MoneroTopia VIP TIX SOLD OUT!! Don't miss out anon! Grab a GA ticket and join us in Mexico City..

What's up Monero fam! MoneroTopia23 is heating up!!! Sunita and I are hustling with the help of many others in the community to bring you a kick ass event. You joining us? If so, make moves! Here is the latest:

MONEROTOPIA 2023 in MEXICO CITY! El Dinero de La Gente - The People’s Money. MAY 5th, 6Th, 7th.

Made with love and for Monero by Sidarta

Network with like-minded freedom seekers who want to participate in building-out a true digital cash parallel economy outside of State control. This is not a number go up maxi fest.

We have already sold out the VIP tickets (which includes a Speakers Dinner on Saturday night, May 6th) so you better get your General Admission Tickets today before those sell out too!! GA tix are very affordable to make the conference as accessible as possible but we will have to cap it at some point. Even without the VIP dinner there will be plenty of intimate moments to be had with ALL the conference participants throughout the 3 days.

Join us on May 5th -7th 2023 in Huerto Roma Verde, Colonia Roma in Mexico City! Welcome Party late afternoon May 5th and amazing talks and workshops all weekend long starting at 8:30AM May 6th to end of day on the 7th at an outdoor community center and garden run by local CDMX artists and activists. We may start with a few talks during the Welcome Party to make sure we can fit it all in!!

We are proud (and EXCITED!) to announce our Main Stage Sponsor u/cakelabs . We personally use the Cake/monero.com apps daily to run our business and to onboard new Monero users. With Cake’s sponsorship and the contributions made by the participating “Privacy-Tech Projects”, we are able to keep GA ticket prices at just $99 and are even able to offer a super low priced ticket for just 500 pesos ($25) for locals so that we can live up to our goal of making the conference as accessible as possible! Also, with the sponsorship funds we will be able to onboard the local noob attendees to Monero by hooking them up with a wallet and sending them some Monero to use during the conference! The conference however won’t just be for noobs who want to learn how to use Monero and understand the importance of true digital Cash. We will go into depth on Monero tech from the devs themselves and on Sunday we will explore the pros/cons of other “privacy-coin and tech projects”.

In summary the conference Includes talks from Monero devs and contributors, other privacy coin/tech projects, cypherpunks, agorists, and free speech advocates. It will include a “privacy-tech” loft where you can learn about other privacy-tech projects from their representatives (plus attend workshops) and an “adoption alley” section showcasing the projects and CO’s that accept monero and are providing services that are making it easier to use and live off of Monero!

Workshops include Monero 101 for noobs to get their first monero and learn best practices, an advanced workshop for people that want to learn how to contribute to Monero’s network by running a full node and mining with p2pool, a general privacy-tech best practices workshop, and a workshop on how to use the internet anonymously from the NYM project. Finally, integrated into the conference will be a Monero accepting marketplace run by local Mexico City vendors. So attendees can use monero to eat, drink, and buy gifts to bring home!

A few of the MANY speakers to expect at Monerotopia2023.... Luke Parker Lead Developer of SeraiDEX, Koe (Developed Seraphis), Elizabeth Binks (ETH-XMR Swaps), ArticMine (Monero Core Team Member),  Derrick Broze (Freedom Cell Network), Justin Berman (Implementing Seraphis and Jamtis), Seth for Privacy, Luke Smith & many more! Expect a panel on the “future of the Monero protocol” with the devs discussing things like tx_extra, a post-ring signature Monero, scaling on layer 1, and what a layer 2 may look like etc. Also expect a panel on proof of work v proof of stake with participation from Andrey Sabelnikov of Zano and others.

The Adoption Alley section currently has participation from Coincards, Trocador.app, Anon Shop, Jellyfish and u/LocalMoneroCo! (More coming soon!)

