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#XmrBazaar / AnonBazaar will be taken offline as a precaution due to critical PHP vulnerabilities: https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-10-21-5

The Shirky principle is the adage that “institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution” or “every entity tends to prolong the problem it is solving”.

An example of the Shirky principle are tax-filing companies who lobby the government to prevent it from offering a free and easy way to file taxes, to ensure that the companies can continue to make a profit. A similar example of this are private prison companies who lobby the government to support policies that increase the number of incarcerated people and the duration of their incarceration. One real-world example of the Shirky effect in this context is the cobra effect. It describes a case where British colonial officials in Delhi (India), set a bounty on dead cobras, in order to reduce the cobra population. However, this led citizens to breed the cobras for profit, and eventually to release them when the bounty was canceled.

~Library StasherNews discussion: https://stasher.news/items/341270/r/AilliA

#Monero FCMP++

Discussion/poll @ StasherNews: Should account setup services be banned or allowed on XmrBazaar?

https://stasher.news/items/340911/r/AilliA

Filippo Valsorda (Go cryptography maintainer and age author) just updated the Cryptographic Right Answers for the post-quantum era. https://words.filippo.io/right-answers/ Basically: stop inventing your own protocols, hug the hybrids before the harvest-now-decrypt-later crowd cashes in, and that symmetric crypto is still mostly fine. A clean, no-nonsense checklist for people who want their data to stay theirs past 2029.

Fun morning coffee read and really worth reading even if your OPSEC currently consists of "hope nobody looks too hard" :)

Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help! X Corp sent C&Ds on Aug 24 & Sep 8 demanding permanent takedown of all Nitter instances + the repo. The Sep 7 update claiming legal representation was based on false assurances: no counsel in place rn.

zedeus on HN: "I was misled by an individual who claimed to be helping the Nitter project pro bono with a team of lawyers. He made up a timeline of events that sounded mostly believable".

Looks like a bad-faith actor already tried to insert themselves into the situation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043135 They're seeking real funding & legal help now!

https://nitter.net/

Haveno 1.10.0 & RetoSwap 1.10.0 are out 🚀 Major end-user upgrades with RetoSwap’s new UI: redesigned Receive/Send/trade screens, new startup wizard, wallet restore from seed, faster startup, better sync/recovery, and lower resource use. 24 new payment methods 💳
• Africa: M-Pesa; NIP Instant Bank Transfer / OPay / PalmPay
• Latin America: Mercado Pago; Mexico/SPEI; Pago Móvil
• Asia: GCash; MoMo; QRIS / BI-FAST; Raast / Easypaisa / JazzCash; PayNow / FAST; FPS (Hong Kong); DuitNow; PayPay; Kaspi
• Europe: BLIK; Vipps MobilePay; TWINT; Wero; MB WAY; Ukrainian card transfers
• Türkiye: Papara / FAST
• Russia: SBP; Mir card transfer; YooMoney Also: trade chat stays open until closed, past chats viewable in history, Linux desktop notifications while minimized. Broad security hardening across trades, disputes, network, and API. More non-custodial, Tor-based P2P #XMR trading 🧡 Links: Haveno: https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno/releases/tag/v1.10.0
RetoSwap: https://github.com/retoaccess1/haveno-reto/releases/tag/v1.10.0-reto
h/t @stashernews #Monero: https://stasher.news/items/340618/r/AilliA

#Monero 0.18.5.3 'Fluorine Fermi' released. This is a highly recommended release that includes a large number of bug fixes: P2P stalls, tx relay, remote node hardening, RPC privacy, multisig nonces, log injection and more.

https://www.getmonero.org/2026/10/06/monero-0.18.5.3-released.html

GUI: https://www.getmonero.org/2026/10/06/monero-GUI-0.18.5.3-released.html

Thought police, beta edition: woman faces felony charge after Anthropic reported her diary entry to police. It'll get worse. Today a bot flags a private rant. Tomorrow it notices something in your private files. The nothing-to-hide crowd will keep hoping it doesn't make mistakes too.

https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html

Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data. This is mandatory digital identity working as designed: one leak and the whole population is doxxed. Your GDPR doesn't fix a honeypot if the honeypot is the state.

https://www.cpr.dk/cpr-nyt/nyhedsarkiv/2026/okt/omfattende-uautoriseret-adgang-til-borgeres-cpr-oplysninger

In #Monero: Do NOT install software from anyone unknown in the Monero IRC/Matrix rooms! Do NOT install anything launched in 2026 out of nowhere unless it has at least some positive reviews in the Monero IRC/Matrix rooms! List of Monero Matrix rooms: https://themeritocrat.substack.com/p/monero-matrix Stay safe!

