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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[email protected]

Hello everyone,

After a discussion on [email protected] ( https://feddit.org/post/6950586 ), a few people interested in privacy decided to reopen [email protected] as an alternative to [email protected] .

It's also nice to have a privacy community on an instance that can be accessed via VPNs.

Feel free to join us there!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hello @[email protected] @[email protected], could you please clarify?

From what I understood, promoting privacy services which allow to pay in crypto is OK, but not to promote cryptocurrencies themselves?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm ok with people promoting services which accept cryptocurrencies (hell, Lemmy itself accepts crypto donations). However promoting cryptocurrencies itself is a no-no in our instance.

Also: Crypto is a not private. The blockchain is public.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Crypto is a not private. The blockchain is public.

Not necessarily true for all ledgers, such as monero.

https://www.getmonero.org/get-started/faq/#anchor-different

Monero uses three different privacy technologies: ring signatures, ring confidential transactions (RingCT), and stealth addresses. These hide the sender, amount, and receiver in the transaction, respectively. All transactions on the network are private by mandate; there is no way to accidentally send a transparent transaction. This feature is exclusive to Monero. You do not need to trust anyone else with your privacy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Monero users can and have been deanonymized by the police. Monero also acts as a de-facto tumbler, meaning by using it, you're money laundering for criminals as a matter of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

but not to promote cryptocurrencies themselves

My core complaint still stands, digital fungible money is part of the privacy conversation. Especially threat modeling for people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Personally it's okay with me. Feel free to have a look at the previous thread (https://feddit.org/post/6950586), but long story short

LW is not ideal as they don't allow VPNs
lemmy.ml is known for admins powertripping https://feddit.nl/post/16246531
programming.dev recently had federation issues (still do based on my last posts on [email protected] )
lemmy.one's admins are always silent

Lemmy.dbzer0 has a very good record of stability and management. If we need to discuss crypto in a dedicated discussion, why not. To be fair, I expect some backlash of any pro-crypto discussions in a general privacy community anyway.