To be fair I don’t think anyone here is the target audience. The target is the 99% of the world who aren’t onboarded to crypto. Fluffy said it best when he described Tari as a “Trojan Horse”. https://youtu.be/FSe8IXJO6nI https://youtu.be/zmeSSnppixY

We need something to get people into the space and we need it to be private by default.

I think there will be a lot of push back from hardcore Monero users who want absolute privacy and offering anything else is unacceptable.

I’d counter to say that maybe that works for you but it clearly doesn’t work for everyone. We’re getting maximum privacy at the cost of user experience and it’s causing adoption to faulter.

We all agree that we’re not seeing the wave of adoption we’d expect with such an important project. One reason for that may be the sacrifices we’ve made in the name of maximizing privacy.

Tari is a way to have both, maximum privacy and some compromises that will increase onboarding. All while increasing the XMR hash rate through merge-mining.

If anyone wants to help me out you can use my referral link: https://airdrop.tari.com?referralCode=2EU6QNZ0Pi

Isn’t the jurisdiction of the ban is only in the US?

He did a great job summarizing the ideas and reasoning behind FCMPs. The Monero community is really lucky to have someone with his talent contributing.

Donate if you can! Full-chain membership proofs sound like they’re worth it!

Here’s a little more of an in-depth look from Luke Parker: https://www.youtube.com/live/rwA5L1LwSUs?feature=shared

I know there’s a resistance to centralized exchanges but I can’t see this as anything but bad for people’s access to Monero.

Kraken has always been reputable and delisting from here means millions of people are losing an easy to use on-ramp for Monero.

It reminds me of sanctions in Russia. Sanctions don’t totally restrict access to western goods like Levi’s. They force customers to buy through a middle man who takes a cut. This increases the cost and effort to buy which results in less people buying and using whatever good.

There won’t be a Tari pre-mine

The code trevador used was adapted from Monero’s PoW code.

Monero also gets a lot of use on Tor sites. Some people who like private money also are drawn to other private spaces online. So helping the Tor network beat the DDoS attacks it’s been under is good for Monero.

Both are somewhat tangentially related to Monero.