Privacy-Tech Projects Represented in the Privacy Loft: Oxen/Session/Loki, NYM, Firo, Zano, Particl/BasicSwap, Panther, Darkfi and LunarDao and more are reaching out! Sunday will include technical talks from most of these projects hosted by a member of the Monero community who will be fielding questions from the audience and bringing his own “difficult questions”. It will NOT be Maxi Conf where other projects are dismissed, but in keeping with Monero culture, the projects will be thoroughly critiqued.

For those that haven’t booked their stay yet, we have some Hotel Accommodation suggestions on the website, so go to monerotopia.com to check those out! Some attendees are coordinating shared Airbnbs in the MoneroTopia telegram room.

If you have made it this far, congrats! Here is a 20% off discount code you can use to buy your tickets. The code will expire in 5 days: “Mo Nero Mo Liberty”

For those that want to volunteer and help us out the day of (we will give a free admission ticket!)  please email us at [monerotopia@protonmail.com](mailto:monerotopia@protonmail.com)! Or if you want to participate in any other fashion (vend, media partner, speak etc.) please email us too!

Hope to see you all in Mexico City in May! We are really looking forward to it!!! Oh and DJs..there will be DJs from the Monero community keeping the vibes going!

One last thing. We are headed down to CDMX in 2 weeks to continue to plan and sort things out. While down there we will be hosting a Monero meetup at the Bitcoin Embassy Bar on Friday, March 10th at 7pm. We will use it as an opportunity to do a 101 on Monero and to give away some tickets to locals that want to help us hang up posters and round up crypto curious locals that want to come learn at the conference. Please email us if you are around CDMX and can attend the meetup.

What are the top 5 cryptocurrencies worldwide?

As of now, the top 5 cryptocurrencies worldwide based on market capitalization are:

1. Bitcoin (BTC)
2. Ethereum (ETH)
3. Binance Coin (BNB)
4. Cardano (ADA)
5. Tether (USDT)

It's important to note that the ranking of cryptocurrencies can change frequently based on various factors such as market demand, news events, and technological advancements.

Cardano Daily Discussion - February 25, 2023

Hello everyone,

Welcome to the Cardano Daily Discussion!

The standard sub rules apply here (see sidebar), with the exception that price discussion is allowed in this thread, though we encourage you to try not to make this the focus and talk about the project itself. Please ask questions, help others and be civil - be sure to get involved in Project Catalyst too!

If you're new, please make sure you're read through the newbies guide and share it with others (use the ?newbies comment command to reference it).

​

⚠️ Scam Warning ⚠️

Please read the Cybersecurity guidelines for Cardano Users.

There are ongoing giveaway scams on youtube and many scammers lurking in Cardano's social channels impersonating ambassadors/moderators/official staff contacting users via direct messages.

For example, searching 'cardano' on youtube and sorting by most recent upload date shows several giveaway scams running (all videos in screenshot are scams):

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Ongoing 'giveaway' scams on Youtube

The youtube scams are automated; use stolen footage usually of Charles Hoskinson and are restreamed so to appear to be 'live'; appear to have many watchers (which are bots); use bought hacked channels and are edited to appear like official channels.

See this post for more examples of what they look like

Do not be fooled!

​

To be clear:

• ⚠️ There is no such thing as a Cardano giveaway
• ⚠️ Never share your seed phrase with ANYONE
• ⚠️ Never send ADA to someone promising to send you more ADA back
• ⚠️ You will never be contacted by ambassadors/moderators/staff

Please report scams on the Cardano Fraud Detection Bureau.

⚠️ Scam Warning ⚠️

​

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https://preview.redd.it/60ofludzpq8a1.png?width=284&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=7d58fc8aaa2eb5f125624608b97bdd7b943a1111

Midnight Subreddit

In anticipation of Input Output's new data protection blockchain 'Midnight', I've managed to acquire r/Midnight through some negotiation and repurpose it for the Cardano Community (the sub was created for a card game back in 2011 but was mostly unused).

I decided to do this as I thought the project will eventually need a home on reddit and best to setup now before any scammers do. Obviously there's not much to post about on there right now as it's early days as the project is yet to be released, but if you'd like to be kept up to date on the project please feel free to join the new subreddit if the project interests you and I'll be sure to post updates as and when they become available.

