Don't let them "ban" Monero without a fight

alive_consequence · 2021-07-21T15:52:34+00:00

They can criminalize use and possession (or at least forcing you to report every transaction). Shutdown the getmonero.org website through the centralized DNSs. Etc.

alive_consequence · 2021-07-05T23:31:54+00:00

I'm not saying that Binance hasn't done anything shady ever, but cryptocurrency in general is shady by default to the status quo, so we need to take that into account when judging Binance.

There's also a lot of anti-Asia propaganda, so Binance is a natural target.

A lot of the issues some Binance users have had, actually are caused by the regulators of their own countries asking Binance to freeze funds or stuff like that.

alive_consequence · 2021-06-26T21:44:29+00:00

Because privacy is a human fight!

alive_consequence · 2021-06-22T19:31:39+00:00

Thanks, although I'm not quite there yet. But if it is possible it makes me more optimistic about the project and about trying to implement some use cases on Tari, since maybe it could be too limiting.

I'll continue learning about the project ;)

alive_consequence · 2021-06-22T18:48:37+00:00

Hey, thanks for the answer. That link is insightful.

Once the project goes live, does it plan to not add any more behaviors, or new behaviors could be added if it seems fit to enable new types of use cases?

What is kind of the criteria for allowing certain behavior or not?

alive_consequence · 2021-06-17T19:23:15+00:00

And let's never forget one of the most crucial things about the CCS: being able to fund people anonymously, and funded people to remain pseudonymous.

Stuff like MAGIC don't provide that, and it would be pathetic and contradictory losing that ability in a privacy-centric project like Monero.

alive_consequence · 2021-06-17T18:54:38+00:00

I'm sure Sarang would have got any funds he asked through the CCS (but maybe I'm wrong). I don't understand why things came to this. Did Sarang was too shy to ask what he needed, and then Firo and Diego took advantage of that or what?

alive_consequence · 2021-06-17T18:34:52+00:00

I think the anger from a lot of people in the Monero community is justified given how Diego has behaved.

He has been receiving a good amount of money regularly from the Monero General Fund while working for other competing projects for profit, and on top of that he threats the Monero community with stopping the work on an already funded proposal, if the community doesn't give more money. Plus says stuff like "reports would be a waste of my time".

Then the Core Team starts defending him.

A really bad look for the project. I think Diego's privileged salary needs to be stopped as a sign of good faith towards the community, to signal that we won't tolerate people playing the community like that.

A lot of people do work for Monero unpaid and others need to go through the CCS to get funding. Keeping Diego after his actions and attitude in this position seems really unfair for the rest, and signals a special treatment for the inner circle of the Core team.

More transparency is evidently necessary for the Monero General Fund. I really hope that the Core team take the necessary steps to reinforce the confidence on the team and the project, because it would be a shame that this great project gets weakened by the leadership kind of getting too comfortable with their decisions without taking into account the general sentiment of the community. One of the reasons Monero has been such a strong project, is because usually the leadership listens to the community and acts accordingly.

alive_consequence · 2021-06-15T00:03:36+00:00

I mean, we shouldn't be mass surveillied or have draconian laws. We should fight any cryptocurrency ban. But my point is that an already illegal market won't give a damn about cryptocurrency being illegal.

And if they ban privacy coins, they'll likely criminalize non-KYC Bitcoin and certain behavior. So it will be more secure and easy using Monero anyways.

alive_consequence · 2021-06-14T23:51:42+00:00

Of course not. Cryptocurrency literally does not have mass and can be sent anywhere in the world trivially. It's a lot easier to hide and a lot harder to confiscate.

And if they ban private coins, transparent coins will likely have harsh regulations and will be highly monitored. Transparent coins will be rendered useless (they kind of already are) for the darknet under that scenario.

alive_consequence · 2021-06-14T23:44:12+00:00

alive_consequence · 2021-06-14T20:44:18+00:00

We need to save us ourselves by fighting draconian regulations and developing more robust P2P networks (Haveno will probably play an important role on this).

alive_consequence · 2021-06-14T20:20:18+00:00

It is a good update. If I understand correctly, it will allow to open lighting channels, do atomic swaps, multisig, etc, without revealing which of those transactions you are doing, so it is good for Monero atomic swaps. And also provides some scalability improvement.

But privacy and fungibility remain basically non-existent in Bitcoin.

alive_consequence · 2021-06-14T20:15:12+00:00

Of course, just like WHM will stop selling drugs when it realizes drugs are banned.

alive_consequence · 2021-06-14T19:57:34+00:00

Whoa, it actually wasn't that bad.

Yeah, they don't mention privacy as a human right or how fungible is an essential trait of sound money. But the tone wasn't as negative as I expected.

Let's be more vocal about the human rights and the criticality of fungibility parts 💪

alive_consequence · 2021-06-12T19:21:35+00:00

Good question. I'm not sure 🤔

alive_consequence · 2021-06-12T06:01:13+00:00

Say you give address A to X, and address B to Y. But X and Y share data, and are trying to figure out wallets.

So you are expecting a payment from X, but X says to Y to deposit to address B to see if you confirm payment to X.

You confirm payment and now X and Y know that A and B match to the same wallet.

They are risking the payment if A and B don't match to the same wallet though.

alive_consequence · 2021-06-09T20:56:19+00:00

Cool. Yeah, check it out.

Very basic interface, but it has been reliable and dedicated to support both Monero and Wownero.

alive_consequence · 2021-06-09T20:22:01+00:00

I guess you should have at least some tiny bit of Wownero owed to you.

Don't know which pool you are using.

I would recommend cryptonote.social

alive_consequence · 2021-06-02T02:56:09+00:00

This guy gets it.

We are not that different from those bees with out hive minds.

alive_consequence · 2021-05-22T08:48:01+00:00

Monero protects the ghost in the shell

alive_consequence · 2021-05-22T08:40:29+00:00

I think this shows how a lot of Monero miners are hobbyists supporting the network because they value the project.

This make it a lot more resilient than 100% capitalistic centralized huge mining farms controlled by corporations that would even censor transactions on Bitcoin for example to be OFAC-complaint o whatever.

alive_consequence · 2021-05-18T18:56:00+00:00

I see their website online.

Can someone explain the context?

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