mister_monster

~~Ithink there's something funny going on with regard to this sudden drama regarding kewbit and his development of a network agnostic haveno client. I don't think it's a coincidence that this happens exactly when reto decides to clean all reference to haveno out of their network. Could be, but I don't think so.~~

So, Reto has basically no fees right now. They don't really benefit financially from being the only haveno network with liquidity. Yet, it does seem that they do want to have a monopoly position within our community. Why? They benefit in some way. If you don't pay with money...

I've always been a proponent using my little voice in our miscellaneous community spaces for reto, using the network with the liquidity, allowing competition to emerge organically, being OK with them being the big one as long as they serve the community honestly, and of being cautious with new haveno networks that pop up overnight. But this is entirely different than those things. Reto is actively trying to monopolize haveno and therefore the decentralized xmr <-> fiat gateway. This isn't some people saying "who is hardenedsteel? Do we trust them?" This is Reto removing reference to haveno ~~and a sudden controversy around the person that is developing a multi network Haveno client, going hard and trying to get them drummed out of the community.~~ And they're doing it for 0% fees, ~~which tells me they're after something else, and the only something else there that I can see is XMR users' data.~~

I ~~don't~~ know if kewbit is an asshole, annoying, acts like a child or any of the accusations against him lately. But I do know, we need competing haveno networks. We have literally forked away our entire currency network twice because we believe in what we are building so strongly we would not allow even network effects to stop us. Multiple haveno networks needs to be a top short term priority in this community, we are at a potentially dangerous point in development of a decentralized fiat exchange and preventing one group of arbitrators from controlling that is absolutely vital, regardless whether their intentions are benign or not.

Edit: looked into some details that I was not aware of, and have come to the same conclusion most of the community is coming to: this kewbit fellow is jerking us around. I still think it is important to have competing haveno networks, and a haveno client that supports multiple, and I'm still put off by the retoswap rebrand, but I am now convinced that this kewbit drama is exactly what it looks like at face value. It looks to me actually he is trying to hostile takeover the haveno brand.

I'm looking for one (or many) m3u playlists that aren't, shall we say, existing easy to find perfectly legal playlists of public streams. Things like channels that show f1 races, football games, cable channels, stuff you'd generally not get easy access to.

Does anyone know where I can find IPTV playlists with stuff like that?

You can talk about bitcoin in any bitcoin specific spaces on the internet. You ever noticed that? You can talk about Austrian economics, you can talk about price, you can talk about influencers, you can talk about hardware wallets, but if you try to ever go into technical details about bitcoin to discuss their strengths and weaknesses you get called a shitcoin shill big blocker trying to ruin it's decentralization and probably also get banned. This is in every bitcoin specific space, the subreddit, stacker.news, bitcointalk, everywhere. You can't actually discuss bitcoin with bitcoin people.

And this is a problem. It means that no technical innovation whatsoever can happen on bitcoin. It means that they're like a herd of buffalo headed for a cliff at full speed.

That wouldn't be a problem if bitcoin was perfect. But it isn't. There's a huge, huge problem in bitcoin that I wrote a post about here https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8pzrkesjnfcws3whvjya0l9n68dx8q7sg69lhyc7dyusahe4x3rgpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyrwjq464d7y2vn9v6p6aqpl3heyql9yuj87k6rzdtya6endj4277yqcyqqqqqqgsjee5u that I began to understand when I saw multiple people complaining that they have DCA UTXOs that are too small to spend right now because of fees. I understand the mechanics of bitcoin pretty well, so I thought through it and came to those conclusions and of course, the believer that I am, wanted to have a conversation about it because it is a very big deal, either I'm wrong and need to be corrected by someone or it means that bitcoin is going to fail.

They're going head first into a crisis and you can't even have a conversation about it. And I just hope they don't take us all down with them. I am no longer bullish on bitcoin long term, only in the mid term like one, maybe two more halvings, and if those of us that really believe in this peer to peer electronic cash thing actually want to see it succeed we need to position ourselves to not go down with the ship, to be the fixed version of bitcoin when it happens.

Monero already has a head start on that, but the problem I referenced also applies to Monero if and when it becomes widely adopted. It really is scary to realize that these networks have a design constraint that prevents them from ever being widely used, unless it is fixed the entire thing is going to suddenly go up in flames and the freedom money revolution will be over. Again, if I'm wrong about that I welcome discussion because I really, really don't want to be right about it.