The chart at [1] compares privacy features (and scalability) of various coins. Zcash offers the most, but (like Monero) at significant cost in scalability.

[1] https://forum.grin.mw/t/scalability-vs-privacy-chart/8114

You're right; these "elites," the old guard, love control and power from the money printer. Since they rule fiat currencies, why would they rebel? The system is rigged for corruption, and they won't want to give up its secrecy

Bitcoin and its movement are changing everything, man. Transparent and tough, it won't change. The goal is to reclaim power, not just technology. Definitely a lengthy road. Every time someone realises they can manage their digital money? A little earthquake rattles the system

You're right about CBDCs. Governments are likely adopting digital currencies. That could be the greatest Trojan horse. After getting used to digital money, people start to wonder who's in charge. That leads to actual decentralisation. Your voice, preaching about independence and not having Big Brother watch your finances, will change attitudes

Storing bitcoins on exchanges has never been advisable, but I also think it is a temporary solution for the time being with high fees. Distributing bitcoin across multiple exchanges is also not a bad idea, this will also have risks but the risks will be dispersed if the exchange collapses or is hacked. I will consider this idea if transaction fees do not decrease.

My portfolio value is irrelevant here, if that was such a compulsion then why not an altcoin?

If you want to spend $100 on something and you have 10K in your wallet doesn't mean we should pay $26 for transferring $100 or at least in my opinion, I wouldn't do that mistake because we have alternatives to do it for cents.

I don't think so if they are intelligent investors who have good financial management and capital management for what they spent in Bitcoin investment.

An intelligent investor only uses part of capital for investment and always reserve some of capital for pay bills, expenses and for emergent events. If an investor has to sell bitcoin because of inflation, economic crisis, that investor does not have good capital and risk management.

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I think (or hope) that the recent actions, and oversteps, by the US govt will start to remind people why we are here in the first place, and we will see renewed interest in so called "privacy coins".

It was over three decades ago this was published:
https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html


Fifteen years after that and fifteen years before today, Satoshi launched the first widely dispersed electronic money system that can't be shut down. Ten years ago Monero launched and added significantly more anonymity to the mix. And five years ago Grin launched with an efficient and fairly private blockchain, but more importantly imo a significantly more fair distribution or emission curve.

How do you make sure everyone in the world has a chance to get some coin? The only two viable options on the market today seem to be grin and worldcoin

I wouldn't be so worried about this.
Holding a large amount of bitcoins doesn't make you feel heard in the community. Bitcoin is not a PoS shitcoin.
There is no way that ETF issuers can influence bitcoin development because they hold a large stash of bitcoin.
Of course, they could pay to access the Bitcoin development team, but this would depend on their economic power, not the fact that they hold many bitcoins.

I would think that central banks won't collapse for so long until they are not an integral part or the main pillar of the elites' wealth anymore. In other words, the elites would need to shift their wealth into assets that are not affected by central bank collapses. I don't claim that I fully understand the financial system with all its different angles, but my assumption is that the whole banking sector is so deeply entangled with central banks that a collapse of central banks would mean a collapse of the entire financial sector, which mean a collapse of the entire system built on the financial sector, i.e. the world economy.

BTC is now a system outside the existing system. That makes it so interesting to own. Of course a collapse in the global economy would affect BTC because people would suffer from poverty and all the bad things that come with financial distress or let alone collapse. The urge to sell BTC to cover expenditures would certainly create selling pressure for BTC, too. Yet it could be the currency or wealth preservation tool that people agree upon globally. But it would be interesting to do some research as to how a spill over effect of a collapsing central bank system / economy could affect BTC after all.

Magi attempted to make mining egalitarian, where every device is treated equally regardless of its power or technology.
That does not limit it to mobile devices only so is missing the point.
There is no technical way for a server to prevent POW from being used with any capable device, even pencil and paper.
To claim otherwise is a scam. If it's POW it's not mobile only and if it's mobile only it's not POW. Whether it's worth it is up to you.

Old days used to be different, those were the times when one wouldn't need to verify their identity before they could make deposits and withdrawals in a casino platform even if the amount was very large because there was no such concept back then, and those were the times when one could invest their money in a casino's bankroll and earn a reasonable amount in return for doing that because there were not a lot of investors in those days and casinos used to have smaller bankrolls which was why they used to accept investments.

Current platforms, I don't know all of them but from the ones that I have used and know, Blackjack.fun does have an option for their customers to make investments, I haven't tried it so I don't know the percentage they are sharing but you can give it a try and see if it suits your desires.

This is true. I did not remember this factor. People use TRC20 USDT a lot due to the transactions speed that ranges from just a few seconds to a few minutes. And TRON has really low transaction fees too. I remember that a few times I received USDT there.

I've been looking again a bit into the stats and currently they're quite bleak at the first glance. Google Trends searches are very low, even if there was a little bit more interest than in 2022/23 lately.


I however am not sure which could be the best search term here, but I think grin alone isn't enough.

