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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by SummerBreeze@monero.town to c/monero@monero.town

We're trying to increase the use of Monero, and attract more people to XMRBazaar by offering such great discounts on brand-new and high-demand electronics. And through the use of Monero arbitration legal systems, increase trust in the Bazaar.

https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/5Ve2/

When you connect to cellphone towers: You’re using the modem which has an IMEI identification number. Using a DeGoogled phone and a VPN does NOT change this from revealing info about the hardware TO the TOWER, such as where it was bought. And who bought it.

If you buy it in Monero, that solves the problem. But other DeGoogled providers charge more, while as we charge LESS:

Official Google Store: $799

Simplified Privacy: $665

YOU PICK: We Flash GrapheneOS OR you can get it still sealed in the box.

PIXEL 9 BRAND NEW STILL SEALED IN THE BOX 1 YEAR WARRANTY

PGP Receipt: Backed by a binding deposit with an arbitrator: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/how-pgp-insurance/index.html

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Guys, Get on Nostr, there's a growing Monero community trolling Bitcoin maxis,

Garnet is a new nostr client to tip XMR,

for example: as Italy Raises Capital Gains Tax on Bitcoin from 26% to 42%:

https://primal.net/e/note1nsk54jclkjsx3sv4kmwhjmjept0v73rzascn02wt2zs2k6lqlctskltd57

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SimpleX is under attack by the magazine Wired,

But what surprises me is the reaction of the developer Evgeny Poberezkin,

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/wired-attacks-simplex/evgeny.html

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SPECIAL SALE: As Monero is delisted from Kraken (for the EU),

Simplified Privacy jumps into the fray, to buy XMR, by selling discounted hardware & services

We’re offering $10 off your Phone or VPS combo purchase, to offer stability to the market and defy oppression.

First, if new exchanges aren't listing it, then basic logic would tell us that there's only so many times they can delist XMR to cause a price-propaganda event, and eventually the bad news is priced in. So just hold and ignore it for a week.

And the Kraken insiders sold prior to the announcement, that’s why XMR fell more than other coins in the general market. So if you sell now, you’re essentially letting them urinate on your wallet and manipulate your emotions.

Second, to prove my first point, if you don't want to hold your XMR, I will accept it right now today for a Phone or Email setups at a discount. You want to get rid of it? Come on down, and get a completely off-the-radar DeGoogled Pixel or an awesome VPS setup to be self-sovereign with all your communications (email, xmpp, docs, ect)

The invasion of your privacy is only first beginning, if you do nothing and sit by, it’s only getting worse. Stop just liking memes and complaining, and start taking action.

I’m here to hold your hand through the process,

Email, XMPP, Cryptpad: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/email-cloud-combo/index.html

DeGoogled Phones: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/they-see-everything/index.html

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Elon Musk censors for Brazil, This is a reverse of his previous stance, with chilling effects

&

The FBI visits the founder of Odysee over his Tweets

Arweave up 17% on Double Censorship News,

But since Arweave is NOT private, this highlights Monero's use-case for swaps:

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/elon-musk-brazil/odysee-tweets.html

And highlights the need to get Monero official accounts and the community off twitter, and onto Nostr and Bastyon.

[-] SummerBreeze@monero.town 3 points 2 months ago

great job, thank you

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Chrome devs rolled out a new digital ID feature. This corrupt power grab is an attempt to legitimatize Google being the overseer of all identification through their browser and mobile platform:

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/google-id/chrome.html

I question the legitimacy of Google to keep us safe, when their Worksheets are being rampantly abused by hackers: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/google-sheets/hacked.html

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Today Monero is listed as a front-page trending coin on Coinmarketcap

But it isn't rising that much ($148.81 from the low of $137), it's just that it didn't collapse with coins primarily traded on centralized exchanges. Monero's attitude of "use it" over hodl & leverage keeps it stable.

