Google Chrome warns of a drop of users. There, I corrected the title.

Make sure your router has built-in VPN support folks. That way when some shit like this does eventually pass all your traffic can flow over the VPN for your entire network.

I haven’t even read the article, and I already hate it just by the title. I shall now go and read the article itself. The primary reason I hate it already is because anything with crime is generally used to take away people’s liberty.

New article title. YouTube tests more ways of making their service shit and driving away users.

Edit: TIFO Scott Manley is on Odysee so i will start watching him there instead. One less yt channel is always a good thing

Sure, but have a look at people actually using bitcoin or lightning to actually spend money on real goods and services such as at coin cards or cake pay or other services such as that and you will find that very very few people use lightning. Also, I am on Nostr promoting Monero. It is currently a Bitcoin safe haven but is slowly yielding to market forces as everywhere else is.

Yes and no cash for the physical world does indeed protect your privacy properly. However, you do run into the issue that you have to trust. Your government’s currency, which at least for me, I do not. So Monero is also a way of getting out from the government currency that I believe is being debased and devalued.

Not Monero equals not worth it. If you’re still using Bitcoin in today’s world, after all the issues with mixing and the high fees, you’re just crazy.

In a world where Monero exists, there is no way to stop the flow of money.

Based on most business readings, the idea that most transactions occur on lightning is kind of ridiculous. You see tons of businesses that accept both main chain and lightning published statistics every single month and lightning is extremely low adoption and is not increasing.

Except, that you missed the fact that it has moved on. It’s now on AI and crypto is still around and growing.

Exactly. Bitcoin is a zombie technology. And Monero is taking the reins.

Right, Monero is the big player these days

helps prevent theft evasion.

Well, there are plenty of places that do accept Monero. Take a look at https://monerica.com and https://xmrbazaar.com which is a small but growing marketplace to buy and sell anything you wish (excluding illegal goods) .

No, but it’s very easy to buy a Domino’s gift card with Monero and use that.

Monero is for everybody. The most common things I purchase on a monthly basis in Monero are Domino’s Pizza and groceries. And as far as I’m aware, neither of those things are illegal. Monero is money, just like a $100 bill is money (currently). It is perfectly legal to hold and use Monero.

Yeah, Monero is absolutely your best bet for financial privacy in the digital world. There’s nothing that compares.

The fact that it’s used for crime means that it actually does what it’s supposed to do and keeping people private. Shoes are also used by bank robbers and we don’t ban shoes. Monero is a tool the same as a hammer or a shoe or a car or a gun.

One internet connected computer could make many paper wallets of whatever denomination they wished and then use those as currency. As long as it’s provable that the paper has not been spent which a hologram or one of those gift card scratch off things would help with. Anyone who receives such a paper that has not been tampered with can be assured that the money that it claims to have is actually there and can take it to any internet connected computer in the world and transfer it to their own digital wallet from the paper wallet. Or they could broadcast the transaction over any kind of transmission medium up to and including amateur radio over HF.

Edit: Unless I’m doing my math wrong, which I totally could be, it would take about a minute and a half to broadcast a current Monero transaction over HF amateur radio with a possible maximum of 6 minutes if full chain membership transactions are 10kb (which i have heard as an upper limit)

Okay, I was not aware of that, so thanks for the information.