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A conscious society worthy of the name would flourish both on a transparent as well as a private standard.
Since the world is not perfect and never will be, we will have to live with degrees of freedom.
In the past (tribal society) everything was public, besides thoughts. Most of societies advances including ever more sophisticated rug pulls and countermeasures are based on privacy advancements.
Societies will thrive where privacy is a guaranteed default for individuals while trusted groups can openly share all information between each other for a social relationship net.
nostr:nprofile1qyf8wumn8ghj7cnfw3ehgctrdvhxzursqythwumn8ghj7cmp9ehhyctwvajhq6tvdshxgetkqqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sggjrzcm asked me to share one of my favorite freedom tech projects. Here's what I had to say about nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyvhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn6v43x2er9v5hxxmr0w4jqqgx62mz5khn8f8t945pccxty0pu5472wf7j6fm7uyz6fnq0ya3txcvkl3f4a
While I was limited to just one, I also have to give shout-outs to Skot building Bitaxe, nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpzemhxue69uhks6tnwshxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qpq2rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sugh36r building Cashu, and many more.
The policy front may be depressing at times, but the people building solutions on the ground give me hope.
See what everyone else on the HRF Freedom Tech Team had to say here. https://hrf.org/latest/top-15-freedom-tech-projects-of-2025/
No Monero?
HRF is a US (N)GO.
Something are obvious.
Nostr, Simplex, and a parallel Monero/Bitcoin economic system are prerequisites for a tax revolt to work.
You want to organise publically, but anonymous and without being censored
You want decide some parts in private
You need to be somehow independent from fiat to not suffer the consequences.
Last but not least. For now a more effective way as a first step would be to cancel all our bank accounts. It's not something illegal, but it will challenge tax collectors who rely on centralised third parties.
If you start something like this you want to act very strategic.
Founders who didn't take law fare into account and now play nice with regulators deserve to be dumped by the community.
Either you are on our side or you are on the states side. There is no in between. Scammers go home.
Disappointing at first, but when you realise the last year contains almost zero CEX-speculation transactions you can get a grasp about the size of DNM and P2P markets.
Use a Graphene phone.
People will either act wise in advance or learn from their mistakes.
In times like these anybody can becomeva target of state/police violence.
I studied Bitcoin 16 years ago. Tell me how to study harder when I put 10,000 hours + into getting to understand, the financial system, game theory, basic computer science, money in general, mass psychology, opsec, future trends,...
Still I landeded in camp Monero (for now).
Because currency competition means choice and is part of game theory and economic science.
A key aspect of money is fungibility https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/money.asp which Bitcoin lacks due to the bifurcation of "tainted" UTXOs and "clean" UTXOs. Tainted coins can't be used on any exchanges and many merchants won't take them. Gold, cash and monero are all fungible. Every Monero UTXO has no traceable history thus mamingnit as fungible as a gold atom. Privacy is crucial for money.
Monero protects both the merchant and the customer from the money trails.
Then it's time to do your research before taking risks you can not evaluate well.
Let me guess.
You also trusted the science backed by Pfizer?
Don't want to be mean. Plenty of studies since the 1950s. Knowledge follows awareness. Without awareness you are (mis)guided by media propaganda. Of course they never really show you the proof just like with the vaccines.
Look up Rusty here on Nostr, he's your gate to the rabbit hole.
Neither BTC nor XMR are established store of values fit for average people savings.
BTC could become that in the near future. Monero is a hedge in areas where BTC is weak.
Savings, speculative investment and hedges all serve different purposes and at times each of them will come out ahead vs the others.
You guys need to learn how to use compartmentalised profiles if you want to install literal shitcoin apps on your mobiles.
Still frying your braun.
In short.
If freeriders exist in all systems they can not be an excuse for a more repressive system over a more free one.
ALL taxes are only immoral because they are non-consensual.
Many of the services you are forced to buy from the state even make sense from a shared risk/ security perspective.
Now the freerider problem arises and people hope to indirectly gain from other people buying stuff that serves not just them.
Freeriders exist in every system. Today government bureaucrats and people dependent on social welfare are the free riders.
Wise people should ignore freeriders. Let other people grow in your shadow. Don't bother. Grow as strineg as possible. Lead by example.
When freeriders then strive to create value for society at large you know we won and broke a vicious cycle as the culture will then support or individual uprising.
As soon as the correlation between global liquidity and Bitcoins price rise was understood it broke down.
It's market efficiency at work.
