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We're Monero advocates and built libereco.xyz for the community and anyone interested in Monero. Libereco is an Esperanto word meaning Freedom or Liberty.

Libereco Resources is a Monero knowledge and resources aggregator. You can find resources such as how Monero works, the history and origin of Monero, available wallets, how to mine, buy or spend Monero, as well as all kinds of technical and educational resources, videos, media literature. You can also suggest resources that we are missing but should be included.

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Debunking Myths about Ross Ulbricht with Sterlin Lujan, Kenny Palentano, and Dan O’Neil (MT 318)

TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: This episode is a conversation from Porcfest 2024 about the case of Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road darknet marketplace, and the efforts to secure his release from prison.

The speakers Sterlin Lujan (anarchist activist), Kenny Palentano (Free Ross activist), and Dan O'Neil (chairman of New Jersey Human Action), provide an in-depth analysis of the case, debunking myths surrounding Ulbricht's alleged involvement in murder-for-hire schemes and highlighting the disproportionate sentence he received.

They emphasize the changing landscape of drug laws and the increasing acceptance of cryptocurrencies, which has led to calls for Ulbricht's release - including from Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The discussion also touches on the broader implications of Ulbricht's case for civil liberties and the cryptocurrency community.

Watch Here (YouTube) ➡️ https://youtu.be/mPhRepnev1k Watch Here (Odysee) ➡️ https://odysee.com/@MoneroTalk:8/debunking-myths-about-ross-ulbricht-with:b Listen Here 🎧:https://www.monerotalk.live/monerotalk-318

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CopaMonero Games #3 & #4 TODAY! PirateChain v. TrocadorApp 13:00 (UTC-3) & XMRBazaar v. Monerotopia 15:00 (UTC-3)

TUNE in TODAY to the next two games of CopaMonero! Game #3: PirateChain v. TrocadorApp (13:00 (UTC-3) /  12:00 (EDT)

Game #4: XMRBazaar v. Monerotopia  15:00 (UTC-3) / 14:00 (EDT)

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYnCGCCTbeo

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/monerotalk

Twitter: X  https://x.com/monerotopia


There is nothing like this in all of crypto. Monero is organically gaining adoption in Ibarreta, Argentina where people are moving away from fiat & finding a real need for untraceable digital cash. 

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As a community, we should all abandon centralized servers and migrate to decentralized solutions. I'd support any decentralized system supporting privacy and anonymity, something that asks no personally identifying information such as phone number or email address. Something like Bastyon or Brighteon.io . Some attributes are below:

• This solution is directly on a blockchain, has no corporation behind it, much like Monero.
• Plus it's got many of the features that Twitter or Lemmy has, we can set up private or public groups and memberships.
• It supports direct, private messaging, as well as voice and video chat.
• No email address or phone number is required, so you can remain as anonymous as you choose.
• There's already a strong group of liberty-minded individuals. While they aren't all crypto-savvy, they are predisposed to solutions benefiting privacy.
• Adequate settings to block offensive speech, only controlled by the individual, so you can limit what YOU see, but not what I see.
• Built-in design is the requirement for small amounts of PKOIN, the coin that powers the blockchain.

This last bullet about requiring PKOIN has the effect of reducing spammers and trolls, but does not eliminate them entirely. While those desiring to have a megaphone and upload large amounts of data will have to pay, the average user posting photos, articles, and links to external sources normally have no cost. I've never needed to purchase PKOIN and have steadily posted links to articles of interest repeatedly since starting to use the platform nearly a year ago.

I would volunteer to help set up any groups that the community wants to duplicate over there. Please contact me if there's anything I can do to assist in this migration should it occur.

I had the privilege of recently being featured on the Monerotopia podcast with Douglas Tuman, the mastermind behind XMR Bazaar.

See here: https://youtu.be/t8B8d73OD3A?si=LhBrx3OF9RyFcBaP

We explore the differences between the MCEP and the MCEPm while also outlining tips to improve your marketplace listings.

