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Signal Login: optional registration without a phone number will require a one-time payment (aboutsignal.com)

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Looks like currently they only accept BTC, ETH and USDC.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, and all three of those are surveillance coins.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

they're really not helping beat honeypot allegations with that

[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How do you figure that? You realize the Silk Road ran on BTC?

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

Yes, and the person they accused of running it went to prison for 11 years because it was easy to trace what was going on.

It is not impossible to use Bitcoin anonymously. It is just extremely difficult to use it anonymously, and it is extremely, extremely easy to fuck up and de-anonymize yourself on accident. With a foot gun,

[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Uhhhh no authorities investigated it for years and he got cocky and fucked up, and even then they had to ambush him in a public library before he could re-lock his laptop. It had literally nothing to do with BTC.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you have not yet done so, go read a book called Tracers in the Dark.

It does a very good job explaining how surveillance coins are tracked.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

tldr?

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

Don't use surveillance coins or you will be tracked.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

WTF is surveillance coins

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

Any coin with a public blockchain where you can see what address sent how much to what address.

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Stay anonymous! (must reveal personal information to do so)