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by dmantis 4y ago
So people invented cold/hot wallets, like, 10 years ago. Store most of the fortune encrypted and out of internet connection or on hardwallet, if you have large sums, transfer small sums (like, monthly usage) once in a while to your pho
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by dmantis 4y ago
You can change the battery in most phones (there are plenty instructions on youtube how to open the case or do it with some service center), that's much cheaper than buying new phone. On chinese marketplaces there are batteries for alm
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by dmantis 4y ago
Free in FOSS "as in free speech, not free beer." As far as pro version is opensourced, distributed under free license and fully auditable, there is nothing defeating the idea of open source.
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by dmantis 4y ago
Pirate services often are actually better. I pay monthly for pirate streaming service because the pirate service provide me well-maintained open-source Kodi plugin on RPI, no espionage and telemetry, no DRM on my devices. And linux web vers
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by dmantis 4y ago
I moved the whole fortune out of Russia with that "speculative gambling tokens", while both Putin's regime and outside world tried to cut out russians of the possibility to move their money out of dictatorship control (almost
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Guerrilla Mail can lose their domain due to attack on disposable emails(twitter.com)
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by dmantis 5y ago
In my account I either see the option with "push notifications on your phone", usb dongle or SMS (security nightmare). I'm not against RFC'd TOTP , but is it possible with google?
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by dmantis 5y ago
There is already Bitcoin with basically free Lightning Network transactions, so it's more like people vote with their wallets that they prefer (at least for now) paying this 3% tax instead of few bucks per year for channels opening&#x2
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by dmantis 5y ago
People are so offensive to decentralized stuff in comments. Many do really think that the whole thing is about printing money (which is a fun process, lol), but I'd like to explain a bit from the other side of perspective. Today's
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by dmantis 5y ago
It is implemented as website, but blocked by regular DPI censorship mechanisms deployed in Russia. They started a blocking campaign against popular VPN providers as well before elections, making it harder for older and less tech-savvy peopl
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by dmantis 5y ago
US guy detected. Go travel to Russia, China, Middle East and other funny countries, you would find a lot of interesting things which you can be jailed for, not just banned by gov request on social media platform. If you talk about internati
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by dmantis 5y ago
Like torrents or dark markets. Technically not a problem, but will cause more effort and risks for creators (goodbye VC backed "Decentralized" swaps) and higher costs for clients who will pay for covering those risks. I assure you
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by dmantis 5y ago
Maybe we should develop less taxes, try to charge everyone with fixed amount for gov services or move some expensive services to private ownership? Private hospitals based on private insurances will surely build themselves, I promise you th
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by dmantis 5y ago
They love bureaucracy, they pay themselves for it.
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by dmantis 5y ago
I think those are young women, going from webcam and porn studios to their own indie production, receiving more money from their work and removing shady guys who organized porn studios both from production and their cut. Everybody won there
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by dmantis 5y ago
He is right. US has complete power over people on their soil and basically in Europe and Asia as well. They do a LOT of extraditions of other countries citizens when they go traveling or to business trips from their citizenship countries. C
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by dmantis 5y ago
The second group doesn't touch the first group (e.g. just use coinbase custody and forget about that "unlawful anarchists"), but the first group always want to regulate the second. Like they doing something wrong voluntarily
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by dmantis 5y ago
Chrome is not open-sourced, Chronium is. I cannot rebuild Chrome with full protection against tracking, for example, but with all other parts unchanged. Android "open sourced" as well, but literally nobody runs AOSP, stock OSS app
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by dmantis 5y ago
I had ran exit node for several years because it, you know, a good thing to do in life. Like donating to charity or publish GPL code. Freedom sometime is underrated, but if you live in authoritarian state you may understand. Helping people
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by dmantis 5y ago
But this is my money then, isn't it? My property - my rules. If I have enough money without this check due to personal savings and economy, it would be pretty much unequal and unfair situation if I won't get anything from this hel
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by dmantis 6y ago
It's not binary. For example, passive snooping and data collection aggregation (like Snowden's NSA revelations) is much worse than the direct attack possibility with humans involved. E.g. it's much less likely to be targeted
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by dmantis 6y ago
Pablo Escobar was pretty good at making money too. Nobody here talk about money making, there are things more important in life. Like, you know, not running drug traffic or mass espionage.
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by dmantis 6y ago
Quantum computers can't find preimages of crypto hash functions, but potentially can recover private key if public key was disclosured. Your address is the hash of public key. When you reveal your address, you don't reveal your ke
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by dmantis 6y ago
Not really liquid and can't be moved with you around the world in the pocket?
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by dmantis 6y ago
No, with distributed cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin money is yours. With CDBCs your wallet is managed by your government and not you.
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by dmantis 6y ago
Payment processings are monopolies. More precisely, oligopolies. See how easily Mastercard and Visa drop PornHub payments after the news paper article. It's not a court order or even a trial. There is mainly zero way of doing busines
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by dmantis 6y ago
As mostly said in the article, the first and biggest expense is taxes. However, taxes amount heavily depends on location you live and possible tax optimisations you can use in your position. For example it may vary in 10x+ times between ent
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by dmantis 6y ago
The very important point of today's world - data protection - is not covered at all. For customers, it's better to give their data consciously to one provider within one chosen jurisdiction than moving personal data, documents, ac
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by dmantis 6y ago
They were fine when FB created the biggest private espionage system in the world with their "shadow profiles" and mass targeting, but not fine when it fails to make soviet-style censorship on its platform? What a time be alive.
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by dmantis 6y ago
You assume that government is good and prohibited uses are bad. But your gov banned wikileaks bank accounts in the past and that is the perfect example of the case when the gov is definitely is a malicious actor (while their behaviour perfe

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