• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      10 hours ago

      Something that doesn’t toast the earth and isn’t completely taken by scammers and all sorts would be much preferable

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        9 hours ago

        There’s plenty of proof of stake tokens that do not waste all that electricity that mining does

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        8 hours ago

        XMR is very stable, and widely used but since is very privacy oriented and theres 0 need for KYC the techbros won’t ever talk about it, also is not profitable because the fees are very low, and the confirmations are almost instant, so major institutions likely will never endorse it. Monero for the win.

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          3 hours ago

          very stable

          We must have very different notions of what stability means. To me, anything that fluctuates more than 10% either up or down almost weekly is not stable.

          theres 0 need for KYC

          How does one exchange XMR for actual cash without going through an exchange company?

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            2 hours ago

            10% either up or down almost weekly

            For stability I mean something that won’t fluctuate more than 100% in a calendar year.

            How does one exchange XMR for actual cash without going through an exchange company?

            Up until not too long ago localmonero was a thing, but is been discontinued, and I have not been keeping up with something you could find in a google search.

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        8 hours ago

        Almost every cryptocurrency other than bitcoin is far more efficient than bitcoin. Bitcoin went though a really weird hostile takeover by Binance, who realized that if they made Bitcoin super inefficient and gave it high transaction fees, then they could make a ton of money by pushing their alternative currencies and proprietary software. It was super effective, and they managed to keep the market centered around Bitcoin, and also make Bitcoin near useless as a peer-to-peer digital currency. Crypto miners will always spend the most effort on the most valuable currency, so we’ve ended up in a system that uses a ton of energy with at best marginal value to the users.

        Bitcoin Cash is the closest thing to the original goals of Bitcoin, and anything based on Etherium will be much more efficient since it’s based on proof-of-stake instead of proof-of-work.