Because those are not as durable and safe.
Lopp did excellent testing on many types of seed word devices. A good read...
https://blog.lopp.net/a-treatise-on-bitcoin-seed-backup-device-design/
I just found this Engraver at Harbor Freight for $10.
Yeah, it's Chinaman Junk, ...but $10!!! Now you have no excuse for not inscribing your precious seed words on stainless steel as commanded by God.
Pro-Tip: Ask your Dentist for his old drill bits. They work great, and now mine is interested in Monero.
I was being facetious. It's actually the opposite.
Government Regulation is the number one way mega-corporations reduce competition, corrupt markets, and forcibly extract wealth from Working Class Mules.
Fairshake, Protect Progress and Defend American Jobs, Brian Armstrong, Ron Conway, Fred Wilson, Ben Horowitz and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are laying the groundwork right now to literally steal crypto from us, the small Hodler.
Crypto Pleb don't care now, but oh how they will howl when the Great Taking is actually executed.
A network of cryptocurrency-backed super PACs is heading into 2024 with $78 million at its disposal.
Benevolent Wall Street Crypto Bros are forming Super-PACs and spending almost 100 million dollars buying Politicians in order to protect YOU, the small Hodler, from rapacious Government.
😂
We need a current comprehensive expose' of how CloudFlare is a MITM attack.
Something solid and flawless we can refer people to, because most people don't believe it when you tell them.
This guy Aaron Day has been working to raise awareness about how Bitcoin was co-opted by the Banksters. Worth a follow...
He runs this "Free Roger" community on Twitter...
How does it improve over Monero Market?
I put several things on Monero Market a couple of months ago, but got no joy.
Ah. Thank you.
I have seen so many Monero-oriented phishing domains in Google ranked higher than the real domains I'm beginning to suspect it's not an error.
How did your friend put in the wrong URL ?
Was it a spoofed link on a website, a phishing email, or did he just type it in wrong ?
Thanks.
Academic paper from last month's International World Wide Web Conference for people who enjoy reading such things. :-)
*"Our approach involves injecting malicious Monero Tor hidden service nodes into the Monero P2P network to correlate the onion addresses of incoming Monero Tor hidden service peers with their originating transactions.
And by sending a signal watermark embedded with the onion address to the Tor circuit, we establish a correlation between the onion address and IP address of a Monero Tor hidden service node."*
MicroStrategy founder and Executive Chairman Michael Saylor agreed to a $40 million settlement with the District of Columbia, according to the attorney general's office.
"Maybe you need something like a Monero". - M. Saylor, 2020
Yeah bro. Maybe you do. 😂
Yes.
Why not post a link @CaptainCanaryLLC ?
Circumventing Bankster rip-offs like Ebay, Amazon, and Facebook Marketplace are critical to our survival.
Increasing real-world Monero usage is how we succeed.
Bitcoin Number-Go-Up Degenerates are like Gun Owners who support a law banning the sale of new semi-automatics if it would make the semi-autos they currently own more valuable.
Some say this sudden increase in transaction volume is the result of Bitcoiners fleeing into Monero after the recent publicity proving that No-KYC Bitcoin use is de-facto illegal.
I choose to believe this regardless of whether it's true or not. 😁
Because Bitcoin Nodes run a public ledger, but Monero Nodes are private.
STEP 1: FUD the Scaling
The network that was meant to be the foundational difference from fiat was deemed unworkable. A Layer 2 solution was promoted as the only way.
STEP 2: Introduce the Red Herring
In order to hold off on-chain scaling, the Lightning Network was introduced. Just wait 18 more months. It'll be ready and it will be amazing!
STEP 3: Jack Up Fees
Use Ordinals to jack fees high enough that no one can afford to self-custody, let alone use the main layer for anything normal.
STEP 4: Introduce Custodial L2
Liquid hung out in the background while Lightning was promoted. When Lightning broke because of crazy high fees, Liquid was quick to slide in as a solution.
STEP 5: Bridge from Exchanges Straight to L2
Now Banksters use Ordinals to jack fees to force everyone to withdraw directly to the permissioned L2. A host of exchanges can bridge to and from Liquid, and this is promoted as the ultimate solution.
Coinbase conveniently shuts off functionality for most payment coins on its merchant app. This funnels people into "trusted" KYC L2s.
Congratulations, most crypto users are now permanently stuck in a permissioned, custodial system, unable to afford actually controlling and owning their own money on permissionless networks.
Satoshi is rolling in his grave, but the Banksters are happy. What an amazing coincidence!
(plagarized from Joel Valenzuela @TheDesertLynx)
Excellent video. Thank you @ShadowRebel@monero.town
I believe things are in a state of flux as security and privacy-minded people re-adjust to the new reality wherein attacks with real-world consequences (like getting thrown in prison on false charges) are no longer theoretical.
In the past, such things mostly only happened to high-profile activists like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. Now it's happening to normal, everyday people, just like we predicted for years would happen.
Things are getting "real". People are adjusting.
Interesting. I'd never heard of this. Thank you.
This is why I run good 'ol Debian Stable.
Slower is sometimes better. :-)
@SummerBreeze ,
Is this you on Nostr ?....
npub14slk4lshtylkrqg9z0dvng09gn58h88frvnax7uga3v0h25szj4qzjt5d6 , SimplifiedPrivacy@getalby.com
I followed that account. I want to slowly organize a stealthy infiltration and eventual subjugation of Nostr by Monero Bros. :-)
Gab accepts Bitcoin, but refuses to accept Monero.
Torba knows Bitcoin is not private and is easily traceable. I've discussed this fact with him.
Naïve people often mistake malevolence for incompetence.
Gatekeepers recommend ineffective and/or dangerous solutions on purpose.
Monero is a good measure of how serious and trustworthy a news source or social platform is.
For example, GAB refuses to accept donations or membership fees in Monero, and Infowars uses Cloudflare.
I mean, really.
It's like some people don't even know Atomic Swaps exist.
In this video I discuss how the hacker responsible for the Vastaamo data breach incident was caught due to numerous OPSEC mistakes and not really any flaws with the Monero protocol.
Contains good examples of the bad operational security mistakes one should avoid.