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    4 months ago

    I speak Arabic and the saying you’re looking for is أنا احب أبوس الحمير which roughly translates to "I love eating candy“ although it’s not directly possible to translate as Arabic is a very metaphorical language.

    The reason why the man was emphasizing his love for candy is, simply put, biological. Through evolution, our brains developed strong reward pathways—primarily involving dopamine release—in response to sugar, as it was a high-energy, survival-critical food source for our ancestors, making its consumption biologically pleasurable and motivating.






  • Funny that you bring that up. Most of Africa and West Asia got colonized when Victorian England was at its prudest point. They "civilized“ the “savages” and taught them their Victorian moral values. This has a lasting influence until today. While you consider yourself civilized and educated and those others are the backwards ideas, in reality while your ancestors were living off their wealth they had the capacity to think about luxury like human rights (I’m sorry, it shouldn’t be a luxury, but it is), while the colonized were busy trying to survive.






  • Solana is awesome in terms of tech, it does everything that ethereum can do but faster and cheaper. The problem is that the foundation has unlimited voting power and it’s unclear if that’s ever gonna change. So the protocol is decentralized but the economics are only decentralized if the foundation keeps listening to the community.

    IMO the use cases are there, I can send Solana instantly and at ridiculously low fees around the globe. Let’s say I wanna wire 10k USD to Europe from anywhere else, if I go through my bank it’s insanely expensive and will take days if not weeks.

    Another use case is that as long as I hold native token, they’re mine. If Trump declared me a political enemy and freezes my assets, well, he can’t freeze my XMR or SOL, so that’s another use case, protecting yourself against malicious governments.

    Finally, as for XMR the use case is private internet money. With cash transactions becoming rarer this is super important.

    So I think decentralization is the use case. But I’m worried that it’s never gonna happen because corpos are gonna lobby promising projects like Solana and XMR is gonna get abandoned


  • Yeah they all have depegged at some point I guess and Tether offloads the risk of the shitty Chinese bonds or whatever they’re investing in on you as a token holder.

    Circle is SEC regulated which makes USDC a bit more trustworthy but if we have learnt anything from the banking crisis then that this is no guarantee. Plus they depegged to like 0.87 once I think.

    My biggest issue with stables is actually that they all have asset freezing mechanisms built into their smart contracts which goes completely against the idea of decentralization. Not to mention that they’re a privacy nightmare as well.

    I totally agree with you that they’re not a long term solution but they can be useful if you just use them to send / receive money vs actually keeping them in your wallet. In a perfect world we’d be all using Monero at Solana speed & cost.