If you’re earning interest, you’re losing money. Save in #Monero. Spend in Monero. Let inflation be the price paid by those who choose to ignore it.
If it passes through a centralised exchange, it’s a #shitcoin.
What purpose does email serve these days, other than to provide a way for spammers to contact you? #SimpleX #Signal #grownostr #privacy
What are your thoughts on #nymvpn? Have you switched to it from another provider? Why or why not? #asknostr
If you’ve never tried #nano, you should. Nano’s privacy is horrendously bad, and not fit for real-world use as-is, but its ability to achieve: - fully decentralised - permissionless - zero-fee - instantaneous - final settlement is second to absolutely none. It’s the gold standard (pun intended?) for a fantastic user experience with digital cash, and its community is highly focused on that (at the expense of privacy, sadly!) Maybe my dream currency is #cashu on top of #nano? 😎
Protonmail isn't "cryptoemail" just because it uses E2EE. It's just email. Similarly, Signal isn't a "cryptomessaging" app. It's just messaging. It's not "cryptobanking" just because your banking app uses TLS to communicate. It's just banking. And it's not #cryptocurrency just because it uses private keys, bulletproofs, and Pedersen commitments. It's just currency. "Crypto" is a misleading and alienating term to non-power users. It sounds special, complicated, foreign - even extreme(ly niche). The fact that cryptography is involved is the least interesting aspect of it to your average user. So let's stop making it sound so mysterious. It's just currency. It's (e.g. #Monero with #CakeWallet) much faster and easier to set up and use than a typical bank account. You can earn it and spend it much like any other currency. The main difference being that you don't need permission to open an account, nor to send or receive funds, as an individual or business. It allows you to do business with anyone, anywhere, with almost no fees. And it's as private as handing someone cash face-to-face. But it's still currency, just better. Welcome aboard! 😎
Two paths for adoption (of #privacy and #permissionless tech): - Try to convince normies, whose eyes tend to glaze over the minute you mention words like fiat, inflation, privacy, surveillance, etc. - Focus on those who are actually interested in the value freedom tech offers, and have consciously experienced the pain of not using it. Collaborate. Build and ship stuff that helps amplify their and your potential. Normies gonna norm. That's OK. They have different priorities. Life is agonisingly short. They accept a different set of tradeoffs. Preach to the converted. Make stuff for the converted. Sell stuff to the converted - and expand outward from there. #grownostr #Monero
Use #Monero to: - buy access to the best AI models with no account, and no personal information at nano-gpt.com - browse the web privately using Mullvad VPN - buy and sell stuff at XMRBazaar.com - convert to anonymous paper money vouchers (gift cards) accepted by your favourite shops using #CakeWallet - swap for other assets anonymously using trocador.app to explore other interesting #privacy tools like Zano, Beam, etc. - onboard a family member, friend, or local merchant by showing them how to install and use Cake or #monerujo - pay for a truly private, E2E encrypted email service with #protonmail (coming summer 2025!) Live free. 😎