well, at least there were plenty of time to buy them before the inevitable price hike

wheels gotta turn even if driver is heading towards ledge

Its only bad if the AI decides that it wants to scream and it has no mouth, otherwise, eh, what its gonna do? launch nukes? not a chance. We can always pull the plug and idk, use all that compute gear to cure cancer or fold some cool proteins?

Its been made very difficult to actually buy it

You can go to an ATM and purchase a coin and use a DEX to convert almost instantly.

wouldn't that defeat the privacy purpose? wouldn't someone be able to see that it was your card in the ATM, when they traced back the monero as exchanged for a coin that was exchanged for your fiat?

ETA: just to be clear - that's a genuine question. I don't know much about monero, so if it really is possible to have untraceable money, that seems like a prudent investment for precaution. I've just always assumed that digital money is inherently traceable, so I always assumed genuine privacy is a mirage. I assume I'm wrong about that, somehow, so I'm curious about the mechanisms of that anonymity.

The DEX will likely leak the fact that you received the monero, but after that there is no more paper trail. So you can spend it as you like.

so would that be a feature of monero-to-monero transactions? I'm still confused as to how it would actually be anonymous? like if I used another coin to exchange for monero, that's obviously traceable. so then I use monero to purchase something else which I then sell for other monero (or I just trade monero directly? if that's possible?). and I'm to believe that there's no way to trace that back and say "okay, monero from wallet X was traded to wallet Y" or whatever other intermediate steps (like"monero was spent on X from wallet A, and then X was resold using monero from wallet B")? like, assuming they don't get in to my wallet, no one would be able to track down a transaction on the chain to a wallet? Or they would be able to track it to a wallet, but they couldn't tie that wallet to me for... some reason?

sorry to ask, but the website seems very light on any actual technical detail about how they are achieving their privacy claims - at least in terms I can parse to make them understandable to me.

The flagged post in reply to you is correct. Each transaction is buried in one time addresses and decoy addresses.

very cool, thanks! And since I can't respond to that poster, I'll say it here: thanks for that detailed answer! That definitely seems like a pretty anonymous system. I'm convinced that monero is a pretty private coin!

There are many crypto ATMs that accept cash up to a transaction limit.

Mr. Rossmann had the same problem, and he had claude fix it and it supposedly worked.

Please elaborate :)

Here's his video on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uKZ84zwJI0

im glad to see that the 36€ im paying for 250/250 fiber is still competitive in grand scheme of internet

whole city has been made incredibly painful to drive your own car, so no wonder. still not worth it, as public transport can only get you so far

You can drive a car until public transit isn't an issue and change modes there. Removing cars from city centres should be the bare minimum for a more livable city, and in decently planned cities the area where cars are inconvenient to drive intersects exactly where public transit is good.

“These saved human lives aren’t worth my inconvenience.”

What the actual fuck is wrong with you?

Unnatural behaviour

stop inventing and endorsing divisive ideas

I can't promise I'll try, but I'll try to try.

Neat, now I can diagnose whats going on with my 20y old Miele dishwasher when it does weird things!