Mullvad or ivpn for vpn, tutanota or posteo for mail.

Also stop looking at advertisements for privacy tools and services.

I’d fucking switch banks lmao, that’s atrocious.

I’m sorry dawg.

Just tap the card and check your bank account via browser?

We’ve been doing electronic payment and banking without smartphones for decades…

Fake money for criminals because that also means diy hrt, recreational drugs, and piracy.

Its not all money laundering y’know! Sometimes its the good criminals!

Yeah but its probably unfortunately more common for women due to society valuing us less, and therefore providing us with less opportunity to move up and make living wages.

Goes double for trans women. Its a control tactic to keep us reliant on cis men.

Normally I’d agree but this gets posted anytime anyone says something about anonymous crypto payments like some magic gatchya, and Its getting really hard to believe its not in bad faith at this point.

Okay, politely, fuck off. Its 2026 and I absolutely refuse to believe anyone educated on crypto enough to know what a blockchain is and how it works, even if just a basic understanding, doesn’t know about encrypted blockchains or XMR.

You get to post this comment like once in your life, and after that we both know its in bad faith. I really doubt its the first time.

Admittedly I’m not a hardcore crytography nerd, but I know they’ve been improving things for years, and that message on that mailing list looked like it was 10 years old.

Not saying your wrong, but Id take it with a grain of salt. Anytime I see a newer encrypted block chain I see it and think whatever improvements have been done here, will eventually bleed into monero because of that. And that unlike the other encrypted blockchain, people will still actively be using xmr for real transactions.

IMO xmr kinda saved proof of work by optimising their algo for consumer grade CPUs.

CPU mining is much less econimcal than GPU because you can’t fit as many CPUs on a single system. Plus server grade CPUs with lots of smol cores instead of a few big ones hurts it too.

Makes it hard for anyone other than nerds with am extra PC to make money mining, and most of those guys won’t be purposely picking a geographic location with the cheapest/most environmentally harmful electricity source. (More nerds live off of nuclear/solar than datacenters full of miners do)

Yeah but without anonymous payments (xmr) there’s no good way to easily pay for diy estrogen or hosting for piracy services, or to anonymously pay my mullvad account.

Granted if society wherent setup as a giant fucking fascist capitalistic panopticon we wouldn’t really need any of that.

Any who, I mostly agree with the sentiment though. “Career” investors and venture capitalists belong against a fucking wall IMO.

Aight im in my 20s and even I did this growing up, is that person just a fucking teenager or something?

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