And special to this situation, as I've written about earlier, this entire collapse is triggered by Japanese yen carry trades. Monero's history of being banned from the Japanese exchanges, makes it so that very few people long XMR/JPY on leverage

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/Monero-Japenese-Yen/index.html

[-] SummerBreeze@monero.town 3 points 4 months ago

can you cross post to there for me? I'm banned from lemmy.ml and no reason was given

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SimpleX will be integrating payments to the server operators to provide incentives to decentralize the network. He’s using a voucher blockchain system, but that’s what the customer gets. The question is what the customer pays.

Can the customer pay in Monero included in the self-host default packages, or will operators have to provide their own XMR infrastructure? This is a big deal. These are the types of questions you can ask directly at tomorrow (or tonight if you live in asia)’s event.

The SimpleX dev is dropping by Simplified Privacy’s chat to answer community questions. Consider showing up to show Monero love and sway his mind to natively support it with his vendor package bundles.

Saturday June 29, 1 hour starting at: 2pm UTC / or / New York 10am / or / Hong Kong 10pm

These are both the same room, we offer choices for the moderator to be online to connect you. Here’s East EU & Asia timezone: https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-4&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FN_McQS3F9TGoh4ER0QstUf55kGnNSd-wXfNPZ7HukcM%3D%40smp19.simplex.im%2F-0fWTzXMJNobsaiaodOGLOfm0m9pq05I%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAdfeJrGjuY_qKripG4E7xle6nTDWOWuBPtWmapW6pyEc%253D%26srv%3Di53bbtoqhlc365k6kxzwdp5w3cdt433s7bwh3y32rcbml2vztiyyz5id.onion&data=%7B%22type%22%3A%22group%22%2C%22groupLinkId%22%3A%22yhJzAfpfVkMynOUVxs412g%3D%3D%22%7D

West EU & Americas: https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-5&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FSkIkI6EPd2D63F4xFKfHk7I1UGZVNn6k1QWZ5rcyr6w%3D%40smp9.simplex.im%2FxPXefPbN7ZAkPyMKzJmQrFD_fv55R6w_%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEALLyynGdXLoWke3pIt1CrR00p62eT0ewpKEaWn542gWA%253D%26srv%3Djssqzccmrcws6bhmn77vgmhfjmhwlyr3u7puw4erkyoosywgl67slqqd.onion&data=%7B%22type%22%3A%22group%22%2C%22groupLinkId%22%3A%22n99NTwZLjeKwyI4lwMHB_g%3D%3D%22%7D

If you can’t make it and want to ask something, post it here on RebelNet, and we’ll reply his copy. You can hit “connect as guest” to get random numbers/letters without a nostr key, https://rebelnet.me/news/0xbf8079a69a15fd74ae

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Leaked Lies at Google (simplifiedprivacy.com)

gotta convince the normie friends to use Monero somehow, showing evidence of the corruption is a start

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by SummerBreeze@monero.town to c/monero@monero.town

XMR Bazaar is a new LEGAL marketplace from the Monero Talk podcast. It offers multi-sig escrow for legal goods/services.

Simplified Privacy is looking to actively promote use of the market with discounted DeGoogled Phone and VPS combo packs.

These open source combo VPS packs offer:

--email (fast loading , guaranteed no spam flag)

--chat servers (your choice of XMPP/SimpleX)

--Cryptpad (end-to-end encrypted google docs replacement)

All on a 1 core VPS. We set it up with your domain choice then hand over root to you.

Vendor Profile: https://xmrbazaar.com/user/SimplifiedPrivacy

VPS Combo: Email, Docs, & Chat https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/3YYU/

Keep your name off the hardware identifiers:

GrapheneOS Pixel 6a 6GB RAM, 128GB storage Like New w/ 1 hour consult ($295) https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/dpkQ/

GrapheneOS Pixel 7a 8GB RAM, 128GB storage Like New w/ 1 hour consult ($425) https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/n5Ja/

To get in to XMRBazaar, you need the following info: user: beta password: tester

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How can we get the party started for a Monero social media site to bond a couple of anonymous bros?

