can you cross post to there for me? I'm banned from lemmy.ml and no reason was given
SimpleX Server Payments: Will XMR be a default?
Simplified Privacy’s group chat on SimpleX will have the lead developer Evgeny Poberezkin drop by to answer your questions. Saturday June 29, 1 hour starting at: 2pm UTC New York 10am Hong Kong 10pm Join in advance, don’t wait for right before the event...
SimpleX will be integrating payments to the server operators to provide incentives to decentralize the network. He’s using a voucher blockchain system, but that’s what the customer gets. The question is what the customer pays.
Can the customer pay in Monero included in the self-host default packages, or will operators have to provide their own XMR infrastructure? This is a big deal. These are the types of questions you can ask directly at tomorrow (or tonight if you live in asia)’s event.
The SimpleX dev is dropping by Simplified Privacy’s chat to answer community questions. Consider showing up to show Monero love and sway his mind to natively support it with his vendor package bundles.
Saturday June 29, 1 hour starting at: 2pm UTC / or / New York 10am / or / Hong Kong 10pm
These are both the same room, we offer choices for the moderator to be online to connect you. Here’s East EU & Asia timezone: https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-4&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FN_McQS3F9TGoh4ER0QstUf55kGnNSd-wXfNPZ7HukcM%3D%40smp19.simplex.im%2F-0fWTzXMJNobsaiaodOGLOfm0m9pq05I%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAdfeJrGjuY_qKripG4E7xle6nTDWOWuBPtWmapW6pyEc%253D%26srv%3Di53bbtoqhlc365k6kxzwdp5w3cdt433s7bwh3y32rcbml2vztiyyz5id.onion&data=%7B%22type%22%3A%22group%22%2C%22groupLinkId%22%3A%22yhJzAfpfVkMynOUVxs412g%3D%3D%22%7D
West EU & Americas: https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-5&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FSkIkI6EPd2D63F4xFKfHk7I1UGZVNn6k1QWZ5rcyr6w%3D%40smp9.simplex.im%2FxPXefPbN7ZAkPyMKzJmQrFD_fv55R6w_%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEALLyynGdXLoWke3pIt1CrR00p62eT0ewpKEaWn542gWA%253D%26srv%3Djssqzccmrcws6bhmn77vgmhfjmhwlyr3u7puw4erkyoosywgl67slqqd.onion&data=%7B%22type%22%3A%22group%22%2C%22groupLinkId%22%3A%22n99NTwZLjeKwyI4lwMHB_g%3D%3D%22%7D
If you can’t make it and want to ask something, post it here on RebelNet, and we’ll reply his copy. You can hit “connect as guest” to get random numbers/letters without a nostr key, https://rebelnet.me/news/0xbf8079a69a15fd74ae
Leaked Lies at Google
gotta convince the normie friends to use Monero somehow, showing evidence of the corruption is a start
cool. good job, sent you a DM
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I mean old like not maintained, the debian packages are for v9. Tor and Monero have active devs. I think we're gonna struggle with any system that's pure peer-to-peer, servers solve the offline person issue. But I like you and would support the idea. I tried to connect, but you're offline. You use Matrix? [email protected] , we can coordinate when you'll be online to connect retro
Btw can servers seeding be setup? Like if its just run on a VPS as a client, wouldn't that solve the offline issue?
funny. double thumbs up
great post! yes its absurd his shit is on amazon and not pure crypto digital
RetroShare is some really old tech man. look at his github dates
I own the domain MoneroFreedom.x if you want to use it for IPFS/Arweave sites, I'd be willing to donate it if you showed me the content
Also the tech behind RebelNet.me can be self-hosted for XMR tips forum. I agree Reddit isn't great due to censorship/surveillance. And Lemmy is mostly socialists. While as Nostr over Tor is more suitable. This can use Nostr tor relays
Monero 167!
shortwavesurfer selling paper towels for 0.022 XMR
New Marketplace: Monero Talk’s “XMR Bazaar”
XMR Bazaar is a new LEGAL marketplace from the Monero Talk podcast. It offers multi-sig escrow for legal goods/services.
Simplified Privacy is looking to actively promote use of the market with discounted DeGoogled Phone and VPS combo packs.
These open source combo VPS packs offer:
--email (fast loading , guaranteed no spam flag)
--chat servers (your choice of XMPP/SimpleX)
--Cryptpad (end-to-end encrypted google docs replacement)
All on a 1 core VPS. We set it up with your domain choice then hand over root to you.
