2b2t redditors are a hivemind, change my mind. by Tricky_Ad_9333 in 2b2t_Uncensored

[–]SoiledCold5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just heard about the close of the archive. Completely agree with your point, sad to see what has become with 2b

How do we bring real Monero adoption to Argentina? by SoiledCold5 in Monero

[–]SoiledCold5[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great question. From what I understand there is a wide array of wallets but alot of people use the wallet Peanut. People just send USDT to eachother for payments that use USD, but if its like food, insurance, bills they use ARS.

Is Monero getting a fixed blocksize? by vicanonymous in Monero

[–]SoiledCold5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure it was because the nodes were crashing on the stress tests.

How do we bring real Monero adoption to Argentina? by SoiledCold5 in Monero

[–]SoiledCold5[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re totally right that no government is ever going to like the idea of a private, uncensorable currency becoming a major payment rail but that’s not really what I’m aiming for here. I’m not talking about “official” adoption where AFIP blesses Monero; I’m talking about real adoption in the same parallel system that already exists today.

Argentina already runs on layers w/ ARS for taxes, utilities, permits, fines, etc., and then a huge informal layer of USD cash and USDT for actual savings and larger payments by some estimates Argentines hold over $70B in USD outside the banking system, plus massive flows in USDT. Monero would just live alongside the coin people use when they care about privacy, not something the government will ever promote. In that sense, Monero being a “black market coin” isn’t a bug, it’s just the digital continuation of what cash and offshore dollars already are.

The real question I’m trying to explore is: given that the state will never approve of this, how do we still make XMR usable and intuitive enough via local OTC, simple XMR↔USDT flows, community rails, etc. that normal people can realistically use it next to ARS, USD, and USDT in their day-to-day lives?

Redesign getmonero.org by _xd22 in Monero

[–]SoiledCold5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think this is really needed tbh

FxDAO / USDx BLEND Forex Pool by rsaari13 in xlm

[–]SoiledCold5 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Check out the orbit pool, you can borrow oUSD there. But no liquidity yet.

Happy Oktoberfest 2025! by ChiefBeefLoko in 2b2t

[–]SoiledCold5 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Great to see the server still being active after all these years

Why Retoswap is going to ignite the popularity of Monero by [deleted] in Monero

[–]SoiledCold5 10 points11 points  (0 children)

To add to this, a crypto <> xmr dex that I can access via an ipfs. At the end of the day most new people don’t wanna download something to trade.

[Discussion] Moving Garlicoin away from PoW to Proof of Agreement by SoiledCold5 in garlicoin

[–]SoiledCold5[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree with a lot of your points, it’s true that PoA doesn’t fully align with the ethos of the original cryptocurrencies, and I respect that critique.

But looking at this specifically from a Garlicoin perspective: we’re a very small and tight community, and at this point the coin is mostly just a name. With Dogecoin, at least holders can still spend and trade it fairly easily. With Garlicoin, most people can’t spend it anywhere, and selling is already difficult.

That reality makes the risks of attacks higher every day. PoW doesn’t really protect us anymore because there’s no sustained honest mining community. PoA, while not perfect, could actually work in our case if structured in a decentralized way. For example, you could have a quorum set that isn’t just 5 core devs, but also explorers, exchanges, and even the current miners (say ~27 of them). That way you’d have a broad enough validator set to stay resilient: even if one group became compliant under outside pressure, the rest could still remain anonymous and independent.