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How does that apply to someone using it to pay for VPN service? Who cares what other people are using it for.
Also, many of those "criminals" are using it to buy shit like HRT because they can't get it where they live. Some others just want to get cheap cannabis gummies in states where it's already legal.
You shouldn't paint with such a broad brush.
USD is just as private, unless you're tracking serial numbers on bills, and even then... It would be like saying you don't use cash because it's used by criminals. Makes no sense.
Going backwards from your argumentation.
USD is used by everyone and sanctioned by the US government. Monero is used almost exclusively by criminals and privacy focused people, who are probably criminals too.
Hot take, but I'm probably already a fascist in your eyes: If buying HRT and using it is illegal where you live, don't do that, even using monero or other closed (closeness is the oposite of openness and is more neutral term than privacy) money. They, who disallow buying it will eventually notice that something is different with you and you will face punishment.
This applies to people paying for VPN, because by using the currency, they legitimize it.
Imagine living in 2026 and thinking that legality = morality.
I wonder if you'd have said the same thing if I said people were using it to buy insulin.
Thinking it's ok to deny people the medication that they need because they need to use a privacy coin to buy it? Nice.
I'm just going to skip over the part where you call people criminals for being concerned about privacy. Ostensibly that means you're against VPNs in general then, right? Want to try to defend that one?
Boot licking loser.
No, I don't think it's a good idea, because someone will eventually notice that you're using it and you will face legal consequences.
I didn't say anything about people concerned about closennes being criminals just because of that. I said that those 2 groups likely overlap in a significant portion.
It's a good idea when the alternative is that person ending their life.
Your words.
And again, what if it was for insulin instead?
Insulin usage is almost invisible.
I wasn't concerned because someone would be paing with closed money, but because they would be caught and punished according to the law in that place. If for them buying illegal HRT and potentially facing punishment is better than the alternative, they should do that.
This sentence doesn't imply that I think privacy is a crime by itself, I only think that the groups of closedness focused people and criminals overlap.
Uh huh