Hey Monerist, hey sovereign individual, how will you defend your #privacy and personal autonomy when governments implement online KYC for internet connections, forcing internet service providers to use a personal digital identifier?
How will you run your #Monero node?
You don't need a fishing rod to catch fish when you control the river's flow.
Are you thinking about this?
Because it will happen in just a few years.
You can run a Monero node behind Tor or i2p. With Tor you can use Snowflake or obfs4 bridges to bypass censorship. You can allow inbound connections via an onion or b32.i2p address as well to serve other nodes and contribute to the network. This very well may be where the future leads.
When you connect to the internet using a digital identifier, they can block your connection to Tor.
Because your first access to the internet will be through your ISP, which has control and the laws hanging over its head.
Do you understand the magnitude of the problem?
THERE WILL BE NO ESCAPE
Well then we must use something like #reticulum. Mesh Networks from the people for the people. We would need not just a parallel economy but a parallel internet aswell.
That presents a huge technical challenge for scalability.
Let's see.
Decentralized mesh networks connect devices directly in a resilient "web" without relying solely on traditional internet providers.
This opens the door for privacy-focused hardware like MoneroNodo to operate even where the internet is unreliable or censored.
For Monero mining & users, a global mesh network can enable secure, censorship-resistant communication. Miners get better connectivity, and users can transact XMR off-grid via peer-to-peer hops, increasing privacy and decentralization. Challenges include scalability & protocol standardization.
To make this work, devices & OSes (like GrapheneOS) must adopt universal mesh protocols.
The goal: a decentralized private network that supports mining, transactions & messaging, reducing reliance on centralized infrastructure and enhancing user sovereignty worldwide.
Yeah I addressed that counterargument preemptively by mentioning Snowflake and obfs4 proxies. These are ran by any user (anybody with a browser can run snowflake proxies) and are nearly impossible to censor without outright bans of all international internet traffic.
I agree we ought to have a more decentralized means of transmitting information than the internet, but Monero is still very resiliant even under draconian internet censorship thanks to Tor and i2p.
Also these posts can get into FUD territory leading to despair and ultimately inaction which is inarguably worse than taking action to improve OPSEC. Privacy and OPSEC is a cat and mouse game versus the adversary. It does us no good to give up hope in response to a hypothetical future when we have the tools now, and can adapt to each change as they arise.
Is it wrong to present a hypothesis supported by verifiable data?
Is it better to bury our heads in the sand out of fear, or is it better to be prepared?
FUD is a weak word, only effective when you don't know the context. It's a term used to manipulate ignorance.
Every time I think of this stuff I wonder if there's a tipping point with the average man? Have they found a way to remove the desire to be free from a human?
I pray that when they inevitably try to push the end of privacy that people will rebell and destroy them. But the average person seems to like being a slave as long as tiktok keeps working.
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