shortwavesurfer
@shortwavesurfer@monero.town
- Comment on Incinerating Toilet: How it Works & My Review 4 months ago:
I had literally never heard of this until today. What the actual fuck?
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
Which just means we need to continue to simplify the interfaces for crypto. That way, when OP is locked out of their PayPal account, they will just decide to say fuck it. I will use crypto because it’s easier than dealing with getting my PayPal account back. Make using crypto simple enough that people would ask themselves why take the risk in using the legacy financial system when my money could be confiscated at any time for any reason with no explanation required.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
Honestly, no. The only money we’ve had in the past that even compares is when we were actually using gold and silver. The problem with those though is that they cannot be stored or sent digitally without the help of a third party whom you then have to trust. Crypto is the future because it has the same value whether you’re in Caracas or Chicago or London or Moscow. It can be transferred anywhere in the world in seconds and settles within 20 minutes, not three business days or more such as the banking system. It is a bearer asset that nobody can take away from you without force and no government can inflate away and leave you poor.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
But why would I use Linux when Windows comes pre-installed when I buy the computer and I don’t have to use the command line? /s
I’ve been a Linux user since 2010 and wouldnt dream of using windows as a daily driver ever again. If you are capable of running Linux, you are more than capable of using crypto. Whether you choose to or not is your own decision, but you are capable of doing so.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
And that’s a totally legitimate viewpoint. I am using it and helping to smooth out the edges so that when you are ready to use it, you will be able to and have the experience that you expect to have. I am willing to put up with the rough edges and difficulties now in order to make your life easier in the future.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
I think that’s the fundamental disconnect. You may not see it as money, where I do, since I can buy the things I need to survive with it. And I can buy the things that I enjoy with it, which makes it money. Fees have never been a real problem. I mean, 1 US cent for a transacyion is nothing
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
In most cases, it will probably be Monero or Bitcoin, primarily because those are proof of work, which means you actually have to put energy into it if you wish to break it. Keep in mind that once you have any crypto, it is extremely easy to get from that crypto to any crypto you desire. So even if your employer paid you in a crypto you did not like, it would be extremely easy to switch it into the crypto you do like and wish to use. I don’t use Bitcoin for example but I would absolutely take a job that paid me in Bitcoin and then I would immediately take that and convert it into Monero and I would use that and it would take me very little time to do so.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
I feel it’s speculative something like electricity was speculative in the early days of electricity when people were doing it wrong and burning down their houses and people laughed at electricity like who would ever want that and now we can’t really live without it. I will agree, cash is a bearer asset and untraceable and therefore is very good. The only real problem with cash is that it’s based on the monetary policy of the governmyth that issues it. They make bad decisions and you suffer for it.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
That’s true. Once people start getting paid in it, that’s when it’s really going to take off. I don’t think a majority of people will be paid in it until such a time as their national currencies start to hyper inflate. Ask a person in the United States, Canada, or Europe, if they would want to be paid in crypto, and the vast majority would say no. Ask a person in Zimbabwe, Argentina, Venezuela, Lebanon, etc. If they would like to be paid in crypto, and I’ll bet you’ll get a whole different answer.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
That’s what multi-signature escrow is for. You deposit money into an account and you have one key. The vendor has one key and a third key is given to an arbitrator and at least two keys must sign the transaction in order for it to be completed. If the vendor sends you your product and you are happy with it, you sign the transaction and the vendor signs the transaction and the vendor gets the money. If the vendor does not send you what you ordered, you talk to the arbitrator and the arbitrator listens to your case and the vendor’s case and makes a decision.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
Instacart has giftcards you can buy with crypto and so does my cell provider. Sure, you absolutely could say that they don’t accept it directly, and you would be right. However, I still get my groceries in my refrigerator, and I still get service on my cell phone. So, at the end of the day, does it matter?
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
And that’s fine because you will always buy your requirements such as food, water, shelter, and transportation no matter what the price is. But you don’t need that new Xbox right now. It keeps prices steady, which is what people expect from a currency. And the more people who do it this way, the lower the volatility will become because more people are using it.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
Fair enough, I’ll be the first to admit that it takes work in order to use it. I’ll give two reasons. One is a monetary, and one is not.
Reason 1: If we are right, and 15 years of data shows we at least have a point, then you would be an early adopter and very likely end up very wealthy.
Reason 2: You can buy anything from anyone, anywhere, in the world at any time. And it’s guaranteed to be irreversible in 20 minutes.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
Well now you know two people who use crypto and I use it as money. I don’t speculate on it. I buy my groceries and pay my cell phone bill and pay my insurance with it. I recently bought a Taylor Swift album with it as well.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
Gratuitas.org sells premium grade coffee for Monero. You can also look at monerica.com. There are absolutely tons of legitimate businesses that accept crypto. Actually, when it comes right down to it, it makes a whole lot of sense to accept crypto because the transaction fees are so damn low that businesses save a ton of money over credit card transactions.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
Absolutely. It is absolutely the future of finance.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
You have a nice day too.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
Price Crypto at the one-year simple moving average, and the volatility stops. I personally use crypto all the time and make my budget using the one-year simple moving average and it completely eliminates the issue with the volatility because that average takes a very long time to move.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 4 months ago:
Monero
- Comment on What would happen if everyone moved there money from traditional private banks to credit unions/ coop banks 5 months ago:
I’m going to answer the last part of the question, banks and credit unions and these institutions absolutely can, will, and do limit withdrawals. When you don’t physically hold your money and it is in an institution, it is no longer your money, it is an IOU with conditions that can be rescinded at any time for any reason.
- Comment on Is it just me or do Lemmy communities tend to skew left wing? Why might this be? 5 months ago:
It’s not totally leftist. I am most definitely a libertarian. I am interested in free and open source software, though, because I care about online privacy and self-sovereignty. I mean hell, even if you just look at my instance, I am on an instance about a particular cryptocurrency whose goal is financial privacy, which is a big middle finger fuck you to the government. They would like to know the consistency of your last bowel movement and I would rather them not know that.
- Comment on How do passkeys work across devices? 5 months ago:
Okay, I see I have never used a regular one. I think I read to use XC by default. Somewhere. And so that’s the one I’ve always used. I’ve never even downloaded the original one.
- Comment on How do passkeys work across devices? 5 months ago:
Keepass or keepassxc? Xc i think is a community fork.
- Comment on How do passkeys work across devices? 6 months ago:
Some password managers support passkeys, such as one password and proton pass, which will allow you to use multiple different devices. Personally, I am waiting for key pass to have proper support before starting to migrate to them.
- Comment on What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs 6 months ago:
Did I get a divorce?
- Comment on Why do passports need to be signed to be valid? 6 months ago:
Because gang boss says you must do it or else.
- Comment on MFJ is ceasing its on-site production 6 months ago:
Oh, that sucks. On the other hand, a lot of their stuff is made to last. Like, I can’t see much going wrong with like their tuners and stuff like that very easily. I have an MFJ 902 manual tuner that does 150 watts that the thing will just keep working and working until the dials won’t turn.
- Comment on Regaining interest in amateur radio 6 months ago:
Make a 2 meter 70 cm Yagi antenna and start talking on the satellites like SO-50. It’s so much fun.
- Comment on Who decides when the US goes to "war" 6 months ago:
The military industrial complex, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and the rest of those.
- Comment on So close. Once again missed the mark by a mere 1%. I was at 68% at this time last year. 6 months ago:
Going to shill my community since its related. !t_mobile@lemmy.ml.