Simplex is doing good things nowadays. Here is a monero group that I created in order to test it. Feel free to join in and test simplex:
If the killer app of crypto is degen gambling, then the current centralized exchanges provide that use-case to degen masses quite well.
So what? Case closed. The end? No need to develop monero, seraphis, nor full membership proofs, as they are wholly unnecessary to the degens gambling shit(coins)?
Even though the killer app is gambling degenerately, this is not the whole application of crypto. Remember, Silk Road "made a killing" back in 2012 and it didn't involve degen gambling.
There might be more than one "killer app" for the crypto (and especially for XMR), which are visible (attractive) to the masses during different time and different places. Let's explore them all and hopefully get an ever increasing number of people to our side of the political debate (which is, personal freedom and liberty, sound monetary policy and personal financial privacy).
Most of the times, the problem isn't the lack of platform, imo. Of course, I do appreciate a free and open source alternative to meetup.com (and maybe we should set up one), but mainly these platforms remain invisible to the general public.
However, I also believe, somehow the ball should get rolling. Maybe using these alternatives will make them more visible to the general public audience. Who knows?
Good to see these. I am also trying to kick start a regular Monero meetup here in Turkiye.
I see that you guys are organizing without meetup.com ? That's good, because meetup.com 's fees are unreasonably high. You are planning to spread the word via twitter? or some-platform else?
is the hard fork happens in a predefined intervals?
No it doesn't. Monero hardforks are more commonly referred as "protocol upgrades," and they are mainly aimed at improving Monero's privacy tech.
In the past, some protocol upgrades were "predefined" in the sense that it would take place every 6 months. This was solely done in order to discourage the development of ASIC mining machines which grant disproportional advantage to the big players against the smaller mining enterprises in Monero's mining network. However, this "predefined protocol changes to the mining algo" became moot after the introduction of RandomX mining algo, which is a CPU-supremacist algorithm for Monero production.
Could you please explain in easy terms what’s Seraphis and what changes it will bring?
Seraphis aims to make Monero's codebase more modular. That way, future improvements to its privacy protocol is hoped to be introduced in a less-disruptive-way to the remainder of the codebase.
One additional protocol improvement that's in the works is "Jamtis," which changes the addressing scheme of Monero, in order to make it more flexible and fix some of its potential bugs. For more information see this presentation by Justin Berman: https://piped.video/watch?v=xGEBRQU1lzw
Lastly, very recently KayabaNerve announced that he had been working on Full Membership Proofs (FMP) for Monero, which finally has the potential to fix the weakest link in Monero's privacy protocol: ring signatures. FMP, does away with the ringsigs and the decoy selection troubles that Monero has had up to today. With FMP, your transactions will reference the entire set of enote that Monero blockchain has, instead of a 16-, or 128-size other decoys.
All in all, quite good improvements are in the works for monero. Among them, I consider the Jamtis the most "disruptive" to the current users, as it will cause existing addresses unable to be used after the protocol upgrade. But fear not: if all goes well, you will be able to generate new Jamtis addresses using your existing wallets, and keep receiving 'neros to your wallet. And, of course, your existing funds will still belong to you and you only, nobody is going to lose any funds.
...or odysee, rumble, etc.
I use pocket change feature of monerujo wallet.
Why not integrate Monero in the fediverse? That seems more useful.
Yes. Especially when we already have a project working on it: https://monerochan.news/article/11#heading
Monero mining is "buying Monero" in the most permissionless and private way possible. Individuals can opt in to creating Monero using their home's electrical grid, and the government mafia would be none the wiser.
Monero's mining network is the most decentralized and permissionless fiat-to-xmr exchange for Monero buyers.
Feel free the share the group join link far and wide. As far as I am concerned, the more Monero enthusiasts in there, the better.