Opportunity from chaos

In my second Monero Talk Interview I explain why capital flight into $Monero is inevitable. Also, I discuses why Monero is essential to protecting the public from bad outcomes from AI. youtube.com/watch?v=CCS5FR…

@nearwithjamie Why does ZEC not dominate in the dark net markets then?

This is what product-market fit looks like in crypto. Not louder announcements. Not more logos. A highly sceptical user base checks the plumbing, uses it anyway, and keeps generating real volume. NEAR Intents is becoming infrastructure people use without needing to know it’s there.

@DeadsetAnime @downbadcomment Maybe, but she has a claim to half the joint assets that they have accumulated.

@downbadcomment Sometimes women need to be reminded that there are always younger, malleable, eager 18 yo hotties waiting to shoot their shot with a 700k earner and these women number in the millions. There are not many 700k male earners. The wife here might want to count her blessings.

@CynicalPublius Efficiency in turning shots into goals is one of the two most important markers of a successful team. Good defense is the other. Mexico simply does not have the offensive talent to compete with England.

I know nothing about soccer other than that it's the most boring sport this side of competitive origami, but I must ask. Is it normal to have 23 shots on goal (Mexico) to the other team's 6 (England), and control the ball 2/3rds of the game (Mexico) and still lose? That seems peculiar.

@D2theM2theH @AlTayWeiss The price of multifamily properties in NY and la are very low. You don't know what you are talking about.

@cryptocomicon @AlTayWeiss No they're not. They're making money hand over fist.

I’m tired of hearing that Los Angeles has a housing “supply & demand” problem. That is the lazy answer. There are currently over 13,000 units for rent under $2,500 in LA & 27,000 units all together. Rents are unaffordable because owners are being forced to price in rising insurance, rising utilities, increased legal fees, unpaid rent, compliance costs, higher repair costs & nonstop regulations. Council members & tenant rights groups have messed with the market factors. Rents will continue to rise until the market is freed back up. I can fix the LA rental market in a week & the answer isn't to build more.

@sourceryy @friedberg The public employee's union is a cancer in California.

.@friedberg says "California is functionally bankrupt": "People don't realize how screwed California is. I worry that if California falls, so does the union." "We're $250 billion to $1 trillion short." "If it was the federal government, they would just print more money. California doesn't have the ability to print money, so California has to pay this out, and you can't restructure retirement benefits." "There's a Supreme Court case in California that said once an employee has been offered retirement benefits, even if they're currently an employee, you can never restructure their retirement benefits. It has to stay forever." "And the state cannot declare bankruptcy. There's no way for the state to functionally declare bankruptcy. There's no law to allow it." "No state has ever declared bankruptcy, and the the retirement benefits sit senior to the bonds in California. So you have to pay out the retirement benefits before you pay out all the bond holders that have loaned California the money that they use to run all their programs and services." " This isn't about taxes and Billionaire Tax Act. I don't think you can tax your way out of this problem. People will just leave the state." "California's functional bankruptcy is a major risk to the country and we need to figure out what we can change to fix it." At the @HillValleyForum 2026

@Bearded_Bigot @Will_Tanner_1 Rabies?

I bring home a trapped coyote and let it loose in the kitchen. Hackles up. Teeth bared. Pissing on the floor. My wife says, "Get it out." I tell her that is a very unwelcoming and unchristian way to speak about a future house pet. The children back into the hallway. I tell them it's a rescue. I tell them fences are fear. I tell them cages are barbaric. I tell them the old rules were cruel. I tell them it will domesticate in time. Then I grab my lunchbox and leave them to live with my principles. When I get home, there is blood on the floor, and the experts who sold me on compassion are already explaining why nobody could have seen this coming. Anyway, that's Western migration policy.

@D2theM2theH @AlTayWeiss People are deciding not to be landlords, because there are too many downsides. It's a mistake to think about this in terms of rights and not in terms of incentives.

@AlTayWeiss You will never convince me that renters rights are not as important as a landlord's rights. Nobody told these people they have to be landlords. They can sell the property if they like. It's as simple as that. It's greed not renters. There's no property owner losing money.

@Drosha_gamer @ChinaUncensored Sigh. Muting you. What a waste of time you are.

@cryptocomicon @ChinaUncensored Here you have your answer Raising taxes came after the fat couldn't cushion the fall, not before You confused the cause with the symptom here

If people would budget better, take personal responsibility, and stop wasting their money on useless things they feel entitled to, they wouldn’t be falling for the socialism con.