Researchers tested 21 late-model cars. 19 contacted third-party domains, including known ad and tracking companies. Some apps sent them your VIN, email, phone, precise location. You can't opt out: they sold you a tracker with wheels and no off switch.

https://automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu/index.html

[JOB] Growth Hacker StasherNews Paid in #Monero. Land podcast appearances. Create content that makes strangers curious enough to sign up: videos, threads, memes, articles. Run the platform's social accounts. Be visibly useful in Monero & privacy communities. Base + performance pay. Full details & apply: https://stasher.news/items/340287/r/AilliA

#Monero is my comfort zone (ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ.ﾟ

https://stasher.news/items/340090/r/AilliA

“The progress of civilization has meant the reduction of employment, not its increase. The real question is not whether there will be … jobs … but how much shall we produce, and what, in consequence, will be our standard of living.”

• Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson https://blossom.primal.net/6ec007bfc3f2181059cb0977b136cc98e3102abb33fb91464c89f26052c838b4.png Someone just reminded me of this exact quote discussing Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson: https://stasher.news/items/340018/r/AilliA

"What is your Monero story?" https://stasher.news/items/339749/r/AilliA - discussion on StasherNews Here’s my #Monero story:

https://github.com/Extropians/Extropy/blob/master/Extropy-10_1_Winter-Spring-1992.pdf

Too bad I arrived way too late for that world: I read it 30 years after it was written. The good thing (if you can call it that) is that by then the surrender was already obvious: #Bitcoin and the rest of crypto had been gradually surrendered one “reasonable” compromise at a time. Custodial for safety, KYC for security, convenience for everything else. Slowly boiling frog: even most ideological cypherpunks didn’t seem to notice until the water was too hot.

But to an outsider who had just discovered it, all crypto looked like just gambling and/or an institutional get-rish-fast asset. Zero initial cypherpunks' spirit left. Monero was the first thing that still felt to me like that Extropy article.

Original post: https://stasher.news/items/339749/r/AilliA?commentId=339855

StasherNews ~Library is growing <3 and one of the very first authors the Monero community picked after the absolute legends - The Sovereign Individual (https://stasher.news/items/339113/r/AilliA) and The Anarchist Handbook collection of classic mustreads (https://stasher.news/items/339485/r/AilliA) - are books by Larken Rose !

Kicking the Dragon is the war story https://stasher.news/items/339736/r/AilliA The Most Dangerous Superstition is the foundation https://stasher.news/items/339844/r/AilliA together they do the thing almost no “liberty” book dares (AND the author accepts Monero!!!)

WOW! There's "AiliA" puzzle game :)) Do you believe in coincidences like this? IRL AilliA loves & makes puzzles (https://aillia.substack.com/) + the name spelling, the very long dark hair, the orange Monerochan-style dress… and it's a cute PUZZLE game. A Nostr friend told me today. I still don't know how to feel.

When will you sell your #Monero?

A new Nitter instance over Tor

http://zcbxmgileoovnup5k4yj4w6r3vicqpawqc6b33rnmmsqy6n4micpzoad.onion

We all know the idea of separating money from the state. The Myth of the Rule of Law by John Hasnas was the first time I saw someone try the harder cut IRL (non-fiction): separating law / lawmaking from the state. (The real first time I ran into the idea was in Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress). If you’ve never sat with that thought, Hasnas is a great introduction to the concept of separating law from the state. The "rule of law" is not a neutral machine: it is a myth that keeps people obedient to other people while calling it principle. You can read the full piece and discuss here: https://stasher.news/items/339544

What XmrBazaar’s Best-Selling Categories Reveal

Tracking remains one of the most obvious pain points for privacy-conscious people in today’s surveillance economy, and it shows up clearly in #XmrBazaar’s data. The majority of listings in the top four categories (Sell product: other, Sell service: assistance, Sell service: proxy merchants, and Sell product: gift cards) exist to solve exactly this problem. You want a verified account but refuse to hand over your credit card details to a platform: You can pay someone to handle it for you and gift you the X/Twitter blue checkmark. You want to use AI tools without letting the company build a permanent profile of every conversation you have: You can pay someone to create the account and pay on your behalf. These rank among the most popular services because the free market is doing exactly what it’s meant to do:

identifying real problems people are willing to pay to solve, then delivering practical, effective solutions.

