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minus-squaregarbage_world@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down13·3 days agoMullvad VPN is popularizing crypto
minus-squaregarbage_world@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down10·3 days agoThey’re offering discounts for paying with monero
minus-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·3 days agoMonero is anonymous, so it makes sense.
minus-squaregarbage_world@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down15·3 days agoIt’s still crypto, with all the downsides of crypto.
minus-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·3 days agoDo you have a better way of making anonymous digital payments?
minus-squaregarbage_world@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down30·3 days agoJust don’t? Privacy benefits only criminals anyway
minus-squareMelusine@tarte.nuage-libre.frlinkfedilinkFrançaisarrow-up11·3 days agoI don’t know if you are serious, but the idea that people have nothing to hide comes from Nazi Germany. Also, lgbtq+ people may need to hide from their family without being cut from communities, just to give an example.
minus-squaregarbage_world@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down10·3 days agoThe source of an idea doesn’t change its value. If my family didn’t accept the fact that I’m aroace, I would forget about them and change my life. Openness solves all the problems that privacy solves, and does so better.
minus-squaremichaelalf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoOkay now I know this is a troll
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoThat’s a profoundly pro tyranny statement
minus-squarekate@lemmy.uhhoh.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agobecause the buyer pays transaction fees and there is no risk of chargeback so their costs are inherently lower if you pay that way?
minus-squaregarbage_world@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·2 days agoAlmost nobody else does that. They just want people to use crypto, because they’re closedness obsessed criminals.
minus-squarekate@lemmy.uhhoh.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoyou think they’re criminals because they did a thing that’s not a crime?
minus-squaregarbage_world@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 days agoI think they’re criminals, because they do things I would expect from criminals.
minus-squareHund@feddit.nuOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoOh! You mean crypto currencies, not crypto. I was confused there for a bit. :D
Mullvad VPN is popularizing crypto
They are? How?
They’re offering discounts for paying with monero
Monero is anonymous, so it makes sense.
It’s still crypto, with all the downsides of crypto.
Do you have a better way of making anonymous digital payments?
Just don’t?
Privacy benefits only criminals anyway
I don’t know if you are serious, but the idea that people have nothing to hide comes from Nazi Germany. Also, lgbtq+ people may need to hide from their family without being cut from communities, just to give an example.
The source of an idea doesn’t change its value.
If my family didn’t accept the fact that I’m aroace, I would forget about them and change my life.
Openness solves all the problems that privacy solves, and does so better.
Okay now I know this is a troll
That’s a profoundly pro tyranny statement
because the buyer pays transaction fees and there is no risk of chargeback so their costs are inherently lower if you pay that way?
Almost nobody else does that. They just want people to use crypto, because they’re closedness obsessed criminals.
you think they’re criminals because they did a thing that’s not a crime?
I think they’re criminals, because they do things I would expect from criminals.
like… not crime stuff…
Oh! You mean crypto currencies, not crypto. I was confused there for a bit. :D
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