I’ve been seeing more and more evident hit pieces on XMR on social media, starting with the article by Greydinamics on May 17th, but just look closely at the memes and comments coming up on social media, “Monero, invest in underground crime” and other stupid shit like that…

I strongly disagree with advertising or using xmr illegally. Of course you can use any of the following for terrorism, crime, drugs, etc: your car, the internet, your computer, a screwdriver, your phone, banks, cash and so on… But that doesn’t mean that’s the main use, and advertising any of the stuff just mentioned as “only used by” or “intended for” criminals is beyond stupid. This is what 1984 sytle regimes use to brainwash sheep and use its people as unknowing, unpaid agents that act on behalf of these institutions.

This is an invitation to anyone who uses Monero for freedom to fight against this (likely agency or institutional) campaign promoting XMR as a tax evasive, terrorist, drug inducing coin. They’re playing us, don’t fall for it, Monero can be and is used for buying legal items, living a moral life. It’s just sovereign money, that’s all.

  • Blake@monero.townEnglish
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    3 days ago

    also ddos attacks on multiple remaining exchanges - wizardswap, trocador among others in the last week.

    some have suggested this corrals sites + services onto cloudflare as a chokepoint for future censorship.

    however xmr keeps on ticking even despite mempool flooding last month.

    • Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      3 days ago

      some have suggested this corrals sites + services onto cloudflare as a chokepoint for future censorship.

      this is absolutely correct and allows the world powers to decrypt all traffic going through providers like cloudflare