Right now the sub is mostly a carbon copy of r/cardano, I've copied most of the automod and rules over, so certain aspects may seem a little incongruent atm, but I'll tailor and tweak the sub as we go. Feel free to send me or post any input if you want stuff to change.

Cheers all

Nobody thought this would ever happen, its actually quite amazing hes doing this.

https://www.reddit.com/gallery/11b209n

Nobody thought this would ever happen, its actually quite amazing hes doing this.

https://www.reddit.com/gallery/11b20kp

Cardano Daily Discussion - February 24, 2023

Hello everyone,

Welcome to the Cardano Daily Discussion!

The standard sub rules apply here (see sidebar), with the exception that price discussion is allowed in this thread, though we encourage you to try not to make this the focus and talk about the project itself. Please ask questions, help others and be civil - be sure to get involved in Project Catalyst too!

If you're new, please make sure you're read through the newbies guide and share it with others (use the ?newbies comment command to reference it).

​

⚠️ Scam Warning ⚠️

Please read the Cybersecurity guidelines for Cardano Users.

There are ongoing giveaway scams on youtube and many scammers lurking in Cardano's social channels impersonating ambassadors/moderators/official staff contacting users via direct messages.

For example, searching 'cardano' on youtube and sorting by most recent upload date shows several giveaway scams running (all videos in screenshot are scams):

​

Ongoing 'giveaway' scams on Youtube

The youtube scams are automated; use stolen footage usually of Charles Hoskinson and are restreamed so to appear to be 'live'; appear to have many watchers (which are bots); use bought hacked channels and are edited to appear like official channels.

See this post for more examples of what they look like

Do not be fooled!

​

To be clear:

• ⚠️ There is no such thing as a Cardano giveaway
• ⚠️ Never share your seed phrase with ANYONE
• ⚠️ Never send ADA to someone promising to send you more ADA back
• ⚠️ You will never be contacted by ambassadors/moderators/staff

Please report scams on the Cardano Fraud Detection Bureau.

⚠️ Scam Warning ⚠️

​

​

​

https://preview.redd.it/60ofludzpq8a1.png?width=284&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=7d58fc8aaa2eb5f125624608b97bdd7b943a1111

Midnight Subreddit

In anticipation of Input Output's new data protection blockchain 'Midnight', I've managed to acquire r/Midnight through some negotiation and repurpose it for the Cardano Community (the sub was created for a card game back in 2011 but was mostly unused).

I decided to do this as I thought the project will eventually need a home on reddit and best to setup now before any scammers do. Obviously there's not much to post about on there right now as it's early days as the project is yet to be released, but if you'd like to be kept up to date on the project please feel free to join the new subreddit if the project interests you and I'll be sure to post updates as and when they become available.

Right now the sub is mostly a carbon copy of r/cardano, I've copied most of the automod and rules over, so certain aspects may seem a little incongruent atm, but I'll tailor and tweak the sub as we go. Feel free to send me or post any input if you want stuff to change.

Cheers all

CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act Bill and its implications (hopium?) for Bitcoin

Minnesota Congressman Tom Emmer announced on Twitter that he and a few others are going to introduce a bill that would in his words aim to do the following three things:

1. Prohibit the Fed from issuing a CBDC directly to anyone.
2. Bar the Fed from using a CBDC to implement monetary policy and control the economy.
3. Require the Fed's CBDC projects to be transparent to Congress and the American people.

The discussion and trajectory around this bill is going to be a historic event for our financial and political infrastructure not just in the US but across the world for decades to come. Expressing the importance for privacy, he states that "any digital version of the dollar must uphold our American values of privacy, individual sovereignty, and free market competitiveness. Anything less opens the door to the development of a dangerous surveillance tool."

From the view I have of the US government, I would be very surprised and thrilled if any version of this bill passes let alone in its current form. Many powerful governments around the world including UK, India and China have already started piloting their in-house CBDCs and are on path for rampant scaling.

