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I've been seeing more and more evident hit pieces on XMR on social media, starting with the article by Greydinamics on May 17th, but just look closely at the memes and comments coming up on social media, "Monero, invest in underground crime" and other stupid shit like that...

I strongly disagree with advertising or using xmr illegally. Of course you can use any of the following for terrorism, crime, drugs, etc: your car, the internet, your computer, a screwdriver, your phone, banks, cash and so on... But that doesn't mean that's the main use, and advertising any of the stuff just mentioned as "only used by" or "intended for" criminals is beyond stupid. This is what 1984 sytle regimes use to brainwash sheep and use its people as unknowing, unpaid agents that act on behalf of these institutions.

This is an invitation to anyone who uses Monero for freedom to fight against this (likely agency or institutional) campaign promoting XMR as a tax evasive, terrorist, drug inducing coin. They're playing us, don't fall for it, Monero can be and is used for buying legal items, living a moral life. It's just sovereign money, that's all.

[-] freedomtools@monero.town 1 points 5 months ago

Who the hell downvotes posts like these? Some people are just miserable. I don't remember it but looked it up, seems cool

[-] freedomtools@monero.town 1 points 5 months ago

CEXs are important for the xmr ecosystem. The least fees, quick and convenient. They should be avoided if possible, but in reality, it's not very possible.

[-] freedomtools@monero.town 4 points 5 months ago

You can do all kinds of mental gymnastics on why bitcoin is the one and only coin, and it will probably go up in value because banks are adopting it. However I decline to have anything to do with that surveillance coin, it strayed far from its roots.

[-] freedomtools@monero.town 2 points 5 months ago

Probably a good idea, thank you, I wanted it to be minimalistic, not too much information, but I might divide it at the bottom and place those places to spend. I will also definitely add those to my homepage, with all the other tools. Thanks again.

[-] freedomtools@monero.town 2 points 5 months ago

Absolutely will do! Thank you, that's why I published here.

[-] freedomtools@monero.town 1 points 5 months ago

Misspelled phishing domains are very real. Thanks for the reminder to triple check every time.

[-] freedomtools@monero.town 2 points 5 months ago

I understand this. Tradeogre also has cloudflare I think. I think 50% of the task of staying private is made by the website, and 50% by the user.

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I see around 5 or 10 posts a day on "How do I get Monero now that Localmonero is gone?", I thought I might add to my website a very simple guide that's easy to read and follow. I'll leave it out there in case you find it useful. Plus check out the rest of the site, it's really simple, but I wanted to make a sort of repository for free or mostly free tools to guide newcomers to the privacy space, not only Monero. You might already know most of the tools, but it's intended for beginners. Any pointers on how to improve it welcome!

[-] freedomtools@monero.town 2 points 5 months ago

Coinsbee is another very good site for gift cards, they accept XMR.

[-] freedomtools@monero.town 2 points 5 months ago

I was on the fence about reading this book or not, now I definitely will, thank you

[-] freedomtools@monero.town 2 points 5 months ago

Hi Blake! I'm sorry, I'm not Majestic. I actually got derailed because I'm smelling something rotten. If we keep our eyes closed to this kind of corruption inside Monero, we'll be following Bitcon's steps in a couple of years.

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I've witnessed accounts first bashing Majestic Bank, then a few weeks later saying "I just lost hundreds of dollars in an exchange there, I got scammed". I'm refering to localnoderunner, but there are many on Twitter, and some more on Dread I've witnessed are in this behavior. Who is behind these accounts? I'll tell you who gets hurt, the Monero user.

Also, someone posted about Majestic in this forum and a day later you get an article with mostly speculative criticism. Someone is being paid to divide the community. Keep your eyes open.

[-] freedomtools@monero.town 4 points 5 months ago

There is something here for everyone to open their eyes to... Majestic bank has often been accused of exit scamming, of disappearing, yet they remain offering an acceptable and anonymous service, try and exchange $20 or $2,000 bucks or whatever and decide for yourself. Who is behind the smearing and dodgy information? I can think of a few exchanges and some other groups.

Disgruntled employees exist. Even questionable decisions, but from this to accusing them of being wiretapped (how would you have that information, OP?). It is shameful for tabloid style news to be around when we do need players that push Monero like Majestic and other anon swaps. It seems like you can't be prominent without having some rocks thrown at you.

[-] freedomtools@monero.town 2 points 5 months ago

Congrats Rottenwheel. I think you're an important Monero activist.

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