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They are on mastodon but not nostr yet??

Meanwhile they joined Nostr @npub18s4z...ydrt

Concur with this

You don't. Folks around here programmed a wallet based on nostr addresses over the weekend. Somehow it took Proton years to remember about this feature, and not even clear at all why one would use it rather than a private coin like Monero.

They did essentially say it would be due to user demand, i.e., the free market. If your a bitcoin maxi, on a long enough time horizon, you understand the other shit coins just go away.

Do they?

Yes and KYC bitcoin too. Any other doubts?

They've sent opposed statements regarding shitcoins then. We'll see how it evolves.

That 2 year sub for under $90 is 🤌

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when proton drive on linux?

I recently learned about BIP-352 "silent payments" which kind of remind me of adding Monero-esque protection to Bitcoin transactions, but no mention of that either lol

Credits for this go to @Seth For Privacy. PV 🫂

> A great summary of the three main reusable payment code schemes has been provided by Ruben Somsen, the author of Silent Payments in the gist for Reusable Taproot addresses.

sethforprivacy.com

Proposed Bitcoin Privacy Improvements

A list of Bitcoin proposals and ideas to improve privacy that are still a work in progress, were abandoned or never implemented, or failed to make ...

Uhhh ohh. Thank you for correcting me, providing a source url and sorry for my misinformation. Sorry to Ruben for dropping you.

I had no idea who to give credit until you had me look it up 🤝 thanks for being on nostr

This is not entirely true and I belive you know that already. Bitcoin provides pseudo-anonymitiy and if you're on the receiving end, you can maintain privacy by never reusing your pubkeys. But I get what you mean, probably. There is not much sender privacy by default.

There is a solution that assures privacy and freedom. It is used widely on the streets since years and it is NOT bitcoin. At this moment the only ones still promoting BTC are 1) maxis because of speculation, 2) naive people that know nothing else and 3) government-compromissed entities. Very sus from protonmail. Everyone else minimally informed has zero problems or worries with monero, transactions and holdings are simply private beyond doubt.

Yes, I get your point I think. Appreciating the privacy which Monero offers comes with tradeoffs some don't want to take while holding the Monero (me included). On the other hand in some use cases I used Monero myself. However from my understanding right now, I do not want to hold a significant value in Monero.

If you wouldn't hold today a significant value in Monero, you also wouldn't hold a significant value in bitcoin ten years ago. I'm writing this as someone who actually mined bitcoin using only CPUs back in 2009. If you are in crypto for the sake of privacy and freedom, this is what we should be supporting rather than casino virtual coins.

Wow!

didn’t know they were so chill

Hell yeah

There is already no privacy when using bitcoin in the first place. Kind of ironic seeing a blog post advocating for freedom and privacy, complaining they were chased by governments and PayPal to then pretend that Monero doesn't exist. Way too suspicious.

Yes

It is open source but you can't see what they have running on the backend.

Got a name?