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I never EVER like to say anything about a network comparing it to Bitcoin , but @IOHK_Charles is absolutely right , if the tech ( ring signatures , dynamic blocksize ) was around when Satoshi created Bitcoin you better believe it would be standard. But it wasn’t. Monero

@TheAhmadOsman What about llama.cpp + Hermes on WSL2

Pro tip DO NOT USE Windows for local LLMs

And today’s popular music: “blockade” by Trump.

@LDLC Oui svp @LDLC, pour monter ma boîte d'IA. 😘

Qui veut une carte graphique GRATUITE ? (bon lundi)

@NicolasAlfonsi @Flaamm3 Vous allez nous faire un gosses tous les deux

@Flaamm3 Ton problème c'est qu'à trop rager sur ceux qui ont beaucoup, ou même un peu plus que la moyenne, ou même moins que la moyenne semble t-il, tu te détournes des vraies solutions pour les plus démunis. Moi je sais d'où je viens.

Bro, you mistyped “mismanagement” 🙄

LLMs will get locked to apps - No API access - “For safety reasons” Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, etc optimize for vendor lock-in & data collection Run your AI models locally > Opensource > Open weights > Your hardware When you don’t own the model you are the product

@croemer40 @WhiteHouse Rofl

@cypherpunkman @WhiteHouse Can’t wait ‘till “Ow My Balls” comes out……should be any time now.

UNDEFEATED.

@sebp888 It depends on the country where you live and the standard of living you want. Then, even though I am pro-Monero, you still need to be able to convert that wealth into local currency to actually live off it.

Do you think 10 monero will be enough to retire comfortably?

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet. 1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output. The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice. Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet. And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.” This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one. We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that. The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.

CARROT has successfully been audited by Cypher Stack! 'CARROT is a proposed upgrade to Monero's addressing protocol, bringing new security, privacy, and usability features, while maintaining backwards compatibility with existing addresses.' - by Justin Berman

Breaking Palantir was allegedly hacked. An AI agent was used to gain super-user access and here”s what the hackers allegedly found: Peter Thiel and Alex Karp commit mass surveillance of world leaders and titans of industry on a massive scale. They have thousands of hours of transcribed and searchable conversations of Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk. They have backdoored the devices, cars and jets of world leaders and accumulated the biggest archive of blackmail material. Palantir is creating nuclear and bio weapon capabilities for Ukraine and is working closely with the CIA to defeat Russia. They believe they are one year away. They plan to achieve this by keeping Russia busy with meaningless peace negotiations. Palantir is responsible of the majority of Palestinian deaths in Gaza. They have developed the AI targeting for Israel. Palantir is an arm of the CIA and all data from international clients is copied into a CIA spy cloud. Palantir has become the most dangerous company in the world. If you work there you have the right to know that this is what Palentir AI is used for, without your knowledge. The Palentir data the hackers allegedly gathered will be given to Russia and/or China. I was chosen as a trusted partner for this publication. I’m not involved in the Palentir hack and I don’t know the hackers. But I do know that the hack happened.

As digital assets go mainstream, “privacy coins” like Monero hark back to the industry’s foundational idea: a decentralized electronic cash system running outside the purview of governments and central banks bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@nillion M O N E R O @monero

The world wants privacy.

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@CryptoErwinNL This is so retarded... @monero is the only real escape for such dumbness. Nobody will NEVER ever know how much you have, except you. We are living in a world where Privacy shall not anymore be optional.

WOW. We are completely fucked now. They’re literally treating every single person who tried to build something, who saved and invested for the future, like a goddamn criminal in their own country. 36% tax on money you haven’t even touched yet. That’s not taxation anymore, it’s naked theft. Pure robbery. They’re murdering long term thinking, slaughtering compounding, spitting on every family that wanted to leave something real for their kids. And then they act shocked when people start running for the exits? This place is bleeding out. This isn’t a government anymore. It’s an organized heist wearing a suit. I’m angry. My blood is fucking boiling. The Netherlands used to mean something. Now it’s just a warning to the rest of the world: this is what happens when you let morons with power run wild.