I also outline my personal views of Monero mass adoption.

somewhat recently cake wallet added silent payment support to their bitcoin wallet. I don't ever use bitcoin so I was unaware of the tech until then. it seems to work similarly to monero's remote node scanning & is said to enhance privacy.

im wondering how it weighs against moneros privacy protections & what this development may or may not mean for the project in the future. im worried about the way it may overshadow XMR due to bitcoins reach & possible consequences if it is inferior tech (being based on a transparent L1 & all). however it is also a big step towards closing the gap between the privacy coin community & the BTC maxis (which is probably only good for eveyone involved). so im feeling split & figured i would ask the community what they think of the development.

it seems to be more like hiding coins in different addresses while obscuring it on chain & using some clever math to make the UX better. aswl as not giving over ur key to the remote node. although Ill admit the technical stuff is slightly about my head so please correct my explanation as needed haha.

im more so wondering about the practical use/implications when it comes to privacy & was struggling to find a good comparison online.

No shade at the person Michael Fitzgerald (or Stoic.xmr). He's probably a good person

But clearly a better quality book with the same name can be written by a person that understands that the average paragraph contains at least three or four sentences. I can write one. I've never written a book before, but fuck it.

What topics would you like to be included in a book titled "Monero Standard"?

The monero community is building a lot of infrastructure to build a circular economy, and there is a lot of recent developments in that regard, such as xmrbazaar which is a sort of ebay and the sellers accepts monero. This is great. However, how can we penetrate markets outside of the monero economy? I fear that Monero still has the "dangerous hacker crypto which funds terrorism and north korea" reputation, and although while not true, could severely pause monero adoption and hurt us as a community as a whole.

We as a community value privacy, but i feel like we need to work together as a community to forge an alternative to the mainstream narrative about privacy coins. I'm thinking something revolutionarily positive, at least in the USA, such as making a charity that gives directly to homeless people, or setting up a decentralized network of people that work together to distribute life saving drugs for cheap (because drug prices are really fricking high here). Privacy coins tend to attract privacy minded people, and privacy minded people won't even touch twitter with a 10 foot pole because of all the injected ads and the tracking, and i respect that. But, one of these days we gotta do something big to break the mainstream narrative.

I personally am locked in, I have a girlfriend and two pets and a full time job, but for those that have less to lose and more time and resources to spare for the cause, i say let's fking do it. Anything, man. Let's change society with this thing.

Everybody is always saying to churn by sweeping the coin. Makes sense, works neatly to keep coins apart. But my thinking is when sweeping your tx only has 1 output. As most transactions have at least a second output for change, doesn't this make a sweep tx look like a high probability churn in the blockchain?

Hi fellow anarchists and cypherpunks,

I have a harmless but very illegal hobby (in my jurisdiction) and if I get caught, I will spend some time in jail, lose my job and pay a hefty fine. I would like to buy an insurance that covers all the damages, i.e. lawyer, court, fines, compensation for time in jail, confiscated equipment and cash etc.

After months of research and pondering I came to the conclusion that such an insurance could and SHOULD exist right now!

Let me explain the idea with a short fictional story set in the near future:

http://z7735okcy6gggduobp6vjfcgwz4ss5eeduww7iw2agjmfgpjlnquezqd.onion

I need honest feedback. Love you all!

I just found this Engraver at Harbor Freight for $10.

Yeah, it's Chinaman Junk, ...but $10!!! Now you have no excuse for not inscribing your precious seed words on stainless steel as commanded by God.

Pro-Tip: Ask your Dentist for his old drill bits. They work great, and now mine is interested in Monero.

Talks about all the attacks on crypto freedom recently. Great overview and article.

"Their system demands KYC that subjects us to data breaches. 5 billion plus known records breached so far in over 2000 publicly disclosed incidents in 2024.

Crypto has seen its hacks and exploits, but legacy finance permitted $3.1 trillion in dirty money flows last year alone.

I thought they were supposed to be protecting us. Maybe we should just protect ourselves."

SimpleX will be integrating payments to the server operators to provide incentives to decentralize the network. He’s using a voucher blockchain system, but that’s what the customer gets. The question is what the customer pays.

Can the customer pay in Monero included in the self-host default packages, or will operators have to provide their own XMR infrastructure? This is a big deal. These are the types of questions you can ask directly at tomorrow (or tonight if you live in asia)’s event.

The SimpleX dev is dropping by Simplified Privacy’s chat to answer community questions. Consider showing up to show Monero love and sway his mind to natively support it with his vendor package bundles.

