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2:42 Articmine - Monero Scaling, and Security. The Priced Adaptive Blocksize Fee Market

shoutout to articdude O_O
scaling that's what's up :3

15:05 Max Hillebrand - The Praxeology of Privacy: Monero as Economic Argument

bruh what lol, mofo was out here tryna sound so smart like he read books and shits icant x)

hbs - State of EVM-XMR Atomic Swaps

lain was awesome anime tho ngl

26:07 Vit Jedlicka - Liberland

wtf lmao, first time hearing about that liberland thing, justin tron lmao, scammer buying a literal swamp thing and wanna larp as a libertarian, like, yeah, liberty to scam smh lol
dumb af the monero ecosystem literally inviting scammers to be like "oh yea, this is libertarianism" or whatever the fuck lmao, so dumb icant even x)

@SpinningCat yeah Liberland is beyond cringe. When I was at Monerotopia I remember a few people brought up Liberland being cool, and I also remember they brought a Liberland flag and a group of attendees posed in front of it on stage after the Liberland talk. I didn't think much of it but after watching that presentation my self with the awful ai and absurd promises.....
And Hillebrand is a total pseud. A lot of what he said during his presentation was flimsy at best which he would try to obscure with big words. I've actually read the books he is referencing lol so the whole act seemed performative to me.

@xenu I was just listening to your latest episode. The reason you didn't mesh with Max Hillebrand is probably because he meandered a lot and did not have an actual grounding of property rights.
Praxeology is sufficient for economics, but it gets you nowhere in philosophy because it relies on having said philosophy as a baseline. He skimmed through a lot of economics to get at business cycles etc. (probably due to time constraints, and bad planning) which would probably get you confused if you hadn't read the same books that he had.

Going by your description, on actually trying to get at Privacy as a value this guy tried to mangle Hoppe's Argumentation Ethics into getting him what he wants, which is just so retarded on multiple levels. Argumentation ethics basically goes like this:
To attempt to deny self-ownership entails a performative contradiction, as the act of arguing itself presupposes the exclusive control of one's body and resources.

This can elegantly get you property rights, but a lot of surface-level libertarians either misapply it or mangle it beyond recognition because they can't understand basic logic (eg.: Dave Smith).

In my opinion, the actual way to get at Privacy is as a consequence of these property rights:

1. Property rights exist. You can get at this from Philosophy or Praxeology.
2. Because property rights exist, you must adhere to the Non-Aggression Principle when interacting with others. You can deduce this from Praxeology/logic.
3. Given self-ownership, that implies certain boundaries where others may not affect your body without entering a contradiction or, put simply, undermining your righteous control over yourself.
4. Since you own your body, you can exercise your control to exclude others from it; This is privacy.
   There's a lot more work to be done where it comes to privacy in the realm of ideas, like someone photographing you or listening in on a conversation. I think this mostly boils down to contract theory, but it gets pretty tricky because you can't, for example, own your likeness -- because you can't own the concept of a certain arrangement of facial features, it's non-scarce.

I'd like to flesh all this out in a logically air-tight way in the future, but suffice to say that this Hillebrand guy doesn't cut it. You hit the nail on the head when you said that he's not standing on much ground, because he has no hard philosophy, it's wishy-washy pragmatist thinking; having a end goal in mind and mangling your arguments until everything fits.

@ancap_objectivist yeah I've read austrian econ before, definitely more than the average person, but I am by no means an expert, so it is frustrating when he is assuming everyone was on the same page as he was when really that wasn't the case at all, and someone like myself is his target audience. So to cover for this he kind of rambled about different things he understood and, like you said, mangled the arguments until everything fit. A powerpoint probably could have gone a long way but I don't think he put any effort into the presentation.
I also don't really understand the purpose of the presentation. For example, at the very beginning he says he wrote his book to "help cypherpunks understand the economic reasoning that make projects succeed or fail". I don't understand why that's so important or even necessary. But like I mentioned in my review, his pretentious comment about economists "arm chair philosophizing" sort of answered my question that this was all sort of a performative flex that he has read a lot of libertarian econ literature and that he should be perceived as respectable because of that, and it likely pushed my bias against him further lol.

Episode 2 of .thedotfiles is now live!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY7cUCnA334
https://antimoonboy.com/podcast/dir2cast/dotfilesep2.mp3
https://odysee.com/@anti_moonboy:7/dotfilesepisode2:8
https://rumble.com/v7clbyk-.thedotfiles-episode-2-david-z.-morris.html

In the second episode of the .thedotfiles, we speak with David Z Morris, a talented independent journalist who specializes in investigating cryptocurrency and fraud. His recently released debut book, Stealing the Future, is a well-researched overview of the FTX scandal, and how it's architect Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), was influenced by questionable philosophical and social movements that have become popular among tech-elites. We also discuss the growing concerns of Michael Saylor's ponzinomics, as well as the groundbreaking Tornado Cash case involving Roman Storm, whose future retrial could have immense cooling effects for free and open source software developers around the world.

Episode 77 of Anti Moonboy News is now live!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWhIOoPn7Y4
https://odysee.com/@anti_moonboy:7/amn77:3
https://rumble.com/v7cobp6-anti-moonboy-news-77-high-stakes.html

note: mp3 and rss are currently down but site should be back up within the next couple days

shoutout to the high stake poker game from last month between moneroforum and d2jsp:
https://www.pokernow.com/clubs/xmrpokerclub
the deciding game was the other side that kept raising very high since the very first round, with just calls from moneroforum, then at the last round, moneroforum did a "ALL-IN", which was called by d2jsp.
that was no bluff, moneroforum ended up winning and was given admin rights of the xmrpokerclub

4rkal - Liquidity Fragmentation in Non-Custodial XMR Markets

@4rkal sounds good :thumbup:

@xenu "...and lastly, I want to give a shout-out to... ah [scoff/giggle] a guy who is well-known in the Monero community, I guess, rottenwheel. He has a Kuno out, and is raising money for the people out there in Venezuela. So if you want to donate Monero, this is all legit..." "... He actually uploaded a testimony from some people in Venezuela who had received things from him. He's keeping up a good word on this and it's a very good cause, obviously. Our hearts go out to the families out there..." Thank you, Xenu. Not me, but them, appreciate it! 🙏 I will keep posting new pictures/video clips where possible and keeping up with people from where I am from, even if it's not home town, it's the same country. ^_^

Hopefully you manage to bring your website and RSS feed back up soon! Those are handy for us nerds.