Hi All! I stumbled in from the workgroups page on the Monero site and I had some interest getting involved in the community. I'm currently working as a C# developer for a couple of years now and would like to build something using Monero.

I have plans to setup a simple receiving address on a blog site and allow for donations from visitors, however, I'm curious if there are other ways to earning monero?

I'm sure this question gets asked a lot so I apologize if this seems redundant :(

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Thanks anarkiocrypto ! I'll check those resources out

Is the content from the subreddit being mapped over at the Observer?

ah nevermind - escapethe3RA posts the content. People send request to him through XMPP

<tottles_mcgee[m]> "I have plans to setup a simple..." <- See moneroar4fiojlkzkvwgt25rp6vifswcpwa…hc4luqad.onion/page/monero-jobs.php

for a short listing of some related links

crypto_grampy[m]: Perhaps it would be worthwhile to set up elaborate bounties for guides that show a variety of ways for people from the UK and Australia to buy Monero

Given that their direct access is somewhat restricted

do we know what rules or regulations in UK prompted kraken.uk to drop xmr?

Was likely a request that was part of their application for the license

BTC Lightning Network still broken. Monero should think twice before adopting something like it:

have you read the whole thread? problem is not realy LN but that the (governmant)-wallet Chivo ist total shit

thats like saying ohh while sending a monero tx the gui wallet hang for 10 mins (which happend to me some times back then) and because of that i start questioning the whole monero project

the thread even starts: "A short story on how bad the chivo wallet is"

They've pushed people toward custodial solutions since the LN itself is hard to grapple with.

Seriously, how long have they had to work these issues out? I could look up the exact date of the LN white paper

January 14, 2016. That's almost 6 years

Lol monero been live longer than that and is certainly not without some serious issues

LN is a zombie. It's already dead. I do believe there will be a reckoning.

there will never be a reckoning

it will move and more into custodian solutions

and that's how it will work

Isn't that a type of reckoning, though? Decentralized peer-to-peer electronic cash is dead with BTC+LN.

I dont have any such hopes for BTC anyway

We are back to where we started: banks

If Monero has payment channels anyway, we just have to sit back and watch whether BTC ever figures out solutions to LN's problems

s/If/When/

Anyway, about that LN tweet: You are lucky if you are with the CEO of a LN wallet (Breez) and you get the chance to show how a competitor's product (Chivo) does not work

<Rucknium[m]> "LN is a zombie. It's already..." <- i dont know about that, it is constantly growing in #nodes #channels and channel capacity

I predict some people will also move into liquid wallets

Is safer than trusting 1 custodial lightning node. At least is a federation of 60 companies

I’m working on a concept for that. Apps like chivo wallet are a privacy disaster for people in El Salvador. It is legal tender thou, so the people need alternatives.

I guess you have to start *somewhere* if you have a country with millions of "unbanked"

Apparently you do that by re-inventing commercial banking. 🤷‍♂️

Rucknium[m]: yeah but for those who want to they CAN use another, non custodial wallet

I think people in El Salvador couldn't even pay for the traffic that a true, non-custudial cryptocurrency wallet would generate, and the countries mobile networks would break down under the load.

Ever been in a third-world country for some time?

rbrunner: Why do you think this?

bitcoin android wallet is non custodial, doesnt take much data as far as i know

Because I have personal experiences from a similar third-world country. Where those problem "traffic too expensive" and "data traffic capacity small" are pretty obvious

Yeah, and the fees for one BTC transaction are about a week's salary. Splendid :)

now thats mean to call germany thrid world :-p

Er, no, I don't mean my place, Switzerland.

With a transparent blockchain, you just need to query a few addresses and broadcast small txs. That's feasible just about anywhere

And a transparent blockchain is not a "privacy disaster"?

rbrunner: Liquid txs cost like cents (200 sats)

And just use BCH. Sub-USD-cent fees.

New Monero explorer that is free to use:

rbrunner: oh yes it is ofc :D

Moreover RSK is even cheaper and that’s an open federation. But bitociners hate evm/eth technologie

Does somebody have the traffic generated / needed by a true LN wallet at hand?

No, transparent blockchain isn't as bad as a government linking personal IDs to the Chivo wallet and seeing all txs.

Right, of course.

And then do CoinJoins if users want more privacy. Not as good as Monero, but a big improvement over Chivo.

Well, you have people complaining about the complicated UI/UX of cryptocurrencies already in first world countries, where e.g. they could easily google for answers.

Now imagine farmers in El Salvador ...

Requiring government ID KYC isn't only a privacy problem, it also financially excludes people who don't have ID, who are also unbanked due to this.

If a "Bitcoin-friendly" business only accepts payments from e.g. Chivo wallet or Bitpay payment gateway, and doesn't accept direct Bitcoin payments, it unnecessarily shuts out people without ID exactly the same as banking, credit cards, Apple Pay, Paypal, etc.