Well maybe Big Tech bashing, but with an educational twist.

This site LifeHacker has half-hearted criticism of Google, but the site itself uses Google analytics and the author uses Gmail. Other than the obvious, we turn it into an educational opportunity to have members of the community tell him all the choices there are to DeGoogle your life.

https://rebelnet.me/news/0x2dc0057294f5a05bf7

Who knows? It would be pretty cool if we got a response from the author, and it mentioned Monero.

[-] SummerBreeze@monero.town 3 points 5 months ago

A CSS proposal isn’t going to get your landlord to accept XMR, that comes from you and culture. And depending on what country you live in, Coincards, Cake wallet, bitrefill (not xmr), ect. Do let you buy some basic items or food.

The thing is, my proposal doesn’t cost CSS money. I’m asking you to have fun on a social network. I'm not catering to the "fringe techie community", if anything this is easier to understand than any of the other networks, because it works in a web browser

[-] SummerBreeze@monero.town 3 points 5 months ago

Yes of course they can use all of these different tools, but having too many tools kills the network effect. I was telling you about arweave before, did you know Lens posts to Layer 3 arweave, so it can scale? Lens has DNS & does pictures over Nostr. Will Nostr folks find out? No, no network effect.

RebelNet uses Nostr, but Nostr by itself is hard for new users. When you create a new keypair on your local device, you are meaningless with no discovery. In order to be heard, people follow mass amounts of other people they dislike, which ruins their feed and kills the fun. While on the RebelNet, all voices are heard based on merit, and you can build your Nostr following which you then own off-platform.

Nostr clients don’t differentiate between the same post being reposted by a different user. This forces you to reread the same posts, creating resentment against the content creator. This resentment is why after you go viral, your next few posts get a dead response as people automatically skip rereading your stuff.

In contrast, the RebelNet can link all of these. Interoperability is the path to adoption. In the same sense that converting cryptocurrencies from one to another makes them more widely used. This is bigger than a “website”, it’s the layer 0 protocol.

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Let’s face it, our way of life is under attack. The exchanges delist us. Dubai bans us. EU restricts. Others countries we wonder. Nostr Bitcoin Maxis try to haze us. Ethereum VC funded devs treat us like pariahs. Even if you want to act tough and curse me out, you know it’s true that we live in some level of fear.

a) To make Monero real world money, you need adoption from everyday people. b) Everyday people don’t care about learning new tech, they learn it from influencers. c) To win over influencers, we need to appeal to what they care about, which is not privacy. They care about censorship, being deplatformed, and being demonetized.

Russell Brand demonetized. Glenn Beck pulled from Apple podcasts. America’s front line doctors banned from how many platforms? These are just some well-known examples, but I know dozens of mid-level political guys rug pulled by Big Tech. If we shift the conversation away from Monero is darknet markets, and turn it to undeniably monetized free speech: This is a winning battle.

But there’s a lot of choices with censorship resistance. Nostr, Session, Ethereum push channels, Farcaster, Lens, Arweave, IPFS, SimpleX, and the list goes on. The problem with “encryption as identity” is people do not agree on what coins or keys are legitimate. And this fighting and fragmentation kills adoption.

Here’s how we solve it: Simplified Privacy w/ DegenRocket has created a cross-key cryptographically agnostic protocol. This means ANYONE can cross-communicate. Our demo example has Nostr and Ethereum talking to each other… with Monero tips.

This reduces the number of clients and apps people have to download. When you SIGN you’re sending XMR, you first publicly telegraph you’re doing so with Nostr or Eth. This separates your SOCIAL identity (Nostr/Eth), from your FINANCIAL identity (XMR) in the eyes of Chainalysis AI.

Here’s the plan:

Step 1. You. It takes only 2 minutes to generate a random keypair and see how it works. Post your stuff, have fun. If you are “too busy”, then that’s the response influencers are going to have to making a Monero wallet. You can not control politicians. All you can control is your own actions.

