*it's fun to be a digital nomad AND Monero user AND XmrBazaar / AnonBazaar admin ;P

good

I salute DPRK land of the free 🫡 for not making the list

There is no official public law, central-bank decree, or regulatory ban on cryptocurrency or Monero in North Korea. However, for ordinary citizens, crypto ownership or use is de facto completely illegal and extremely dangerous (punishable under the regime’s total control over foreign currency, internet access, and capital). The North Korean f***g state, on the other hand, actively uses cryptocurrencies including Monero🙃 TL;DR in a totalitarian regime where you can kill ppl as you wish w/o any reason or due process you do not need "laws"

also "Some asshat countries do this in a roundabout way..." https://xcancel.com/BloodReaver/status/2033951008251081083

Banning personal transactions that involve using open-source, community-written code is absurd. They have to get their hands into everything. I'm surprised governments haven't banned email providers so they can insist we all use government-issued email addresses -- and then charge us electronic "postage" for each message we send (all of which would have to be unencrypted, of course).

please do not give them ideas!

I thought they embraced it because of Lazarus group 😔

Monero bans align with global AML pressures, but the Middle East’s “crypto haven” label oversimplifies regulatory fragmentation—UAE allows privacy coins in some zones, Iran mines Bitcoin quietly. Just read a piece unpacking this gap between perception and policy.

The Board

Middle East Crypto Safe Haven: Hype vs. Reality

Is the Middle East truly a crypto safe haven? Explore the hype vs. reality of using cryptocurrency to protect wealth in the region. Learn the risks.

YES!

Since Monero was delisted it's done nothing but go up. Its use-case and value proposition was actually BOOSTED by getting banned. "Wait... governments can ban crypto ownership? So what's stopping my fully public ledger coin from being a massive legal risk?" With unstoppableswaps from Bitcoin to Monero, I transferred same day :) #Invisible

Em breve no Brasil, após uma ditadura tomar o poder o e chamar de democracia.

email's not very secure in the first place 🤔

> China Wait but don't they actually have BTC reserves tho...? Kinda unfortunate to see Japan in the list, but, oh well.

I have no idea about Japan or the UAE

That's true. So that's bad enough.