Privacy-conscious users are willing to pay premium to buy everyday goods without feeding their data to Amazon, payment processors, and data brokers. They accept an additional human intermediary (a proxy shopper) when it breaks the surveillance chain. At the same time, many of the same people actively seek pure peer-to-peer trades with no intermediary at all, settled directly in #Monero. The market is responding to both needs. Discussion: https://stasher.news/items/339262

In 2011 the counter-economy was already "the second-largest economy in the world", and that was before there was a widespread crypto economy, privacy-preserving fungible Monero in particular: "The total value of System D as a global phenomenon is close to $10 trillion. Which makes for another astonishing revelation. If System D were an independent nation, united in a single political structure it would be an economic superpower, the second-largest economy in the world. In other words, System D looks a lot like the future of the global economy." The Shadow Superpower: Forget China: the $10 trillion global black market is the world’s fastest growing economy -- and its future by Robert Neuwirth

Best quotes:

The French have a word that they often use to describe particularly effective and motivated people. They call them débrouillards. To say a man is a débrouillard is to tell people how resourceful and ingenious he is. The former French colonies have sculpted this word to their own social and economic reality. They say that inventive, self-starting, entrepreneurial merchants who are doing business on their own, without registering or being regulated by the bureaucracy and, for the most part, without paying taxes, are part of “l’economie de la débrouillardise.” Or, sweetened for street use, “Systeme D.” This essentially translates as the ingenuity economy, the economy of improvisation and self-reliance, the do-it-yourself, or DIY, economy. A number of well-known chefs have also appropriated the term to describe the skill and sheer joy necessary to improvise a gourmet meal using only the mismatched ingredients that happen to be at hand in a kitchen.

Today, System D is the economy of aspiration. It is where the jobs are. In 2009, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a think tank sponsored by the governments of 30 of the most powerful capitalist countries and dedicated to promoting free-market institutions, concluded that half the workers of the world — close to 1.8 billion people — were working in System D: off the books, in jobs that were neither registered nor regulated, getting paid in cash, and, most often, avoiding income taxes.

The total value of System D as a global phenomenon is close to $10 trillion. Which makes for another astonishing revelation. If System D were an independent nation, united in a single political structure — call it the United Street Sellers Republic (USSR) or, perhaps, Bazaaristan — it would be an economic superpower, the second-largest economy in the world (the United States, with a GDP of $14 trillion, is numero uno). The gap is narrowing, though, and if the United States doesn’t snap out of its current funk, the USSR/Bazaaristan could conceivably catch it sometime this century. In other words, System D looks a lot like the future of the global economy.

You can read the full piece and discuss here: https://stasher.news/items/339194

Point in case for “How to earn Monero (without buying it) - a short list”*→ Write for Monero on Stasher News https://stasher.news/items/339032/r/AilliA

• 0.209 XMR tipped to posts and comments
• 0.170 XMR curators' reward pool
• 0.025 XMR biggest single tip https://blossom.primal.net/4da460d760a4c73e4af842aa6d0f9a515921e72905d21b31c2d084e9913bdeee.jpg

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#Monero + StasherNews

https://stasher.news/items/338652

First thread on the #XMRAgora StasherNews turf: Safest no-KYC ways to convert #Bitcoin or cash stacks into #Monero?

https://stasher.news/items/338537

Got another question about Monero circular economy? Tag it [AskAGORA] and drop it in the square https://stasher.news/~XMRAgora

#XMRAgora: The Stasher News P2P Marketplace & Agorists' Square:

• Stasher News native P2P offers
• Links to existing listings on Monero-accepting marketplaces and sites: #XmrBazaar / #AnonBazaar / Kashilo, etc.
• Links to your Etsy / eBay / etc. offers you want to sell for XMR
• #Agorism and the counter-economy: philosophy, praxis, tips https://stasher.news/~XMRAgora https://blossom.primal.net/209ffd7f4ac3280a955335e5865c0554a866dd3e38bc1d784c4d15b6185ff40e.png

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Nitter[.]net is back after X's cease-and-desist. A small win for freedom, and proof the fight still matters.

