oops! empty reply! I was going to debate the piles of strange-seeming opinions, but changed my mind. Poor use of energy, uninformed debate.

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 8:11 PM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote:

On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:58:41 -0500 Karl Semich <0xloem@gmail.com> wrote:

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oops! empty reply!

I was going to debate the piles of strange-seeming opinions, but changed my mind. Poor use of energy, uninformed debate.

you should tell your coworker the turd how good bitcoin is when it comes to surveillance, since you are a surveillance supporter (like the turd go figure)

Bitcoin usage, regarding privacy, could probably be enhanced if people focus on Bitcoin Mixer usage/development in combination with the Nym Network. But how to exchange then Bitcoin privately to fiat if needed ... Regards Stefan

I am aware of Monero but same question, how do you trade it to fiat if needed and you need for whatever reason privacy? Regards Stefan On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 2:21 PM Steven Schear wrote:

Swap for Monero first (either via exchanges or atomic).

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 8:10 PM Stefan Claas wrote:

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On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 8:11 PM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote:

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On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:58:41 -0500 Karl Semich <0xloem@gmail.com> wrote:

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oops! empty reply!

I was going to debate the piles of strange-seeming opinions, but changed my mind. Poor use of energy, uninformed debate.

you should tell your coworker the turd how good bitcoin is when it comes to surveillance, since you are a surveillance supporter (like the turd go figure)

Bitcoin usage, regarding privacy, could probably be enhanced if people focus on Bitcoin Mixer usage/development in combination with the Nym Network.

But how to exchange then Bitcoin privately to fiat if needed ...

Regards Stefan

On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 16:37:49 +0100 Stefan Claas wrote:

I am aware of Monero but same question, how do you trade it to fiat if needed and you need for whatever reason privacy?

you need to find REAL PEOPLE who would buy it from you. Shocking! Of course, that means somebody will learn something about you, but at leat the guy shouldn't be a government agent.

On 11/30/21 9:57 AM, Karl Semich wrote:

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 12:50 PM professor rat mailto:pro2rat@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

Like the Batshit-Crazy fools that still promote such crap

“If you had some sort of Washington-corporate alliance that wanted to make Bitcoin a transparent chain, guess what? They would have fought Taproot,” says Alex Gladstein at the Human Rights Foundation, who advocates for Bitcoin as a tool against authoritarian governments. “But there was no organized resistance to Taproot.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/29/who-sets-the-rules-of-bitcoin-a... https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/29/who-sets-the-rules-of-bitcoin-a...

Taproot should lead to a massive improvement in the privacy of the lightning network. I was expecting organized resistance. I believed that the flaws in the existing lightning network were the result of enemy action. But that taproot has gone through in the shape that it has strongly suspects that our enemies failed to understand the implications.

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 1:36 AM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote:

On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 21:32:11 -0800 cherry wrote:

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Taproot should lead to a massive improvement in the privacy of the lightning network.

bullshit

I'm not familiar with taproot in-depth but I also don't see it as significantly related to privacy. There's enough research out there to make bitcoin networks very, very anonymous, in ways that are normalised and maintainable and simplify the codebase. Software was different before 2014, and that shows in the design of lightning. The bitcoin devs got split into factions etc. It's recorded history. There's been a lot of excitement over the lightning network in some groups of people. Who uses it? What is it used for, in the wild? Anyway, it's cool to see that bitcoin's dev process has found ways to continue innovating and it seems to be building on that more and more.

such as?

constant bandwidth onion routing? were you not here for the discussions of anonymity improvements to replace tor that happened over the years? i've lost most of my references to that stuff i'm afraid, but it would be good to find where it is now

just a note that these topics (bitcoin development and anonymous routing) are not in conflict but no i do not remember much of anonymity protocols, despite reading about them for a few years