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Sure does seem like the primary outcome of email being released onto the world has been criminals making money.

• wnevets 10mo ago
  Absolutely not.
  • akimbostrawman 10mo ago
    nearly half of all emails are spam https://www.statista.com/statistics/420400/spam-email-traffic-share-annual/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/420400/spam-email-traffi...
    • wnevets 10mo ago
      That virtually all ends up in the spam folder. Neither half the revenue generated nor half of the utility people extract from it is criminal. I don't know a single person who has used Monero to conduct non-criminal business.
      • akimbostrawman 10mo ago
        >I don't know a single person who has used Monero That's the point, its private by design and unless they tell you, nobody will ever know how much they use and for what. The true hacker spirit. If you bother to look past news headlines you will find a vibrant community of people paying for legal goods that value privacy before FUD and ignorance. https://monerica.com/sitemap https://monerica.com/sitemap This kind of fearmongering is already leading us towards a cashless society because "only criminals use it". This is hackernews and not facebook or congress so it should be obvious to everybody here what the end result of criminalizing/demonizing non KYC payments will be (hint: look at china).
        • wnevets 10mo ago
          > unless they tell you, nobody will ever know how much they use and for what. As opposed to email?
          • akimbostrawman 10mo ago
            do i really need to explain on hackernews that email is not E2EE? yes which shows your comment has no actual data behind it hence FUD.
            • wnevets 10mo ago
              You really need to explain why whether or not email is E2EE is related to people needing to tell me they use email or not.
              • akimbostrawman 10mo ago
                if you can't follow a basic discussion maybe don't have them. there are no factual statistics about monero crime unlike email because its private by design unlike email. i provided factual evidence about email being primarily used for crime, meanwhile you have "your feeling" about monero but still refuse to apply the same lens towards something you like once facts are against it. your ignorance and different treatment of the two based on emotions is apparent but has no place in a factual discussion.
                • wnevets 10mo ago
                  You are still trying to argue that email's primary use is crime?
                  • akimbostrawman 10mo ago
                    yes with hard data unlike you about monero. have a nice day