That might work, I will certainly look at it, but I like the idea of premining PoW tokens because it won’t bog your browser down at the time you need to go through, and the cost can also be made higher. It could be used as a general cost for things that need spam protection, such as creating accounts, making posts, submitting contact forms.

But they did the opposite. The onion is gone. Presumably they have some reason for that?

Also onion sites in general are very slow because of the six hops. I’d like an open source solution that can be used by anyone, including clearnet sites, so that use of captchas and browser probing can be reduced across the entire web.

And Trocador couldn’t go onion only because an increasing number of their partner exchanges were no longer willing to be available over .onion or i2p.

If you don’t want it to be pulled from circulation, make it a lot smaller. Chop marks don’t get bills pulled. Try a small Monero logo, or a tiny getmonero.org, with total area the size of the typical chop mark you already see on $100 bills. If xmr.org redirected to getmonero.org, using that would be even better.

A decentralized stablecoin needs to be fungible.

Haveno underscores how unusable non-fungible cryptocurrencies are in 2024. Maybe it didn’t matter 10+ years ago when people didn’t care about coin histories, but it does now. Even though Haveno supports XMR <-> other crypto pairings, you shouldn’t buy them there because you risk getting coins considered “dirty” by the system, which are effectively worthless unless you can dump them on somebody else via p2p. What happens if you get your dai there, and then when the time comes to change it back, nobody on p2p will take it from you because of the risk. So you go to an instant swap or a CEX, and they freeze all of the dai you deposited, because of something up the chain that you can’t see.

On every transaction, Trocador now says “Do not send funds that have been through a mixer to this exchange”. Have coins you buy p2p been through a mixer? Quite possibly, and that’s all it takes for them to be marked “dirty”. Companies like Chainalysis now control the value and usability of all non-fungible crypto.

Trocador has a “taint” checker, but it’s not free (up $2.2 per check), you’d have to check every p2p address before buying, you don’t get the money back if you can’t proceed with the trade, the information can’t readily be shared with other people on the same dex, and you’re funding the enemy every time you use it. And the controlling companies may deny access to that information to the general public or to dexes at any time.

Being able to use dai with xmr requires that in the future there still exist non-KYC exchanges which pay out “clean” dai and handle Monero. What if in the future they’ve all been pressured out of existence? As a nuclear option to cut them out of the system, all the non-fungible crypto they handle could be marked tainted simply for having been through a non-KYC exchange.

If dai uses USDC as collateral, it can be attacked by freezing the USDC it holds. Any decentralized stablecoin that uses non-fungible cryptos as collateral can be attacked by marking the crypto the smart contract or controlling DAO holds as “dirty”. This is the scalability problem that Rune Christiansen is alluding to in his recent posts. Once there are too many people using it, there are multiple ways to shut down dai even if MakerDAO doesn’t cooperate. It can be delisted from CEXes just like Monero.

The only way that an unfreezable stablecoin can function long term is if it’s a fungible/privacy coin itself, and if it holds nothing but other fungible/privacy coins as collateral.

The two advantages you have versus something like Terra Luna is that the reserves can be verified to actually exist, via view keys, and that you don’t have to worry about paying a yield.

[edit] The Trocador “marked dirty by chainalysis” check ought to produce a receipt page that can be shown to other people. I haven’t tried it, so I don’t know whether it does. Then, if you’re buying non-fungible cryptos on Haveno, you should put in your terms of trade that the other party is responsible for putting all the crypo they want to trade on one address, checking it, providing a receipt page link, and not adding any more to that address before the trade goes through. Potentially, that way they can sell a lot of crypto to multiple people for only one $2.20 check… if the service remains available.

You can configure git to use tor, and github currently works via tor.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27279359/how-to-make-git-work-to-push-commits-to-github-via-tor

git config http.proxy socks5://localhost:9150 # 9150 for TOR browser, 9050 for TOR service
git config https.proxy socks5://localhost:9150

^ affects the current repository. git config --global if you want it to apply to all repositories, including one you haven’t yet cloned.

When cloning a large repository, such as haveno, you then run into the problem that git doesn’t retry when the other end hangs up, which it often does over a slow tor connection.

until git clone https://github.com/retoaccess1/haveno-reto ; do true ; done

will retry until it finally succeeds.

You can create and log into a github account using Tor Browser, just be sure to never use that account without tor browser. If you actually want to contribute using that account, you will need to email github customer service and have them un-shadowban you first.

Not in terms of numbers. I’m on a lot of gun boards, and I have never seen a single gun owner say that.

When it comes to the NFA and the Hughes Amendment, they are pretty much unanimous in saying “Open the registry” and “The NFA is unconstitutional.”