Oh, I see what you mean now. I have heard of privacy projects that are anonymous sometimes and not anonymous at other times like Zcash and was under the impression that is kind of what you meant.

That’s the difference though. On Ethereum you have to choose to use them. On Monero it’s private by default. And that’s the way it ought to be.

That is Bitcoin though, not Monero, and everybody should know that Bitcoin is traceable. I’ve certainly been aware of that for years.

This is not quite correct. You do not have to involve anybody else in your transaction. What happens is the protocol takes a random selection of 15 other people who have spent money and adds them to a ring so that your transaction could be any one of 16 different outputs. But there is no mixing of funds involved.

Monero comes the closest, but there is a possibility that ring signatures could be broken in the future for sure.

Currently coinsbee a lot and a few of my friends will accept it as payment

Sure you will. A private online money will always be needed for something. If nothing else, just look at the dark net markets. Really, the best thing would be, number go up very slowly, or number stay the same.

I don’t buy Monero to collect it. I buy Monero to have freedom from being watched by banks and governments. I buy my groceries with it. I pay for things with it. I use it as a currency. Not for number go up. Bullshit.

And if that actually happens, then very few countries will trust the US dollar as they reserve anymore and buy up gold as they are already doing.

Ah, thanks

Once they have a one watt version, this would be good for trickle charging when you are not using the device, such as when you’re sleeping. But you would definitely need a lithium battery alongside it for normal use.

Actually, I really did enjoy that movie as well. I believe it’s called The Core and came out in 2008 If I remember correctly.

That’s great, but we won’t get it for another 10 or 20 years. So until then, it’s great, but pointless. Solid state batteries have been in the works since at least the early 2010s and we’re just now supposed to be getting the first iterations in electric cars in the next few years.

I think if apple ever gets fdroud they should call it “F-U-Apple”

Yeah, commercial real estate could be a serious issue for the banks. A small amount of deflation is not a bad thing, although large amounts in a very short time definitely is. From what I am hearing, people expect the Fed to begin cutting rates as early as March or April, which definitely is not most of 2024. If the cuts are slower than what the raises were, we might be alright. But something makes me doubt that, because the Fed very much seems to lurch from one crisis to the next. Seems more like an out-of-control train than a well-controlled system.

Edit: Not to mention that other central banks are buying of gold because of the US threatening to send Russia’s dollars to Ukraine. And therefore showing that dollars as reserves are not meant to be trusted and can be removed on a whim if it suits the US’s political agenda.

But that’s the problem. Inflation is still running higher than it should be. And the Fed is already talking about cutting rates which will drive inflation up again. If you take a look at gold and silver from the beginning of 2023 until the end of 2023, you will notice a roughly 10% rise in both on average. Bringing that down would take more time of high rates which we will not get.

Oh, it will probably exist, but it will exist on newly created dollars, and therefore, cause massive inflation, and the dollars will buy less and less as time goes on. The dollar is headed for a death spiral like Argentina.

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I have cut my soda down to once or twice per week, but I still do enjoy it.