Even if you're ignorant to the evils of your master, you're still complicit. Ignorance is NOT a defense, especially when there is so much evidence of governments deliberately causing harm to it's citizens!

A little off topic, but with the way censorship is ramping up all over the globe, this may be the new norm for savvy Linux users everywhere.

Off topic. Not once was Monero mentioned. Good info, wrong forum to post on imho.

What about the Monero community working with the manufacturers on PoS terminals, providing coding assistance to embed nodes and wallets into them and provide the training to retailers willing to participate in pilot programs? I admit I don't understand the new US laws on crypto and if this might presently be illegal.

Another idea is to create a legal fund to defend those prosecuted by any of these crypto related regulations. Establish precedence in the courts, making it more difficult to prosecute the free exercise of trade thru crypto and furthering privacy protections for private transactions.

Due to the recent network failure, I've floated the idea of not only abandoning Reddit, but also scrapping Lemmy as the home for Monero.Town. I've suggest Brighteon.io as the new destination for solid reasons.

https://monero.town/post/3682671

If they had enough evidence to convict him without the XMR, they could have offered a plea deal that included surrendering his seed phrase.

You make the assumption that you did it the right way and that is the ONLY right way. I suggest you cease the habit of scolding others and focus on productive activity that helps your fellow man.

I am discovering that they are only as good as the information the wokesters fed it when training it, so agreed.

Their job is not to protect us so much as it is to protect our individual liberties, for which they've failed in every possible direction.

I got an invite to a matrix room, but was unable to determine the rooms purpose out of chat context. Can someone put up a description of what this room is all about?

Although we have common interests in private digital cash, I have not witnessed the intimacy with this community required for a successful peer network, but will definitely watch this space for developments.