Riccardo Spagni

I'm advising Wagyu - the protocol bringing XMR to DeFi without nuking its privacy in the process. $200m+ volume in two months. Not bad for something the "can't be done" crowd wrote off immediately. A thread on what it is, and what I'll be doing🧵 /1

@BoredElonMusk But what if

Resisting the male desire to preorder this device that 99.99% will never be used.

@NeerajKA They should try put an umbrella in it

@RonKurti @OpenRouter @Searx_engine @nottecore @serperapi That's awesome - thanks for that!

@fluffypony @OpenRouter @Searx_engine @nottecore @serperapi I did the thing. repo-explainer.com/fluffypony/dot…

I'm releasing my new open-source agent, Do The Thing, today. It is an experiment in what can be accomplished in a single, flat-file, monolithic agent. Use it for research, analysis, code, whatever you want. dotheth.ing

I mean, in the same way that Claude Code is a Hermes agent clone. It's a fundamentally different architecture, with different tools, but both Hermes, OpenClaw, and DTT are designed to be multipurpose agents. At this stage there's no WhatsApp or Telegram, no memory, no personality - it's designed to take a task and run it to ground, using state of the art models.

@fluffypony so basically Hermes agent clone or something ? does it do WhatsApp and telegram too ?

@stupidliquidity This isn’t work it’s fun

@fluffypony is this how we step away from all work related tasks Riccardo

@monerify @OpenRouter @Searx_engine @nottecore @serperapi Let’s find out🤭

@fluffypony @OpenRouter @Searx_engine @nottecore @serperapi do you think i can ask it to make monero quantum proof and one shot the task? 🤔

@OpenRouter @Searx_engine @nottecore @serperapi Finally, here's the source: github.com/fluffypony/dot… Feel free to fork / PR / open issues🫡

@OpenRouter For searching the web it uses @Searx_engine locally, and uses my fork of @nottecore for browser use. If you're letting it use batch processing, then make sure to configure your @serperapi API key, as SearXNG *will* get rate limited!

Ready for the @SabrinaAnnLynn concert where she will finally hear the sound of my people

@Sauer_Ninja The core team receives mail there

@fluffypony do you know who has access to dev@monero.com?

@janrothen @veksonpu @DoingFedTime I’ve been a Bitcoiner since 2011, and the payment processor I started was the first to accept LN. Who says I’m not working on Bitcoin?

Here's some fun early Monero history - in 2014 / 2015 there weren't a lot of donations to cover Monero costs, so core contributors would pay for them out of pocket. We tracked all of this on a spreadsheet (that we still have) because we figured one day we'd be able to get it back from the dev fund - although we never ended up doing that😅 In total I spent well over $100k on Monero development until the FFS and donations made it more self-sufficient towards the end of 2015. What did this pay for? It included things like making Monero work on Windows (via msys2 / mingw), building out the entire FFS (which eventually became the CCS), all the work on the first GUI, lots of early cryptography work, all the initial embedded DB work (Monero loaded the entire blockchain into RAM until the beginning of 2015!), the work on MRL-0001 / MRL-0004 / MRL-0005, and Monero's 0MQ integration. Monero is only where it is today because of the sacrifices and early financial contributions of people like othe, NoodleDoodle, as well as the tireless (and unpaid!) efforts of people like smooth, David Latapie, moneromooo, WarpTangent, luigi1111, binaryFate, and countless others I've failed to mention.

New draft from tevador on post-quantum Jamtis addressing for Monero (PQ forward secrecy + more): "the new format allows for post-quantum forward secret transactions that can't be decrypted even if the address is publicly known and the elliptic curve discrete logarithm (ECDLP) is broken." Feedback welcome! Tevador: "Incomplete, but probably enough for some feedback." gist.github.com/tevador/639d08…

@xenumonero @KagiHQ That’s super disappointing, especially since they’ve been doing a good job with Orion.

Just hearing now that @KagiHQ is not adding Monero support after previously promising to do so. Really disappointing. Every privacy service should support XMR. Source: kagifeedback.org/d/493-enable-a…

@callebtc Agreed - it’s the ZCash of instant messengers, tricking its users into believing they’re using something private when most aren’t.

telegram is the biggest psyop in privacy history. no encryption by default. vast majority of the 1B users send private messages in clear plain text to the telegram servers. most users wrongly assumes that they have pRiVaCy because durov said so in a podcast. it's a literal affinity scam. TELEGRAM IS NOT A PRIVACY MESSENGER. I don't understand why none of his podcast hosts ever pushes back on this obvious, blatant, dangerous bullshit.

- whatsapp: can probably read everything - telegram: huge psyop, no privacy by default - xchat: 4-digit pin for "end-to-end encryption" 🤡 - signal: stores plaintext notifications, needs phone number secure chat is more important than ever but things aren't looking great

@nvk Ubiquiti U7 Pro

shill me your preferred AP, low jitter being key.

@DoingFedTime I mean the cryptonote whitepaper WAS a whitepaper…

Monero didn't come from a whitepaper and a marketing team, it's the direct descendant of four decades of cypherpunk work from Chaum, Zimmermann, May, Back, Finney, and Szabo, built by people who actually read their papers.

@LibertarianZA Watch them try regulate AI through the Reserve Bank😂

South Africa's entire data centre compute is 350MW while just x.ai alone is 1.5GW (soon to double), but never mind, we're going to start making laws about regulating the AI industry - to ensure things like "intergenerational equity" - just to make extra sure that even the tiniest speck of innovation we might be able to bring to the table will be well and truly stillborn. We can worry about this nonsense when we build our own gigawatt scale compute centers, H100 equivalent chips and our own LLM breakthroughs locally (which will be never).