Well, they’re not. Monerica is just a repository with links and short description of monero accepting businesses and monero related stuff. Xmrbazaar is a p2p craigslist/facebook marketplace/ebay like service that uses monero instead of FIAT.
It’s 16 tps right now because that’s the current demand, highest tps recorded was 57, not counting L2s which are doing 430 tps right now (stats) and can handle way more, for example the biggest one called base can handle 1400 tps alone and the next major eth upgrade is targeting 100000 tps capability.
“Gambling/predictions” I bet most of your crypto goes there, eh?
No, I’m not rich enough to be wasting money and don’t really enjoy feeling like my heart is going to jump out of my chest, gambling with literal pennies once in a blue moon is more of my style.
And no, I’m not clicking a link that says “money america” or “bazaar”
No worries, I’ll post some screenshots for you.
My VPN, VPS, phone bill, bunch of games and license keys, steam points, sms verification services all directly for crypto. I also buy gift cards to grocery stores, takeout delivery apps and the local equivalent of Amazon all for crypto and use them to do most of my shopping. Other things I used it for is donating to foss projects I use and some just for fun penny gambling/predictions. Once I even got paid in crypto for some freelance work I did. If you count the gift cards most of my spending is done in crypto, usually monero.
Have a look at monerica.com and xmrbazaar.com if you’re looking for places to spend your crypto.
Cool, I’ll keep transacting privately and uncensored with minimal fees, no middle man and predictable inflation with my pyramid scheme and you’re free to stick to your surveilled, censored, ever inflating FIAT.
Sup babe, wanna netflix and Beischlaf?
getmonero.org 1 minute average confirmation time, private by default. Eth average confirmation time is 6 seconds and right now it’s doing 16 transactions per second, not counting L2s. Blockchains are way more secure than a centralized database controlled by a financial institution that can freeze or deny you the right to use your money or fat-finger your life savings away with no recourse.
This is why cryptocurrencies were created. getmonero.org
I thought he ment it as: Tim - Apple (as in Tim of Apple) or Tim, Apple (as in Tim and Apple). When you listen to the recording it really sounds like he’s saying Tim Apple but I don’t know if people really think he misspoke or if it’s just too funny of a meme to pass up.
Depends on what we’re subtracting. If I have a basket with 20 cookies and I give it to a class of 25 students, I’ll have 0 cookies. I won’t be in a 5 cookie debt, the cookies are distributed on a first come first serve basis. If you didn’t get one too bad, I never signed anything. And fuck them slow kids anyway, they’re probably last because they’re fat and can’t run too fast, they don’t need any more calories, loose some weight lil’ shitlings and be quicker next time.
Forcing me to agree to have my data used for training AI was the final straw for me. Almost 10 years since i bought the game and they pull that shit, imagine that with any other product, you go to start your car one morning and get a popup that says that you can’t drive it anymore untill you agree to be spied on. Insane.
To prevent spam and to allow people who already know each other’s number to easily contact over signal. If you want an anonymous account use an online sms activation service paid with monero, personally I recommend smspool.net .
I’ll stick with monero.
No conspiracy involved, I’m just saying what I think will happen.
Most of the values of today’s eu are the polar opposite of the values that made Europe a global superpower back in the day. Things like freedom of speech and thought, freedom to assemble, engage in commerce, own property, the right to privacy, to be secure in your possessions, to bear arms, rules like volenti non fit injuria, equality, meritocracy, self determination and individual sovereignty are all severally limited or downright non existent. eu chose to replace the liberty of Europeans with a promise of security ensured by self proclaimed elites and the result of that is a techno-bureaucrato-etatistic master/nanny state that tries to ban math (encryption), ban foreign and domestic news outlets and opinions that disagree with the establishment because you’re too stupid to make up your own mind and even political candidates just in case you make the wrong decision.
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This overregulation is detrimental to the economy too, in 2008 eu’s economy was 8% larger than that of USA, now its 23% smaller even thoe more countries joined it since. Since 2008 the powerhouse of the eu - Germany’s GDP per capita grew by only 14% Italy’s decreased by 9%, Spain’s decreased by 7%, the French are still poorer than they were in 2008 while GDP per capita of China quadrupled and USA’s nearly doubled. While China and USA are busy building and innovating, eu is banning and regulating. Out of 1300 startups valued at over $1b 600 is in the USA, 300 in China and 60 in the eu, even less than in India.
eu claims to be this shining beacon of democracy everyone should be learning from while the eu’s president Ursula von der Leyen wasn’t democratically elected and the only democratically elected body, the eu’s parliament (that holds almost no power because the eu commission decides what it votes for and can withdraw the proposal if it doesn’t like the amendments it makes and because it’s decision can be overruled and bypassed by the council of the eu) most of the time doesn’t even count the meps’ votes. Instead most votes are done by raising ones hand and the parliament’s speaker eyeballs the result (yes really, look it up).
If Europeans don’t come to their senses and return to the true european values, immigrants will simply outcompete them, because their values, while not ideal, as it stands are superior to the values of the eu.
The cryptowar was an attempt to limit the public’s access to encryption. This attempt largely failed and most of today’s internet traffic is encrypted. Right now we are at the dawn of the cryptowar ll and cryptography is under attack once again through things like backdoors, client side scanning, ban on E2EE, cryptocurrency regulations etc. Cryptography in combination with blockchain technology has potential to revolutionize many aspects of society, like the monetary system through cryptocurrency, property rights and contracts through onchain deeds and digital signatures, decentralized cryptographic identities and direct/delegate voting with zero knowledge proofs. Historically this things required a central, trusted authority but soon™ that may no longer be the case, and at that point there will no longer be a need for a central trusted authority and without it many avenues of abuse of power will disappear too.
I think it also bans any payment gateway from accepting it so businesses who want to support it will have to accept it directly, but even if that’s the case all you have to do is swap xmr -> btc to a new wallet and pay with that.
Obviously I’d prefer to pay in crypto directly but some of the stores I shop in don’t accept it yet. In person I can pay in cash but shopping privately online is a different story. Gift cards are the next best option, and thanks to them I can use the self checkout scanner and online stores without my purchasing history being tracked. It also allows me to store my savings in a hard asset that can’t be easily confiscated, frozen, inflated or stolen, that I can permissionlessly spend whenever I need to, that no one knows how much of or if I have, that if needs be I can flee the country with in an instant without worry that it will be sized or lost. And it gives me the freedom to not be at the mercy of the banking system and just take their debit card fee, debit card issuance fee, debit card replacement fee, transfer fee, deposit fee, overdraft fee, underdraft fee, too little money fee, account having fee, fuck you what you gonna do fee…