VolunTerry @ VolunTerry @monero.town

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That's the spirit!

Easier to carry in a wallet and use in small denominations. Can be melted back down if you want the gold out of it. I've read about a few small regions in the US where they have gained traction. They've focused on promotion in only a few states and areas from what I understand last I heard about this.

They had more info than I can provide on their site last I checked when I was first told about it and got curious but I haven't kept up with the project. Just sounded interesting to me.

I like more options in the marketplace to compete against and provide alternatives to fiat.

https://www.goldback.com/frequently-asked-questions

Don't purchase or use them then. No skin off my back.

By the way, I'm not even going to down vote you. I like the opinion and the discussion from different points of view. Hope Lemmy can keep that spirit active. Reddit and many of the other alternatives are a cesspool.

Absolutely. Anything that gets people out of the fiat currency system and into something that functions like real money and doesn't support malicious central banks and the endless problems they create.

This is fantastic. Thanks for posting. I'd love to see them add XMR as a option in both directions for exchange.

I may reach out to them to suggest just that.

Welcome

I believe that Odysee and LBRY (the blockchain-based back end technology Odysee sprung from and draws on) are separate companies with different people running them.

You don't have to touch crypto or use any crypto features to use Odysee, so I'd still suggest it as a platform in the toolbelt in addition to a lot of the other great recommendations you've already gotten here in other replies.

VeraCrypt and 7zip are both good recommendations. I've read up on cryptomator, but haven't used it yet, so it's good to read an endorsement of it from someone who does for cloud storage.

Edit: you could also encrypt it with a local pgp key if you already use that encryption method with a pgp program or provider

These are probably less ideal for the tech illiterate, but they are available for iOS and haven't been mentioned yet:

Session

Element / Matrix (edit to note someone else did already mention element above in the thread)

Sounds exciting to have more physical point of sale businesses accepting and promoting Monero. Interested to see how it grows. Please post updates as the project progresses.

A lot of services actively disable VoIP numbers from being used for registration or submission.

Yep. I've tried using dummy numbers in the past for things where no phone contact is required for contact and it frequently triggers fraud prevention even if not rendered useless by sms verification before submission.

@Saki, Great discussion here. I'm happy to have you adding to it. Hashing the details out is important and the collaborative nature of your most recent reply is exactly what I want to continue to see in the space and here on Lemmy.

I agree wholeheartedly about wanting all the resources to be as accurate and informative as possible and promoting the open exchange of ideas and opinions. I'm always still learning and love to have good resources to point others to as well.

Thanks for chiming in with the info. Hopefully ShadowRebel or someone from the site reads the exchange, looks into it and corrects any contradictions.

I'd personally prefer they didn't implement any KYC-style identity verification at all in the first place, but it's not my service or project and I'm not a paying customer, so my preference is largely irrelevant to them. But that said, I didn't intend the comment to be damning, or even a particularly harsh criticism, just thought it wad an odd choice.

If what you are saying is accurate, and there aren't better options, I at least understand that choice a bit more. If they feel they need an identity provider for whatever reason, they should obviously choose the one they feel best fits that need. And as others have noted, different servers and instances can be spun up or utilized. Users can choose to utlize whichever fits their needs best, or none if none of them fit.

Your other point is well taken though that it may be a gap in the marketplace. Sounds to me like a need waiting to be filled. I recall reading about some decentralized blockchain solutions for this sometime back, but do not recall the specifics. I haven't followed along because it didn't seem relevant to my personal or business needs at the time.

If anyone else knows of alternative options that may be better or more privacy friendly, I'd certainly be interested to hear about them. And would chip in funding for any good FOSS projects that might seek to solve this problem.

I agree with you and it's an important distinction. But for me it's also about the ethos of the developers or company. Promoting free and open source tools is great, but requiring the opposite as a prerequisite to use the largest publicly facing implementation of that is a very odd decision.

This makes some sense to me as more of a feeling without digging up enough data to confirm the suspicion, but I'd love others with more expertise to chime in.

Isn't part of the price>miners>hash>confirmation feedback loop you're suggesting typically accompanied by corresponding upticks or downticks in interest, use and transaction volume as well?

Plus, I thought the dynamic block size and dynamic fees usually helped smooth this out and keep the confirmation times within a relatively predictable range of upper and lower bounds.

Feather doesn't use its own Tor (in the config folder) when Tor is already running and listening to 9050, be it on Windows or on Linux. So "double routing through Tor" doesn't occur. ... So please don't take this personally and do correct me if I'm wrong, thank you!<

Good discussions and I'd love a follow up to this. I pointed out in a separate reply that I was unaware this would be how it worked. If I were ever to use Feather in future or recommend it to others, I'd like to be aware of the whens, ifs, hows and where's it may be double routed or less private or secure.

Absolutely rubbish company that has nearly cornered the market on venues artists and events and made the entire process of engaging with live entertainment worse and worse as time goes on.

The awful practices of Ticketmaster/Livenation are many, including many things others have already listed as well as an increasing phase-out out of cash and other anonymous payment methods throughout the entire process, including at the actual participating venues themselves.

I'll gladly add the RSS feed and share the site around with others I know. Your products and services look very interesting and I'm going to read up on them more.

At first glance they look like they could definitely help people who are dipping their toes in but don't yet have a strong handle on the technical aspects of setting up many decentralized, self hosted and otherwise privacy focused services, or don't have the time or desire to learn and do it themselves.