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  • Etherum settles in 12 seconds and can handle >30k transactions per second across it’s layer 2s, by 2030 it aims to be capable of 10k tps on the main chain alone and enable protocol native shielded pools for private transactions.

    Monero is already private and one of the most stable cryptos out there. It takes ~1 min for a single conf, but because there is no replace by fee feature, you can accept 0 conf tx for small payments.

    Compared to fiat big cryptos like ₿, Ɱ, ETH tend to appreciate in value, so even if you were using them for payments without looking at the price, over a longer period, for most people the average they paid would be lower than if they used fiat, which only ever goes down in value.



  • How many people buy houses as an investment instead of living in them, how many people buy oil as an investment instead of using it for fuel, how many people buy gold and silver as an investmen instead of using them for jewelry or industrial applications, how many people buy dram as an investment instead of putting it in their computers… I guess it’s all a scam then? What a dumbass take. Besides, store of value is one of the intended purposes of a crypto currency, I don’t see how you can hold against it the fact that more people are opening their eyes to how valuable this property of crypto really is in the face of their life saving being vaporized by the money printer.

    M2 - money supply, USD

    Bitcoin supply

    Monero supply




  • If you’re behind cgnat opening ports on your router won’t do you any good. You have to call your isp and ask them for a dedicated public ip, usually for a price if they offer one at all. If that ip is static you can remember it, if not, you need ddns. If you’re one of the lucky few not behind cgnat then yeah, your setup will be the simplest possible, but if you are, like the majority of people these days, it’s one of the most complicated.



  • That’s not always an option and when it is, setting it up is often more complicated and less secure than using a relay server. Honestly, the fastest (to setup), easiest and most secure option would be ssh server as a tor hidden service. Everything is handled by tor out of the box, .onion domain name, nat hole punching, E2EE, port scanning bots… all taken care of, no need for opening ports, static ip, dns, ddns, fail2ban, worrying that there’s a 0 day or that you misconfigured something. No one can exploit you service if nobody knows it exists.


  • If you can rent a vps you can use it as a relay server. You setup sshd on your home pc and ssh to the vps with the -R flag.

    ssh -R 8022:localhost:22 user@relay

    As long as the connection is live you can ssh to the server via relay. If you set GatewayPorts to yes on the relay in sshd_config then it will act as an open port on your home pc and anyone will be able to connect to it over the internet with

    ssh -p 8022 user@relay

    so make sure to secure it correctly, only allow ssh keys etc. If you set GatewayPorts to no, then only clients connected to the relay will be able to connect to the server, this is a must have if you’re gonna use unsecure protocols like VNC. First ssh to the server

    ssh user@relay

    next

    ssh user@localhost -p 8022

    or one line, especially useful when combined with -i to point at the home pc’s ssh key stored on the client

    ssh -J user@relay user@localhost -p 8022

    You can also setup VNC over ssh. Add 2nd -R on home pc with vnc ports

    ssh -R 5901:localhost:5901 user@relay

    or together

    ssh -R 8022:localhost:22 -R 5901:localhost:5901 user@relay

    On the client ssh with the -L flag

    ssh -L 5091:localhost:5091 user@relay

    Now you can connect your VNC client to

    localhost:1