Everyone screams about “privacy” but nobody wants to look under the motherboard. The real jailers live in the firmware — ME, PSP, TrustZone — the silicon gods quietly running the show while people cosplay sovereignty. And then the #Monero crowd shows up, waving ring signatures like holy water, insisting they’ve broken the panopticon. It’s hilarious. You can’t preach freedom on hardware that still owns you.

Monero makes you a ghost on-chain, sure — but you’re still running it on hardware that reports to its own invisible gods. Privacy in software, surveillance in silicon. The whole thing’s a magic trick where the rabbit escapes but the cage remembers. View quoted note →