<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> If we’re gonna go against the state i fear it won’t be a smooth ride

<s​trawberry:monero.social> why would the state want to get rid of Monero? I thought this was the only GDPR-compliant cryptocurrency

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> I don’t think governments look favorably upon currencies that they can’t control

<s​trawberry:monero.social> I'm joking, the best defense against that is simply more usage

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> It can be argued that bitcoin was a victim of this. There’s an angle where the state fomented the block size civil wars

<s​trawberry:monero.social> it's easy for them to ban monero if only evil dark web criminals use it, things like xmrbazaar help change those connotations

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> I don’t think that’s enough. The CIA plays dirty

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> True

<s​trawberry:monero.social> also if it comes to that, I think we should drop the "privacy coin" marketing

<s​trawberry:monero.social> Monero is no more a privacy coin than gold is a privacy metal

<s​trawberry:monero.social> and it gives people the impression that we just copied bitcoin and added ring signatures

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> Monero is the Universal coin

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> I can see monero fixing a lot of social issues

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> If we can leverage that, that’s a good alternative narrative to replace “dark web hacker crypto”

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> Shameless plug, i made anonhelp.pages.dev . It’s a (currently empty) directory of therapists/psychiatrists willing to take on sessions for monero. If anybody is a psychiatrist/therapist/social worker here hit me up :-)

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> Could be a good way provide cheap and available mental health care for people in dystopian health systems like in the US

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> bitcoin++ 🤔

<s​trawberry:monero.social> in practice I doubt most democracies would outright ban any crypto, if necessary they'll keep going with the current strategy of making the law so vague that it's impossible to actually follow

<s​trawberry:monero.social> ie money service business laws (is every lightning node a money transmitter? miners??), "every transaction a taxable event"

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> regardless if they ban it or not, they will actively neutralize, control and “defang” crypto so it’s no longer a threat to the status quo

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> hence, all the delistings and KYC laws that make crypto harder to use for the average person

<s​trawberry:monero.social> if monero is delisted from every CEX, how are they supposed to make it any harder?

<s​trawberry:monero.social> not to mention there are other benefits for them if monero stays on more CEX (since exchanges might be responsible for a lot of outputs, they know which are spent so anonymity sets can be reduced)

<s​trawberry:monero.social> I feel like we're almost at rock bottom usability for the average person, and the only way is up by building stuff like Haveno

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> They’ll figure something out

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> We’re up against an entity that stages coups in south america for breakfast

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> Yup

<s​trawberry:monero.social> honestly I can't wait for more delistings, the less speculation and more real usage the better to reduce volatility

<s​trawberry:monero.social> and by reducing volatility, XMR can be used as an *actual* store of value and unit of account, not pump&dump +/-10% every day

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> I think delistings are a big blow to monero’s usability tbh. I agree that DEXs like haveno are the way to go. But normies still use CEXs

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> And if institutions and companies choose to adopt monero how will they be able to liquidate their monero?

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> I’m grateful kraken is still up but it’s scary to think only one decent CEX exists for monero in the US

<s​trawberry:monero.social> companies accepting xmr? yeah maybe good point, but institutions like MSTR ARE the problem

<s​trawberry:monero.social> kraken delisted for a few countries already didn't the?

<s​trawberry:monero.social> kraken delisted for a few countries already didn't they?

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> Yeah, belgium and Ireland i believe

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> We on the ropes

<s​trawberry:monero.social> if those companies really need to, they can atomic swap to BTC or LTC and send that to a CEX, but I agree that's not ideal

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> Yup. Monero needs good press. I really think we need to focus on fixing social issues as a community. It’s sooooo possible. xmrbazaar.com is a good step forward for that. Anything that can deviate from the hacker ransomware crypto angle.

<s​tarlingfarchecker:monero.social> Hacker ransomware crypto -> revolutionary decentralized universal money that creates peace and prosperity

<s​trawberry:monero.social> doesn't even need to be revolutionary, just more convenient than paypal, which it is

<s​trawberry:monero.social> well it would be if xmr wasn't so volatile, most people don't want to deal with that

<s​trawberry:monero.social> did you see how XMR is #1 on coincards and shopinbit usage stats? I think we should try to get XMR accepted by bitpay (which should really rename itself to litepay, since LTC is #1 on there), would be fun to see how the stats change

<j​ordan_sanchez:matrix.org> Most corporate gateways avoid monero due to the legal uncertainty.

<j​ordan_sanchez:matrix.org> In the ideal BitPay would accept it though.

<j​ordan_sanchez:matrix.org> (Ideal world)

Domain registrars accepting BTC/LTC but not XMR is very sad. BTW is the swap service in Cake Wallet trustworthy for this?

<w​ishart:hackliberty.org> guess what. cybersecurity companies use monero. an employee from an it managed services company that i trust said they have purchases data leaks/etc that involve their clients. and only an idiot would accept bitcoin.

hello

I came here as I need help with configuring my node

can someone here answer my questions about it?

Just ask, people may know.

what can a malitious actor do if they have access to unrestricted RPC?

can I have an unrestricted RPC for myself and restricted RPC for the world?

<j​effro256:monero.social> no the node must be in restricted or unrestricted mode

<j​effro256:monero.social> unrestricted RPC and start mining threads, update the node remotely, and call more expensive routines

<j​effro256:monero.social> It can also flush the mempool, pop blocks, etc

what di you mean by update the node? Sync the blockchain?

but it can only download the updated version, not launch it

okay

why would I want an unrestricted RPC if I am using a package manager?

Use unrestricted RPC only for your local network, or limit it only to your IP addresses if used externally

or use it with password

but you said that I cannot set both at once...

Yes, that why you configure "unrestricted" but make it only you can connect, e.g. by using a password

Or, if you want to access your own daemon "on the go" with your smartphone, establish some kind of IP filtering / firewalling so that again only *your* smartphone can connect

So "unrestricted" is no problem because it's only you, nobody else

okay

for simplicity I think i'll go with a restricted rpc then