Vendor Profile: https://xmrbazaar.com/user/SimplifiedPrivacy
VPS Combo: Email, Docs, & Chat https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/3YYU/
Keep your name off the hardware identifiers:
GrapheneOS Pixel 6a 6GB RAM, 128GB storage Like New w/ 1 hour consult ($295) https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/dpkQ/
GrapheneOS Pixel 7a 8GB RAM, 128GB storage Like New w/ 1 hour consult ($425) https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/n5Ja/
To get in to XMRBazaar, you need the following info: user: beta password: tester
yeah one could, but what about comments. Also as a regular Nostr user, I have to scroll through daily spam on Bitcoin, so we wanted to give us a home. Server-side comes first, then clients. I've seen you get excited about Lemmy with XMR tips, so I don't see how this is different. Lemmy is mostly socialist on the other instances, and ties your user ID to the moderator's discretion.
This should be compatible with RSS, let me ask dev on the URL. Having RSS with XMR tips would be dope. As a content creator, not knowing if anyone reads your RSS is not so fun/motivating
Monero social media site starts off with educational shit talking
Jake Peterson of LifeHacker wrote an article "Google Is an Even Bigger Privacy Nightmare Than You Think" In which he describes the usual abuse cases like leaking corporate data or abusing children’s data without consent. But he ends the article with, "...
How can we get the party started for a Monero social media site to bond a couple of anonymous bros?
Well maybe Big Tech bashing, but with an educational twist.
This site LifeHacker has half-hearted criticism of Google, but the site itself uses Google analytics and the author uses Gmail. Other than the obvious, we turn it into an educational opportunity to have members of the community tell him all the choices there are to DeGoogle your life.
https://rebelnet.me/news/0x2dc0057294f5a05bf7
Who knows? It would be pretty cool if we got a response from the author, and it mentioned Monero.
Most people don’t even know what Monero is. Most people don’t even know what Nostr is. Most people don’t even know why Linux matters. Education is needed. Just talking in a vacuum is talking to yourself. Outreach must be done to existing groups/people. If you want to sit on your ass and do nothing, okay good luck bye. But I’m building. I’m grinding.
agreed, this is the battle. I'm saying, it helps to have the people that already know and use Monero on-board
Yes of course they can use all of these different tools, but having too many tools kills the network effect. I was telling you about arweave before, did you know Lens posts to Layer 3 arweave, so it can scale? Lens has DNS & does pictures over Nostr. Will Nostr folks find out? No, no network effect.
RebelNet uses Nostr, but Nostr by itself is hard for new users. When you create a new keypair on your local device, you are meaningless with no discovery. In order to be heard, people follow mass amounts of other people they dislike, which ruins their feed and kills the fun. While on the RebelNet, all voices are heard based on merit, and you can build your Nostr following which you then own off-platform.
Nostr clients don’t differentiate between the same post being reposted by a different user. This forces you to reread the same posts, creating resentment against the content creator. This resentment is why after you go viral, your next few posts get a dead response as people automatically skip rereading your stuff.
In contrast, the RebelNet can link all of these. Interoperability is the path to adoption. In the same sense that converting cryptocurrencies from one to another makes them more widely used. This is bigger than a “website”, it’s the layer 0 protocol.
RebelNet is an agnostic protocol that allows for many other protocols to cross communicate. So one of those is Nostr, which should be fairly well known among Monero users. Here's a video explaining: https://rebelnet.me/news/0xad937afc3901f9e4c6
Monero tips on Nostr?! Live now
<b>Q: How do I tip others?</b> A: First hit the Monero icon at the bottom of the post. The address and an uptrend button will appear. Copy paste the XMR address into your off-platform wallet, and then hit the uptrend button to signify you sent it. It will...
Let’s face it, our way of life is under attack. The exchanges delist us. Dubai bans us. EU restricts. Others countries we wonder. Nostr Bitcoin Maxis try to haze us. Ethereum VC funded devs treat us like pariahs. Even if you want to act tough and curse me out, you know it’s true that we live in some level of fear.
a) To make Monero real world money, you need adoption from everyday people. b) Everyday people don’t care about learning new tech, they learn it from influencers. c) To win over influencers, we need to appeal to what they care about, which is not privacy. They care about censorship, being deplatformed, and being demonetized.
