Devs have to eat and all, but I wonder sometimes if a longer and slower emission curve would have helped here. Monero is mostly emitted at this point.
For a project that means so much to the world and still has much work to do, its a shame how things turned out with MRL.
The emission schedule was changed when the tail emission was added, however that was early on, to your credit. Smooth was the one who proposed it iirc, then it was added shortly after. It was not part of Bitmonero originally, as Smooth, Fluffyponyza, et al did not arrive until ThankfulForToday abandoned the project.
Maybe someone with less gray in the beard can put some dates on that, I'm just going by memory.
MRL work is progressing on Seraphis[1] which will allow for significantly higher ring sizes without increasing the transaction size. A proof of concept is currently in development.
[1] https://www.getmonero.org/2021/12/22/what-is-seraphis.html
There are also some monero whales that could probably stand to contribute to further development even if they don’t do it themselves (like fluffy pony) but unfortunately it looks like they are/he is in the early stages of getting Assanged
people deciding if they want excess holdings of Monero shouldnt base their confidence on a standing committee
Monero communities arrogance and in-grouping has segregated them just like they desired. That technology and user experience is an evolutionary dead end, it can exist and that has enough utility. But in the multichain world the user experience is better and the funding models are better, even gitcoin grants streamline development of projects.
>Tornado cash is good enough tbh
I hold neither of these, but as someone with a significant amount of experience in the field, the facts are clear. "Good enough" is not an objective measurement of the binary quality of fungibility. Monero is fungible.
Is this me saying everyone should go out and buy some Monero, no, it is me saying that when you consider the mechanics of the way these two scantly comparable technologies function, there is one clear winner because only one is fungible.
I don't have a response to the social issues of those that use or perpetuate Monero adoption, just as I don't have a response to the social issues of those that use or perpetuate USD, or any other asset. It's not my business what other people do, and I don't feel associated by virtue of using the same utility.
> That technology [ ... ] is an evolutionary dead end
This will need a source.
The fact that Monero has been growing the minimum ring size over time, as well as refining the decoy selection algorithm, shows that fungibility, in the sense of transaction graph obfuscation, is more of a spectrum.