremely good. Pretty good with careful planning can get good enough in most cases. It takes work and it never gets easy sadly.

Why not?

Mo-what?

CZ?

No issue, I was just curious. Keep it up!

I get that, I was just making sure I wasn’t missing anything

This is super cool and everything but… why?

The short answer is you can’t. Hold small amounts so fluctuations don’t bother you that much. USDT (any stablecoin for that matter) is only stable until it isn’t.

I get that. What I don’t get is how these would help centralize power given they mine at the same efficiency (at best) as everything else.

You’re absolutely right. I’m just saying give it another week or so, near release things can get out of hand quickly. And post back whatever the outcome, I’m sure I wasn’t the only one thinking of pre-ordering before reading your post.

Last I checked everything was in pre-order, you weren’t supposed to receive anything yet from what I understand. Maybe the expiration message was an automation glitch or something?

Dude, they’re mining just like you. What is the big deal?

as the price of XMR dips, the miners reduce, and the hashrate reduces

and difficulty takes some time to adjust, hence confirmation times are longer. I don’t remember the exact numbers off the top of my head but it is not instantaneous.

To be fair, that could only happen if you stick to that mentality.

Brilliant!