Saturday June 29, 1 hour starting at: 2pm UTC / or / New York 10am / or / Hong Kong 10pm

These are both the same room, we offer choices for the moderator to be online to connect you. Here’s East EU & Asia timezone: https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-4&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FN_McQS3F9TGoh4ER0QstUf55kGnNSd-wXfNPZ7HukcM%3D%40smp19.simplex.im%2F-0fWTzXMJNobsaiaodOGLOfm0m9pq05I%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAdfeJrGjuY_qKripG4E7xle6nTDWOWuBPtWmapW6pyEc%253D%26srv%3Di53bbtoqhlc365k6kxzwdp5w3cdt433s7bwh3y32rcbml2vztiyyz5id.onion&data=%7B%22type%22%3A%22group%22%2C%22groupLinkId%22%3A%22yhJzAfpfVkMynOUVxs412g%3D%3D%22%7D

West EU & Americas: https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-5&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FSkIkI6EPd2D63F4xFKfHk7I1UGZVNn6k1QWZ5rcyr6w%3D%40smp9.simplex.im%2FxPXefPbN7ZAkPyMKzJmQrFD_fv55R6w_%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEALLyynGdXLoWke3pIt1CrR00p62eT0ewpKEaWn542gWA%253D%26srv%3Djssqzccmrcws6bhmn77vgmhfjmhwlyr3u7puw4erkyoosywgl67slqqd.onion&data=%7B%22type%22%3A%22group%22%2C%22groupLinkId%22%3A%22n99NTwZLjeKwyI4lwMHB_g%3D%3D%22%7D

If you can’t make it and want to ask something, post it here on RebelNet, and we’ll reply his copy. You can hit “connect as guest” to get random numbers/letters without a nostr key, https://rebelnet.me/news/0xbf8079a69a15fd74ae

I've been seeing more and more evident hit pieces on XMR on social media, starting with the article by Greydinamics on May 17th, but just look closely at the memes and comments coming up on social media, "Monero, invest in underground crime" and other stupid shit like that...

I strongly disagree with advertising or using xmr illegally. Of course you can use any of the following for terrorism, crime, drugs, etc: your car, the internet, your computer, a screwdriver, your phone, banks, cash and so on... But that doesn't mean that's the main use, and advertising any of the stuff just mentioned as "only used by" or "intended for" criminals is beyond stupid. This is what 1984 sytle regimes use to brainwash sheep and use its people as unknowing, unpaid agents that act on behalf of these institutions.

This is an invitation to anyone who uses Monero for freedom to fight against this (likely agency or institutional) campaign promoting XMR as a tax evasive, terrorist, drug inducing coin. They're playing us, don't fall for it, Monero can be and is used for buying legal items, living a moral life. It's just sovereign money, that's all.

Hi all, i'm running a public list of monero nodes on https://xmr.datura.network, feel free to use it if you need to synchronize your monero wallets with a remote monero node. (the original service is from https://monero.fail )

sidenote: only manual registrations for new nodes, feel free to send them to me over mail / matrix

Anarchist Sterlin Lujan and Monero legend Matt Roach at Porcfest2024 (MT 316)

TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman was LIVE at the 2024 Porcupine Freedom Festival aka (Porcfest) in New Hampshire with a panel of guests including Sterlin Lujan of the Logos Project and Matt Roach aka "Monero Matt".

They cover a lot of topics including the importance of privacy, the need for cryptocurrencies like Monero, and some first hand experiences with the crackdown on crypto. The panel discusses privacy as a human right and how technologies like Monero can help protect these rights. They also talk about the challenges faced by the cryptocurrency community and strategies for promoting the adoption of Monero.

Watch Here (YouTube) ➡️ https://youtu.be/62SL3nWC5-g Watch Here (Odysee) ➡️ https://odysee.com/@MoneroTalk:8/anarchist-sterlin-lujan-and-monero:2 Listen Here 🎧: https://www.monerotalk.live/monerotalk-316

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Podcasts 🎧 :

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PDF download link https://github.com/cypherstack/fcmp-review/releases/download/final/final.pdf

Benevolent Wall Street Crypto Bros are forming Super-PACs and spending almost 100 million dollars buying Politicians in order to protect YOU, the small Hodler, from rapacious Government.

😂

Has anyone used wizardswap.io?

I want to exchange Bitcoin to XMR, and am looking for some feedback. Good or bad