I agree, however, this can be rather challenging to communicate and convince people of due to the vast amount of social engineering people have been exposed to via centralized information systems.

Imo it's better to focus on the direct and immediate benefit to the individual as to encourage mass adoption. It will be much harder to pass and, more importantly, enforce laws that restrict/limit defi if more people are using Monero for legitimate and legal business.

Anyone else getting an issue with the redirect? It goes to this page https://moneromaster.substack.com/p/mcep

The pledge listed here is more a "word is my bond" social agreement to get folks thinking of a Monero to Monero economy, rather than a financial pledge or investment to me.

I don't have, nor do I plan to collect fiat subscriptions with Substack. At this point in time I'm using Substack more for convenience to test a concept. I'll invest capital into infrastructure if people find what Monero Master is doing helpful enough ☺

Hi Nihilist, I recently saw your Haveno demo on Monero Talk, good job! Thanks for contributing helpful resources to the community, we need more of this.

One thing I try to keep in mind is that if we get to a stage where governments are holding citizens in embassies without pressing charges for decades, arresting developers for "conspiracy" to commit crimes, etc. then plausible deniability is not really applicable anymore. Plausible deniability assumes courts are seeking justice instead of following orders.

I've recently been studying the GULAG system of the USSR and it's amazing how everyone knew that their mock trials were a show and that the vast majority of people in the forced labor camps were innocent. The good news is that these types of systems can never endure any significant longevity. Compare the length and legacy of the USSR to the Roman Empire and it's a laughable comparison.

That being said, your suggestion for a decoy is a good system to implement for added security indeed. Thanks for sharing Veracrypt, I was not aware of this particular encryption method. I'll need to compile a list of other encryption systems for people to investigate if they want something more complex/robust as I've received a lot of feedback about this.

It might also be worth considering creating a dummy seed that is kept in a safe, so if a thief was to break in and access it you would have misdirected them from your true seed hidden in another location.

Great idea! yes throwing in random and arbitrary letters can strengthen the encryption. Something I was thinking about was replacing spaces with "-[random text]-"

Example:

sdfsdf-iuocbff-oiurwqx-afewef-gupioue

So the true encrypted text would be sdfsdf oiurwqx gupioue with -iuocbff- -afewef- representing spaces.