Fellow Monerites, are we lost?
summary
Argues Monero is a digital hill-tribe — a too small to fail strategy modeled on Zomia (100–130 million people across an area the size of Europe) that makes enforcement costlier than revenue; proposes practical interoperability rather than isolation, using tools like Trokador and cashu/eCash with Lightning and simple Python mints to swap Monero<>sats or fiat, and builds on-chain minting/melting for Monero so payments are instant, private, peer-to-peer, and resilient even when exchanges delist.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:09Crypto conscience crisis
- 3:40Zomia and statelessness
- 9:04Monero as hill tribe
- 11:17Bitcoin maximalism critique
- 13:04Monero’s number go up failure
- 15:39Avoiding state approval
- 17:50Empowering individuals
- 20:21Monero as crypto condom
- 21:49Crypto ecosystem integration
- 23:59eCash and Lightning integration
- 28:19Expanding vision small
- 29:23Q&A
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