Russell Brand demonetized. Glenn Beck pulled from Apple podcasts. America’s front line doctors banned from how many platforms? These are just some well-known examples, but I know dozens of mid-level political guys rug pulled by Big Tech. If we shift the conversation away from Monero is darknet markets, and turn it to undeniably monetized free speech: This is a winning battle.
But there’s a lot of choices with censorship resistance. Nostr, Session, Ethereum push channels, Farcaster, Lens, Arweave, IPFS, SimpleX, and the list goes on. The problem with “encryption as identity” is people do not agree on what coins or keys are legitimate. And this fighting and fragmentation kills adoption.
Here’s how we solve it: Simplified Privacy w/ DegenRocket has created a cross-key cryptographically agnostic protocol. This means ANYONE can cross-communicate. Our demo example has Nostr and Ethereum talking to each other… with Monero tips.
This reduces the number of clients and apps people have to download. When you SIGN you’re sending XMR, you first publicly telegraph you’re doing so with Nostr or Eth. This separates your SOCIAL identity (Nostr/Eth), from your FINANCIAL identity (XMR) in the eyes of Chainalysis AI.
Here’s the plan:
Step 1. You. It takes only 2 minutes to generate a random keypair and see how it works. Post your stuff, have fun. If you are “too busy”, then that’s the response influencers are going to have to making a Monero wallet. You can not control politicians. All you can control is your own actions.
Step 2. Me. I pledge to reach out to 356 influencers over the next year, and pitch them on the undeniable value of ownership and self-custody of their communication and revenue stream, as opposed to being a slave of Big Tech. That if they adopt an interoperability protocol, you get the ears of ALL these keys, starting with the adoption from you.
Step 3. Us. When they come on the protocol regardless of Nostr or Eth keys, we hit them with $0 zap Monero emojis. Nothing motivates someone to generate a wallet, like being able to count how much they are missing out.
Monero is true free speech. It’s about time we turned up the volume.
Here’s the info: https://rebelnet.me/news/0xe037eaa0a7d252c9a9
Libertarian Convention quick recap [Anti-CBDC]
--The Mises Caucus is an ideologically pure group, with Tom Woods, Dave Smith, and many others with an anti-lockdown message --Mises Caucus was backing Michael Rectenwald for the official nomination, but he lost to Oliver Chase --Oliver Chase is anti-wa...
Some in the Monero groups here are not Libertarian, and are more interested in privacy/tech in general. That’s fine. But Macro level politics are important to Monero... Because Reto/Haveno is a response to those politics.
The Libertarian Convention went down and there were some developments, including picking a nominee and Trump speaking. There are big political impacts of Trump talking at LP because he is being forced to be more pro-crypto and anti-CBDC to try to sway Libertarian voters. The fact that a mainstream candidate is even showing up to the table is big. “Free Ross” signs went up directly in front of the conservative cameras like Right Side Broadcasting, and Trump did make concessions on Ross
Now is Trump actually pure? No. Is the LP nominee pure? Actually, No. An ideological battle went down, and here’s what came out of it: https://rebelnet.me/news/0xcfca11d5fe4eb61788
Thanks for bringing to our attention that a random security firm has false flagged the domain.
Deleted Files Permanently leak on Apple?!
In some cases, nude photos, after the user wiped it and sold the device. According to the Verge, quote: “Apple appears to have a bug that’s dredging up data that iPhone owners thought was gone. Some iPhone owners are reporting that, after updating their ...
New iOS update is resurfacing deleted files that users thought were gone.
In some cases, nude photos, even after the user WIPED it and SOLD the device.
Highlighting the danger of using Monero on iPhones and Macs, https://rebelnet.me/news/0xa6f1ae72427b2f1120
So if you haven’t already, consider switching to Linux and DeGoogled phone.
Decloaking VPN traffic: New critical vulnerability
New attack on VPNs!
There is a new critical VPN vulnerability from Leviathan Security group, which they call “TunnelVision”. It allows the ISP or local router to see your VPN traffic by abusing the routing options:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/novel-attack-vpn-tunnelvision/
Update: Feather wallet 2.6.7 Released. [fixes issue]
Update April 29: You have to update Feather wallet, it fixes a previous minor error with sending Monero. This new version is 2.6.7, and I confirmed it works. Your funds are safe. Update right in the wallet. Spread the word.
Original post: I do not speak for the developer, I am just spreading awareness to reduce panic and help.
Feather wallet has an issue. Version 2.6.5 may potentially get a failed transaction on sending funds. Version 2.6.6 has issues with starting up on Linux. Your funds are 100% safe, you can even import the exact file to a different wallet, and not have to resync.
