• magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

      • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Not all crypto is the same. ZCASH uses an encrypted ledger. Monero combines transactions and redistributes to obfuscate.

      • clb92@feddit.dkEnglish
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        2 months ago

        The ledger being public doesn’t necessarily mean anyone knows who “13LPtD4GG1XX7fgrze6xMR5V284rRQg9jv” is. But yeah, you can of course track the movement of funds, and make educated guesses on which addresses belong to who.

        • Bonsoir@lemmy.caEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Which is pseudonymous, and not anonymous. Unless we are talking about monero of course.

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You do know that you can pay for mullvad in cash?

      You can send cash in an envelope to them with your mullvad ID and they will credit your account.

  • neatchee@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    sigh

    Once again:

    Blockchain is not synonymous with cryptomining

    Blockchain does not require proof of work

    Cryptocurrency and NFT grifting does not devalue blockchain as an immutable distributed ledger

    I swear to god people just copy paste whatever makes them feel good without any effort at understanding