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I AM THE ORIGINAL REVOLTA. Original band Sweet Noise. Current project MTvoid with Justin Chancellor of Tool. I make NOISE and experimental art - NOISE INC. Sovereign Human Being. On NOSTR since 835520 #relaythat Pronouns : npub/nsec Check my noise experimental project : https://wavlake.com/noise-inc- My visual notes: https://glaca.npub.pro

Question I keep asking myself a lot...I think majority is not going where we are going my friend. Sad but true. Majority people here woke up already..outside it looks pretty bad..like party on sinking Titanic.

Always was...since the beginning.

Replying to Avatar Ava

That is not my workflow or my experience. There are many guides out there on how to swap btc for monero privately. It's no more difficult to do than purchasing non-kyc sats on robosats etc and the privacy guarantees on a protocol level make sure that transactions are actually private.

This is not the case with lightning. Sending from your own node is private by default, but receiving is not. The overwhelming majority use lightning custodialy and many who don't, don't configure their nodes properly for privacy so there is a high chance transactions are not private.

I believe in supporting and testing lightning, ecash, esats (fedimint) etc. But I also see it for what it is, a "don't keep anything more in here that you are willing to lose" work in progress. Eg: Lightning has a more complex code than Monero and so a larger attack surface. There are also very valid concerns about its scalability.

I find for most people, managing lightning liquidity in a truly private way is a headche to say the least. When you can open/sustain a channel... RE: the context of this post.

To each their own I guess, but I stand by my statement that Monero is an easy to use privacy by default currency that I highly recommend for most people.

It's the perfect complement to BTC's store of value.

I know how to use btc privately, but it's not easy to do and one mistake blows privacy. I recommend Monero for most people. BTC is a great store of value, but it's a privacy nightmare that needs a solid L2 solution (still in the works) to be fungible and private.

Keep stacking BTC, but where privacy is important, I recommend most people use Monero, a true privacy by default CURRENCY.

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Replying to Avatar Marty Bent

Whenever politicians clutch pearls or attempt to brow beat bitcoiners about money laundering it is important to remind them that the US government is the biggest money launderer on the planet.

The Treasury issues debt out of thin air, the money gets handed to the Department of Defense and they overpay defense contractors 900x for commonplace nuts and bolts, among other things. This leads to obscene profits for the war industry and they shave off a small chunk of those profits to ensure the politicians that will vote for bigger defense budgets stay in power. Rinse and repeat.

This isn’t confined to the war industry either. It happens across the spectrum. Another example is Operation Warp Speed, which was an example of the Federal government directly funding and obscenely overpaying for a COVID vaccine that poisoned people.

What we’re witnessing is the largest “looting of the treasury” in human history. Politicians and the corporate interests that back them are robbing the American people blind. Taking their money directly via taxes, indirectly via inflation and at the same time running up the biggest government debt bill the world has ever seen.

The politicians who enable this and then clutch pearls about bitcoin’s potential to enable money laundering are the scum of the Earth.

We are all being robbed in broad daylight and the thieves are making you out to be the criminal. Truly diabolical

The government is not your friend. It exist to strip you of your wealth and your freedom.

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So well put!

I'd add philosophy to the list...and hope you're fine with me sniping your brilliant post and making a #nostr note :)