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I know there's a resistance to centralized exchanges but I can't see this as anything but bad for people's access to Monero.

Kraken has always been reputable and delisting from here means millions of people are losing an easy to use on-ramp for Monero.

It reminds me of sanctions in Russia. Sanctions don't totally restrict access to western goods like Levi's. They force customers to buy through a middle man who takes a cut. This increases the cost and effort to buy which results in less people buying and using whatever good.

If you trust them, which it seems like you do, to not sell your information for advertising purposes then maybe thats true.

They're still sharing your personal information with others. Maybe you trust Google to not use the information stored in your drive for ads or to sell you shit but do you then also implicitly trust every corporation that that give that data to? To you then also trust those companies to always handle and treat your personal information with the respect it deserves for all time?

Here's a relevant quote from their privacy policy:

We provide personal information to our affiliates and other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. For example, we use service providers to help operate our data centers, deliver our products and services, improve our internal business processes, and offer additional support to customers and users.

If you're OK with Google using your personal information to sell you adds or with then selling your personal information directly, then it's a fine option.

Again, i's a privacy issue. Some people are OK with giving up privacy for convenience, and that's fine.

Monero has mechanisms for validating supply:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vW9H6VIONWM&t=174s

If you're going to repeat this argument ad nauseam then at least don't do it in a misleading absolutist way.

Same here.

I like coincards.com. They're not paying me to say that, I've just found their service useful.

Some nonprofit organizations are corporations and have pretty shitty practices:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_Wish_Network

The Morman church is another US 'non-profit organization' yet somehow hordes billions.

Trusting blindly without doing research because something is presented as a non-profit is a good way to be taken for a fool and separated from your money.

When signal made their own cryptocurrency which they entirely premined was a huge red flag. Dropping SMS support was an annoyance that broke the camels back.

Or ETC

Sounds like https://www.rino.io/ enterprise would be a good fit. No need to run your own node, api access to wallets, and free for the first year.

It's super good enough. The beauty of Monero is it makes private transactions easy.

Yes, the first written and video guides I get in a search all walk the user how to mine to a centralized pool. More p2pool guides out there means more people will follow them.

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That's what most of the guides out there walk them through.

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