Developer has the fix, it’s being built, he’s getting a couple hours of sleep. No need to panic, it’s a minor issue that will be resolved shortly.
Let’s all thank dsc & tobtoht for their hard work!
https://docs.featherwallet.org/guides/donate
Buy the Dip?! US won’t back Israeli response to Iran
Monero is actually the quickest to rebound! Huge moves down to 108 now 120. Monero moving faster than most other altcoins and Bitcoin. XMR community is the smartest and fastest, even without as many centralized exchange listings.
Saturday night cryptocurrency markets heavily sold off on the news that Iran had striked Israel with drones. Now surprisingly markets are rebounding off the news that Biden says the US won’t back an Israeli response to Iran’s strikes.
Big News on Peace and a potential XMR trade: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/buy-dip-peace-news/
Some cypherpunks are confused as to why cryptocurrency prices are affected by war in this situation. And the answer is that Wall Street considers crypto to be a tech stock, especially after the US Bitcoin ETF. And at the highest end of the risk spectrum. Therefore, considering the traditional markets like the NASDAQ are closed, the leveraged traders short sell risk where they can in the only 24/7 market.
I am not saying their worldview is correct, I view it as a currency and not a stock. That’s why I’m saying buy the dip, and someday after more adoption, they will see it that way.
Can LewRockwell be converted?
LewRockwell is an extremely popular Libertarian website. They recently published a well shared article from Dr. Mercola on why to ditch Google: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/03/joseph-mercola/goodbye-google/
While it’s great that people see the messages of privacy and anti-censorship, it’s bad that the suggested solutions not only won’t help, but in fact likely turn people off. Here’s a key example:
“Your suggestion of reading the privacy policy for every website people visit to avoid Google analytics is not practical. A far better solution is to use the browser extension uBlock Origin, which lists all third party JavaScript calls by domain, and allows you to block it. In fact, your own website MercolaMarket has Google’s APIs on it, which allows them to see the IP address of anyone buying your products. The most ridiculous part is the very article on LewRockwell.com telling me to read privacy policies to avoid Google Analytics, uses Google Analytics and Gmail.”
And this is just one of the many examples in an open letter we wrote. The primary problem is not technological, but apathy. It doesn’t have to be like this. We just need the real solutions to make it to the readers screens, like Monero.
I stand here today to ask you to share our open letter, so that the thousands of readers of LewRockwell can learn: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/letter-to-lewrockwell/
I stand here today to ask you to be part of the genuine change. Because at the end of the day, LewRockwell is only a reflection of what his readers want. And so the challenge is not convincing him, but you.
Monero & Tor Onion Nostr Relays
Most Nostr users post to relays on Cloudflare and Hetzner. They don’t realize that they’re easily censored, and it’s not decentralized.
Even worse, there is the threat of radical Bitcoin Maxis trying to censor Monero via forced lightning paywalls on the relays. Like a chess player thinking ahead, we outline some XMR relays and Tor Onion ones in this new easy to read guide: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/nostr-relay-guide/
Tor Onion: http://privacypkybrxebcjicfhgwsb3coatqechwnc5xow4udxwa6jemylmyd.onion/nostr-relay-guide/
Spain has banned Telegram. [relevant to XMR]
Spain has banned Telegram.
They are claiming this is over copyright violations of users, that Telegram is failing to police. Now some users will be forced to consider decentralized solutions. As I have repeated many times, Session messenger empowers users to defy state level censorship, with its unique blockchain based DNS that completely separates physical locations from identity. And our team has repeatedly mentioned using Session to defy a Monero ban.
With Session, if the location of the VPS or device is discovered, the user can rotate the blockchain name to a new public key. On the other hand, SimpleX, Tor Onions, or XMPP are tied to physical devices with encryption keys in memory, and their discovery is a game-over.
However, Session receives a lot of criticism. Rather than ignore this, I tackle it head on, https://simplifiedprivacy.com/spain-has-banned-telegram-defending-session/
Tor Browser Onion: http://privacypkybrxebcjicfhgwsb3coatqechwnc5xow4udxwa6jemylmyd.onion/spain-has-banned-telegram-defending-session/
What’s the best ________ ?
Huge amount of these guides reference if they accept Monero.
What’s the best ________ ?
