Riccardo Spagni
@fluffypony
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Breather, Thought Follower, Cereal Intrepreneur. Director of Dull Sculleries at the Institute for Lemonade Studies. I do other stuff too. 🖖🏻
Plettenberg Bay, South Africa
Joined October 2011
LEAKED: an internal training video for how Worldcoin and the Orb will be used in the future has been snuck out from Worldcoin HQ. Truly a wonderful future in store!
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@DarkDotFail There are privacy-focused cryptocurrencies that live in harmony with Monero. They’re at Monerokon giving talks, they engage in good faith, and they’re sometimes even earlier adopters of technology that goes into Monero, which provides useful implementation data. Examples include
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*matter Turns out I should have more coffee before posting on X
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Not only does privacy matters, but there’s only one privacy coin that is actively used. There is no second best.
ShopinBit Payment Method Stats – September 2025 #Monero: 68.39% #Bitcoin: 28.85% Lightning : 0.19% #USDT (TRC20): 0.37% Fiat: 2.20% Another Monero-dominant month: XMR climbs even higher than in August and remains the undisputed leader of Autumn 2025. 3 things are clear: →
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I just learned that @IntelTechniques, Michael Bazzell’s privacy magazine and literally the leading publication on practical personal privacy techniques, accepts BTC or XMR for each issue🤩 If you’re somehow not aware, Michael Bazzell is the author of the incredible, frequently
@MonetaProPopulo That is not a requirement ... We accept BTC and XMR. It is advertised on our site, please consider reading through it.
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Strongly recommend @rewind, super cheap way to backup your GitHub.
hello @github why did my account get suspended??? i have been using github for years and have never done anything that goes against the TOS on this platform a lot of very sensitive repos are on my account, and there is no way i can even log in to back them up.
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If you buy an expensive camera, your photos will suck as much as before. If you buy an expensive golf club, you won't start swinging 300-yard bombs overnight. It's not the tools. It's the person using them. Building good software has nothing to do with whether you use Claude
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Finally we understand how Monero works, all this time it's been an enigma wrapped in a black box covered in a cloak of unknowingness.
@tuxpizza Try harder and pay for technical analysis. Monero mix the addresses to make it harder to be found. Still traceable! In zcash world you can join into a world where addresses are blind and anonymous. Not even close. Purely untraceable. FACTS 🥱
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Not a single person has transacted Zcash on Coincards since the price pumped. Kinda weird for a coin that's at all-time highs.
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The lion becomes a victim of crypto theft and asks ZachXBT for help on social media
The lion does not double check his destination wallet address before sending.
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We're excited to announce that CLI v0.18.4.3 'Fluorine Fermi' has been released! 'This is a highly recommended release that enhances protection against spy nodes.'
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Found Luke's anthem
I can’t believe today is the day The Prophecy of Luke Dashjr comes true and Bitcoin comes to an untimely demise. I hope everyone sold and is sitting comfortably in stables. RIP Bitcoin, who knew that Core v30 would be instantly kill you. /s
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After years of good faith endeavors to help Dems understand DeFi, this proposal is a deliberate disregard to those efforts. It’s the worst framework I have ever seen, incoherent, reckless, and oblivious to the basic realities of infrastructure, custody, control, and
A new proposal from Senate Democrats would effectively outlaw DeFi, wallets, and crypto development in the US That’s a non-starter America should champion innovation, not ban it
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I can’t believe today is the day The Prophecy of Luke Dashjr comes true and Bitcoin comes to an untimely demise. I hope everyone sold and is sitting comfortably in stables. RIP Bitcoin, who knew that Core v30 would be instantly kill you. /s
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We are electricians.
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Turns out the greatest startup idea of the last 10 years was a chatbot where you ask a question and it answers with something a guy wrote on Reddit 8 years ago
ChatGPT has hit 800 million weekly active users.
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> they cost 3x more and 6x longer to confirm So we're just making things up now, I see > There's no evidence that inscription/brc-20/stamps/ordinals people will suddenly start using OP_RETURN So then why does Knots not stop the paths that they ARE using, instead of stopping a
Filters don't work! Yes they do, they cost 3x more and 6x longer to confirm Then you're bloating the UTXO set! There's no evidence that inscription/brc-20/stamps/ordinals people will suddenly start using OP_RETURN What's next?
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TIL that Bitcoin and ZCash have the same mining and monetary policy - truly eye-opening for me. No wonder they're saying ZCash is the "next Bitcoin"!
@EliBenSasson @Starknet > Bitcoin-like mining and monetary policy Wow I had no idea Satosh received 20% of every block reward. Makes sense since he started Satoshi Inc to work on Bitcoin, and that’s the only way to fund his company and continue the work Bitcoin started. Zcash really is Bitcoin-like
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I had so much fun doing this podcast with @cbspears - I spoke about the filter issue at length, Bitcoin privacy, the chilling effect that TornadoCash & Samourai prosecution has had on privacy development, & how I think AI will use crypto in the future. https://t.co/ifbIrbP0Jq
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"Filtering OP_RETURN doesn't stop the other five methods. You're not filtering the cheapest, you're not filtering the easiest. Why do it half-assed?" Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony calls out futile filter strategies on @btcszn2
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🎧 Check out the latest episode of BITCOIN SEASON 2: Why Filters Are Playing Into The Fed's Hands w/ Fluffypony’ in partnership with Blockspace Media! "Even if your node connects to 100 nodes that are filtering transactions, all you need to be connected to is one node that is
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