That was actually a stale attack.
If you're gonna speak, you see it's gotta go up, right?
And I have a text there, and then X happened
on August 24th, 2019.
Does anyone here know what happened on that day?
0.02 X of our footprint, do you get it?
Anyone?
One once, twice.
On that day, the White House Market was created.
White House Market will become the large start then
in the world, and it was Monero only.
There it is.
You used the operating or working bad.
Yeah, I had to speak with Monero, Monero.
And what they had to suck was that, hey,
but you had to keep Bitcoin pretty.
It's much better, much better.
Oh, see, and they had made it,
and they had made it toward PGD.
PGD was like, you would click your message
and you'd be able to store it in the site.
There's a little mess.
So, well, it's definitely a little mess.
Parallel though, because we think about it,
it's the guy who created the site, he's outlawed.
It's the guy who created the site, he's outlawed.
He's outlawed, he's outlawed, he's outlawed, he's outlawed.
Compare that to, you know, Ron Wilberts.
You get bad offset.
Sure, he blew up, but everyone knows who he is.
It's kind of like comparing Bitcoin to Monero,
where Monero is very subtle, it's in the weeds,
it's not trying to get attention,
whereas Bitcoin, you know, obviously,
it has a lot of attention.
And yeah, I mean, the creator,
he could be in this room right now.
I don't know, maybe two, maybe three.
And, all right, so here are the large,
darkened markets today.
As you can see, mostly Monero only,
there is a Monero slash Bitcoin.
It's still used, Bitcoin's still used,
it's still used to the liquidity, obviously.
Also, multi-sig, multi-sig is just for stabilizations,
because people can use Monero.
Is that kind of, yeah, I do see that
as being part of the reason why Monero
isn't like, pumping as much, for sure.
But like, you have to understand that,
obviously, there's a lot of people here
who hold Monero as an investment.
And I don't think that's really gonna change at all.
My point with that graph was more so that
after the creation of White House Market,
and after the influx of darkened markets
for Monero, transactions just started to go up.
And I do, I think there's a correlation there.
Not saying that all Monero people
are buying drugs on the internet.
I'm saying though, that like,
it has an influence with all of SQL.
Yeah, this person, using Monero,
then, you know, four other people will,
it's like the multiplier, I think it's more,
so I see that playing out.
And what real privacy looks like in a world
that's rapidly forgetting what it means to be free.
Monero has become one of the most misunderstood
and underestimated projects in crypto.
It's been delisted, censored, labeled as dangerous.
And yet, it keeps going.
Quietly, psychological effects of constant surveillance.
It found that people who lack privacy
tend to suffer higher stress, more anxiety,
and lower cognitive function.
Why? Because when every move is watched,
people no longer feel free to be themselves.
Now, consider this.
In 2024, Pew Research has found that
it's the people that the Americans said
they want to do more to protect their personal data online.
Not because they're criminals,
but because people instinctively understand
the value of control, control over their online
and over their own.
That incident is now under threat.
Governments across the globe
are ramping up surveillance.
In the UK, Apple was forced to partially remove
end-to-end encryption.
And in the EU, lawmakers are pushing
for bans on privacy coins,
labeling tools like Monero as threats
instead of protection.
Losing it is, and if that makes you uncomfortable,
it should, because the world is creeping
toward a model where having a privacy
is seen as suspicious,
when in fact it should be seen as standard.
This is the context in which Monero exists.
It's not just a coin, it's not just a network,
it's a response to a world that's becoming
increasingly hostile to the most basic of freedoms.
The right to keep your business your own.
Let's talk about Monero itself
and what sets it apart in a sea of coins
that claim to care about privacy.
Monero doesn't just offer privacy, it enforces it.
Pride falls, this is critical.
Unlike other so-called privacy coins
that make privacy optional,
Monero makes it automatic.