CashDragon

Thanks for the info, this likely explains why they dropped private payments. Large corporations hate privacy for their customers but love it for themselves.

I was speaking of plausible deniability on the social level not from a criminal perspective.

A VPN would stop them in their tracks because there would be no logs to read except you connecting to the VPN on the ISP side.

You can also use a VPN -> Tor -> VPN in which case it is almost impossible to trace anything unless you examine the whole internet connection map which is thousands of hours of effort.

Thanks for the reasonable and level headed reply. Sick of hearing "they are already tracking every thing" from numbskull TV watchers.

Still the point remains, if you are advertising yourself as a pro privacy service and not accepting crypto you are suspect and should be avoided. All points considered crypto is still the most private way to pay.

If anything they should be dropping credit cards due to privacy concerns.

No one is going to go through all that effort to make sure it is me doing the browsing for marketing purposes. You are talking about thousands of hours of work.

I am not talking about doing anything criminal. I am talking about using an easy anonymous form of payment to thwart the vast majority of general spying.

The point being is if your VPN refuses to accept crypto it is most likely because they are selling your data and they cannot sell it for any good price if they do not know who you are explicitly.

When you pay with crypto you have plausible deniability. Your IP is not you and you can just say someone visiting was using your connection.

It would cost thousands of dollars, if at all possible, for someone to prove you are the actual person behind an IP, if you pay with legacy payment systmes you are legally confirming that it is you.

Thus for marketing purposes your IP is totally useless. So it remains a fact that paying for VPN with crypto is the only way to go.

It is best to use crypto everywhere possible anyway as the legacy financial scam system crumbles.

There are also many former maxi's that have realized BTC is junk. I have seen them on podcasts and they speak favorably of Monero.

This guy is an example of it: https://odysee.com/@paranoia_machinery:0

Still got a ways to go before overtaking the Real Bitcoin (BCH)

This is most likely BTC maxi's buying up XMR, since they have see some gains lately.

Merchants looking to accept Bitcoin Cash (the real Bitcoin) need to check out: https://minisatoshi.cash/merchants

Best thing to do is just to try it. Backup up your data and install Linux. Use Linux Mint.

The issue is XMR outputs are locked for 20 minutes after being received, BCH outputs are immediately spendable.

0-conf transactions on BCH are very safe because it would take a massive effort to mess with the mempool. That being said if I was sending 100 BCH I would wait for a conf. However in 99% of scenarios the TX is instant, this allows for great DEX experience.

What is 0-conf? Are BCH transactions instant? - https://bitcoincashpodcast.com/faqs/Tech/Other/what-is-0-conf

It is irrelevant that XMR had dynamic block size 10 years ago. The important part is BCH has dynamic block size, BTC and LTC do not.

Most people to not yet know about the capability of BCH, this is changing. The DEX on BCH is growing fast because no other chain can do DeFi like BCH. (https://app.cauldron.quest/tokens)

BCH transactions are instant and can be treated final, with LTC you have to wait for confirmations because they use RBF which crippled BTC.

Right on! 👍 You have a great attitude.

If Bitcoin Cash can develop fully private transactions, even if it is with a private token, while maintaining massive scalability and DeFi functionality that would be great. For those in love with layer 1 privacy Monero is the way to go.