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I hear what you're saying @Ruby_Witch. I wasn't aware that this was any different from any other digital currency; knowing that, I can see the rationale for discussing it here. I don't necessarily want to see it, but there are solutions to that built into the platform.
@ElectricalDance I apologize for the hostility in my earlier comment. I could have approached the subject in a more civil way, or just muted the discussion and been done with it. I had a knee-jerk reaction to seeing cryptocurrency stuff someplace I didn't expect to, but that is my own problem and doesn't warrant hostility.
Feb 08 · 4 months ago
Binance is a shitcoin, end of story...
> By "private" I of course mean "crime obscuring", because of course that's primarily what it's used for as far as I can tell.
Let's keep in mind that this line of reasoning runs exactly the same for other privacy tools like Tor, privacy VPNs, and e2e messaging apps, and is exactly why we have the mantra "privacy is not a crime". Let's not let our personal feelings about crypto cloud that.
I've used Monero for things which aren't criminal, but where I don't see a need to have my identity attached to the transaction.
@mediocregopher I agree, these privacy tools definitely have valuable uses and it's likely a net positive for society that they exist. I support Tor strongly and run a Snowflake entry node.
However, that doesn't mean that I'm blind to the uses for these tools either. They are primarily used for obfuscating crimes, whether that be your local authoritative government's propaganda and censorship laws, or laws against certain controlled substances, etc.
I'm not saying that no legal use for them exists. I use Tor as a kind of VPN to watch geofenced content sometimes. But you can't pretend that they don't serve the other purpose too.
The war on privacy continues, Binance delist the privacy crypto currency Monero — It’s not really a surprise but Binance, the bullshit casino that dump all kind of dubious pump ’n’ dump delisted Monero a privacy first crypto currency, that is built to provide strong privacy and protection to its users. With all the discussion to ban strong encryption or to backdoor it It feels increasingly similar to the crypto wars in the early 90 with PGP. There is a relenthless push and a blend of...
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