Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 1445. (Read 4671575 times)

Hello! I'm new here. I'm thinking what the altcoins are worth dealing with. what are the arguments for Monero?

It goes both ways. More than half of the young (<50) Americans think what Snowden did was needed. Anyone in the politics opposing Snowden is going against the public opinion and tarnishing his own reputation. The louder you cry that Snowden must be burned, the less you are trusted, and the more obvious it is to all that you only live out of the scraps the system feeds you to keep you a functioning Senator.

I should stop. And I will. Any political post by me in this thread earns the exposer an immediate 20 XMR, and if it is questionable whether the post was political, final arbiter is ArticMine.

Azure is actually a Microsoft cloud application platform built on top of Microsoft Windows Server. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Azure

Apologies... I assumed that Azure was a 'coin', not part of the trading platform... my bad.. thanks!

The issue is actually with Microsoft.

First item here: https://bittrex.com/news


No issues with Monero itself.

The XMR wallet at BITrex is disabled... there is nothing in their 'News' about Monero or the reason for the wallet status... can anyone clarify?

Thanks!

1. Client-node traffic is entirely local to your own computer. There are no thin clients or other methods where it would make sense to access a foreign node directly from a client.

2. If you think your node-to-node traffic needs to be hidden and you aren't doing it, you have no one to blame (see above)

3. Lack of direct I2p integration is not a "mistake," it is a work in progress.

Why? Because the pen is mightier than the sword. These guys seek to control the pen.

Edit: The "evil" state is well aware of the power of the pen also. http://www.pcworld.com/article/185604/article.html Apple DRM can be much more effective than tanks in Tiananmen Square to meet the censorship wants of the Government of China for example.

Somehow this thread transformed into a political debate. Not anyone cares about the USD/XMR rate anymore?  

When ever i see comments like this funny picture of solders with mickey mouse ears on their helmets pops up in my head. Anyway the point is that this mpaa is no threat to your liberty what so ever. They dont have a police force. They dont have a military. They dont have apache helicopters or nuclear submarines. What on earth are they going to do to force their preferences on you? oh wait thats right they are going to go to the government, who does have those things. So tell me who is the real threat here these guys



or these guys.



Without those guys pictured above, the mpaa or who ever you want to point at would have no capacity to do any of those things because consumers would simply switch to a network service provider who didnt do those things. only by holding competition out of the market can they get away with the terrible things you are talking about. and only by way of the jackboots pictured above can they do that.

Can you explain please what data specifically should be protected? Do you understand that your transaction will be stored in the blockchain?

This is not accurate.  There are specific circumstances where ID must be provided or it entitles them to take some specific actions.
Authorities are always entitled to ask, but then so are you.

Personally, I think *not* encrypting client-node / node-to-node traffic is a mistake. Huge efforts are made to provide anonymity and the last mile is in plain text, and without compression?
There are HUGE locations dedicated to sniffing end-user traffic (take the UK for example) where if Bitcoin/Monero/(insert favourite coin here) where to be outlawed, taxed etc, in its current state it would be *extremely* easy to know who is sending and receiving BTC/XMR/etc..

Really, really silly. Watch, when it does happen everyone will be running around with their tails between their legs because no one had the foresight to see it happening.

Correlated in the obvious way with age group:

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/22/most-young-americans-say-snowden-has-served-the-public-interest/

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more young Americans support Snowden but for older Americans it is the opposite.

thanks.. but can you define "Older americans" please & thank you.

In many cases it is not the suitability of the tools but rather the awareness and availability of the tools. For example a properly set up GNU/Linux laptop is way easier for many less tech savvy users to use and maintain than the typical Windows laptop sold at retail. Most consumer computers are actually thrown out in well under two years due to software problems for this reason. www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/toxics/electronics/the-e-waste-problem/.
I have run usability tests with non tech savvy seniors using LibreOffice on Ubuntu and Office 2007 on Windows XP. The seniors figured out in no time how to print a document on the GNU/Linux box but got nowhere in attempting to do the same task on the Windows box. The best part is that the seniors had used Windows before but had not used GNU/Linux at all. It has got worse. Try placing a not very tech savvy person in front a Windows 8 desktop and watch what happens.

To build a robust anonymity solution one has to start with a solid foundation. It is way easier to use some malware on Windows to get the private XMR key of your target than throw massive computing resources in an attempt to unravel ring signatures in XMR or to try to legislate XMR out of existence.

Sometimes a very simple analogy gets the message across to a non tech person. Microsoft is to Monsanto as GNU/Linux is to organic seeds.


Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nU. "Failing" eyesight due to "age" is not the problem here.

This is beautiful. Is there a way to create one touch anonymity solutions for less tech savvy consumers who don't want Big Brother watching them?

This assumes that the NSA is the biggest threat arising, out of the United States, to personal freedom and liberty and that includes financial freedom. The evidence points otherwise as private sector organizations such as the NFL (National Football League), MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) etc., post a much greater threat. A good list is those organizations and corporations that supported SOPA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_with_official_stances_on_the_SOPA_and_PIPA. One must also watch those organizations that withdrew their support under pressure such as Apple. The fundamental problem here is that the only effective way to protect "intellectual property rights" is to centralize control over computers and devices such as cell phones and tablets away from their owners and into the hands large corporations such as Apple and Microsoft. This is typically done by using a combination of propriety software at the operating system level, DRM and the fact that the majority of the population are not "nerds" and thereby less aware of the threat and less likely to fight back. Centralized control of networks in the hands of big telecom also another way, so battles over net neutrality can actually become battles over personal freedom and civil liberties with big telecom on the side of tyranny and oppression.

There are crucial lesson here in the Snowden leaks. Most of the NSA spying depended on the data collection habits of large corporations as best demonstrated in the PRISM program. A list of the the corporate enablers can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29#mediaviewer/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg. One of the simplest routes to privacy and individual personal and financial freedom is to withhold personal information from the corporate enablers.

Some of us that "have been pushed over the edge" use GNU/Linux as their primary desktop OS (less than 2% of the population) root their Android phones in order to lock out the manufacturer and telecom provider, consider Apple's IOS only suitable for the telescreen in George Orwell's 1984, avoid social media such as Facebook etc. Crypto currency such XBT and XMR becomes part of a portfolio of tools and not the only tool used to enhance personal freedom and privacy.