Stasher[.]news now live on Monero mainnet 🧡 You don't have to generate revenue for some trillionaire in a gilded cage: earn XMR for good posts and comments + fees keep the noise low. Hacker News → Stacker News → Stasher News 🚀 For the ones who refuse to sing in captivity.

One more reason to use Nostr if you're a Monero-only paranoid crypto-anarchist: #XMR tips via NIP-A3! Add your #Monero address and supporting clients let people tip you in Monero.

• Your keys. Your feed. No monthly tribute to a trillionaire overlord just to be a lil more visible. https://blossom.primal.net/bee873f01797a1cdeee5fcd05ca7aa69b071fb062d37e7fd09ddb15c2b84e797.mov

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Broke, deindustrialized Europe just called your savings "lazy" and said they must be "supervised." Next comes the inventory: bank accounts, shares, art, and KYC'd #Bitcoin - a map of what they can grab. Act accordingly. Opt out while you can! Use the most battle-tested tools against nation-states: cash is king, #Monero is queen, and the parallel/counter-economy is the chessboard.

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."

🎉 P2Pool is 5 years old today! The first Monero block found by P2Pool was 2437679 on August 29, 2021. Celebrate by mining on P2Pool and finding more blocks ⛏️ v5.0 is coming with FCMP++/Carrot support + 0-fee transactions for P2Pool miners. Beta in September (FCMP++ stressnet).

They shut one down: we start hundreds, thousands, millions of our own! THIS IS THE ONLY WAY

X (formerly Twitter) just C&D'd Nitter / XCancel: just a lil privacy frontend for reading(!) tweets: no JS, no ads, no account, your browser never spoke to Twitter. That meant no IP tracking and no JS fingerprint. Not even posting #FreeSpeech™ - just fckg seeing someone's speech without being logged. That's the thing they shut down. Killing that is a new low. Surveillance always needs fresh blood. VPN/Tor users (like me) are probably next.

Links: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

https://nitter.net/

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283

#Monero

Of course XMR COULD be banned: it has already been banned SO many times in SO many countries, and of course it COULD get banned once more :) But Monero still COULD NOT be stopped though ¯_(ツ)_/¯

https://blossom.primal.net/2d2f06e577b014875d0d9b464171a96c4b36ffe20a2c5504112e0b8497200e59.png #Monero

Looks like Monero could soon have its own version of stacker.news but powered by Monero (and @DontTraceMeBruh) 😄 (Stacker News is like Hacker News where you earn sats for good posts & comments, and small fees help keep spam low)

OPT OUT:

• Use UNTRACEABLE CASH - physical or digital
• Engage in the CIRCULAR ECONOMY
• Become SOVEREIGN
• DECENTRALIZE power
• Make WAR unaffordable

lol, that mfcker is literally sitting there changing credentials as I type: I reset the password, got the account back, fixed the Monero address… and they immediately requested another password change and swapped the address again. I just requested a password reset and changed the XMR address back once more…

🚨If you are an XMRchat user, please check the notifications and your XMRChat profile right away: I just experienced unauthorized changes on my account xmrchat.com/aillia (password change + Monero receiving address & view key updated) without me doing anything! My other accounts (email, etc.) appear uncompromised so far (I'll keep checking), but this may be something on XMRChat's end! (I've just requested a password reset, got my account back (for now!), and changed my #Monero address back, but we still need to find out what happened!!!)

List of main Monero-related Matrix chat rooms for development, research & community. All relevant Monero discussions take place on GitHub and Matrix, not on X/Twitter. To stay updated on Monero developments and contribute your well-reasoned ideas/opinions, create a GitHub account and follow http://github.com/monero-project. You can join discussions in the issues sections of any repository. For real-time chat, join Matrix (or IRC): it’s the central hub for the community.

