I’m curious as to what HN’s VPNs of choice are. I personally use IVPN and Mullvad.
Nice try officer, just AOL for me thanks ;)
Mullvad VPN now accepts Monero payments
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I wonder how they plan to impose compliance on entities that have no legal presence in India, accept cryptocurrency payments, and take no PII as part of the signup process - all of which I believe apply to Mullvad.
They are gonna ban self custodial wallet which are rare in India anyway. So exchange will monitor and KYC anyone you transfer crypto coins to. Impose a penalty on the citizen side as well.
Its either a custodial wallet, like an exchange, or a wallet for yourself like keys you generate and hold on your own.
The latter is fine
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Tor at least but there’s likely more. also rumor in the internet goes (and looking to be correct if misguided) the us government identifies its citizens that dl Tor
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#14Its too bad monero research lab seems to be slowing down and disbanding.
Devs have to eat and all, but I wonder sometimes if a longer and slower emission curve would have helped here. Monero is mostly emitted at this point.
For a project that means so much to the world and still has much work to do, its a shame how things turned out with MRL.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder how they plan to impose compliance on entities that have no legal presence in India, accept cryptocurrency payments, and take no PII as part of the signup process - all of which I believe apply to Mullvad.
They are gonna ban self custodial wallet which are rare in India anyway. So exchange will monitor and KYC anyone you transfer crypto coins to. Impose a penalty on the citizen side as well.
If you're able to exchange rupee for another currency, you can always mail the cash to them. I admittedly don't know how feasible or how difficult that is to do though.
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Tor at least but there’s likely more. also rumor in the internet goes (and looking to be correct if misguided) the us government identifies its citizens that dl Tor
they cant see what you do on tor
you can still take flights, get mortgages, enter and leave the country after being on the imaginary or actual list, so why do so many people care?
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Tor at least but there’s likely more. also rumor in the internet goes (and looking to be correct if misguided) the us government identifies its citizens that dl Tor
That's nonsense. There are somewhere between 2 and 8 million users of Tor every day. The vast majority of Tor users are ordinary people that want a little more privacy. What a waste of resources it would be to try to identify and track each of them.
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No, this just keeps you private from all private sector actors and friends and spouses
Lets children and other unbanked pay for vpns as they don’t have banking access, they can earn some crypto from someone and bridge that to monero
Tor if you don’t want any private sector logging + additional access to the onion internet
A TorOS if you want more hardened access
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#19I gotta say, I love Monero but every single time I see malware deploy a miner it is Monero for obvious reasons. More than any currency I want it to succeed because of true anonymity it provides but when you accept Monero, better beef up your anti-abuse capacity.