Quote from: bitmover on May 15, 2024, 07:06:38 PM

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No matter that the idea seems interesting, I wonder who would control the finances in that case - because if there is no central bank and other regulatory institutions, what would the financial system of a country look like?

Bitcoin.

There are some countries which uses usd directly. Panama, Ecuador..  so, it can workout without a central printing.

Well, if we were to remove central banks from the equation, what about the volatility of Bitcoin? A man gets paid in BTC today, and within a few hours the price of BTC drops by 10% or lower - not to mention that on-chain transactions are not instant and can sometimes be quite expensive.

Bitcoin unfortunately has a lot of disadvantages if you want to use it as a currency in the sense that it is used by a lot of people every day. Of course, LN is one of the possible solutions, but there is still volatility and dependence on on-chain transactions.

I just noticed that on altcoinstalks (unlike Btt) it is possible to have an animated avatar. Now that tickles my fancy, how these Mixtum avatars would look with animation.

hello @icopress, i try to access to spreadsheet but this said me "access denied" probably u do some issue with permission
is just a information about it
for the rest, thank you for the fantastic work you do every day
much appreciated and much appreciated mixtum very nice as a service

Also, there looks like to be some kind of airdrop for users who interact with testnet coins. I don't know any of those airdrops.

At least Unijoin was well-ran enough to automatically open affiliate accounts upon creation so that I could withdraw my commission from there, but from both a privacy and business perspective I am definitely not looking at this with enthusiasm.

Quote from: bitmover on May 13, 2024, 05:05:56 PM

In the part about censorship resistance, he drops this gem:

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Maybe in a few years, we will come to the conclusion that we should separate money from the state for the same reason we separated the church from the state

I don't know how it is in other countries, but here in the EU, many countries have contracts with the Vatican that guarantee that the states pay the church every year sums of money that are not insignificant. I think that the Catholic Church in my country receives somewhere around EUR 40 million from the state budget every year.

No matter that the idea seems interesting, I wonder who would control the finances in that case - because if there is no central bank and other regulatory institutions, what would the financial system of a country look like?

Quote from: NotATether on May 15, 2024, 11:07:50 AM

Well, USDT doesn't have any sort of privacy at all and is not a coin I will be shedding any tears over if it gets banned. DAI is the better usd-pegged stablecoin with no asset freezing feature.

That's true, but it's no secret why stablecoins are so popular - because they can be transferred very easily and cheaply, and many people use USDT in the EU for this very reason. I don't think it's a coincidence that mixers and stablecoins are banned at practically the same time when something similar is happening in the US.

Well, I have been spreading awareness everywhere about phishing; unfortunately, I was the victim last night when an email was phished at midnight, and I did not have access to my desktop or laptop. I did not doubt the email because it was exclusively for airdrop farming. Since I was on my mobile, I did not check that email's URL and sender. I clicked on the link and went ahead and connected the metamask wallet. It takes only a few seconds to drain my entire wallet. Fortunately, The contract did not drain all the chains. The blast and Arbitrum chains were drained, and the ETH and Avalance chains weren't affected.