People without ID? You mean this seriously, I guess? Is this a thing in El Salvador?

By the way, people *always* forget that Chivo is dual USD / BTC.

rbrunner: rbrunner: George Donnelly with BCH is literally doing this as we speak. Ok, not in El Salvador, but in other Latin American countries:

Even if the BTC experiment fails awfully in El Salvador, you still have people finally "banked"

AFAIK BlueWallet is KYC-free but custodial (low data usage) if you don't run your own node (which requires a lot of storage and bandwidth).

rbrunner: You have no idea. I’m from latam, tons of people don’t have drivers license or passport for that matter

But they can get *some* kind of id if they want? Otherwise if you don't offer that basic possibility to people, how do you run a country?

I know bloody well what it means to get a password in a third-world country, thank you very much :)

*passport

But *some* kind of id, that's another story.

sethsimmons: default dark mode explorer :)

I can't get some kind of ID and I live in Europe...

You mean like voting? We can use two witnesses that vouch for your identity in my country

IDK how it is exactly in South America.

Something like that, yes.

nioc: Of course 😉

This is the only way

Plus we have a gigantic migrant population without id

And a indigenous one also

Alright, in a case, doesn't El Salvador claim that half the population has now a Chivo wallet activated? Some people must have ids, then :)

KYC requires specifically a passport or national ID card, no witnesses or affidavits possible.

Anyway, it has a reason that government the world over shat their pants when Facebook wanted to introduce Libra: That company would have had the necessary reach, almost everywhere

Do you think any government would watch if you go into a country, say with BCH, and start to "bank" people by the millions?

Just watch, and say "Well, nice, let's see how that works out". Yeah, right.

I mean, obviously I am a fan of cryptocurrencies, like most people here, but please, oh the illusions ...

Maybe I should step down from the soapbox now and give room to more, er, Monero community things :)

rbrunner: What is microcredit? Governments "let" that happen, and even encouraged it in many places.

I guess that did not look too threatening. With a widely used cryptocurrency you aim at the heart of state currency monopoly. Whole other kind of fish, IMHO.

A lot of governments of developing countries would rather not have a state currency monopoly. Many countries in Latin America have switched to USD.

Having your own currency as a small country can be tricky.

Hmmm, yes, that's an argument.

I wonder whether they will keep the USD should they ever manage to climb up the development ladder and turn into something similar like a first-world country.

Ecuador uses the USD and it's not even that small. Panama too.

Must be hard for a government if they can value their currency up or down.

*can't

<rbrunner> "People without ID? You mean this..." <- also think of people in countries with capital controls like china, india, Argentina etc. Also look at Nigeria trying to ban bitcoin recently. There are so many countries that got used to stealing from their populace via inflation, and it seems like the US and the EU are getting the taste too. We will see capital controls within the next 5 years if we continue with this monetary

policy.

Agreed, and in my core, I am optimistic regarding cryptocurrencies helping. Just not in the short timeframe that some people hope for.

govt can still bully ppl around without controlling the currency just fine tho.. unfortunately

capital controls are the next step after printing money. Its inevitable. Either they stop the inflation (which they wont) or we get capital controls. My bet is on capital controls. and capital controls are enforce through KYC

spirobel: What sort of capital controls are you referring to?

I have even written a fiction short story in this direction: rbrunner7.github.io/moneros.html

louipcm: defeatist take. if we have a system around kyc in the near future, they are fucked.

spirobel[m]: not really. realistic take. there are more steps that's all.

Rucknium[m]: I mean for example india: illegal to hold foreign currency above a certain amount. China: cant exchange to foreign currency above a certain amount

KYC-free Monero fixes this. Buy Monero without ID for cash, gold/silver, gift cards, products/services, etc. and hold it on your phone or laptop or in cold storage. Use Tor or full-disk encryption if needed.

always use full disk encryption

wtf "if needed"

always needed

spirobel: Right. Those are capital controls to deal with

Usually developed countries don't have those problems since their currency is the global reserve currency.

The state can't effectively ban P2P trade nor make stings in every P2P transaction. Existing gray markets and black markets survive fine with good opsec.

<rbrunner> "I have even written a fiction..." <- just read it! Great story hihi 🙂

> <@rucknium:monero.social> spirobel: Right. Those are capital controls to deal with

> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity

This is interesting. I listened to mises Theory on Money and Credit recently he makes a similar argument that goes even further. He states very convincingly how a state that inflates the monetary supply needs to take a few steps as a result of this, which essentially mean that it needs to go down a route of coercive measures. Its like you cant have a democratic, liberal (in mises, hayeks sense of the word) state and inflate the

monetary supply arbitrarily.

