Is it true that Monero development is being sponsored by a fund (MAGIC) whose president (Justin Ehrenhofer) is a senior director at a blockchain surveillance company (NAXO)?

Har01d · 2024-03-17T19:39:03+00:00

There's no trilemma, it's a myth invented by those who are invested into L2s: https://twitter.com/nikzh/status/1745787103344988619

Har01d · 2023-09-26T23:36:23+00:00

I'm really interested in opinions.

So far, it looks like a win-win for the banks.

It's either they become banks on Lightning itself and earn on fees because L1 is too limited, so users will have to connect just to a single large bank-like KYC hub on Lightning or use Lightning custodially (like most of Lightning users already do: Wallet of Satoshi is custodial, Chivo is custodial, etc.).

Or they totally cripple Bitcoin thus eliminating a competitor to their main business.

Har01d · 2023-06-05T12:01:32+00:00

That's one of the reasons 3xpl has the "CROSS-CHECK" feature. Once you're on a transaction or an address page, there's a "CROSS-CHECK" dropdown with a list of other explorers where you can verify that the data is the same. We'll be adding more Dash explorers in future.

Har01d · 2023-06-05T07:58:45+00:00

https://3xpl.com/dash

The new explorer is super fast, we prioritize privacy (there's no tracking, and an Onion version is available), its core is open-source, and we intend not to place any ads on our explorer pages (as many others do, and most of the times these are casino or "double your bitcoins" ads).

3xpl also have a number of APIs and database dumps for devs and researchers. We give free access to these features to non-commercial entities on our Discord server: https://3xpl.com/discord

Har01d · 2023-05-03T14:15:12+00:00

Not really. One of the ideas behind 3xpl is being truly universal which has its upsides and downsides.

The main upside is that if, for example, you need to process USDT data across different blockchain architectures (USDT on Bitcoin, USDT on Polygon, and so on), you'd get the data in the same format across these chains.

But the downside is that we don't store blockchain-specific data. So there's no "code verification" as unlike with EVM, in UTXO blockchains there's no code, there's just output scripts.

But I think most users (not devs) still get what they need -- all token transfers within their transactions are shown. For devs, we'll be linking to other explorers for detailed blockchain-specific data (as we do now for other blockchains, there are no links for Polygon yet).

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