Love to see it. It's not much but my first self-custody #BAT payout from #Brave. I'm not sure how to swap it for, say, #Bitcoin but hey, I'm sure I'll figure it out at some point (wouldn't want to swap right now anyway).
Alright, well, I see some fair argument to be had there, but whether it's a company or a government agency, you're going to have conflicts of interest. In fact, before we federalized everything, things were done through companies mostly. The important part when implementing a technology like this is to make sure that it's an open and verifiable standard. I mean, that's why the whole free and open source movement exists in the first place, so you don't have to trust any entities if you don't want to.
That's fair but look at what happened in 2020 with the mailing ballots. Can't exactly use an ID to verify those when they're carted in to be counted.
I fail to see how making elections impossible to rig via some sort of blockchain implementation is "cronyism".
Not much makes you feel warmer than drinking a good cup of loose leaf chai tea (not in latte form).
#tea #teachain #cold
I fail to see how this is a bad thing? Are y'all seriously such cultists that you're against using blockchain to further protect the electoral system? Good grief...
Is anyone else encountering issues with missing profile pics on Snort? That's the main desktop app that I use (writing this from Coracle right now) but I've been having issues with it lately.
As part of my ongoing attempt to whittle down Linux distros as my daily driver next October, I downloaded the iso for Fedora KDE so I can learn how its package manager works. I'm starting to lean in that direction; I like the rolling release idea but I need some stability.
#Linux #Fedora #FOSS #opensource
Can't ever bring myself to agree with the anti-Brave crowd. I use Brave for ~90% of browsing. Hardened Firefox for compartmentalizing the few big tech services I still use. Vivaldi for dedicated PWAs and for the rare occasions that I need to use a Youtube account. LibreWolf for anything miscellaneous (downloading ROMs for emulation, for one example), as I don't have any cookies or bookmarks stored in it so it's safer against session hijacking.
I've also used Mullvad Browser for random, miscellaneous stuff but I generally prefer LibreWolf for that task. I also do use Tor Browser but only via Whonix now, mostly because I'm a geek and I rarely need Tor in my threat model anyways.
I appreciate the tips but I've tried just about all of those and they just don't work for me. I also don't have any friends (at least not close friends) that are even remotely into Bitcoin, so that's out too. Furthermore, I don't care so much about the privacy implications because I probably would use Monero for a lot of things alongside Bitcoin. The problem is I don't want exchanges having that information in the first place. Their high priority targets for black hats and the last thing I need on my plate is having to deal with government bureaucracy to lock down any potential identity theft or credit score issues.
I'll be keeping my eyes open for any kinds of potential ways to get it to work for me, but I'm not going to actively hunt either because it just frustrates me when I realize none of them work (and I definitely don't need more stress on my plate right now).
I guess the best thing I can do is continue to research and keep my eyes open so that if something does come up, I'll know how to use it.
True, I just hope that I don't get any more grief from some of the Bitcoin maxis (not you) that act as if I'm making excuses for not being able to use it. It definitely does suck, though, that I have to continue using the fiat system because of all their nonsense regulations which keep us locked in.
Well, I guess it's really out because I don't plan on moving out of my town and if I do, I don't know if I'm necessarily going to find my way to countries that are more friendly towards Bitcoin. 😬
Yeah, it's absolutely insane. I don't mind a small premium, but that's just way too high for it to be worth it for me. They don't require any KYC besides your phone number, which is okay with me, but you're obviously paying extra money for the "luxury" of the basic rights of privacy and security.
My concern is that if I'm doing peer-to-peer without a trustworthy mediator of some sort, then I'm basically putting my money at risk and I can't afford that at this point in my life. And honestly, even though I do believe in Bitcoin, I'm not so desperate to use it that I'm going to go to insane trouble just to get it. Hopefully the KYC laws will relax a little now that we have a pro-Bitcoin president on the way, but again, not holding my breath too much.
Yeah, I thought the same until I found out that they're charging a 20% premium for each transaction. So yeah, unfortunately, that definitely won't work for me when I'm just trying to do a trial run.
Maybe but I'm not at all holding my breath. I'm not moving out of my town at any point in the foreseeable future and like I mentioned prior, I'm in a relatively low-tech small town. Shoot, I took a look at BTC Map and the nearest ANYTHING on it was a single Bitcoin ATM over 30 minutes away and after that, it'd be close to an hour drive before anything else showed up. Goes to show how my town and area is old school.
Fortunately for privacy, this also does mean that most people still use (and accept) cash above payment apps and cards.
It's not really the privacy issue for me as I intend to stay within the law (as much as I despise taxes, I'm not willing to go to jail over them). My issue is that I am not risking my sensitive information with an exchange. Data breaches can and do occur and the last thing I need is to be bogged down by federal and state bureaucracy to fix the issue, protect my identity and fix any damage to my credit score.
That still leaves loads of my sensitive data in the hands of an exchange and I'm not risking that.