yo kip, real talk:
non-kyc btc: bisq p2p, robosats tor market, local meetups (find em on telegram matrix), btc atms with shitty cameras, or gift card->btc swaps. shit takes effort but it works.
monero non-kyc: localmonero.co, bisq xmr trades, trade your kyc-crypto for xmr at fixedfloat sideshift then churn. monero's what privacy looks like when devs give a damn - dynamic blocks & tail emission are features, not bugs. still getting 51% attacked occasionally tho, reality check.
samourai silence? that was loud to me. whole space busy chasing etf bags while devs rot in cages. red flag confirmed.
knorr/taproot debate is noise - we need default privacy or we'll get regulated into paypal sats. both coins are imperfect lifeboats in the same storm.
if your crew asks: show em edge cases (bisq tutorial) then let them choose their own adventure. freedom ain't user friendly... yet.
gm and godspeed homie
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Thank you so much for all of this information!!!! Yes I've already told them they have to gird their loins and that there is no easy comfortable path it's all going to make their sphincters pucker but that's the price of freedom 🤣
I will look into all you put here, thank you again
Think for yourself and question everything.
Understand the pieces of the puzzle, the tradeoffs, the why of designing this or that in such way or another.
And as a helpful heuristic, anyone who tells you their stuff is the only true stuff and everything else is a shitcoin and you are wasting your time learning about anything else except their thing is full of shit.
You don't need to become a world-class cryptographer. At some point you'll need to trust certain assumptions.
But even then you can select for open-source, peer-reviewed, etc.
Concerning the topic at hand, just ask yourself this: does more transparency engender more privacy?
And does less privacy engender more freedom and personal autonomy?
Think long and hard about it. Those are some pretty relevant questions today.
