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I've heard about it but never really cared. In either case seems more of the same with a fenced community and a moderation team that warps reality instead of facing harsher comments.

Nostr has been quite a experience, really feels like the future and the 2000s at the same place around here.

Wow, it feels just like reddit over there. No wonder they have such high fences, it is difficult for them to deal with reality.

Replying to Avatar Misty

Bitcoin can't be stopped per se, but the governments that want to will do everything in their power to make it either illegal or extremely difficult to hold, spend, trade, or use.

Currently, financial institutions treat you like a criminal for withdrawing the cash you've already deposited.

The paper trails are already in place to clearly show where you're getting your funds. However, when you finance a house, boom—everything is scrutinized and examined several times before closing and sometimes even up to several years after, depending on how you financed the home.

It was a shock to learn back then that if I had stuffed the money in the mattress and came to deposit it when I was ready to buy a home, the bank would not accept that as valid funds because I wouldn't have been able to provide a paper trail for its source.

This morning, I realized that I'd have to maintain a fiat bank account to purchase groceries or pay a utility bill.

To have a fiat bank account, you must have a physical address.

To maintain a job, pass all electronic screenings without issue, and get money into that fiat bank account, your physical address on the application has to match what's on record at the DMV, government agencies, and credit bureaus, depending on which institution you're working trying to access.

The rent, mortgage, and property taxes must be paid to maintain the physical address.

To be genuinely free, at least in the United States right this second, you almost have to be a homeless vagabond, transacting in Bitcoin only (or other crypto), and be self-employed and unbanked.

Barter, Bitcoin, and gift economy. No permanent physical address. No bank account. No assets.

The extreme tradeoff to this is legal or government authorities threatening you with jail if you don't hand over your secret phrase or having the IRS do all your "missed taxes" for you (much like the Department of Child Support guesstimates how much money they think you should be making at your age with your educational background vs. how much you are) and then the IRS saying that you now owe back taxes into oblivion. They'll use this as justification to seize what they think is yours or, again, still have you imprisoned.

Hmmm. Choices. Choices.

When I solve or accept that problem, I will choose.

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Or just use Monero.

Guaranteed privacy, the only one that the tax authorities put a bounty on whoemver succeeds in breaking its encryption.

With fedcoins you will always be tracked with a lot of "excepts" to preserve a part of your privacy.

Sometimes you just want to participate at something without creating a permanent identity. These disposable IDs disappear when you exit the service and exhausted their purpose. Similar to a session cookie for web pages.

MD5 is also cryptography. You wouldn't remember since you seem young, but once upon the time we'd see governments to keep promoting MD5 as a secure encryption mechanism despite all our warnings that it wasn't.

We just moved forward to SHA1 and nowadays SHA256.

Same thing with bitcoin, just moved forward to Monero already years ago.

And yes, I do know a few things about crypto and its roots. Was mining BTC and still with CPU back in 2009. You weren't there at the forums, you weren't there at the BBS. You really miss the point why we pushed for a crypto currency in the true sense of that word rather than settling for an MD5 equivalent fedcoin.

If you don't understand the true value of monero today, you wouldn't have bought/mined bitcoin back then as well.

It was some time ago. Basically monero doesn't require graphic cards nor ASIC and anyone with an old computer can mine, so it was being mined in public institutions around Venezuela, and is also used to privately send money from US/Europe to family members there.

Basically their economy collapsed and monero is difficult to censure/track by authorities.

It is a complete casino coin, just look at this week. The only competitor at the same level is BNB and they own the casino.

Don't get me wrong, profit and whatnot is always good. The point is that you can also do money with Forex. There are reasons beyond the "value goes up" argument to use cryptocurrency. The most important is the root of the word "crypto" which means in latin to keep hidden, private.

When it isn't hidden nor private, it is just a casino coin or a virtual coin. But it certainly isn't a cryptocoin on the true sense of the word.

Fantastic. Basically we can specify any source for the installer. Maybe as idea instead of just YAML to add support for a scripting language that can perform more actions?

In some cases, for example on Organic Maps they don't include the offline maps. So they need to be downloaded from their servers, which might not be always be available because of no internet or server is down. In those cases we have to manually copy the files after installation, but with a scripted approach we can program copying files from the installation folder onto the final location.

Accrescent is too sus.

All communication channels are through well-known compromised locations. Your work is beyond all that from the beginning, please do keep the good work and keep the apps offline.

Nope. That liberation is what Monero is doing.

Bitcoin is quite literally a casino virtual coin mined at China at this point. It is only matters when value goes up.

Monero is the one being used on the streets of Venezuela and mined in dusty old computers across the globe.

Downside is being chased by governments. At this point they've pretty much tried to criminalize owning monero since they can't monitor how money you have there.

It ain't a casino coin and you're trashing a private coin that is being attacked by western governments because they are obviously against your privacy.

You are already at nostr, try to think about what you are really saying. We are not your adversaries.

If you wouldn't hold today a significant value in Monero, you also wouldn't hold a significant value in bitcoin ten years ago.

I'm writing this as someone who actually mined bitcoin using only CPUs back in 2009. If you are in crypto for the sake of privacy and freedom, this is what we should be supporting rather than casino virtual coins.