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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)?
@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.
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