Anything where heat is needed is a good potential for a Bitcoin mine, just because heat is a waste byproduct of a Bitcoin mine, but that heat can be used for something else.

Jim bell ftw

You forgot the [f] tag. You could have put it in “[f]it” if you wanted to

Of course the police plant evidence on people. There’s plenty of evidence of that occurring.

Of course they use illegal means to track him down. That’s why our police state exists.

I just don’t believe anything the media says whatsoever. If anybody in the media opens their mouth, it’s likely a lie.

Yep, that’s a totally fair point. I mine on the same machine that runs my node that I connect my mobile wallet to over tor and it runs a couple of other services for me, so I have to leave it on all the time anyway.

It may be profitable to mine Monero, but the fact that it uses an algorithm that is strictly available on CPUs only helps keep the power usage way down because you can’t make specialized equipment and put it in a single location. That way, nobody has an advantage over anybody else except for the pure amount of CPUs they can purchase. But literally anybody that has a mobile phone or a computer of any kind can mind Monero if they wish.

Use the websites whenever you can. That’s what I do at least. Although I had to stop using Lyft entirely, because they stopped supporting rides from their website apparently. And that leaves just Uber. I actually left my bank for a similar reason. It supported my phone just fine, and it worked without Google Play Services, but the website wouldn’t let me do everything that the app would, and the app required that I have Aurora Store to download their banking app from the Google Play Store, and I wanted to get away from that, so I switched banks so that I could use the bank website instead. From what I can tell, you run into this kind of stuff a lot with FinTech apps. But if you use older banks, like Discover or Wells Fargo or things like that, they tend to work better. Maybe because they’re not up with the newest technology, LOL.

To use your own domain with Proton is paid. So you have to pay for a Proton and your domain in order to do that. It’s really too bad because it would be fucking awesome if I could use my tor hidden service as my domain. That way I didn’t have to pay for it. So my email might be like contact @ blahblahblah.onion.

I used to use Proton and simple login for this but I now own my own domain so I can use whatever address I want as long as it ends with @mydomain.com

When I hear somebody who has a Yahoo account, I kind of look at them funny and do not send them anything that’s important because if they are likely to use Yahoo, then they probably don’t have very good security practices.

I’m a little bit younger than you, so for me, it was used Wikipedia as a starting source, but do not reference it. Find your own information. We just used Wikipedia to familiarize ourselves with a topic and the terms that we would then have to actually look up and source other sites.

Oh no, they absolutely won’t do that because Monero actually works as digital money that they can’t control. So there will be no protections for it. In fact, I read a paper essay thing from somebody in the European Commission that was actually talking about attacking it by the government in order to purposely suppress it.

I’m not sure how much more expensive it is, but I wouldn’t think it would add much to the price of the actual crypto that’s in it.

People like this have even less sway in a currency like Monero than they do over the Federal Reserve, primarily because a community like Monero doesn’t trust people like that. It’s a complete direct democracy, where you can make your voice heard on absolutely any issue under discussion, bring up a new issue to discuss, etc. Change does not occur unless there is an extreme majority consensus. And if a change is not liked, it either will not happen or a fork will be created.

National currencies are backed by the fear of people who have given themselves arbitrary titles that they agree allows them to point guns at you without being prosecuted for that.

That’s not entirely accurate. Look up Caesaceous coins. There aren’t many of them, but they do exist, and they are physical coins with a private key embedded under a hologram, which as long as the hologram has not been tampered with, is guaranteed to contain the amount of crypto it says, and you can trade that without electricity or internet.

Well, you go ahead and use paper sacks as a currency. And let me know how that goes.

Okay, I was not aware of that one, so I will look into it. Thank you for the information.