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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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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.

Have you looked into using Zeus for lightning? Their LSP uses wrapped invoices for receiving which hides your nodes pubkey from the sender. They make use of simple Taproot channels so there's no on chain footprint. Olympus, Zeus's LSP, handles the routing and will open channels on the fly making it easy for new users to onboard to Lightning. These are all default settings and requires only little knowledge on how Lightning operates. The only trust that's required is in their LSP staying online but even if they were to go offline funds would be returned back on chain. They also provide a ln address so you can receive if you don't have the wallet up and running. Not saying it's perfect, but in my opinion I think using Lightning with Zeus is much better and possibly just as private than swapping into another crypto to handle these on chain fees

Good to see they've already come down 1000 sat/vbyte. Be back to normal by next weekend

Especially with all the force closes that are bound to happen with these insane high fees

They've never let me down! Not too cheap and not too expensive. What do you suggest? I'm not the biggest whiskey drinker

Yes, reusable private QR codes are extremely useful. Also, the payer has the ability to prove that they are the ones paying is a nice feature

Kicked the habit a few months ago. Used to drink 2 a day for a decade. Coffee only now and noticed I have more energy throughout the day