• @shortwavesurfer@monero.town
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      06 months ago

      I don’t know. Personally, I haven’t dealt any drugs using it. But I have purchased groceries for the last year and a half with it. You have a right to be private with your money. Would you want absolutely everybody knowing everything you spend your money on and when you spent it? Forever? Personally, I don’t.

        • @shortwavesurfer@monero.town
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          06 months ago

          Can I send an envelope full of cash to Amazon to buy a product? Cash is great for the physical medium if you are in person face to face and can exchange a physical commodity but when you need to exchange value over the internet then cash isn’t a real option

            • @shortwavesurfer@monero.town
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              06 months ago

              I buy groceries with Instacart and have them delivered. It saves me money since I’m not walking through the store and seeing all those items I can just get what I need and so I’ve done it that way for years

              • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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                06 months ago

                …are you saying your reason for not going grocery shopping in person is because you’ll fall victim to impulse buys, and advertising?

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                  No, but it definitely helps. The primary reason is because I’m blind, and so therefore, if I go into a grocery store, I have to ask for a shoppers’ assistant to walk around with me and help me get stuff, which is quite frankly a pain in the ass.

      • TheLowestStone
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        06 months ago

        “Fake money for drug dealers” is just a general crypto joke from a meme I saw here on lemmy. It just so happens that the flavor of fake money that you fell in love with actually is for drug dealers.

        You’ve got me curious now though. It’s apparently important to you to keep the details of your grocery purchase completely private and that’s totally fine if it makes you happy. I don’t need to understand it to accept it. What I want to know is how far do you go to protect that privacy? Do you give Instacart your neighbor’s address? Do you use a fake name?

        • @shortwavesurfer@monero.town
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          I haven’t gone that far. It’s mainly online privacy I care most about, and financial privacy. I mean… I use lemmy, mastodon, proton, degoogled my devices, run linux, DNS level ad/tracker/malware blockers, use Monero, Signal, SimpleX, have no fb, x, insta, tiktok, etc.

          As for the whole fake money thing, anything can be money. It’s just what people choose to call money. And since I can use it to buy groceries, and pay my phone bill, and pay my insurance, and buy products I want, it is money. You know the money most used to purchase drugs is the US dollar?

          • TheLowestStone
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            06 months ago

            Lol, yes I do know that. I’ve spent quite a few US dollars on drugs myself.

            I really was just joking. I’m not judgemental about privacy, drugs, or most things really. I also realize that ALL money is fake money that only has value because we have agreed that it does. If the topic had been short term rentals instead of crypto, I’d have made an “illegal hotel chain” joke instead.

            Also, If I offended you I’m sorry. I hope you have a good night (or day if you live far away from me).

            • @shortwavesurfer@monero.town
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              06 months ago

              Sorry, I might have come off a bit harsher at the end of that last message than I meant to. I get it so often here because so many people want to just bash crypto without ever thinking about any good sides about it.

    • @magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org
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      06 months ago

      Yet another fake currency for drug dealers.

      Well yeah you don’t wanna make illegal online transactions with a fake currency the government owns.

      Plus that ones got an encrypted ledger so its got a real use case there.

      That being said if you got a problem with drug dealers, where the fuck do you get your drugs?