Many guys here still have not figured out how to become ungovernable so they complain, like good plebs.
They rely on you having a bank account or something similar with a third party for the extortion to work.
Once you unbanked your life you let them figure out how to tax you, fine you, extort you.
The system is not prepared for you not having a bank account. It's one of the best weapons you have over them. Privacy and a simple lifestyle also help.
People say it's not possible to live without a bank account and then someone came and didn't know it's impossible.
You are infinite possibilities condensed in one powerful body. Use it.
You are legally obliged to resist a rogue state in any way possible.
Wait till you find out what Bitcoin already enables.
Many maxis will be ashamed that they promoted a tool that is so easy to exploit by the state.
So called Bitcoiners putting all their eggs in this Bitcoin bank.
Meanwhile shitting on Monero. Take a look at the mirror you hypocrites.
Wait till you find out about Monero.
Same question.
Most of us live still in the 90s fantasy world, where technological "progress" means actual progress.
Most what our community celebrates as success are not new advancements, but projects that are buying just a little more time to survive in societal niches. Mainly reactionary, defensive stuff - for decades. Which is valuable without doubt, but it's born out of permanent struggle and stress much more than human ingenuity.
Most humans have already been fully absorbed and enslaved by the Kraken. Reality is that we are sugarcoating ourselves with hopium and wannabe revolutionary stuff, when the dystopian world is right there around everybody, while utopian ideals are far.
It's not real adoption, but it buys us time.
You hold it to get privacy, the deal done or because you need exposure to a systemic hedge.
10 years is a long time. You might want to take advantage of portfolio imbalances (rebalancing) every 5 to 10 years.
A professional user can (with FCMP) spend Monero more privately than cash.
Professional means. Runs his own OS. Uses anonymity networks.
Cash has serial numbers and gets tracked at many places already. It's fungibility is by decree. Untraceanility is breaking down for years, while Monero improves.
#GrapheneOS is very distinct from other Android distributions and OEM configurations. There is a litany of Linux kernel and Android Runtime hardening changes and features powering GrapheneOS. This is very significant but often overlooked because most changes aren't visible to the end user.
The leading example of this is hardened_malloc, the hardened memory allocator used in GrapheneOS to protect against memory corruption vulnerabilities. You can find a technical article about it by Synacktiv, a French cyber security company:
https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/exploring-grapheneos-secure-allocator-hardened-malloc
Hardening in GrapheneOS are built on closing out commonly exploited attack surfaces, substituting them with more secure replacements, or giving them stronger security defaults.
If you are a blue teamer you'll already be familiar with the Pyramid of Pain:
For newcomers, this model is a layered pyramid that ranks indicators of compromise by a linear level of difficulty and cost for the threat actor to evade security measures to perform an attack; The bottom of the pyramid being very easy and trivial for the threat actor to change and the top being tough.
This model opens newcomers on how good security strategy is built: Techniques and capabilities over individual actors. Closing out tactics, techniques and procedures are far more important than blocking an IP address or a file hash. You want to protect against a type of attack, not against a particular actor who performs them.
The point of having extensive hardening features is that we need to ensure vulnerabilities that would affect Android are benign, harder to exploit or patched in GrapheneOS before they can be exploited. Android distributions carry the weight of vulnerabilities from upstream. To reduce that weight, we need to make sure a highly sophisticated exploit developer would have to uniquely design their exploit to target GrapheneOS, should they be able to at all.
Without that, GrapheneOS wouldn't be special. It would not be sensible to claim it is more security and privacy focused than Android if it was able to be exploited through the exact same mechanisms with little or no effort needed to port. An Android distribution that is just Android without Google services is mostly as exploitable as Android. Something that is "DeGoogled" (I don't use the term, it's Reddit tier buzzword nonsense) may not necessarily be safer to use either.
To earn the title of being hardened it needs more, but this isn't ever implemented well enough. Projects that have done so to the best of their ability also have died (DivestOS).
Our hardening features are available outside of GrapheneOS. Leading example of this is secureblue, a security hardened Linux distribution (https://secureblue.dev/) which is using hardened_malloc and Vanadium inspired chromium browser. A business also sells hardened Rocky Linux supporting hardened_malloc. If you are a maintainer of a leading project then implementing our hardening features and supporting is strongly encouraged.
What do you think about Linux phones like Jolla. Could we potentially run secureblue on top of it? What about hardware constraints?
When will people finally understand that Blockstream has been compromised since the beginning?