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  • Borrowing ideas to improve Monero...

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  • @WishfulAlbatross Looks like it was abandoned by the person who started it. And the only way to submit a MIP was privately via email. No public discussion, no peer review of proposals -- it's understandable why nobody wanted to participate.

    I could create a similar repo if anyone is willing to submit a proposal. I have no proposal ideas at the moment, but I wrote Monero-related proposals in the past (1, 2) for CASA (Chain Agnostic Standards Alliance)

  • Changing monero-subscription codes to monero-payment codes. Thoughts?

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  • @lukeprofits I think your application can be better described as "payment scheduler", and you're right about "monero payment code" sounding confusing. Maybe "monero scheduler code"? Or "monero payment request"?

    Also, I'm still interested in implementing code generation in my project. The only blockers are portability issues that I previously reported.

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  • @WishfulAlbatross

    2. Decentralized Governance

    CHIP process is quite complicated and seems to be focused exclusively on network upgrades. Also, calling it decentralized is misleading because some group of people has to oversee the process, maintain the repository etc etc

    But I agree that setting up something like RFC for Monero ecosystem is a good idea, because it will improve coordination and transparency. Someone even tried to start it back in 2014 (and failed): https://github.com/monero-developers/mips

    Such project would require some support from the community (to avoid the fate of the previous MIPS initiative), but I think it's doable. In Fediverse we have FEP process, which is very lightweight and can be used as a template.

  • Decentralized Digital ID’s Built on Monero that Preserve Privacy w/ Ben Biedermann- A MONERO TALK EPI

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  • Support me using mitra.social!

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  • @moneromaxi Can Lemmy users follow users of other software? As far as I know, this is not supported, and that means XMR subscription from Lemmy account won't work either.

    This is an interesting idea though.

  • Monero's Home: XMPP vs Matrix (video)

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  • @gvs @simplex @ShadowRebel @k4r4b3y True, but as far as I know there is a single team and single implementation, so it's not quite in the same league as Matrix and XMPP.

  • Monero's Home: XMPP vs Matrix (video)

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  • @k4r4b3y @ShadowRebel Matrix seems to be focusing on the needs of its corporate clients lately. Interesting projects like P2P matrix, low-bandwidth and portable identity are not getting attention. Instead, they are making OIDC mandatory:

    https://matrix.org/blog/2023/09/better-auth/

    Over time I've become less enthusiastic about Matrix. I'm not saying we should ditch it, but it's good to have a FOSS-oriented alternative (XMPP), just in case.

  • Nostr needs a Monero Takeover

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  • @k4r4b3y @ShadowRebel Yes, self-hosted Tor instance is a way to go if you want to be completely independent. People who don't self-host can link their account to a public key and move to another instance if something bad happens, this is also supported (still experimental and undocumented though; I'll try to find some time to write an explainer).

    Finally, the protocol can be extended to support nostr-like architecture with simple relays and rich clients. Maybe I will implement that too, or somebody else can start such project.

  • [CCS] Alternative Monero node written in Rust has moved to Funding Required

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  • @RealPappenheimer This issue was discussed at length in monero-community matrix room when proposal was submitted. I guess it's too late to reverse the decision. Even the person who wrote AGPL-licensed modules appears to support the change, although I don't know why they suddenly changed their mind.

  • Idea: fediverse of ecommerce. Time to dethrone amazon and ebay. What do you think?

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  • @Ferminho @maegul This proposal describes a very simple marketplace, and some things were intentionally left out. However, it is based on Valueflows system which can be used to describe many different economic processes, including planning, production and transportation:

    https://www.valueflo.ws/introduction/core/

    So developers may use object types and properties defined there if they want to build something more complicated. And social interactions can be represented as standard ActivityPub activities. I think Valueflows and ActivityPub nicely complement each other.

  • [CCS] Alternative Monero node written in Rust has moved to Funding Required

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  • @kowalabearhugs Currently, some parts of Cuprate are licensed under AGPL-3. This means anyone using this code should keep their derivative works as open source and use the same license. The license protects the project from hostile forks and generally serves as a deterrent against privatization of public goods. Lemmy, Mastodon and many other Fediverse servers use AGPL-3 license and it is totally reasonable choice for Cuprate too.

    However, when this CCS proposal was discussed some people started to push aggressively against AGPL (going as far as calling it "legal nightmare") and the developer agreed to change the license and even agreed to re-write AGPL-licensed parts of the application if needed.

    As I said, this is a mistake, and makes Monero weaker. I think Cuprate may eventually become a dominant implementation because Rust provides a better security and developer experience, and a big chunk of modern cryptographic libraries is being written in Rust (especially in zero-knowledge cryptography). But now any company can safely use Cuprate as part of their infrastructure because it has business-friendly license, create a closed-source fork and hire developers who were previously working on open-source version.

    The change of license is basically a signal that corporate interests are more important than interests of ordinary users. As for examples of where this attitude leads, see any cryptocurrency project where companies or "foundations" pay developers for their work and therefore shape the product. Exceptions are rare, and Monero is one of few that relies on donations and crowdfunding.

  • [CCS] Alternative Monero node written in Rust has moved to Funding Required

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  • @Rucknium

    All code produced for this CCS will be licensed under MIT.

    The decision to change license from AGPL to MIT was a mistake. And what is particularly concerning, apparently a lot of people are okay with that.

    Such attitude led to demise of many other communities where independence was sacrificed for "adoption" and corporate takeover was perceived as a good thing.

  • Peer-bay?

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  • 🇭🇺 Budapest meet-up sponsored by eXch.cx, organized by OrangeFren.com

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  • Integrating Monero into Nostr

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  • @alvvayson @trymeout I think the easiest way to make Monero payments possible in Lemmy is to convince devs to support profile fields: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/246.Then you can add your address to your profile and it will be visible to other Fediverse servers (profile fields are widely supported). People often use labels like $XMR and $BTC, that makes the address field machine-readable, so clients may display a donation button somewhere.

  • Announcing ANON / NERO: DIY Hardware Wallet for Monero

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  • Judge Rules XRP NOT A Security But What Will The “Ripple Effect” Be?

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  • @monerobull @blake I think its main purpose now is to be a Trojan horse. The token is not that important

  • ASP of NAND Flash to Continue Falling 3~8% in 3Q23

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  • @monerobull.

    People also need to stop thinking that running a proper global payment network can work only on raspberry pis and 500kb internet.

    It's the only way to run a truly global network. Otherwise you'll get a cluster of nodes controlled by a tiny oligarchy. That's what happened to Ethereum, where "this is fine" and "hardware is getting cheaper" narratives were also dominant.

    Good thing that with the improvements to lightwallets you’ll only need to have 1 person in your social circle that you somewhat trust running a node.

    Even Bitcoin, where the chain can be pruned to a couple of gigabytes, has only 16500 active nodes, and the number is not growing anymore. That's one node per 400000 people.

    The cost of running a node needs to be comparable to the cost of running ActivityPub server. Only then node-sharing might become prevalent.

  • ASP of NAND Flash to Continue Falling 3~8% in 3Q23

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  • @monerobull The current size of the chain is already unacceptable for most users (even after pruning). People are not going to buy new hardware to accommodate a growing chain, they'll switch to centralized providers.Also, I think it's reasonable to assume that everyone will be getting poorer in the coming years.

  • ASP of NAND Flash to Continue Falling 3~8% in 3Q23

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  • @monerobull What if someone doesn't have 80€ ? By raising the cost of running a node you cut off the very demographic you're supposed to serve.