CBDCs could potentially be the strongest tool any government has EVER had at its disposal in the history of humanity and this will have shattering implications for all aspects of our lives. The current state of the financial infrastructure is already such that every transaction of ours is monitored in the name of anti-money laundering and tax evasion laws. Should we let them look at all of what we do with our money just because some people out there could be laundering money, evading taxes or performing some illicit activities? Those involved in such activities are already a step ahead and this is also why these people have embraced bitcoin earlier than other segments of population. Despite their illegitimate reasons, the 3 key features for which these shady guys have embraced bitcoin way ahead of the general population are noteworthy - transactions without a central authority/intermediary, decentralization based on cryptographic proof instead of trust and non-kyc/anonymous wallets that preserve privacy.

Governments and private banking institutions have already been monitoring our financial lives and all other aspects that associate with it for almost half a century now and have a dataset whose richness and usefulness has been improving dramatically with the advancement of web and technology over the last few years. I'm scared about the possibility of how much this is likely going to improve over the next decade. Unless we actively choose to not be a part of this system and make efforts to tackle and discourage the existing financial and web infrastructure centered around monitoring, our privacy is going to be lost forever.

CBDCs would be the last nail in the coffin that we should anyhow avoid and the most prominent way we can do this is by adopting bitcoin not just for the big gains but for the values it embraces with a privatised and predetermined monetary policy that is neutral in its intent by code for a cherry on top. Not just monitoring, it is really important that we disempower the government for controlling the value (money) that we spend all our lives to create. They print it out of thin air and devalue it even with other means at their whims to suit their budget and economic interests. We are in a debt bubble whose existence is primarily only because of the nature of money in its current form. Governments have debt that are multiples of their nation's GDP and corporations largely function on and expand with debt while I'm not able to loan out a year equivalent of my earnings while all of our money is lend out to them atleast 4 times over. How and why are we okay with this? Prices keep rising because of the current monetary, debt and growth environment and we have to keep working harder just so we can sustain our standard of living? Real median income of middle class households have been on a decline while the average per capita has been growing. To me, that is nowhere close to an ideal economic, social and political state and far on the other end of the spectrum. We're doing poorly on all these fronts.

Bitcoin is truly the revolution we need because it disempowers monetary shenanigans, debt growth and government control. We employ the government (atleast in a democracy) and need to keep them out of our business and ask them to focus on what we as a society want them to do.

Governments have enough money from the taxes they collect, money they print and other magic monetary and fiscal tools they have at their disposal. At the very least, we need to cut out the monitoring for which they have no good reason other than to empower themselves and have us as slaves to their intent. Bitcoin gives us a chance to do this along with a whip on other overreaches that governments have over economic and social structures as well as our personal lives.

I'm writing my thoughts down with the hope that we as a community can initiate a serious discussion around the bill tabled, overreaches of the government and the importance of bitcoin so that it's not just the Congress whose intent controls the narrative. Or atleast so that we're clear of the differences and know the areas we need to work on to get the government to do what we expect of them.

Governments have already succeeded so far in their fight against bitcoin especially with the way they've got Centralized exchanges to dominate the ecosystem and comply with anti-money laundering laws. I've got thoughts about this I'd like to discuss which I'm keeping for another post so that this one doesn't end up being a soup. Hoping to create a series of posts discussing the developments from the bill tabled and other thoughts I have about the relevant issues.

I really hope bitcoin comes out on the winning side a few years/decade down the line and that would only happen if all of us already involved with crypto take up a discussion and talk about the merits with our friends and family. As much as this sub discourages crypto talk in real life, that is the only way we can move foward. Bitcoin is in such a speculative phase that most of its merits are overshadowed in the social narrative by its volatility and hopes for gains/get rich quick scheme. I think all of us need to take responsibility to change that narrative and make efforts to talk about other aspects of bitcoin with friends and family as much as that comes with the shame/guilt of being deep in the red.

Long bitcoin, short the bankers and government-controlled magic money.