Patrick Luberus

We're now at $1,000 distributed for free. Peak at 6k simultaneously connected users. The vast majority of withdrawals were completed and confimed in less than a second. During withdrawals peak hours, some users might have waited a few seconds because of my GPU overloaded.

First payment statistics of 2026! Monero remains dominant, strong growth from ZEC, BTC + LN and Nano are closely matched, and Dash grew strongly. Going into it 👇🧵

Low fees ≠ Zero fees Nano having zero fees isn't a gimmick. Most cryptocurrencies recreate the exact problem they claimed to solve. They pay miners and validators through transaction fees and inflationary subsidies, effectively installing new middlemen who siphon value from every transaction. Bitcoin miners. Ethereum validators. They're rent collectors with better branding. This incentive structure doesn't protect the network. It centralizes it. Mining pools consolidate power. Large validators dominate stake. The system pays a privileged class to exist, and everyday users fund them through fees and diluted holdings. The accessibility consequences are real. When fees exist, small transactions become irrational. A $0.50 payment with a $0.30 fee doesn't work. This creates an accessibility floor where micropayments, tipping, and small merchants in developing economies get priced out entirely. The search results consistently show transaction costs are a primary barrier to financial inclusion for the 1.7 billion unbanked adults worldwide. Nano eliminates this extraction model entirely. No block rewards. No transaction fees. No inflation tax eroding your balance. The Open Representative Voting mechanism secures the network without paying participants because the actual cost of voting is negligible. Representatives don't need subsidies to do minimal computational work. When you remove fee incentives, you remove the incentive to centralize. No one competes to collect transaction revenue. No one builds mining cartels to capture block rewards. The accessibility benefits compound. No minimum transaction size. No cross-border premiums. No merchant fees eating thin margins. Traditional finance extracts through interchange fees. Most crypto extracts through mining rewards and validator fees. Different packaging. Same economic drain. A zero fee network proves those mechanisms were never necessary. Just another layer of rent-seeking that survives because people assume it must be there for a reason. It isn't.

What’s dangerous about someone like Talarico is that he’s not progressive on policy. Doesn’t support single payer or an arms embargo, yet progressives are championing him. What can’t happen is progressives being fooled by rhetoric and marketing.