If you are an activist, journalist or any person susceptible to be persecuted by a three-letter agency, remember:

- Use public wifis (libraries, coffee shops, etc).

- Don't pay with credit card to the places you go, use cash.

- Always use Tor or i2p.

- Use a freshly installed operating system so that there is no fingerprint, Qubes OS and Tails help you in this.

- Be careful with cameras, both outdoor and indoor, for example bank ATMs, inspect the area before.

- Never use your personal email accounts, etc, all accounts you create should use pseudonyms and be created under Tor, in case you can not create them in Tor with a reliable vpn, ultimately from a public wifi.

- Do not always go to the same location, change city.

- If you must make payments use Bitcoin, especially Lightning.

- If you must receive payments, use Bitcoin and then coinjoin.

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What wallets do you use to coinjoin?

Joinmarket and Wasabi with this free coordinator:

https://coinjoin.kruw.io/

Thx!

There is also joinstr but at the moment it is in the testing phase, so I can't recommend it for production, but it is very promising.

joinstr - noted.

and use Anonostr.com 😏

You are mixing good and bad advice here.

In the scenario you are describing NEVER use Bitcoin. You must be new to darknet markets. Read the bible.

Always use Monero over Tor or i2p. Featherwallet has an Appimage for Tails that can and should be download via its onion or i2p address.

Monero is only a privacy use, since the activists will need funding I do not recommend the use of monero.

Read an economics bible.

Lightning for the sender has even more privacy than monero, if you don't understand it is not my problem, and for receiving you can even use blinded path which gives you the same privacy when receiving as when sending.

And coinjoins are also effective, but you stupid monero fans always have to come to bitcoiners comments to put shit, fuck you.

I come here because your blind belief in Bitcoin is putting friends and allies on the line. And you deserve to be called out for north promoting the easiest andc safest options.

Show me the self-hosted LN environment in Tails?

You can easily run Haveno and Feather on Tails. Within minutes you are ready to do whatever youvwant with your money. It might be news to you that Monero is much more stable in USD terms than BItcoin, which is a feature for those needing access to their money.

BTC is a great investment and hedge against further inflation. But your suggestions here are outright dangerous.

you don't have to listen to this clown. NOBODY on the DNMs is using lightning. the number of DNMs that accept lightning is zero. it's always been zero and it will always be zero. that's not going to change. everyone who knows what they are doing and has something at stake is using monero.

Monero is not only a privacy use, their is actually less xmr than btc, until 2040. The problem with lightning is lightning itself, it’s not the Bitcoin’s network, assuming the transactions goes to LN instead of the Bitcoin’s blockchain, that mean less transactions in block, tx fees need to be high or Bitcoin’s price need to goes up with Halving, at some point the situation is unsustainable, if the price stop to rise, miners will sank, growing the mining centralisation and OFAC compliance further... the fixed supply is leading the network to a huge centralisation which absolutely not good

Lightning is 10p times harder to do anonymously than monero. Its benefits are much less imporant than its positives

Monero is better that Bitcoin for that!

In the current state of affairs and with the implementation of blinded path in bolt11, Lightning is better than Monero.

That's not true.

You don't understand how Lightning works.

I understand, you are the one that doesnt understand how monero works if you say that nonsense.

Permanent unchanging tail emissions on monero make it incapable of every becoming global money.

Use Wownero then if that is the problem 😂

Umm I think gold would like to disagree with your ill-thought conclusion...global money for thousands of years and we're still mining it

Comparing apples and oranges. Gold was the best asset throughout history because it had the lowest inflation rate, at least in the last century this typically matched population growth (about 2%) which cancelled each other out and kept the value of Gold relatively unchanged in real terms over time.

If Bitcoin's superior perfect programmed scarcity didn't exist, than Monero with it's less than 1% annual inflation due to tail emissions would be superior and likely become the dominant asset (assuming it was similarly decentralized).

We do live in a world with Bitcoin though, with absolute scarcity and ever reducing block subsidies that completely disappear by 2140. There will only ever be 21,000,000 Bitcoin. As of June of this year there's roughly 18.5 million Monero, with new supply of 157,680 created yearly as a permanent subsidy from "tail emissions".

This is currently and always will be under 1% annual inflation, that's better than gold's 2% but still loses a significant value over time compared to Bitcoin.

When the last Bitcoin block is mined in 2140 there will be 21,000,000 Bitcoin and roughly 37,000,000 Monero (if it's still around). Over the next 116 years Monero's supply will double, reducing the value of each monero as a percentage of the overall network by half compared to today. Better than gold's 10x over the same period (90% smaller share of total supply compared to today) thanks to 2% inflation certainly, but inferior to Bitcoin's less than 10% increase compared to current supply over the same 116 year time period.

Bitcoin is more decentralized, more secure, more beneficial for global financial transparency (we can clearly see how large institutions use their money with Bitcoin, which is much more important than making it harder to track the movement of money by billions of plebs on the base layer), and the reduction of block rewards by half every 4 years results in the value of its units doubling relative to energy costs used to mine it. Something Monero doesn't have due to its unchanging marginal cost of production relative to energy thanks to the perpetual tail emissions.

This last point is IMO the most important factor of many in Bitcoin's success. Everything trends towards its marginal cost of production, the halving leads to a 100% higher marginal cost of production every 4 years, dragging the value of the entire network up with it. This value growth due to rising production cost and reducing available new supply drives adoption, and the ever higher energy demanded to mine blocks drives innovation to create new energy for the networks use.

This unstoppable effect on the global energy market will lead to a world of absolute energy abundance, while storing value relative to that energy (and everything we create with it) better than anything else.

We're on the same side, users of Monero and Bitcoin, but Bitcoin is the superior technology that benefits humanity far more than Monero can. Better privacy is great, but it can't compare to the value of absolute scarcity and rising marginal costs of production leading to energy abundance.

The advice you give is great until you tell people to use bitcoin. That is very likely to get them killed. Monero is by far the better choice here

An address in Monero is simply a key that allows you to derive a one-time address that the receiver private key can read. So I'm not totally sure about point one. And as for point two, when FCMP is released this will go from 1 of 16 to 1 of all outputs