Buy European
Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
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Useful Websites
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General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
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Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
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Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
Benefits of Buying Local:
local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.
European Instances
Lemmy:
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Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
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๐ง๐ช Belgium: https://0d.gs/
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๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
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๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
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๐ช๐บ Europe: https://europe.pub/
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ & https://suppo.fi/
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๐ธ๐ช Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
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๐น๐ท Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
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๐ฌ๐ง UK: https://feddit.uk/
Friendica:
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๐ฆ๐น Austria: https://friendica.io/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://poliverso.org/
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/
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๐ซ๐ท Significant French speaking userbase: https://social.trom.tf/
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๐ต๐ฑ Poland: soc.citizen4.eu
Matrix:
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๐ฌ๐ง UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social
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๐ซ๐ท France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat
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๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: bark.lgbt
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๐ฆ๐น Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
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You lament the loss of anonymity (and presumably privacy) but then you wish for governments to adopt cryptocurrencies. That does not track.
Crypto is neither anonymous nor private. Every transaction is written to a public ledger that anyone can see. You can easily track each transaction a crypto-wallet makes, and with a bit of effort it is usually not difficult to match a wallet with a person.
Crypto is less private than the traditional banking system. At least with banks your transactions can only be reviewed internally.
Monero is. It's designed for that from the ground up. It's the best use case for crypto imo.
Unfortunately governments don't like it so forced all the big exchanges to stop trading it.
As far as I know, a blockchain solves a very specific kind of problem you never hear people lamenting about: trust. If you canโt trust your bank or the local shop, and those two canโt trust each other, let alone you, thatโs when you need a blockchain. This tool is for situations where everyone is constantly worried about someone else screwing you over and running away with your money.
If there is sufficient trust among all three parties, you donโt need a blockchain. It solves a problem you donโt have.
I think we're better going back to cash.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the high rates of inflation, especially on food and other groceries that don't really seem to be reflected in headline rates, happened around the same time that we went cashless. It's enabled people to ignore how the numbers went up,
There's something about handling over cash that makes you feel the price you're paying.
I agree.
You are mistaken. Sure, bitcoin is like that, but there are alternatives.
Monero is private and anonymous, and its not the only one.
I must admit I am not exactly sure on the specifics of Monero.
From a cursory Google it looks like they claim to be different from regular crypto-currencies on these fronts:
That leaves me with a few questions.
Assuming that we can trust everyone in our "ring" ourselves, how does someone outside the ring verify that a person is good for the amount they are attempting to transfer? The reason why in regular crypto the sender, receiver and amount are public, is so that anyone can verify that noone is spending more than they have. That is necessary in lieu of a central authority centrally verifying transactions.
I take it that as outsiders we just have to assume that the "ring" is credible, and has verified the transaction for us.
That leads me to my next question. How can we trust the ring? What is preventing a small group of people banding together and forming their own ring, approving each others fraudulent transactions? It seemingly lowers the bar for a 51% attack quite significantly.
Any website I found also talks about stealth addresses for recipients, but how does the money then make it to the actual recipient? At some point the address of the actual recipient has to be made public in order for the funds to actually go where they are supposed to go.
And if there are only stealth addresses for recipients, does that mean there are no stealth addresses for senders? Can anyone still see if I'm making transactions, just not how much and to whom?
I'm currently at work, so admittedly I haven't taken a particularly deep dive on the topic, but these are just some concerns that came to mind based on the information I found following a quick Google.
Look up techniques like cryptographic range proofs and Zero-knowledge proofs. It's all doable without trust, assuming you believe the algorithms are secure