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🔸 Do NOT Watch This Video: THEY CAN'T STOP WHAT THEY CAN'T SEE by @DontTraceMeBruh View quoted note →

⚠️This is a WARNING for EU residents (not an advertisement of non-compliant services!). 🔸Do NOT use bisq.network, retoswap.com, BasicSwapDEX.com, eigenwallet.org - these are tools used by non-compliant people to voluntarily exchange crypto.   🔸Do NOT go to KYCNOT.ME website - it's a list of services that refused to comply with KYC.   🔸Do NOT use Monero - it never complied with anything.   🔸Do NOT read this post too - just in case it's non-compliant "advice on crypto". Stay SAFE & COMPLIANT, citizens 🇪🇺🫵

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If it's not voluntary, it's tyranny. This is a very simple concept.

Back home!!! My soul is all fresh and reborn, like a happy little girl: so excited and hungry to live and learn! That's the best part of every life-risking wild adventure: you come home extra alive… and just so happy to be here!☀️

Haveno v1.8.0 released! Critical security update after the recent trade protocol exploit. Multiple fixes for message verification, arbitrator signature checks, deposit responses, and trade setup messages to prevent impersonation attacks. Also adds passphrase protection for all offer types + other improvements.

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Release haveno-v1.8.0 · haveno-dex/haveno

What's Changed User Experience Support passphrase protection for all offer types e295518 Support IPv6 Monero nodes by @lschomaker1 469264a Fix .de...

On this day, June 20, 1967, boxing legend Muhammad Ali was convicted for refusing the Vietnam War draft. In an effort to suppress growing resistance to the war, he was given the MAXIMUM sentence. Speaking of the cost to Ali's career from his refusal to be drafted, his trainer Angelo Dundee said: "He was robbed of his best years, his prime years." Ali: “I wasn’t trying to be a leader. I just wanted to be FREE.” Victimless acts, like the Samourai Wallet developers writing FOSS software, Ian Freeman selling Bitcoin without KYC, Dexter Taylor assembling firearms and facing charges of "criminal possession of a weapon" (a constitutional right in his country!), and countless others, ARE NOT CRIMES! They are state coercion dressed up as public service. View quoted note →

How to be free ☀️

This is a great example of different default mind settings (mindsets): one individual sees/says "mindset shift" without any adjective implying "collective mindset," while another individual sees/says "mindset shift" without any adjective implying "individual mindset." That's the difference, and *if you want* a "shift", it's where it starts :) View quoted note →

Back in 2024 I wrote: “Our aim is to grow a parallel economy with its own MoE, separate from the state. This requires a mindset shift, as we are born into state systems. Once enough people embrace this on nurturing platforms like XMRbazaar, we can progress towards decentralization: the only way forward.” XmrBazaar has already achieved the first part of that goal. It has nurtured a growing community that has experienced P2P freedom. It has served as the necessary on-ramp. It proved the demand exists. It showed what works and what breaks. It gave thousands of people their first real experience of a parallel, voluntary economy using Monero as the medium of exchange. That experience cannot be uninvented. Once people have traded privately and directly, the appeal of returning to fully tracked corporate systems diminishes. It is growing exponentially and will keep growing. View quoted note →

🚨Haveno PSA - Ongoing Attack: If you're running RetoSwap, revoke all offers and pause trading. Attacker (buyer) fg2lhfhgjrfz4oywqy2mfwfehhqsjse6wyrtdczsrhtves2jofi2qpad.onion (already banned from the network) is taking buy offers → forcing arbitration → trades close with no BTC sent, but XMR is released after 30 confirmations. Arbitrator: 7xktb2noofpx7vqom5d6b4gub6wi2znkfhbowtv2xxkbx63simfj3bqd.onion Trading halted. Check your open trades. Stay safe.

Tracking remains one of the most obvious pain points for privacy-conscious people in today’s surveillance economy, and it shows up clearly in #XmrBazaar’s data. The majority of listings in the top four categories exist to solve exactly this problem. You want a verified account but refuse to hand over your credit card details to a platform: You can pay someone to handle it for you and gift you the X/Twitter blue checkmark. You want to use AI tools without letting the company build a permanent profile of every conversation you have: You can pay someone to create the account and pay on your behalf. These rank among the most popular services because the free market is doing exactly what it’s meant to do: identifying real problems people are willing to pay to solve, then delivering practical, effective solutions. View quoted note →

New The Meritocrat Article: Voluntary Markets in an Involuntary World Centralized chokepoints, free-market solutions to the surveillance economy, and the push toward truly decentralized infrastructure.

Voluntary Markets in an Involuntary World

Centralized Chokepoints, Free Market Solutions to the Surveillance Economy, and the Push Toward Decentralized Infrastructure