Privacy

37039 readers

1 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by mwalimu@baraza.africa to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

110 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, that is not correct. Global outage shows the dangers of centralized systems would be a better headline. Monero Worked all day throughout the entire outage with no problems.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Monero isn't bad but I don't think it is great for easily buying things. At the end of the day trying to use two different currencies is hard. Also Monero gets a bad name because it is used primarily for illegal transactions. It is simply two complex and has no accountability

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

The fact that it's used for crime means that it actually does what it's supposed to do and keeping people private. Shoes are also used by bank robbers and we don't ban shoes. Monero is a tool the same as a hammer or a shoe or a car or a gun.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Define "worked" in this context. You mean their own infrastructure didn't crash? You certainly didn't pop down to the store and buying anything useful with Monero 😂

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not that day I didn't, but I have bought Domino's several times this month, and I bought my groceries at the beginning of the month.

[–] rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So do you use some kind of payment app that does a conversion or do you have to manually convert from Monero to fiat currency?

Most retailers don't accept crypto at the point of purchase so I'm curious as to how this would be convenient enough to use regularly.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

There are businesses that specifically sell gift cards to retailers for Monero and when possible I search out and purchase from retailers who accept Monero. Https://monerica.com and https://xmrbazaar.com help with that.