Step 2. Me. I pledge to reach out to 356 influencers over the next year, and pitch them on the undeniable value of ownership and self-custody of their communication and revenue stream, as opposed to being a slave of Big Tech. That if they adopt an interoperability protocol, you get the ears of ALL these keys, starting with the adoption from you.

Step 3. Us. When they come on the protocol regardless of Nostr or Eth keys, we hit them with $0 zap Monero emojis. Nothing motivates someone to generate a wallet, like being able to count how much they are missing out.

Monero is true free speech. It’s about time we turned up the volume.

Here’s the info: https://rebelnet.me/news/0xe037eaa0a7d252c9a9

[-] SummerBreeze@monero.town 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thanks for bringing to our attention that a random security firm has false flagged the domain.

[-] SummerBreeze@monero.town 4 points 8 months ago

Few points regarding this,

  1. It's already built, check it out linked-out.me & vid.simplifiedprivacy.com are federated w/ Nostr & Ethereum signing

Regarding Mitra, 2. When asked about Mitra, DegenRocket said it uses an outdated or less secure Ethereum signing method. And he hasn't yet severed the link between the IP addresses of federation and the identity with Ethereum post-bans. Our team has spoken with Mitra's lead dev, he's a great guy. However, he expressed a lack of interest in Nostr. 3. Signing with Monero (instead of Ethereum or Nostr) is dangerous IF it becomes popular, as it becomes known who wallets are in RingCTs.

Regarding Lemmy, 4. The bulk of Lemmy is socialist. In fact, I can't even post anywhere except Monero.town because they are so brainwashed. Lemmy.one, lemmy.ml, beehaw, all banned Simplified Privacy from posting even basic tutorials on their relevant Linux groups. So why are we going to put in work to downgrade the censorship aspect, just to interact with people who won't even hear one word outside their propaganda bubble?

[-] SummerBreeze@monero.town 3 points 8 months ago

Eh, you're trying to copy another user's npub? Click the profile and it gives you that ability in the GUI.

Also check out Linked-Out.me its a nostr marketplace/forum for monero. Say you're npub, we'll whitelist you

[-] SummerBreeze@monero.town 3 points 8 months ago

Working Monero Nodes.

We stand together to fight the attack: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/working-monero-nodes/

[-] SummerBreeze@monero.town 5 points 8 months ago

DDoS proposal: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/fiatjaf1-1024x424.png

Further, the primal link that XMR_loving_AnCap just put up

[-] SummerBreeze@monero.town 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There is currently a fee bug on Monero, that the wallet doesn’t automatically bump the fee when there is a backlog. This fee bug is causing sync issues with many wallets. Only if you're self-hosting a node or using unpopular public ones are you ok. The bug has already been solved with Anonero.io, and other wallets will be rolling out fixes shortly.

There are rumors that Nostr’s creator is behind a spam attack. Simplified Privacy addresses this and has a ready working solution: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/monero-attack-nostr/

Tor Browser Onion: http://privacypkybrxebcjicfhgwsb3coatqechwnc5xow4udxwa6jemylmyd.onion/monero-attack-nostr/

[-] SummerBreeze@monero.town 6 points 11 months ago

The EU has:

  1. Moved faster than the US towards CBDC tyranny
  2. Digital Services Act which has privacy and censorship concerns
  3. Politicization of Certificate Authorities (Cas)
  4. France banned non-EU VPNs, although it’s not really enforced yet, it’s chilling effect
  5. France jailed people just for using Tor / Tails

In contrast Shinjiru has a good track record on censorship. If you look them up, the only criticism I found is someone complaining they would NOT take down someone else doing copyright infringement. While of course, I can not endorse breaking the law, I do support free speech.

[-] SummerBreeze@monero.town 4 points 11 months ago

True. What's crazy is that the US Treasury in this particular press conference, still cited a WSJ article that even the source for that article has clarified that it's not true: that Hamas used crypto to finance terrorism. In reality, Israel itself funded Hamas

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