PastafARRian

Seashells require face to face interaction, they weigh a lot and they are not convenient to obtain. Nor are they fungible or even anonymous. I am not convinced they are better than Monero, or that Monero has no value.

Yes, so you agree that Monero has value then, especially in countries like the US?

Source?

Pix sounds trivially easy to censor, freeze, or control from the government’s perspective. Unless I’m missing something that makes it easier for the government to censor innocuous NSFW content. And we don’t have anything like it in the US so it’s useless to me.

Monero can be used immediately without storing a balance for longer than a few minutes, although a correlation attack would be trivial like that. But at best it is not subject to market whims any longer than you decide is necessary for your anonymity needs. It’s the perfect case for purchasing NSFW software, where you want the purchase private and uncensored even when it’s perfectly legal. That sounds like an incredible real world value, even after the crypto bros are long gone and the value dumps (imo) 99%. But it’s a tool that needs no real world value.

Monero, a decentralized censorship proof cryptocurrency, has no real utility with regard to solving MasterCard’s censorship and only depends on a pyramid of investors to function at all? That is not my understanding.

Yes, most cryptos are treated like pump and dump scams. 99% of usage is like that. Absolutely does not change the underlying utility nor would I recommend “investing” in them.

It’s mostly used like that, but doesn’t mean it has no utility whatsoever.

Bitcoin does have some more utility based proposals but for the foreseeable future, I agree. Most cryptos are like that too.

“Cryptocurrency is only a pyramid scheme and has no real utility!”

When you make $150k, you usually have to live in a preposterously expensive area and have your entire life structured around your job. You eat better meals and have a better car so you can work better, and if you don’t you’re fired because someone else will. Student loans are how you got there to begin. It costs a lot money to work.

If you’re really committed, Wine or Quickemu are pretty damn good now. Grasshopper may almost fully work. Worth a shot. If you’re generous and it works well enough, you can create bugs for any gaps in behavior and help everyone else. But not everyone has time for it.

Selfishly, I think this is great for I2P/Snowflake/Tor. The incoming legitimate traffic helps to protect its most vulnerable users.

Depends which society. In Iran there are no gay people so there’s no conversation to begin. Literally not a single one. 😏

People weren’t gay until 1989 so that makes sense. Literally not a single one. 😏

Oh come on, you think it’s not in the OS itself with no ability to disable it? AdGuard is not going to necessarily help the fundamental issue here.

“I am hosting a pirate bay instance AI” foolproof.

Until they change those policy definitions.

If he did his career could be in jeopardy. It’s not an honesty or integrity problem.

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It wasn’t immediately clear, I think you need to change your username to IUseArchBtw so we all know off the bat.