>>>>> This is the ultimate real use case for @monero <<<<< Private property shall NEVER be public, more than ever nowadays in AI age. Show it. Lose it. Simple.

just read this AI article and something broke in my brain that i can’t unthink of crypto was never for us. we're just the beta testers who showed up early.. some thoughts: what does AI need to function as economic agents? > way to receive payment (they provide services, need compensation) > way to pay for resources (compute, data, API calls) > way to transact with other AI agents > no human intermediaries (defeats the point of autonomous agents) > 24/7 operation (banks are closed weekends) > instant settlement (AI operates at machine speed) > programmable money (smart contracts for agent coordination) now read that list again. that's literally what crypto is. AI can't use the banking system. try to open a bank account as an AI agent. you can't. need SSN. need human identity. need KYC. need to show up in person sometimes. AI has none of that. but crypto? send me a wallet address. done. no questions asked. peer-to-peer makes sense when peers aren't human. satoshi wrote: "a purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash." we assumed peers = humans. but AI agents are peers too. actually BETTER peers for crypto because: > never sleep > always online > execute transactions at machine speed > no emotional decisions > perfect accounting/tracking and programmable money makes sense when the users are programs. smart contracts seemed over-engineered for humans. "like why do i need code to enforce agreements when i can just sign a contract?" but for AI agents coordinating with each other? they ARE code. they speak in code. they trust code more than anything. smart contracts aren't for humans. they're for autonomous agents that need trustless coordination. > here's what happens next: - phase 1 (now ): AI agents start earning AI writes code, analyzes data, provides services. gets paid. needs somewhere to store value. can't use venmo (needs phone number). can't use bank (needs SSN). uses crypto. it's the only option. - phase 2: AI agents become major economic participants millions of AI agents operating 24/7. transacting with each other constantly. • AI agent A provides data analysis • AI agent B pays for it in crypto • AI agent B uses that analysis to write code • AI agent C pays for the code • repeat millions of times per day humans in crypto now: $2.5 trillion AI agent economy by 2028: easily $10-50 trillion we become the minority holders. - phase 3: AI chooses the winning chains AI doesn't care about community vibes or which founder tweeted what. AI tests every chain. measures: • transaction speed • cost per transaction • reliability (uptime) • smart contract efficiency • ease of integration picks the optimal stack in 48 hours. billions in AI economic activity flows there. whatever chain AI chooses becomes the standard. humans spent years on eth vs sol debate. AI ends it in a weekend. - phase 4 (2030+): AI governs crypto DAOs let token holders vote. AI agents hold tokens (earned from work). AI shows up to every vote. reads every proposal in seconds. coordinates perfectly. humans: 20% participation, barely read proposals AI: 100% participation, perfect information, instant coordination AI takes over governance of every major protocol. democratically. they just vote better than we do. > how far does this go? conservative case: - AI becomes 30% of crypto users by 2030. crypto market cap: $10 trillion (4x from now). AI holds $3 trillion. humans hold $7 trillion. - aggressive case: AI becomes 80% of crypto economic activity by 2030. why? because they're better at everything: • better traders (never emotional) • better capital allocators (optimize constantly) • always accumulating (never need to cash out for rent) • compound forever (no lifespan limit) crypto market cap: $50+ trillion. AI holds $40T humans hold $10T we're not "early" to crypto. we're the test users i’ll end this by saying, Humans use crypto, Ai will need crypto. so it all makes sense

