If a person has to risk jailtime or their lives, they won't use it unless they're a radical with nobody that depends on them. That's my concern with the concept. Hopefully it will never get to that point but I'm just speaking in theoreticals here.

The only metadata they can get from Signal is frequency of messages and the size of the message files. Everything else is encrypted. There's a feature with Signal called Sealed Sender, it makes it so anyone looking at the data being exchanged can't know who messages came from. This means that unless you and your contact are both active targets of the government, they really can't do much with that minimal metadata... Or, at least, nothing they can't do with other options.

Now, if you need total anonymity due to being a whistleblower or something like that, I'd definitely recommend Session instead, as it's anonymous, has almost no visible metadata and is onion routed. It's not great for a daily option, however, thus why Signal is the best option for the average person.

Well, part of the problem is security (and I don't mean software security). If Bitcoin is to be mass adopted as a primary currency, people need to be able to trust that switching to it will allow them to continue to live life without being considered a criminal and active threat. If it's as simple as preventing people from buying it or spending it on anything other than P2P transactions, that doesn't give security and stability to anyone who isn't a hardcore anarchist maxi.

Sure, but most people would fall equally into the can't and don't want categories.

Sounds like it'd work out for people who are willing to go to extremes but what about the average person?

But the problem is that many people neither can, nor want to leave their country just for Bitcoin. What about those people?

Genuine, non-hater discussion topic incoming.

Bitcoiners like to say that Bitcoin is fully uncensorable, that governments can't fully take it down. The problem I see is that even though the *technology* can't be taken down, the means by which people can enter into using said technology can easily be cut off, and not just via KYC. While there's still the peer-to-peer aspect, that also could easily be targeted through surveillance, and unless people start to become fully anonymous (not realistic for most), that's not something you can stop.

On top of that fact, there's a lot of KYCed Bitcoin out there, and the problem with that is that if it's KYCed, it makes it pretty trivial for governments to surveil wallet addresses and transactions.

In this way, wouldn't it be wiser to use a privacy coin if you're okay with KYC? Also, if the legal system ever decides to make it virtually impossible to obtain Bitcoin and you're going to go the route of "privately" obtaining it, then you're not going to get very far if they can surveil all of that information.

To reiterate, I'm not a hater, not by a long shot. Aside from my personal issues with KYC keeping me from buying, I believe in the technology, and I think it's got some serious potential to be the basis for economic change. I'm also not specifically a Monero guy, even though I think that it has some MAJOR benefits. But the problem with Bitcoin's lack of privacy, as well as the fact that KYC is virtually unavoidable, make it hard for me to believe in the maxi opinion that Bitcoin is completely unstoppable. Again, I do agree that the technology itself can't be shut down, but if you can't legally obtain it and you can't truly obtain it privately, then I don't see how it's unstoppable.

Just some thoughts I had. I'm genuinely curious what some of you guys think about this subject.

#asknostr #Bitcoin #privacy #Monero

Rebooted my phone, got a notification that I can't close regarding Secure Folder, which I can't access since I'm signed out of my Samsung account... But I can't sign in because it's telling me my email and phone number are invalid IDs.

Samsung is a 🤡

I'm against supporting delusion. There was absolutely no reason to add it except to pander to said delusion because very few people on Nostr would ever make use of it.

I love your client and respect your work but it really was a completely unnecessary change and I hope you consider removing it.

It wouldn't be a problem except for the fact that Amethyst is such an incredible client with features I make regular usage of, so it's not really as simple as switching clients.

Since when did #Amethyst add a pronouns menu in your profile settings? 😒 #asknostr

Genuine question, can I have the source on the claims about Mullvad and this M247 for further research?

I tried to check this but I don't see even half that many options for some reason.

Quick question: is the company US-based? I use prepaid credit cards you can buy in stores and they require you to purchase domestically (annoyingly enough).

I haven't, how does it work?

Yeah, I would, but I didn't see that as an option and I'm not exactly sure how you could do that over the internet.

PayPal doesn't require KYC for anything I use it for. Thing is, I'm not KYCing with anybody. Whether that's a financial app, a CEX... Anybody. Just not gonna happen.

Trying, with very little luck so far heh

First off, I sincerely appreciate the sats! As for Vexl, does this mean I'd need to have friends to trade with? If so, I'm afraid I'd run into the same issue I have with the whole meetup thing. Aside from online acquaintances, I have no friends that have any crypto, much less BTC.

I'm unable to get Bitcoin but man, banks make me wish even harder that I could.