I hope for a private fork one day, that would be a epic move.
Let people onboard to the transparent thing the state can not really ban and then fork and gift a private version to everybody who holds its own keys for free.
And while i dream this dream, i BTC cost average into Monero every day.
I talked with a couple of them on the BTC Prague, most dont even realize that storing your wealth on a public, transparent ledger is a stupid idea.
If you ask them if they would use a public transparent ledger when the government mandates it, they say "hell no"
At the Oslo Freedom Forum, Nick Anthony from Cato presented HRF’s CBDC tracker (created by nostr:npub1d3g6ytfp8ne6ryapr6e26zaz6fklxs0nw9dpu2w2yammytc3rucsl5pr09, Nick, and Matthew Mezinskis) in interactive form where attendees could use a giant touchscreen to explore the world of governments trying to transform cash into surveillance money
He talked to hundreds of human rights activists and policy experts from dozens of countries
The biggest takeaway?
Most of them, in general, had no idea what CBDCs were or what kind of dire threat they constitute
Very proud of this program and hope we can grow it in the future - folks need to wake up!
Nick wrote about his experience here:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/cbdcs-threat-freedom-under-microscope-oslo-freedom-forum 
So, is your recommendation to use BTC, a fully transparent public blockchain to hide from CBDCs with government surveillance?
The EU's latest mass-surveillance initiative Going Dark is taking aim at the Lightning Network, 'mixers' and self-custody in its latest encryption report, but still lacks fundamental data to back up its claims that more surveillance does equal more security.
The EU's apparent regulatory strategy of "we'll just say things and hope no one notices" now seems to continue to manifest in its evaluation of financial privacy services.
https://www.therage.co/eus-going-dark-takes-aim-at-self-custody-mixers-and-the-lightning-network/
Bitcoiners do not mind, storing everything on a public transparent ledger since 2009.
Even as a store of value it is the question if Bitcoin can prevail.
Who wants a store of value where everybody, including the government, tax authorities, your competitors, your ex wife and other criminals can see how much you own and with whom you transact with.
Without decent onchain privacy, BTC is doomed imo.
I dont get the logic, what in this example shows Bitcoin is resilient to nation state attacks?
They do not even need to attack it. They just integrate the public ledger, attach digital ID to it and outlaw all transactions from/with non digital ID utxo's.
Same way BTC is allowed in Turkey, the airport is full of advertisement for a BTC exchange - and at the same time you need to scan your passport to get access to the airport wifi.
It clearly shows that BTC is not a problem for governments, that should make people think when promoting it as a freedom technology.
So the solution is to comply ones way out of tyranny on a transparent ledger?
Emphasis on the "yet". Also it would make me think hard why governments have no problem with bitcoin.
Another store of value is just being integrated into the current system, with KYC and AML.
There goes the freedom.
By talking about as if anything were not "legit" with transactional privacy, you clearly show what is wrong here.
A viable currency which has no privacy is no problem for any authoritarian state. Therefore its not a viable currency in the first place.
You have misspelled Monero.
I wrote about the growth of Bitcoin and Nostr as essential tools for activists and dissidents making a difference around the world at the Financial Freedom Track in Oslo. I linked to everybody's Primal profile in the spirit of it all.
CC nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu nostr:npub1wlkfvm7dvnusz9fv44wuwucu0jp3lc3wqt36ax0lz33hukjga7wq6hqwhy nostr:npub1cf3zeytdnwgwzz5pk2ax0vvmmlzad03xcft4d50ejrfhsh8pxcdsefx7gk nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg nostr:npub1hea99yd4xt5tjx8jmjvpfz2g5v7nurdqw7ydwst0ww6vw520prnq6fg9v2 nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8
nostr:npub1dnzzyhmewrzkh862z7z2shwmhh5htx0rvkagepj2fkgst9ptwg3qj4x52h and nostr:npub1hwgw0uznr49t4gullpgfz4m5xnakl5a0l88m3k382xv7ys0tfmlsd503sg also have excellent articles on the topic on their Forbes profiles.
How much freedom can people have in the long run when they transact on a fully transparent ledger? Talk about Monero.
i run win 7 in a vm to use the creative suite, works well enough
affinity is great, bought that too. sadly not available on linux
sure its better for self custody but with fees already ranging from 1 to 50 usd, i dont see the point for "zaps", which imo are micropayments mostly
seems like.
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