KYC bitcoin 🤮
Yes. Very true. The crazy thing is, your mentality around bitcoin is very reminiscent of MOST monero users...
You, as a bitcoiner, I think are a minority.
Hence, I really respect your work in the circular economy and meshtadel network and what you've done for helping nostr:npub1vpx9596duxdsmx4kwksycm2u4qy0gr6mzg289m52q96gdy97s9zsnkjspj get his coffee to the world. Just bought some for my family.
?width=568Which is totally fine. Cash e.g., is fairly private (more so than on chain bitcoin actually, which is one of the reasons for the Samourai Wallet devs indictment. Adding basic privacy was necessary to get onchain Bitcoin's privacy up to just the basic level of the fiat system which is NOT as transparent as bitcoin is. Maybe if they'd just switched to Monero when bitcoin devs demurred and declined to add privacy to the base layer, they'd have less money, but be a lot more free...)
As I said in my first response. My PSA allows for monero users to use fiat... That's not the point. The point is if you want to attack bitcoin users for using monero, why are you not attacking bitcoin users for using fiat, which is arguably a bigger shitcoin than monero, which is a dope privacy coin
My PSA allows for this reality.
However I'll digress and respond further.
I understand the monero user to be a rational human who uses whatever tool works best for him or her, even if that includes fiat or bitcoin.
The bitcoiner uses bitcoin hopefully (sometimes not, I'll get to that in the next sentence) but probably fiat quite frequently, as the need arises, yet posts online about monero being a shitcoin.
Even worse if he's a NGU hodler using bitcoin only as an investment vehicle...
Monero users are interested in peer to peer digital cash, and the more private the better. As hopefully, SOME bitcoiners are. Again, a lot of bitcoiners are holding paper only and DO NOT SPEND.
Then I come to Nostr and see a bunch of LN users/devs shitting on monero calling it a shitcoin... It just seems counterproductive and counterintuitive. At least someone like nostr:npub1lxktpvp5cnq3wl5ctu2x88e30mc0ahh8v47qvzc5dmneqqjrzlkqpm5xlc is logically consistent when he gives people shit for using fiat at all... I actually respect that. As much as I'd like him to take a more measured look at monero as a grassroots project that cannot "pump and dump" on someone, has no pre-mine or self-enriched founder like ETH or XRP does...
**PSA:**
If you're a Bitcoin Maxi calling #monero users shitcoiners;
To be logically consistent, you should call all the bitcoiners spending fiat shitcoiners too...
```Monero > fiat```
Having Monero instead of Bitcoin means you've lost money in his book. IDK, I think that's a dumb argument... Privacy > everything
Only thing I'm guilty of is being interested in privacy tools. Never been paid to promote anything. Can all the podcasters shilling Wasabi say the same?
No this dude nostr:npub1pww7030g95nv9ptfpgfu69jpfxj6pm33xxueztsupwekce45wx4sm6en60 is a major bad actor. How else could you promote Wasabi unless someone is greasing your palms. Dude's never denied it either.
Paid shill alert. This dude Kruw follows me around shitting on Monero. Meanwhile he's being paid by Wasabi to shill. Ironic thing is him calling me a shill. I've never been paid one red cent.
https://stacker.news/items/886468/r/expatriotic?commentId=890437
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hpwHnP-a1I
Super interesting dive into the corrupted blood pandemic in Blizzard's WoW.
Apparently it inspired the famous South Park episode "Make love not warfare" as well.
Here's the podcast [episode](https://episodes.fm/1565412491/episode/YzJhZDhmNDgtN2I3Mi00OTY2LWEzOTYtMGI3Yzc5ZTc3NzMx) that I originally heard of it from.
https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/how-bitcoin-coinjoins-help-facilitate-pro-democracy-protests
How does one read this as anything other than an advertisement for Monero?
>When financial repression fails, dictators turn to the second tactic – arrests, often followed by torture. One might think that using bitcoin makes it difficult to find those responsible through the protests – at least through their financial transactions. But this isn’t the case. Bitcoin transactions are recorded on the ledger, and the ledger is public. **Anyone can download it, view it, and analyze it**. And while the ledger doesn’t contain people’s identities or locations, it is subject to analysis and often yields identifying information. This, of course, can be disastrous for anti-authoritarian pro-democracy protesters and activists. The greater the resources of the dictatorship, the greater the risk of using bitcoin. **It’s better than banks, to be sure, but it’s a risk nonetheless.**
When one looks at coinjoins and payjoins, one sees all the hoops one has to go through to gain base layer privacy on Bitcoin... And coinjoining isn't free, so you run the risk of people who run coinjoins as a method of rent-seeking. One that would be denied them if Bitcoin had chosen to adopt a more privacy preserving architecture.
But NGU must not be denied. Monero has been banned by exchanges! What if that had happened to our precious Bitcoin?? Our Lord and Saviour Michael Saylor would have the vapours if Bitcoin devs pushed privacy to the base layer and got his pet rock banned by exchanges and governments...
_Beginning excerpt from my recent post:_
### Privacy and Security
**Email isn't private.**
Gmail/Outlook exist to monetize communication, not protect it. Sure Proton Mail uses PGP between users and Tuta uses quantum encryption for contacts, calendar, and archived emails and allows users to password-protect emails. But both fail when emailing non-users. Messages get decrypted and stored indefinitely. Ready to be served up to whatever alphabet agency requests it. Or simply queried by any staffer within Google or Microsoft who has a bone to pick with an ex-girlfriend.
