Now that Bandcamp has had huge layoffs, what about an opensource, Fediverse-friendly replacement? What can a FOSS product bring to the community and do better than Bandcamp?

Discoverability?
Broader selection of payments platforms? Direct transfer to avoid processors? (I'm ignorant about the processing system, plus international considerations)
Ease of spinning up (SaaS?)
Content deliverability (on the fly transcode from sourced FLAC or WAVs? Rich video/multi track audio?)

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[–] iopq 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just looked up Monerun

Monero is not doing "printing currency". Some exchanges that promise to pay you monero may not hold it. That's the same what your bank does. The bank seldom has enough dollar bills to pay all of its depositors money.

But again, this is between an exchange and its customers. You can gasp use another exchange and withdraw your money immediately after using it

[–] ttmrichter 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Monero is not doing “printing currency”.

And you know this because...?

Right. You don't. Because Monero is obstinately opaque in its operations. You're taking it on faith (or, rather, you're trying to make sure you're not the bottom of the pyramid when everything goes to Hell).

[–] iopq 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not how that works, you prove your claim that monero has coins created in excess of what the protocol allowed. You can't just make shit up and expect me to debunk it

[–] ttmrichter 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The system is set up so it cannot be proved until it's too late. Like a hi-tech Madoff scheme. It has zero transparency. None.

In the absence of transparency, the only safe and sane assumption is "a scam is in operation".

[–] iopq 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is actually not true, because if you received a transaction that is "printed" money due to some bug, it would be provable. This has not happened

[–] ttmrichter 1 points 1 year ago

Nostr is thataway, Sparky. Go talk to your cryptobros.