The Impossible Trinity is more or less accepted by mainstream economists, FWIW. It was the original Trilemma before Vitalik came up with one ;)

<Rucknium[m]> "Usually developed countries don..." <- there is this super interesting essay about how the balance sheet of a central bank relates to the exchange rate of its currency: wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/fileadmin/use…ion_Ingo_Benjamin_Sauer_Summary.pdf the gist is: the difference between hyperinflation and no hyperinflation is if the

central bank is able to defend the exchange rate with what it has on its balance sheet or not. So the last line of defense is the central bank. But until we get there we can think about where the demand for a currency comes from. I would say for the Euro it is German cars and machines for example and for the US Dollar it is oil. It seems like in the next decade we will switch to electric, so there is a question where the demand for

dollar and euro will come from. Even without printing lots of paper money they are in a bit of a pickle.

>there is this super interesting essay about how the balance sheet of a central bank relates to the exchange rate of its currency

You talk about this as if it is a big revelation. This is standard, mainstream, neoclassical macroeconomics, if I understand your point correctly.

I'm just confirming what you said.

> <@rucknium:monero.social> >there is this super interesting essay about how the balance sheet of a central bank relates to the exchange rate of its currency

>

> You talk about this as if it is a big revelation. This is standard, mainstream, neoclassical macroeconomics, if I understand your point correctly.

Where can I read more about that? like where do they take it into account? I also see the assets on the balance sheet of the central banks are completely absent from public discourse. There is never any talk about the solvency of the central bank. I mean for example if the euro was under huge pressure and the ECB needed to step in. Might be that the liabilities are very long term and the insolvency might be closer than expected.

* Where can I read more about that? like where do they take it into account? I also see the assets on the balance sheet of the central banks are completely absent from public discourse. There is never any talk about the solvency of the central bank. I mean for example if the euro was under huge pressure and the ECB needed to step in. Might be that the liabilities are very long term and the insolvency might be closer than expected.

I would just expect more talk about this if it really is taken into account.

spirobel: Frankly, in any international macroeconomics textbook.

This is fairly basic. I don't mean to condescend, but this is covered in standard economics courses pretty much anywhere.

It seems like you're expecting the media to do this education, when it is better learned in formal education. And it is widely taught in formal education.

<Rucknium[m]> "This is fairly basic. I don't..." <- So you say the claim the author makes is not true, and the concept of solvency is usually applied to central banks? And mainstream economics actually takes a close look at this instead of focusing on the money supply when it comes to inflation?

>the concept of solvency is usually applied to central banks

Yes, definitely. These are balance of payment crises or currency crises, depending on the specifics and how you want to frame it. Simply put, not enough hard currency in the central bank. I didn't read the article.

A "run on the central bank" is a "known attack vector" for many developing countries.

This happens, in particular, when they tried to keep a pegged exchange rate.

That's why I said earlier that many developing countries maybe don't particularly enjoy having their own currencies. Ecuador, for instance, switched to the USD after a currency crisis. In the midst of one actually, I think.

<Rucknium[m]> "A "run on the central bank" is a..." <- It happens when the issue money that is not backed by any real assets.

<Rucknium[m]> "It seems like you're expecting..." <- I am not saying the media should provide this education, but I think if something is part of scientific discourse and it is an important part of it, then it will be reflected in the media and in the public discourse as well. And I dont really see this discussion when it comes to the fed or the ecb doing things. There is no talk about if the increase in money supply is backed by

anything or not.

Can you link me to a textbook to you would recommend reading?

s/to/that/

spirobel: Let me gather my thoughts

How many of you all mine on the network or run a full node ?

<nero-cultist[m]> "How many of you all mine on..." <- There are 12k nodes: monero.fail/map

55k miners: miningpoolstats.stream/monero

Both are lower bounds, of course.

Based

Except

all 3 of me do

Why not 100k?

Why not 300k?

there is no denying reality although many try

In going to start mining in devices that aren't really profitable for bragging reasons

12k nodes that monero.fail knows of anyways

those are just 12k clearnet nodes, correct?

speaking of which....i2p support inbound... anhdres working on your requests as well

correct

nodes with incoming connections

also correct

hi nioc

meow

s/the/they/

<lza_menace> "speaking of which....i2p support..." <- like a boss

anhdres i lost where the request was - do you recall? i remember sorting by age was one

lza_menace: uups! I thought the same! lol

yeah I think it was sorting by blockheight and having auto update

I2p support where?

on monero.fail

does anyone run a reachable i2p node i can use to test?

one of the ones listed here github.com/i2p-zero/i2p-zero/blob/master/mipseed.md might work

cool, thanks

oh, i know those peeps!

<ian.niculescu> Do you think we will be able to scale on layer 1 in the future or will we need a second layer ?

Hi. Coming in from Matrix. Is there a Monero Space?

<Orpheus[m]> "Hi. Coming in from Matrix. Is..." <- Yes

matrix.to/#/#monerospace:monero.social