**Reusing an email address is insecure.**
Attackers gather data from the dark web. Building information from data brokers and then building profiles on potential victims. Just by combining from a few data breaches, a hacker can get a full picture of your life. Your email address, phone number, past passwords, address, passport or ID etc.
### The solution:
Stop reusing one to two to three email addresses for ALL of your accounts.
A hodgepodge of free services could be used if you prefer a cheaper approach.
So this would look like using disposable emails by Guerrilla mail or obvious aliases created by using free accounts with Simple Login or addy.io work most of the time, but are inappropriate for some purposes.
E.g., if you want to have access to an email for a long time, a throw-a-way Guerrilla mail wouldn't work. Or maybe you don't want to give someone you know or a business you interact with an obvious (and often not very aesthetically pleasing addy.io or Simple Login alias.
But I'll explain what to do if you want what I consider the top tier approach.
Enter the custom Domain
This requires you to spend some money to acquire the domain, but that can later be used if you ever want to launch a website (e.g., mine is "expatriotic.me" which I've started using for my blog.
I prefer this as a solution because it works for every case. It works for the throw-a-way cases, the mid-term cases and even the long-term cases where you plan to retain this relationship and keep the email address active for a long time.
With this method every account gets its own email address. A custom domain (e.g., you@yourdomain.io) allows you to create yourbank@..., yoursocialmedia@..., to infinity and beyond. And whereas with the hodgepodge approach you need to spin up the alias when needed, using a custom domain allows you to use a "catch-all" function where you can have someone email you or sign up for an account WITHOUT needing to spin up an alias. ANYTHING before the domain is a valid and viable email address. This is represented with an asterisks. So that would mean that *@yourdomain.io are all valid. You can then use the aliasing service to deactivate or delete compromised or frequently spammed addresses instantly. In fact at the top of EVERY received email there is a line at the top that says, "such-and-such alias received this email, would you like to deactivate it"? So no more fighting to unsubscribe from certain places.
One side benefit of the method below is that you can avoid the normal spam box hell that occurs when emails accumulate from entities that do not include an "unsubscribe" url at the bottom of the email. Banks seem to have this problem the most. My doxxed email address still gets emails from old bank accounts that are impossible to unsubscribe from.
Originally posted
At my blog https://expatriotic.me
and nostr:npub1jfujw6llhq7wuvu5detycdsq5v5yqf56sgrdq8wlgrryx2a2p09svwm0gx https://stacker.news/items/888316/r/expatriotic
#privacy
#security
New post on email:
Original: https://expatriotic.me/email/
SN: https://stacker.news/items/888086/r/expatriotic
**Email isn't private.**
Gmail/Outlook exist to monetize communication, not protect it. Proton uses PGP between users; Tuta uses quantum encryption for contacts, calendar, and archived emails and allows users to password-protect emails. Both fail when emailing non-users – messages get decrypted and stored indefinitely.
Your email address is a tracking ID. Reuse it, and attackers build your profile. The solution: **every account gets its own email address**. Disposable aliases work, but custom domains (e.g., you@yourdomain.io) are better: create yourbank@..., yoursocialmedia@..., and disable compromised or frequently spammed addresses instantly.
One side benefit of the method below is that you can avoid the normal spam box hell that occurs when emails accumulate from entities that do not include an "unsubscribe" url at the bottom of the email. Banks seem to have this problem the most. My doxxed email address still gets emails from old bank accounts that are impossible to unsubscribe from.
## How-to
### 1. Myprivatenym.io: acquire domain
**Go to myprivatenym.io and get a domain.**
- <https://mynymbox.io/domainregister>
- <https://client.mynymbox.io/cart.php?a=add&domain=register>
- Pay with a private method
### 2. Go to proxysto.re
- <https://digitalgoods.proxysto.re/en>
- Buy addy.io Lite voucher code: 1 year = 12,00 €
### 3. Tuta: acquire an email address
* **Go to Tuta and sign up for a free email.**
### 4. addy.io
_Information can be found [here](https://addy.io/help/adding-a-custom-domain/), but is summarized below_
1. Sign up for [addy.io](https://addy.io) using your **Tuta** email
2. Redeem your **gift card** and upgrade to **Lite**.
3. Go to "Domains" > "Add New Domain"
4. Paste your **Myprivatenym.io** domain (e.g., janesmith@privatedomain.io)
5. Go to the **"DNS Management"** in **Mynymbox**.
6. Back in **addy.io**, click **"Verify Domain"** - takes 2-15 minutes. It will look like this in **addy.io** ⤵️
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7. Then add these **four records** from **addy.io** into the **Mynymbox** DNS manager:
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- **You can check the records for your domain using [mxtoolbox.com](https://mxtoolbox.com)**
- **NOTE: DO NOT MARK EMAILS AS SPAM, BUT RATHER DELETE OR DEACTIVATE THE ALIAS!**
>**Can I mark emails forwarded to me by addy.io as spam?**
>
>No, you must not mark messages forwarded to you by addy.io as spam as this can damage the reputation of the mail servers and is against the terms and conditions.
>If an alias is receiving spam messages then please deactivate it or delete it.
>addy.io is signed up to multiple feedback loops (FBLs) that trigger a notification when any messages are marked as spam. Repeatedly marking messages as spam will result in your account being disabled.
Wait, so is @amethyst the only client rendering markdown? I’ve tested 2-3 clients just now and markdown isn’t being rendered…
I’m just seeing **** __ `` everywhere.
Help! Would love to solve this mystery.