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Re: "The war on privacy continues, Binance delist the privacy..."
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.
Feb 12 · 6 months ago
🍄 Ruby_Witch · 2024-02-12 at 06:08:
@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.
I personally don't use Monero, but the only example I know of how it is used seems not only legitimate, but vital in my view.
There's people doing journalism in risky settings that rely on it to do their work. I don't have any, but if I did, I'd send some to them.
Like mediocregopher said, all the other privacy focused tools could be looked at with suspicion too. And the original post was aiming for a privacy angle on the issue.
That being said, maybe Monero does deserve it's own space on here...
Cheers.
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...
💬 ElectricalDance · 8 comments · 3 likes · Feb 07 · 7 months ago