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@torproject web3/crypto is an extremely untrusted space for very thoroughly proven reasons, and you are dealing massive damage to public trust in your project by associating with it.
@jplebreton @torproject while your overall point is true in 99.999% of cases, I feel compelled to point out that Tor's DDOS protection mechanism only exists because of work done by the Monero Project. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/blob/main/proposals/327-pow-over-intro.txt
We invented the PoW algorithm and a Monero developer customized it for use by Tor. Without our work there would not have been any viable solution.
@eliasr @jplebreton @torproject yes, exactly. Tevador, SChernyk, and myself, to be specific.
Thanks, I see. Good job!
By the way I am glad to find you here, it has bothered me a lot that Monero folks seem so attached to Twitter (or whatever its name is now). That is a centralized platform and being dependent on that seems to go against everything that Monero is about, I mean censorship resistance and so on. Relying so much on Twitter means being vulnerable to censorship. Same with Github.
Are there others from the Monero crowd here (in the fediverse)?
Great that you are leaving reddit.
> so much open hostility to all things crypto here
True, I have seen it a lot here, it's like a "cancel-culture" type of phenomenon. But that is stupid and needs to change, and I think the proper way to make that change is to interact with people here and explain things.
@eliasr consider yourself cancelled then, bye
@hyc @eliasr @jplebreton @torproject Hi there, when you will migrate to Lemmy?
@g0nz4 @eliasr @jplebreton @torproject what do you mean? Many of us are already there on monero.town.
@hyc @eliasr @g0nz4 ...also on xmrposter.club. Actually, Monero users are everywhere on fedi, they just don't talk about it much
@eliasr @jplebreton @torproject there are a few, you can find most of them with the #monero hashtag. We're also migrating from reddit to lemmy (see monero.town). But I have to say, there's so much open hostility to all things crypto here that I don't expect a lot of Monero folks to come this way.