Best VPS hosts, https://simplifiedprivacy.com/vps/
Pro/Con of Phone Numbers/Services, https://simplifiedprivacy.com/burners/
Crypto-to-Crypto “No KYC” Swap Websites https://simplifiedprivacy.com/swaps/
How VoIP works, https://simplifiedprivacy.com/voip/
Best Crypto→ Fiat gift cards: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/best-vendors-that-accept-cryptocurrency/
Types of DeGoogled Phones, https://simplifiedprivacy.com/degoogledphones/
Pro/Con of Linux Distros, https://simplifiedprivacy.com/linux-distros/
Pro/Con of Private Routers https://simplifiedprivacy.com/router/
Pro/Con of Virtual Machines, https://simplifiedprivacy.com/types-of-virtual-machines-whats-right-for-you/
Best Agora Societies, https://simplifiedprivacy.com/realworldagora/
Best Google Alternatives, https://simplifiedprivacy.com/degoogled-life/
Best email? Check out, https://simplifiedprivacy.com/email-cloud-combo/
Download Youtubes (like "Breaking Monero" of course)
Someone asked me how to download Youtubes privately with open source. So I wanted to share the info with you since it's all written out.
Which of course you are wondering How to watch the classic "breaking monero" on youtube, privately? Duh.
In this fast guide, we break down all the different methods, ranging from web browser, desktop, android, command line, to even browser extensions. In fact, one of our community members was kind enough to open source his android termux script to do so,
which is part of the guide found here: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/how-to-download-youtubes/
Got one I missed? comment below! we'll add it
Hack on France’s government database! Will it stop VPN restrictions?
In a shocking new hack, the data of 43 million French citizens was leaked from a government database, onto the darkweb.
Yet the French government is pushing for heavy VPN restrictions, to collect and identify huge amounts of data, including even banning foreign VPNs that wouldn’t have to comply.
Simplified Privacy has grave concerns about such a broad and powerful expansion of government power, when they have not proven the ability to handle even basic identifier data on their citizens. We once again urge the use of Monero and warn against blindly trusting authority: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/france-hack-vpn-restrictions/
Tor Browser Onion: http://privacypkybrxebcjicfhgwsb3coatqechwnc5xow4udxwa6jemylmyd.onion/france-hack-vpn-restrictions/
Why Monero? Unproven Proprietary Software Jails Bitcoin User
Roman Sterlingov was recently convicted for running a Bitcoin mixer.
This is a very dangerous legal precedent. Because the only hard evidence for him to potentially serve 20 years in prison is that his KYC Bitcoin went through many hops and wallets, before being used later to supposedly buy a domain name.
This court case means that anyone is responsible for the future actions of anyone you pay, because if those funds turn out to go to anything illegal, you’re automatically on the hook. And people wonder why we like Monero?!
Get the full scoop on this shocking case, it's the ultimate why Monero: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/unproven-proprietary-chainalysis-software-jails-bitcoin-user/
Tor Browser Onion: http://privacypkybrxebcjicfhgwsb3coatqechwnc5xow4udxwa6jemylmyd.onion/unproven-proprietary-chainalysis-software-jails-bitcoin-user/
Monero Update just released!
Monero, a digital currency that is secure, private, and untraceable
Binaries for Official Monero v0.18.3.2 are now available at http://www.getmonero.org
Also Feather wallet: Go to help -> Check for updates
Update your wallets! This has the fee fix!
Monero under spam attack, is Nostr's creator behind it?
There is currently a fee bug with Monero, that the wallet doesn’t automatically bump the fee when there is a backlog. This fee bug is causing sync issues with many wallets. The bug has already been solved with Anonero.io, and other wallets will be rolling out fixes shortly.
There are rumors that Nostr's creator is behind a spam attack. Simplified Privacy addresses this and has a ready working solution: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/monero-attack-nostr/
Tor Browser Onion: http://privacypkybrxebcjicfhgwsb3coatqechwnc5xow4udxwa6jemylmyd.onion/monero-attack-nostr/
Signal Usernames for DESKTOP + Monero Signal Groups
Signal just released the usernames for both desktop and mobile now, with phone number hiding. This makes it easy to join groups without leaking info to the group.
Get the full guide w/ dope groups to join, including Monero focused ones from Tuxsudo of the MoneroTalk podcast: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/signal-usernames-desktop/
Tor Browser Onion: http://privacypkybrxebcjicfhgwsb3coatqechwnc5xow4udxwa6jemylmyd.onion/signal-usernames-desktop/