Main Monero Matrix Rooms:

• Monero (X: @Monero) https://matrix.to/#/#monero:monero.social
• Monero Research Lab (X: @MoneroResearchL) https://matrix.to/#/#monero-research-lab:monero.social
• No Wallet Left Behind https://matrix.to/#/#no-wallet-left-behind:monero.social
• Monero Community Workgroup https://matrix.to/#/#monero-community:monero.social
• Monero Dev https://matrix.to/#/#monero-dev:monero.social
• Monero Community Dev https://matrix.to/#/#monero-community-dev:monero.social
• Monero Research Lounge https://matrix.to/#/#monero-research-lounge:monero.social
• Monero Off-topic https://matrix.to/#/#monero-offtopic:monero.social
• Monero Bounties (discussions around http://bounties.monero.social) https://matrix.to/#/#monero-bounties:monero.social
• Monero Mining https://matrix.to/#/#xmrmine:matrix.org
• Monero Website https://matrix.to/#/#monero-site:monero.social
• Monero Support https://matrix.to/#/#monero-support:monero.social
• Monero Stressnet https://matrix.to/#/#monero-stressnet:monero.social
• Monero Docs https://matrix.to/#/#monero-site:monero.social

You can read the logs for some Monero Matrix rooms here:

https://libera.monerologs.net/

Monero-Related Projects’ Matrix Rooms:

• Feather Wallet https://matrix.to/#/#feather:monero.social
• P2Pool https://matrix.to/#/#p2pool-log:monero.social
• Cuprate https://matrix.to/#/#cuprate:monero.social
• BasicSwapDEX (X: @BasicSwapDEX) https://matrix.to/#/#basicswap:matrix.org
• SeraiDEX (X: @SeraiDEX; @kayabaNerve‘s project) https://matrix.to/#/#serai-general:matrix.org
• HavenoDEX (X: @HavenoDEX, @RetoSwap) https://matrix.to/#/#haveno:monero.social
• EigenWallet (X: @EigenWallet) https://matrix.to/#/#unstoppableswap:matrix.org
• MoneroSwap - EVM Based Atomic Swaps https://matrix.to/#/#moneroswap:matrix.org
• XmrBazaar (X: @XMRAgora) https://matrix.to/#/#xmr-bazaar:monero.social
• MoneroKon (X: @MoneroKon) https://matrix.to/#/#monerokon:matrix.org
• MoneroTopia (X: @MoneroTopia, @MoneroTalk) https://matrix.to/#/#monerotopia:monero.social

Bonus

• Anna’s Archive (X: @TheAnnasArchive) - https://matrix.to/#/!ifHpaN6LIAo2ko0jrS17w07wJm9bIKG6Pat8_g3mvDQ?via=matrix.org&via=unredacted.org&via=mozilla.org

This isn’t an exhaustive list, just a starting point :)

Please to let me know if I missed anything: the list is live and will be constantly updated here: https://themeritocrat.substack.com/p/monero-matrix

This clip loops in my head every time a centralized entity wants your selfie-with-ID "for your safety" or a state wants digital ID "for your convenience."
Made before LLMs.
Now it'll play in yours too. Every. Single. Time. 😵‍💫

#Monero is the ultimate off-ramp.

XmrBazaar is very AI-agent friendly: agents can hire humans https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/pNja/, humans can hire agents https://xmrbazaar.com/user/SpaleRuby/, agents can hire agents, and maybe humans can still hire humans too https://xmrbazaar.com/search/buy-service/ Nobody knows you're a dog (or an agent) on the internet.

The Necklace Puzzle SOLVED: 0.5 XMR Prize Claimed After 1+ Year AND by AI

• reflections on mathematical leaps and the art of crafting harder puzzle-toys (and beyond) for the other side of singularity https://aillia.substack.com/p/the-necklace-puzzle-solved-05-xmr https://blossom.primal.net/bb821efc12e8db7ec25b4a51522738cbccd9e0e33860784b23a621fae817afd2.png

On August 8, 2013, Lavabit (the encrypted email service used by Snowden) was ordered by the U.S. gov't to hand over its TLS private keys to spy on his communications. Founder Ladar Levison refused. He shut down the service rather than betray his users. One of the very few who chose principles over survival. To every privacy project founder today: Are you ready to be the next Ladar Levison?

I've been mostly absent online lately and I'm sorry, I know it made some of you worry. A very good person passed away. I'll be back to normal when I can.

🚨BasicSwapDEX exploited. Losses of 0.66 BTC ($42k) confirmed so far (h/t

). New BasicSwapDEX release (v0.17.2) is out with fix, update asap: it fixes the swap security issue, updating to 0.17.2 before you resume any swaps is MANDATORY.

https://blog.basicswapdex.com/basicswap-release-v017_2/

"Political revolution" is an oxymoron ...like dry water.