Can’t be kicked off of Nostr and PayPal and other services can’t freeze Monero.

I think that had a lot to do with the fact that it was using Bitcoin as the currency and the fact that it was VC funded. Neroshop is Monero and not vc https://github.com/layters/testshop

Okay, I’ve never played it.

I’ll be honest, I read the link fully expecting to completely disagree with it, and actually I don’t. There’s actually a decent amount of it I do agree with. Bitcoin has evolved and not in a good way from what it was meant to be which was peer-to-peer digital cash that anybody could use to send money around the world in an instant with no government oversight. That’s actually the big reason that I’m interested in Monero, because it still fulfills that vision while providing user privacy and low fees. It does use proof of work mining, so uses electricity for that, but it is much better than Bitcoin simply because it uses your general CPU that you find in your phone, your desktop, your laptop, etc. and does not require specialized hardware that costs a ton of money and burns a crap ton of power to only mine.

You may or may not find my arguments above compelling, but I appreciate the link. Because, as I said, I expected to fully disagree with it and found more agreement than I expected to.

I love the idea, but it’s definitely nowhere near ready yet for prime time. And the data speeds are incredibly slow. Using it definitely is possible, but it would be absolutely nothing like the internet we are currently used to.

Meshtastic and reticulium.

Nothing in this world is ever 100% complete, but decentralization and protocols are extremely good combat measures. It is possible to poke holes in almost anything. But that does not mean it’s not worth trying.

That’s not something you hear about every day.

Could always use a vpn or tor

Theres always tor

Nostr + monero = 🖕

Nostr + monero = 🖕

That is definitely a good point.

That’s what integrity checks are for, so that no one along the path can edit what you say before it actually gets published.

Protocols not platforms are the future.

Nostr + monero = 🖕

You mean the fast rappers like DMX? Actually, no. I can’t. They even speak too fast for me.

Certainly not spreadsheets. If that’s what you do for fun, you need to reevaluate your life.

We are in the then they fight you stage.

Personally, I don’t do spreadsheets, or I do them incredibly rarely, but obviously for that, you need a bigger screen. And I do have a laptop. I just don’t use it all that often. My phone is my primary computing device. My phone is not my only computing device.