when we try to build our own financial system this makes certain kinds of ordinary people really mad for a lot of dumb reasons. they haven't been told that they are allowed to think it's cool yet

welcome to the fediverse enjoy your new redditors

please consider making this available on tor/i2p in addition to clearnet github

try to get listed on kycnot.me

I have a peertube instance. I can't get anyone to really care outside of the fediverse. I think peertube has a big chance to come out on top if so many new people are trying out the fediverse for the first time. getting everything to integrate properly would be a godsend.

I don't like pinko terms like surveillance capitalism. it implies that mass surveillance is somehow worse when it's private firms doing it, and that the solution is to do away with private firms. as if socialism ever saved anyone from mass surveillance. this is complete nonsense.

a huge chunk of any userbase will never care about opsec until bad things start happening all the time

I've been on the microblogging part of the fediverse for a while. what I've seen is, at some point someone's going to have to rip the bandaid off and instances like lemmy.ml need to defederate from instances like monero.town. they can't coexist with anyone who doesn't think the way they do. at some point soon, they won't be able to talk to you and you won't be able to talk to them. it's meant to be.

terra required too much manual intervention and also aimed to maintain a USD peg. RAI and pureDAI aren't supposed to be like that. so I wouldn't be so pessimistic. I think there is still a way to do it.

I am actually going to end up using bisq2 to buy bitcoin via a reputation-based interaction, turn it into some monero on probably bisq1, and then use the monero to start interacting with haveno. it's way too many steps and fees but it saves me from ever doing any KYC.

does it really matter if I send USDT on ethereum L1 or tron? can't I just get written approval from my counterparty to use any other network for USDT? they can all be verified by an arbitrator if the need arises. it shouldn't matter.

I always thought that these problems are unsolvable with link aggregators that have a voting system and traditional forums are just better in so many ways

is it normal for it to never stop having the yellow indicator

it's been done with bitcoin. I'm talking about renbtc. something for monero will come eventually.

can you write a cash in mail tutorial

not good that a security deposit is required. this means you can't start with zero XMR. it was possible to purchase XMR on localmonero without already having any.

can't there just be an option to do smaller trades with no deposit if anyone is willing to accept the risk

a reputation-based trade should still happen inside the DEX. that way the trade can contribute to the seller's reputation score. bypassing it with a simplex contact would not let the DEX see that a trade actually happened.

that is the big dumb. there are a lot of better options for networks when interacting with USDT like ethereum rollups, polygon, solana, even the liquid sidechain is nice and cheap to send USDT. it is very easy to get any kind of money on these networks and change it to USDT. a lot of liquidity can be accessed this way. but if I'm stuck with just ethereum mainnet and tron, it's more expensive for me to get USDT and send it over.

reminds me of when bitcoin people used to say "nobody ever got prosecuted via blockchain analysis" and they wouldn't stop saying that until it happened. they sometimes learn through experience but that's about it.