Facebook gets all the hate, even though google did it before and in a much bigger scale. Reason? Its easier to quit facebook, so more people can virtue signal about it.
This is exactly what I am using it for as well. I lived in China and I used Monero to buy a VPN (Astrill) seeing VPNs and crypto payments are/were illegal there. I will use the rest to buy when I need to use it. It isn't really an investment for me but a tool to buy things I need/may need that I don't want tracked.
"Saying that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying that you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."
I DCA into Monero not for the profit but for the fear of absolutely needing it in the future. I fear corporates and how inconsiderate of our privacy they are.
Surveillance of bitcoin and any other public network is only going to increase. Layer two or side chains protocols is a Band-Aid for privacy. Only true default base layer privacy will provide true fungible money!
Everyone is afraid of Monero because of possible regulations, but once some hard crackdowns on crypto are announced the price of XMR rises. Because of all the coins Monero is in fact a hedge as one of the most resistant to the regulators
The problem I have with privacy coins like Monero is that governments will probably crackdown on them and require all exchanges to delist them. Sure, we could still trade Monero without exchanges, but if no exchange list them and we have to rely on going out of our way to find private P2P to trade, it will have very little potential of growth.
If the world is based on fiat, and surveillance isn’t stopping anytime soon, the only way to get privacy with Monero is by using it in the secondary market, which may affect the price. It’s more like an instrument rather than an investment.
95% of people care more convenience than privacy. I think privacy advocates always have a difficult time understanding how little the average person actually cares about privacy.
He answered it in the section right below the question, so I'll just summarize it as briefly as I can: your online activity and content is being continually compiled and data-mined, then the data sold or simply provided to advertisers and other interested parties. That is how your lack of online privacy is utilized against you by Big Tech.
One of my concern with monero is liquidity and availability. Its easier for me at the moment to trade btc in a big or even a local exchange coz most supports btc. Even peer to peer, btc is widely accepted. Not the case with other alts. Having said that being anonymous for me in terms of privacy is enough. Ye, btc is not super private but somehow anonymous.
Your boss etc already can't see what you spend your money on... Monero is only useful for illegal activities where you would have the government trying to spy on you.
Wait.. is everyone here publishing their wallet-addresses on their Facebook accounts or something? Cause just like my bank-account, I don't share that with people... Am I doing something wrong?
Where did you get that absurd strawman argument from? That's not one of the examples he gave, and is not even realistic. Here, I'll do one: "Wait, is everyone here spamming pictures of their genitals to their entire contact list? Because I just keep those to myself and the person I'm currently sleeping with... Am I doing something wrong?"
Well, then you can be one of those people who doesn't need privacy. I, for one, would love to get my hands on your phone and your computer and see the last 100 things you searched for, and all the webpages you visited in the past week.
Where I am from, there are actually strict rules to protect the renters, for instance if I have rented a place for more than 2 years, the owner cannot cancel my contract unless he need to live there himself.
"Hmm This guy made some crypto profits... Let's charge him a higher rent and higher maintenance fees... In fact let's snoop around too and see if we can find any passwords, seed phrases, privkeys, hardware wallets"
Apparently there are enough druggies out there to make it #25 out of 19,631, right between some obscure and practically unknown coins named Bitcoin Cash and Stellar.
Well, Facebook made people believe that it's okay to not care about your privacy.
Facebook gets all the hate, even though google did it before and in a much bigger scale. Reason? Its easier to quit facebook, so more people can virtue signal about it.
Really amazing to me how many people I know will talk about the awful things Meta does with their data… then just keep using their products
Banks destroying marriages since ancient times
A caretaker with an onlyfans account? HIRED! Start today.. no, Now!
Maybe they have couple's account 👀
Just tell your wife you watch porn. It will be a lot better than my scenario, when I got caught watching it.
Monero saving marriages and love affairs like a discreet ninja 🥷
Many marriages were saved this day lol
Invest into Monero not to make profit, but so that the project endures. Not everyone will need it or use it. But one day you might. Keep it till that.
This is exactly what I am using it for as well. I lived in China and I used Monero to buy a VPN (Astrill) seeing VPNs and crypto payments are/were illegal there. I will use the rest to buy when I need to use it. It isn't really an investment for me but a tool to buy things I need/may need that I don't want tracked.
Monero is a coin with a genuine use case, serving its purpose without being shilled by influencers. I will keep buying in the bear market.
When someone makes a post about Monero, it is really not shilling anything. It is just raising awareness
Alexa, order me 10 pounds of cocaine. Privacy is important alexa so don't call the cops.
Can Alexa work with tor?
The government likes to make us think privacy is a crime but no, it’s a human right.
Thought criminal
"Saying that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying that you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."
Thank you monero for never giving up the fight to maintain privacy
XMR for Life
Thanks for spreading the word, Monero really should be in everyone's portfolio.
Agreed!
Yet when someone asks what people are holding through the bear market or even holding in general, I never see anyone say XMR. (Except a couple)
I DCA into Monero not for the profit but for the fear of absolutely needing it in the future. I fear corporates and how inconsiderate of our privacy they are.
The thing is privacy just isn’t important to that many people. The people who care, care a lot. The people who don’t, literally don’t care at all.
Surveillance of bitcoin and any other public network is only going to increase. Layer two or side chains protocols is a Band-Aid for privacy. Only true default base layer privacy will provide true fungible money!
I wanna buy some and forget about it. Not as an investment, but to support a project with good values and good philosophy.
Last summer you spent money on alcohol… thank you monero for allowing me to enjoy my life
This whole post reads like a Saul Goodman ad.
Please treat it as such.
