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1. kogasa240p · 1790965705 · focus · HN ↗

   Monero solves this btw.

   1. slowin · 1790967297 · focus · HN ↗

      How many services take Monero? It also does not solve your health insurance being taken away. This situation is a very good use-case/advertisement for anonymous crypto though.

      1. kogasa240p · 1791046765 · focus · HN ↗

         > How many services take Monero? It also does not solve your health insurance being taken away.

         Not much outside of drugs iirc but I'm hoping this serves as a major wake up call for people.

   2. slopinthebag · 1790970681 · focus · HN ↗

      everyone trashes crypto until they're the one getting debanked

      1. kogasa240p · 1791047553 · focus · HN ↗

         partially agreee but also 90% of crypto is either inefficient (btc), for scams (shitcoins), or weird pseudo-CBDC garbage (xrp/ripple/chainlink/icp) that don't have a use case outside of "it'll pump when payment processors adopt us!". Monero is probably the only coin that didn't get sucked into the post 2017 cryptobro mentality of "making it rich" and instead stayed the course of giving payment processors the finger.

         1. slopinthebag · 1791057647 · focus · HN ↗

            btc is fine too imo

            the current ai hypewave is the same - 90% scams or useless crap, but some gems will emerge

   3. sebazzz · 1791046345 · focus · HN ↗

      The Digital Euro also.

      1. kogasa240p · 1791046425 · focus · HN ↗

         That's a CBDC, not really comparable to Monero.
      2. tremon · 1791125681 · focus · HN ↗

         It doesn't. There already exist fully-European payment systems and those did not help at all, because they are still operated by banks and other institutions that are vulnerable to the effects of US sanctions. The Digital Euro would be no different.

         The only working solution would be to shield European payment processors from US sanctions, and that means fully divesting from the USA.

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