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2024-05-30 22:27:12

Which way will it be?
Every transaction you make, an excuse to invade your privacy and ask intrusive questions?
Or every transaction private by default, and not tied to your identity.
One path leads further into tyranny.
The other towards freedom.
Tyranny, by definition, does not like its subjects to enjoy freedoms beyond the few they are willing to grant them, so it is a good bet that tyranny will fight uncensorable, unstoppable, anonymous and private transactions.
#monero is here to stay - privacy not only is not a crime, it is our birthright.

2024-05-27 16:20:06

Could not find a better way at the moment to do this, so for anyone who wishes to send Monero my way:
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I am adding this note to my public bookmarks.

2024-05-27 16:15:44

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It's been like this for at least a couple of years.
It's really rather occasional (unless you're messaging new contacts all the time) and honestly it has not been a drag to me. It's only slightly annoying, compared to google captcha endless loops on Tor and the usual multiple attempts until it passes using VPNs.

2024-05-27 12:45:47

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Those captchas come up when you use a #VPN and contact new people, or contact people already in your contact list whom you have not contacted for some time.
I am sure it is more complex than that, but this has been my experience.
At least they went with hcaptcha, not google's :)

2024-05-27 12:43:59

Great interview with @npub1qny…95gx as a guest on the Staying Free podcast.
For awhile I was surprised that #monero was not coming up in the conversation (about financial surveillance...), but eventually the topic did come up.
Where I believe the conversation went a bit south is when the assertion was made that Monero is competing with Bitcoin.
This has not been my experience, and it is not how I think about it. And most Monero users I know think the same way.
Sure, if you dig deep enough you will find the Bitcoin Maxi counterpart, the Monero Maxi. The only difference between them is that the Bitcoin Maxi has deeper pockets by now, but their dogmatic adherence to each project and the religious reasons behind that stance are essentially the same, even if for slightly different reasons.
For everyone else (99%+) that is not how it goes, however.
Monero is a tool. Bitcoin is a tool. That is all.
Like every other tool, sometimes tool A is better than tool B for purpose X.
Less abstractly, there can simply be no doubt that when it comes to preserving your privacy and anonymity, transacting with Monero comes with much stronger guarantees than with Bitcoin: onchain is a disaster, Liquid and Lightning it really depends on the situation (generally fine and private enough for small to medium transactions IF the user knows what he's doing AND chooses the right software wallet).
Only a fool or a dogmatic true believer would think anything else.
It is what it is. Maybe one day it will change, but today this is the situation.
Likewise, if you want to hold on and quite possibly increase your stored value, Bitcoin is a better choice and has the track record to show that without any doubt.
It is for that reason that I, like most Monero users I know, keep the stash in #bitcoin BUT spend in #monero or bitcoin lightning.
We optimize for privacy and anonymity, because we understand that is the only way we won't find ourselves deeper in the mass-surveillance shithole that the collective actions of uncritical unthinking masses (who accepted or failed to acknowledge the mass surveillance) have led us to.
(And I have to say, we tried to warn you all. For years. Well, here we are.)
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So it is not either-or, and it not a competition. I don't see any incongruence in believing in #bitcoin for storing my wealth, but prefering to spend it in #monero especially when tools like #bisq #seraidex #basicswapdex exist.
I'm not a worse bitcoiner for using #monero - that nonsense has to stop. And it begins with you, dear reader.
Use the tools. Give space to others to do the same.
With some luck, if enough of us optimize for freedom instead of dogma, we will renormalize financial privacy in our lifetime.

2024-05-27 12:29:16

Bitcoin maxis will rave on about #ecash which has nothing at all to do with Bitcoin per se - the mints that exist today just happen to issue Bitcoin IOUs, but just as easily it could be any other cryptocurrency - while at the same time accepting that the mint could rug them at any time.
But they won't consider #monero
Now don't get me wrong, I think ecash applied to cryptocurrency is a very interesting idea and we have not seen the end of its possibilities yet.
But this discrepancy is troubling. It is not consistent. It is not the product of rational thought.

2024-05-24 00:12:03

Pains me to say, but the global bureaucracy who fancy themselves the owners of our planet have figured something out that most here have not.
They don't care what the tool is. Wasabi, Samourai (Bitcoin), Tornado Cash (Ethereum), Monero.
All banned (Wasabi, Samourai, Tornado Cash) or shadowbanned (Monero).
The why should be obvious. Those are tools to enhance privacy and anonymity, which tilts the balance of power in favor of the individual and away from the gigantic and out of control State bureaucracy.
Do you understand? They don't waste time calling this or that a shitcoin. They just ORGANIZE and get rid of as much as they can, as effectively as they can, and put fear in the minds of others who would dare to defy them.
The pretense of democracy quickly falls when their system of control is threatened.
We should take a page from their playbook, and understand that a tool that gives more financial privacy is a tool that gives more financial privacy. Even if it's on a different chain, or indeed, *is* a different chain.
We're not talking about football clubs here. These are just tools. Tools that help us be more free.
Divided we're easy to conquer. United, we would make them think twice before stepping on our toes.
Not all honeybadgers have the same style and the same preferences.
But recognize there are other honeybadgers in other colonies that care about the same things you do.
And then there are those who would like all the honeybadgers to be defenseless against their surveillance.
#monero #bitcoin #cypherpunk #privacy

2024-05-23 23:51:30

@npub1xnf…lpr5 can the built-in node be run over Tor (via Orbot SOCKS5 proxy)?

2024-05-23 18:56:23

Monero is to money as end-to-end-encryption is to instant messaging.
You wouldn't donate your entire chat history to a company or a government, and yet you do this with your financial life?
#monero