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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
Its 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.
people deciding if they want excess holdings of Monero shouldnt base their confidence on a standing committee
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Yes.
> Any other tools that I should be aware of?
Like Tor, I hear that Signal is also a great choice for terrorists and extremists as well according to some testimonials from them.
The road to hell is paved with good intensions.
I’m curious as to what HN’s VPNs of choice are. I personally use IVPN and Mullvad.
You can use openvpn or wireguard as clients (or their own), and while i was writing this I just saw they accept payments with different crypto (bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin, bitcoin cash, dash, doge, monero)
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Did you ever use any of those in "real life", or only when committing crimes?
I’m curious as to what HN’s VPNs of choice are. I personally use IVPN and Mullvad.
AirVPN You can use openvpn or wireguard as clients (or their own), and while i was writing this I just saw they accept payments with different crypto (bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin, bitcoin cash, dash, doge, monero)
I’m curious as to what HN’s VPNs of choice are. I personally use IVPN and Mullvad.
ProtonVPN because I already have a Protonmail account and they don't sponsor podcasts (as far as I know).
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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.
https://therecord.media/thousands-of-tor-exit-nodes-attacked...
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AirVPN You can use openvpn or wireguard as clients (or their own), and while i was writing this I just saw they accept payments with different crypto (bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin, bitcoin cash, dash, doge, monero)
Same as Mullvad. Personally, the greatest feature of Mullvad is that they accept cash sent in envelopes, it doesn't get more (proven) private than that. Does AirVPN offer something similar?
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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.