One of the few practical uses of cryptocurrencies is breaking the law. One of the more positive results of that is being able to buy DIY HRT in places where that would be to various extents illegal.
@timorl@mkljczk@radex except cryptocurrency is not anonymous, nor is privacy-focused, nor is it really decentralized. The fact you can buy stuff with it you otherwise would have a hard time, is a product of marketing and the fact that pigs don’t care, as it’s not handed to them on a silver platter, like transactions using visa or Mastercard are.
@star@mkljczk@radex@timorl how so? Because I can elaborate on my comment. The fundamental architecture of every cryptocurrency is that it’s a public ledger. It’s literally the opposite of privacy. And how do you get your cryptocurrency? I know you’re not mining it, so you’re either getting it from someone, or getting it from an exchange. Both very easily traceable. Now, let’s look at any cryptocurrency mainstream enough to be accepted by a DIY market broker, and look at the network and its nodes. I wouldn’t call it decentralized when it’s literally impossible to contribute without a small datacenter worth of hardware.
@nrab@mkljczk@radex@timorl Monero exists and stands against all of these points. You seem to be extremely confident about something you do not know that much about?
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