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Cake day: October 11th, 2023

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  • According to my recent test, the premium was 4.7 percent compared to spot rates, hence their pricing is not competitive and Bitrefill remains without a serious contestant. There you’d only pay the ~0.5% fee for going through an instant exchange in order to have your XMR arrive as BTC.

    EDIT: Now, a day later, I did another test and got percentages from 1.8 - 2.0 % which is much more reasonable.

    Hint: To quickly get the hidden fees of any purchase, execute units like this: ./units.sh '<xmr-cost-at-checkout> XMR' '<EUR|USD|...>' or ./units.sh '<xmr-cost-at-checkout> XMR / <value-in-fiat> <EUR|USD|...>' '%' for the total percentage asked.





  • That data would likely not make much difference, apart from being even less reliable.

    “Case” is a blurry term to begin with and case-rates, as seen from 2020 onward, are rather arbitrary numbers.

    Back when AIDS was prominent in media, definitions would be changed on-the-go: While initially only a positive test result would be a “case”, later, a collection of symptoms would suffice. Sometimes this can be seen on the charts as rather sudden deviations.

    Above all, knowing a case-rate wouldn’t answer the core question:

    Was there ever a virus to begin with?

    The facts gathered so far - some of which outlined in the video - steer the answer towards a strong “No.”






  • more aliases are available to register

    This one is technically not true until you add Punycode support - and only if you manage to remain below XMR.ID’s user count by that time :D

    (Without Punycode, staying RFC-compliant, and applying XMR.IST’s restriction of 30-characters max, we could provide roughly a count of 30^37-1-<amount of users>, but even if we had a 10-chars limit, the number would still be unfathomable.)

    Welcome to the space - it feels less lonely now!





  • The issue here is that as long as people (are allowed to) retain their ability to attribute all the atrocities to human error/mismanagement, they have little-to-no incentive to actually realize how the world works and why they themselves are the issue.

    By propagating content that supports the narrative, we only extend the suffering at large.

    For people who are convinced of virus existence, I have a set of questions that gently have them realize that they don’t know anything about the topic. From there they have the possibility to find answers to more advanced ones like those:

    Web archive: Five Simple Questions For Virologists











  • The time required depends on where you start. Someone who knows how to register a domain but has yet to read up on OpenAlias will probably need about an hour or two (if we do not take into account the hassles associated with DNSSEC with many registrars).

    Then the cost of a privately registered domain starts at around 15 dollars per year, whereas the same is roughly the one-time price of a permanent XMR ID with two domains secured against each other (meaning that both, DUKETHORION.xmr.id and DUKETHORION.xmrid.com will return the same Monero destination). Wallets can opt to verify this.


  • Manipulation of any record would immediately trigger a notification to all affected users, leaving me with nothing but a destroyed reputation.

    The most granular use I can think of is telling someone in-person to load your XMR ID on their device and then confirming what you see.

    Coupled with a client that stores the result in a local address book - and compares it with the current DNS responses every time - even senders can be sure that they are still working with valid information.

    (An extension to the official Monero client supporting this is in the works.)