EEO court here we come

I fully understand where you’re coming from and I am attempting to help fix that by selling general goods and services for Monero at the 365 day simple moving average so that prices do not fluctuate for three months at a time.

Edit: my store link. https://xmrbazaar.com/user/AuroraGeneralStore/

Really and truthfully, it’s only getting in that is the difficult part. Because as you mentioned, you have to go to shady sounding websites or whatever. But if your job paid you in crypto, then you trust your job because you work there. So you have to have some trust in them. Then you use them in a circular economy such as Monero is trying to build where you buy your car with your crypto that you got paid from work and you buy your house with your crypto that you got paid from work and you buy your food with your crypto you got paid from work etc. The friction point is where you go from one system into the other system. Admittedly, you could also consider it a bit of a leap of faith because you’ve grown up trusting this one system, and now people are saying, hey, there’s this alternative system, you should give it a shot.

Personally, I definitely believe crypto really is the future. I know it has been hyped up a lot and that has contributed a lot to the volatility. But beneath all that, real people are building solutions to real-world problems. So much so that even companies like Visa are using crypto like USDC to do international transfers faster and cheaper.

Edit: If nothing else, it significantly reduces settlement time for money in the financial system.

The way I see it, any step is better than no step at all.

Okay, that is absolutely fair, and I do not blame you one bit for doing what you have to do to stay safe.

Remember, they are asking if they can search your vehicle. You are allowed to say no. Then they must justify an arrest

I agree. That definitely would not be the worst thing ever.

I am almost certain there would be two major impacts from that. The first being that operating system development would slow to the pace that the community wishes instead of having big money behind it. And the second is that security updates would come quite a bit faster.

Edit: I figure brand new major features would be slower in coming. But security would be improved.

Cool. I was not aware of that

Most have WHOIS privacy. Anybody looking up the domain can see that it’s registered to whichever company you choose but cannot get your direct information from it. Obviously, if you’re under any kind of investigation or something, then the government will just subpoena the domain registrar and ask for your personal information.

Porkbun because they accept crypto. At least to me that is a very important factor

Discreet Launcher is somewhat buggy when app switching.

Personally, I think if it’s a video related to technology, it belongs in the technology community more so than the video community.

Personally i use proton with my own domain

disable Google Play Services and the Google Play Store. And that will help a lot. And if you still need apps from the Google Store, you can use the Aurora Store from f-droid

Edit: you may also want to look into controld.com since their free dns blocks known malware, ads, and trackers. They have several options including standard DNS, DNS over HTTPS, and DNS over TLS, and Android supports DNS over TLS. So you can use it directly.

Love it

Interesting information, although I’m not the one best suited to process it, I would recommend you posting this to something like the skepticism Sunday threads on !monero@monero.town. If it truly has been broken, they are managing to keep it very quiet. And if it has been broken, then there’s a good chance that the vast majority of encryption has also been broken, such as HTTPS.

Then why aren’t they catching more “criminals”? Also, why hasn’t the $600,000 US dollar bounty from the IRS been claimed?

Just makes me want to fight back by helping other people to use Monero, Tor, and other privacy services.