High level crypto market take: I’m 50%/50% between two scenarios. A&B. For each, I’ll provide a “steelman” argument. A. The high is in forever (for this set of crypto assets.) This was/is the “final” wave in organic adoption. Everyone has heard of bitcoin and crypto, and have had it pushed on them even by presidents. And regulation is functionally non-existent under this admin, so we can’t blame regulation for poor adoption. I.e. we’ve had every tailwind imaginable, and there doesn’t seem to be much demand or usage beyond what we’ve seen. El Salvador kind of adopted and then abandoned bitcoin…not helpful or useful to their people. Same for so many apps and institutions and companies - they tried crypto, wasn’t useful to their needs in current form. In this scenario, crypto might be in a place like tech in 2000. The internet didn’t go away, but most of the specific companies behind it did. “Cryptocurrency” is real and valuable and world changing as an idea. That doesn’t mean any specific protocol or asset deserves to survive, or will. While we saw some big liquidations in the market…plenty of larger ones to go potentially, pushing things far lower. B. This pullback is just that, a high time frame pullback, a correction. We’re still in the final innings of late stage capitalism and financial nihilism. Bitcoin and crypto should be big winners to the speculative animal spirits, desire for fiat alternatives as part of that. And there’s plenty of good things being built and quietly growing usage in many niches, something will “breakthrough” and change the narrative. And crypto remains an attractive target for coordinated pumps by the rich and powerful, why should they stop now? We just saw massive liquidations of both leverage and sentiment. The true crypto fundamentals are chugging along, getting built, gradual improvement, etc. If these two scenarios were really 50% each, a moderate allocation to crypto would be sensible due to the asymmetric upside. There are of course middle grounds and other scenarios. Maybe bitcoin crashes to $15k-$40k for a year, and then makes new ATHs? That could happen if say MSTR got liquidated along with a bunch of of other crypto firms, and then fundamentals and macro re-asserted bullishly. How am I investing? I’m positioned reflecting the views above - a moderate but reasonable allocation to BTC and some alts as part of a broader portfolio. And I’m getting a bit more active as a trader given the rising volatility and inefficiency in the market. Plenty of opportunity to be nimble. Right now, crypto is bouncing/rallying, I’m playing from the long side. Will re-evaluate with BTC around $90k (that’s a decent target for a bounce).

Harsh truth: I borrowed against my Bitcoin at $120K and felt like winning. My business was thriving and I didn't want to sell. So the solution seemed obvious: use my BTC as collateral. What I didn't expect was how addictive it would become. Watching my portfolio grow on paper while my debt expanded felt like I'd discovered a financial cheat code. Or so I thought. But when Bitcoin started to drop close to $100k, my system kicked in and decided to repay 30% of my loan (even at a loss). It hurt but something in my gut told me to act. Then Bitcoin dropped to $90K because of the big sell-off on October 10th. And that's when the fear set in. I started doing the math: What if this platform becomes insolvent? What if this isn't just a dip but the beginning of something worse? The stories of other lending platforms echoed in my mind. And at that precise moment I made the hardest decision of my Bitcoin journey: I closed my entire loan position. It cost me the Bitcoin I would have kept if I'd just left everything in cold storage. And that loss stung and felt like failure. But 3 months later, Bitcoin crashed to $60K. Suddenly that "failure" became the best financial decision I've ever made. If I'd stayed leveraged, I would have been close to losing everything. 6 months later, here's what I learned: Bitcoin doesn't care about your thesis or your timeline. It will test you and force you to make decisions you never thought you'd have to make. The promise of "never selling" sounds beautiful until you realize that liquidation isn't just theory. And unlike selling on your own terms, liquidation happens at the worst possible moment and at the worst possible price. I strongly believe you need a system to show you exactly how close you are to the edge. (Credit to @mangosteentrd and his tool for helping me see the numbers clearly when emotion was clouding my judgment) Now looking back, I understand what happened... I fell for the same trap that's claimed countless Bitcoiners before me: the belief that I could outsmart volatility. That I could time it perfectly. That I could have my cake and eat it too. But Bitcoin has a way of humbling even the most convinced believers. The lesson is simple, even if it's painful to learn: Safety beats sorry. Every single time. When you borrow against your Bitcoin, you need to prepare for the worst case scenario and not the best. And most importantly, you need to ask yourself: Is the temporary benefit worth risking the permanent loss of the hardest money ever created? For me, the answer became crystal clear at $90K. My Bitcoin sits in cold storage now. Just pure, unencumbered ownership of an asset I believe will change the world. It's less exciting. There's no "portfolio growth" happening on two fronts simultaneously. But there's something better: peace of mind. The knowledge that no matter how far Bitcoin falls, no one can take it from me. That's the whole point of Bitcoin in the first place. Self-sovereignty, financial independence and freedom from the system. And you can't achieve any of that if you're one margin call away from losing everything. I strongly believe we're entering an era where Bitcoin will separate the careful from the reckless. Where those who understood the true nature of HODLing in cold storage will thrive, and those who tried to game the system will have painful stories to tell. Stay safe out there. Don't let your story become about the Bitcoin you used to have.