Talks about all the attacks on crypto freedom recently. Great overview and article.

"Their system demands KYC that subjects us to data breaches. 5 billion plus known records breached so far in over 2000 publicly disclosed incidents in 2024.

Crypto has seen its hacks and exploits, but legacy finance permitted $3.1 trillion in dirty money flows last year alone.

I thought they were supposed to be protecting us. Maybe we should just protect ourselves."

Monero.garden is an awesome Monero learning site for both beginners and advanced, but also touches upon some very simple but highly pragmatic philosophy for privacy

https://monero.garden/3-notes-for-humans/trying_things

But there’s a less discussed yet maybe even more pervasive phenomenon, self-censorship. When we’re being observed, we behave differently. Privacy is the freedom to try things out.

https://monero.garden/3-notes-for-humans/fresh_start

Identities formed in base of our true desires and interests will foster connections to people that make our lives better for us, to jobs that are a genuine fit for us, to knowledge that boosts our chances to feel our lifes balanced, and worth living. These identities have the chance to spill over, either gradually or in a sweep, to our meat space identities. If all those interactions are monitored, we face having too much risk and not daring to try. Or make it very difficult to even create such identity because of its ties to our current one.

Monero and Privacy are the keys to the utopian future where we aren't afraid to try to be better, do more, discover more, reach more.

There are more arguments for privacy in this site but this just one.

This is all so awesome. These kind of arguments prove that things like secrecy and privacy and freedom of choice dont need to boil down any more to these "well i should be able to do whatever I want" things. but in fact prove that they are necessary to literally make society better.

I really hope all privacy centric communities adopt these values and arguments as their primary points

I made a post here about the danger of Cloudflare and the nightmare about how it functions:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/20529148

Cloudflare is a MITM can see everything going on and every request I'm making plus all the data I'm sending.

So explain to me why Trocador is using it? Are they a honeypot? They pride themself soooo much on anonymity, NoJS, Onion support, deletion of records, No KYC, No logs unless fully necessary, but yet, they allow Cloudflare to record every single piece of data about my interactions on trocador, all the requests, both POST and GET, all the addresses and amounts im inputting, quotes im making, and of course, associate my browser fingerprint and IP with all that yummy data that the NSA would be really happy to collect ;) ! How curious indeed..

It's a known fact that Cloudflare works the way I described. So why would Trocador willingly give over everything I'm inputting into the site over to Cloudflare? Please, someone explain this to me.

And it's not just trocador. soooo many Monero and privacy oriented sites are using Cloudflare MITM. Today I'm picking on Trocador but later I'll pick on more as I remember/come across them.

Here is a relevant paragraph I wrote:

I'm sick to my stomach of all these orgs and companies and people talking about privacy, and then they constantly do all these kinds of things thst prove that they don't actually care about privacy or anonymity or anything in between. They are Vipers and Snakes trying to make a quick dollar on a buzzword. It's become sadly trite.

I'm fully ready to somehow(?) be wrong about all this and eat my words.

Warning, this site right here is a scam! -> traderogre.com

This is the real site: tradeogre.com

I let my friend use my account and they accidently put in the wrong domain and got phished. Just wanted to let you guys know about this.

You may have seen the post i made a bit ago about trade ogre draining my accounts, but actually the account was just phished. I feel really stupid for jumping the gun but someone pointed it out to me.

I only lost a couple hundred dollars, thankfully, so, lesson learned.

Stay safe guys!

EDIT: this post is deleted now, but me and my friend got phished, this was not a scam by TradeOgre themsleves.