Price has also unfortunately returned to the levels before the 2024 pump, hitting new lows when compared to Bitcoin. Here's a bit larger picture since the 2022 lows, including the important Grin/BTC chart:


For someone new to Grin like me it can look like "should I really buy that?", but it also could be an opportunity, knowing that Grin is truly a quite unique coin. I can imagine that a part of the recent price decrease is to a generally weak altcoin market, but also the decision of the Ironbelly developer to end development  (that seems to have been a mobile Grin app and was probably was MemurKafasi mentioned above) could have contributed. There seems to be some conflict in the community when reading the latest pages, and I don't really understand why, perhaps someone can enlighten me Reminds me a bit of Burstcoin (now Signum) also an interesting project but which lost traction due to continued conflict between the devs, followed by a rebranding which while it made sense could not revert the tendency until now.

Did you read my code?

Seriously, keep in mind Magi is 10 years old and so is its white paper and the M7M algorithm. The white paper, like many in crypto, reads more like a
sales pitch than a technical description.

Block reward adjsustment is nothing new but is a property of the coin, not the algo, and it applies to the entire network, not individual miners.

If Magi worked as you suggest it would destroy pool mining because a pool appears as one miner to the blockchain and would therefore be
penalized as a whale.

Also keep in mind hashrate is an artificial metric, it's calculatred based on submitted shares or blocks over time. The blockchain network only sees the submitted
blocks, it can't tell how they are produced, whether it was one big CPU, a pool of small CPUs, or simple luck.

The fact is mining on a phone is done with the CPU, and competes with any other CPU, big or small.

Conversely any POW coin that can be mined on a desktop can also be mined on a phone if the software is available. Real POW mining on a phone should be avoided for
reasons that I have articulated elsewhere.

"Phone only POW" is just a marketing lie.

Edit: the only thing unique about M7M is the use of multi-precision arithmetic which makes it unsuitable for implementing on GPUs.

I've always hinted at this in all related posts, it is a serious consideration and we should be very careful due to that. Not that we are perfect in our view but cautious for a possibility that what happened in the last 8 months could have affected the post-having effect of this season which is always believed to be greeted with a huge bull run. But since Bitcoin had even hit above the former ATH before this year's halving, I seriously doubt what could become of it this time going forward. It might be a situation where it will disappoint us all or a situation where the bullish effect will not be as much as people expected.

This should have been ascertained in the next 1 year from now, and if Bitcoin cannot breach the new ATH which is around $73,850, it will be a serious problem for the coin to move higher. However, it has nothing to lose as a good coin since I am sure it might preserve itself above the psychological level of $50,000. Doing that alone means that it has achieved a lot already. However, a breach of $73,850 could send it easily to $75,000 and above in a matter of days.

Enforcing something like that would mean some serious changes to L1 that most people wouldn't agree with.
It also most likely would make everything even more centralized, as there would need to be a consensus where people would need to agree about very specific definition of a "meme" token.

That would create more tokens that would just game the system and change themselves just enough to bypass the definition. They would add smallest amount of functionality that fooled most of the people, and teams wouldn't call them meme tokens, even if they would be identical to them. Concept of meme is very vague, and it seems like a lost fight to me. Some of them would seem like a meme from the outside, because meme sells, and at the same time good experimental tech under the hood. And at the end, chain would end up just full of copycat tokens that have basically identical code.

With freedom comes also insufferable stupidity, and that's going to be enforced by at least 50% of population. So i wouldn't put any trust on stakers voting for coins that get to be in L1 either. Even if they wouldn't want those tokens in L1, there would be a problem with stakers selling their votes when new meme tokens wanted in L1.

Bad example.
M7M is a regular POW algorithm, there's nothing mobile about it, It can be mined with any desktop, laptop, workstation or server CPU.
If anyone claims M7M is mobile only they are scammers. My previous statement stands, all mobile only mining is a scam.

their collapse seems unlikely in the near term. Central banks play a crucial role in economic stability and have tools at their disposal to address various economic issues.

If hypothetically, trust in fiat currencies were to erode significantly, it could lead to increased interest to Bitcoin. However, for Bitcoin  become the dominant global currency, several substantial hurdles need to be overcome. So  while the role of digital currencies is likely to grow, the complete replacement of fiat by Bitcoin in the near future seems improbable.
Economic systems are intricate and usually change gradually over time rather than suddenly shifting all at once.

I cant believe this coin is not discussed more around here. Fair launched, No premine, no Ico, and community driven. Isnt that wny this forum was created in the first place.

    If I compare it to ethereum as a form of investment, literally speaking, it looks like I can get a big profit here compared to ETH, because not only is its daily volume good, but it is also so high that the market capital it achieved in the market can be compared.

     And there are also many exchanges where it is listed and will be added, from what I can see. Although I just heard of him now, 4 years ago, its ATL was around 0.009$ https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/hedera , and now it is at 0.1$ each something. Thanks for tackling this topic.