Did you know that you have rights?! Monero says you do, and so do I!
Monero is inevitable
Imagine being a crypto enthusiast and not having at least some Monero.
Only coin you can still mone on your CPU as well, this is a big deal because it means anyone can mine.
If you have nothing to hide, then give me your password.
Great question. Not sure if the Facebook generation cares about privacy in the first place
Facebook Generation is about to die soon
As a person from the Facebook generation, not many of us make the mark these days.
Same goes for the TikTok generation (aka Generation Z, whereas the Facebook generation is Millennials).
Everyone is afraid of Monero because of possible regulations, but once some hard crackdowns on crypto are announced the price of XMR rises. Because of all the coins Monero is in fact a hedge as one of the most resistant to the regulators
As someone around Monero community for a lot of years now, it makes me happy to see monero being talked about again (:
Monero is the best privacy network and would be called as a king in terms of privacy.
The FBI, CIA, SEC, NSA and a few other acronyms have entered the chat.
This made me buy monero
Monero get shilled so much that it’s surprising it’s not any higher versus other projects.
Look at the shape of its 7-day graph versus the other Top 50 coins here; it's been doing better than about 40 of the others:
I think the opposite is true. For how big it is, it has very few shills
does it? It was my first crypto for only 1 reason - it is not transparent. I avoid BTC for that reason. No shilling was needed.
I'm trying to find a cold wallet for XMR that I like
lmao or Brexit was just popular
all hail monero the one true crypto...that said there will be better opportunities to make more money in the ZK space in the coming months.
The problem I have with privacy coins like Monero is that governments will probably crackdown on them and require all exchanges to delist them. Sure, we could still trade Monero without exchanges, but if no exchange list them and we have to rely on going out of our way to find private P2P to trade, it will have very little potential of growth.
so far they've only put a bounty to break its privacy
Lol, since when do Cypherpunks care about the government's opinion ? xD
They have their use cases. I would even go as far as saying that growth for Monero would be its downfall.
Yep, their prospects are grim.
Which is one of the reasons I'm bullish on SCRT who has optional privacy,
If the world is based on fiat, and surveillance isn’t stopping anytime soon, the only way to get privacy with Monero is by using it in the secondary market, which may affect the price. It’s more like an instrument rather than an investment.
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95% of people care more convenience than privacy. I think privacy advocates always have a difficult time understanding how little the average person actually cares about privacy.
You can only mine XMR with a CPU, meaning you can’t buy special equipment to mine it. no POW bans are relevant to monero.
He answered it in the section right below the question, so I'll just summarize it as briefly as I can: your online activity and content is being continually compiled and data-mined, then the data sold or simply provided to advertisers and other interested parties. That is how your lack of online privacy is utilized against you by Big Tech.
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I really like monero.
Sorry, I don't believe that non-transparent tokens have a future. They'll likely be outlawed.
The same was said about Bitcoin in the early crypto years.
You can’t really “ban” crypto.
They can't see them so how can they be outlawed? P2P payments can't be outlawed or stopped as a medium of exchange.
Like drugs, stealing, fraud, killing, soon to be abortions.... That'll stop them.
One of my concern with monero is liquidity and availability. Its easier for me at the moment to trade btc in a big or even a local exchange coz most supports btc. Even peer to peer, btc is widely accepted. Not the case with other alts. Having said that being anonymous for me in terms of privacy is enough. Ye, btc is not super private but somehow anonymous.
Btc is not private at all. It’s literally a transparent blockchain like most cryptos.
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It's not that simple, but it might be worthwhile.
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The biggest weakness for me is that the SCRT coin itself used for gas in the network itself, is not private.
No matter how hard you try dear monero holders - nobody cares - I am sorry
I don't think too many people look at monero as an investment. But use it more for its privacy.
Also a reminder that there are more privacy coins than montero. Secret is also an amazing one with even 30% APY.
My boy apparently has never heard of these things called "background checks" and "credit reports".
Your boss etc already can't see what you spend your money on... Monero is only useful for illegal activities where you would have the government trying to spy on you.
Your boss can see your exchange deposit and withdrawal addresses, when the exchange accidentally leaks them or gets hacked.
Wait.. is everyone here publishing their wallet-addresses on their Facebook accounts or something? Cause just like my bank-account, I don't share that with people... Am I doing something wrong?
Where did you get that absurd strawman argument from? That's not one of the examples he gave, and is not even realistic. Here, I'll do one: "Wait, is everyone here spamming pictures of their genitals to their entire contact list? Because I just keep those to myself and the person I'm currently sleeping with... Am I doing something wrong?"
Its soooo hard to make a separate wallet for your onlyfans?
And then what ? Once you pay something with it or send funds to one of your other wallets, it gets linked to you again.
Well, then you can be one of those people who doesn't need privacy. I, for one, would love to get my hands on your phone and your computer and see the last 100 things you searched for, and all the webpages you visited in the past week.
Where I am from, there are actually strict rules to protect the renters, for instance if I have rented a place for more than 2 years, the owner cannot cancel my contract unless he need to live there himself.
"Hmm This guy made some crypto profits... Let's charge him a higher rent and higher maintenance fees... In fact let's snoop around too and see if we can find any passwords, seed phrases, privkeys, hardware wallets"
nice advertisement!
Want privacy? Use Erg
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Apparently there are enough druggies out there to make it #25 out of 19,631, right between some obscure and practically unknown coins named Bitcoin Cash and Stellar.
My bear case and the reason I'm not in is how zoomers don't really seem to care about privacy.
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Lotta tangents here hahahah
Don’t borrow or you’ll get into too much dept
DEBT
Cambridge analytica was mostly a fraud.