@Drosha_gamer @ChinaUncensored Detroit area government became fat and expensive in the good times. When the economy went into a tailspin they got into a destructive loop of increasing taxes and decreasing property values. Governments can destroy the resiliency of the local economy.

@cryptocomicon @ChinaUncensored Did it happen before, or after the emergence of the Rust Belt? If after, then it was a measure to mitigate the collapsing QoL in those places

@Drosha_gamer @ChinaUncensored Dramatically increasing taxes on real estate destroys property values and property tax income. This is the game that Detroit played. It destroyed the city. Chicago and now New York are tinkering with it.

@cryptocomicon @ChinaUncensored I know You can't even mention raising taxes on the rich without making them immediately pivot towards fascism But, there are some goods that can't be transferred away. Real estate is one of them

@Drosha_gamer @ChinaUncensored Taxes on the productive class are far to high throughout the western world. Much harder to tax the rich. Once you start going after their capital you destroy the whole system and everyone loses.

@ChinaUncensored Playing Devil's advocate here First and foremost, you can't budget your way out of the rising costs of living, that vice grip more and more of US society Second, more important: How come the richest in the US live in socialism, with all their tax rebates and gov subsidies?

This is why Monero is inevitable.

@KathyDixon191 @AlexTran677026 What decision

@AlexTran677026 Never cared for this one. A person who makes an irresponsible decision, ends up in slavery and causes the death of his family is not a hero.

Russell Crowe said that when he was first approached to play Maximus, the script was very poor. It was so bad the producers wouldn’t send it to him in case it put him off. Instead, they just asked him to meet Ridley Scott. Crowe did get his hands on the script though, and didn’t like it. He was going to say no but he was working on The Insider (1999) at the time and its director, Michael Mann, told Crowe he should meet with Scott anyway. Crowe did and said: “Ridley’s pitch was basically – ‘we’ve got a $100m budget. It’s ancient Rome. You’re playing a General. And you’re being directed by me.’” Crowe was suitably impressed, and took the part. Gladiator (2000)

@diamoooooooooon You never address what I say, never acknowledge anything. I'm muting you now.

@cryptocomicon XMR recently had a bug too. Did you hold XMR to the same standard, or is that standard only applied to competitors? Be honest with yourself. Unlike you, I don’t spend my time attacking XMR.

ZCash had a bug for the last 4 years which likely resulted in inflation of the supply of its shielded UXTOs. There is no way to know if and to what extent this bug was exploited. Everyone is watching flows of the shielded pool. Likely that there will be a panic out of ZEC at some point in the near future.

@diamoooooooooon You are right, a bug that was available to exploit for 4 years. As far as I am concerned, it might as well be a hack. Nevertheless, I mischaracterized it. Also, I view ZCash as inherently dishonest and corrupted. Finally, you protest too much.

@cryptocomicon It wasn’t a hack. It was found through self-auditing. The way some people deliberately misrepresent the facts is deeply dishonest. I struggle to understand how investing has become a contest where ethics and truth are sacrificed for the sake of “winning” against competitors.

@diamoooooooooon I have never seen ZEC as a long term investment. It is at best a short term speculation, and I am not a short term speculator. What has happened recently, the price volatility, the hack, the way that the hack was contained, your attitude, all of it is corroboration.

@cryptocomicon If you invest with that mindset, you’re taking unnecessary risk. Ask yourself whether you truly believe it, instead of trying to win arguments. I’m investing, not doing stand-up comedy.

@PhilipGreenspun You are talking about a person on a particular day. There are infinite possible reasons for this. Good argument for self driving taxis.

@diamoooooooooon Sounds like you are saying that twenty percent of all ZEC going up in smoke is okay because the people who weren't using shielding will not be affected. That's insane. Orchard Pool: 4,210,786.82349207 ZEC

@cryptocomicon We can be certain that future investors will never face more than 21 million coins, and any impact is limited to those already in the pool. The remaining uncertainty comes from strong privacy. Based on this, $ZEC core thesis remains intact.

@diamoooooooooon It will be a long time before we can be sure that there was not an exploit of ZEC. This is not just paranoia or emotion run amok.

@cryptocomicon If a technical issue does not undermine a project’s core thesis, competitive advantage, or long-term demand, then a market sell-off driven by fear may present an investment opportunity. After all, Bitcoin itself experienced technical issues in its early days.

@LukeGromen You make it sound like it is the US government running this, it's not. There are thousands of entities involved in the US oil market. Prices are high and so is demand. People are making money.

"Sometimes the biggest stories are hiding in the open." -Seymour Hersh Take for example the chart below: Why would the US ever export oil for USDs that the US can simply print for anything they want? 🤔