True but you can rig it.
Bitcoin is becoming controlled by the elites just like gold and silver are. We are so blessed to have Goldbacks and Monero.
Bastyon is pretty dope. I have an alt account. Learned about it from nostr:npub14slk4lshtylkrqg9z0dvng09gn58h88frvnax7uga3v0h25szj4qzjt5d6
It's a shame Bastyon doesn't have a decent Android client.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
I'm craving some raw milk too because I've honestly never tried it before. It's so difficult to get in my area.
The closest to a XMR fork is Garnet and it is still a WIP.
This is the probably the same reason why you see so much more support for abortion today than decades ago.
You mean like libertarians? I haven't heard any Republicans calling for abolishing the FBI since Kash Patel took over.
I love hearing how everyone is worried about the economy but nobody realizes there is an alternative if you're worried about tariffs and comedically high prices: Counter-economics.
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Might be good to add a Tor node and an I2P node to your shopping list.
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74.
https://www.usluck.com/491380/context-in-post-description/ Context in post description #History #HistoryMemes #Memes
Where's the context?
Nostr fixes this.
And on the other side, you have "Everyone I Disagree With Is a Marxist: A Republican Guide to Online Discourse"
Considering that Trump is the "father of the vaccine" I don't want anything to do with him. He is no better than Klaus Schwab and the WEF. They are part of the same coin. Stop looking up to the government to save you.
Elon Musk didn't fix X, he did a hostile takeover on it.
Musk has banned people for criticizing him on X. He's no better than when it was still called Twitter.
At this point we should normalize calling Mastodon mods "mini-Musks"
**Edward Snowden said it well during his keynote speech at Bitcoin 24':**
"Bitcoin transactions are not private. All of you know this in the general sense because it's 2024, not back in 2013 when we were saying, 'Oh, Bitcoin is perfectly anonymous, and it's money for criminals and whatever.' The only person who still believes that is Elizabeth Warren.
The reality is that Bitcoin transactions are permanent, public, trackable, and linkable.
An enormous proportion of them are fully doxxed, just not publicly doxxed. And this is because of how people move it on and off the Bitcoin network, or any crypto chain really, and it's through the on and off ramps, right? β through these legacy exchanges that get licensed by whatever, you know, New York State or whatever country, whether it's in Dubai, whether it's in New York.
And they are sharing the information en masse with what we politely refer to as regulators, but what are plainly described as great powers."
**Stack sats. Use Monero.**
Find out more at:
https://libereco.xyz/resources/
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Using Bitcoin is just as bad as using a credit card at this point.
I'm going to be frank with all of you.
I feel like the reason why we've gotten to the point where #Bitcoin (and other cryptos to be honest) has became so popularized by corporations and governments alike is because the level of privacy that it has is severely outdated. Back in the early 2010's, BTC would be challenging to track. Fast forward to today, and there are countless ways to track BTC transactions and wallets, such as companies like Chainanalysis, and even websites like Blockchair where one address string is pasted and you can just follow the money trail using OSINT skills. You don't need a degree or even certifications to do this.
The reasons for why corporations and governments have such a massive interest in cryptocurrency is for separate reasons. For corporations, they can track addresses and wallets and use them to sell data much like what Google and Facebook do. In other words, money. For governments, the public blockchains provide ways to find more sneakier ways to evade taxes, as well as tracing all transactions for a social credit score and CBDC.
On the other hand, you don't see privacycoins like #Monero, #Dash, or #ZCash get the same treatment. They don't get the same worship that BTC was because they are of no benefit to corporations or governments because they cannot sell data or track anybody. As a result, governments are better off just banning them, not just in countries that have crappy human rights records like China, but even the "pro-democracy" states like the U.K and Japan banning them. If the State is unable to appropriate something for its own selfish gain, then what is it left to do?
The point is, the popularity of BTC is a double edged sword. While it is changing lives, it's also helping the same people who want to hurt those who lives are changed.
This is the very problem that BTC maxis cannot comprehend. You can't just look at the micro level, or the level of the individuals, you also have to look at the macro level too, or society as a whole. BTC is making people wealthy and getting them out of debt. Great. Now what is it doing for the other actors in society? The banks, the corporations, academia, the government, and so on and so forth.
XMR is more P2P and decentralized in my opinion because it cannot as easily be exploited at the macro level because it's impossible to harm people with thanks to its features, but it exchanges this fact for less popularity.