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

Meh not sure it’s even pro or contra. It’s just happening and it’s gonna get better at what it’s doing. I find the whole 10x debate a bit ridiculous because 10x of what exactly? How are you even measuring the 1x in order to determine what would be 10x of that?

That being said, I’ve seen some crazy things, like an entire backend + frontend + dashboards + data warehouse with lots of pipelines + devops being run by a single dev at scale at one of our clients. With AWS or Cloudflare and enough AI budget such things are actually possible. But then you’re looking at a bill of $3-5k / month spent on AI.

Personally I like it for doing stupid repetitive refactoring or feature implementations. Say, I wanna add a new API endpoint so I tell it implement this new endpoint and stand up a service layer based on what all existing endpoints are doing, or I wanna migrate from one testing framework to another. It’s mostly gonna 1 shot it and run all the checks automatically until they pass. Or if I need to dive into the database I can let an agent sift through all the tables and get me a report while I go and make a coffee or work on something else.

I think it can be really useful if you know what you’re doing and it can make your life much easier if you learn where it can help you and where not, and that’s it. It’s just a tool that may or may not help you being more productive.

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.

Yeah dude convert that shit as soon as you get it, don’t hold it. I’m not a fan but for receiving salary or processing payments in USD it does the job

Stablecoins already solve that. Not very trustworthy because they could in theory do the same but as a temporary solution should work.

Tbh I’m some brown dude living in Germany and I think it’s currently still fine even though there’s some Mordor kinda thing waking up all over Germany not just he east, so this might be totally different in a couple years and that’s honestly scary.

If you’re a local living on a day to day basis together with Nazis that’s rough, no matter if you’re brown or LGBTQ or just alternative looking. But as a tourist just visiting the Bauhaus Museum I doubt you’ll have any issues. I’ve been to places like Dresden and while I did see an AFD rally I didn’t have any issues whatsoever otherwise.

Only angle they can try is blame Hamas for it and hope that people are dumb enough to buy it. I think unfortunately a lot of people are dumb enough.

Yeah I don’t want to badmouth her but I’m also really wondering if she was married to all those dudes? Like is it allowed to have multiple husbands at the same time? There was this one video where she had sex with both of her alleged husbands at the same time and it somehow leaked to the internet

That’s wild because Mia Khalifa is a Christian

Yeah so the other day here on Lemmy I was arguing that they’re trying to oust the Spanish left-leaning government over using Huawei antennas but no one is gonna get more than a few headlines for using fucking Palantir.

Pretty sure the Spanish government is corrupt as fuck and I wouldn’t be surprised if the Huawei deal was shady af, but why does the usage of Palantir and Pegasus, etc. not have any consequences at all? This is literally the prequel to fascist total observation and everybody just rolls along with it because it’s American big tech.

Fuck off and go back to Reddit or wherever you came from

What if I deserve due process? Thank you AI slop

Hm but that’s an interesting point. In Nazi Germany people’s excuse was that they didn’t know and if they knew they were against it but because of the Nazi dictatorship they didn’t say anything.

In 2025 Germany the cost of opposing Staatsräson is infinitely lower, it’s possible to speak out and it’s possible to protest even though German police is notorious for beating and locking up anti-Genocide protestors. Yet, the German media and politicians in 2025 are still ironclad in their support. If really the majority of Germans are against this and they are against colonialism, apartheid and genocide, then where are they?

They all know and they don’t have to fear for their lives, yet they are mostly apathetic. Following Occam’s razor the simplest explanation is that they honestly just don’t care.

Genocide

This has nothing do with a right wing coalition or Netanyahu alone. The majority of Jewish Israelis want the genocide, have been part of the IDF at some point or support what the IDF does, and they want Zionism.

But Zionism still does not equate Judaism so the premise that Jews are responsible for what the Zionist settlers do is malicious and just tries to frame everyone who is against genocide, apartheid and settler colonialism as antisemite.

The Arab states don’t give a fuck about Palestinians. The Palestinian authority doesn’t give a fuck about Palestinians. What’s the point of this?

I have the freedom to exactly follow the rules of the French government or in this case some random regional government, got it.

You seem more upset with a fictional possibility of an antisemitic symbol than with the actual genocide that’s currently being perpetrated by the Zionists

I think it’s mostly a time issue. Used to be much easier but with recession, inflation, housing crisis, constant layoffs at least I am much busier than I was e.g. 10 years ago.

The little time I have for going to the gym I kinda don’t feel like talking to people I’ll probably never see again. Because I’m also in one of those subscription things where you actually don’t have to be member of a specific gym anymore, you can just go anywhere they partner with. And I think lots of people are doing that nowadays, plus with all the layoffs people move around even more than they used to.

I think phones do play a role but they aren’t the only thing that keeps us from socializing.

It also loves asserting as any in typescript, thanks ChatGPT that really helped