TailsOS + KeePassXC + VeraCrypt = true digital sovereignty! Let me walk you through how paranoid anons and high-threat-model users actually encrypt and protect sensitive data. 1) Buy a used ThinkPad X270 (~$150). Great Linux support, removable RAM, easy teardown. 2) Remove all radios & persistent storage: Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, WWAN/LTE, SSD, webcam/mic, battery (optional). You now have a fully air-gapped, non-persistent machine. 3/ Flash TailsOS to a USB drive from an internet‑connected machine, then boot the ThinkPad. Now you have completely air-gapped and stateless hardware + an amnesiac operating system (TailsOS) Store the KeePassXC database inside a VeraCrypt container for real defense-in-depth against software flaws and supply-chain compromise. Congratulations, you’ve built a setup designed to withstand nation-state-level capabilities, with encrypted data easily portable to microSD and suitable for secure, redundant backups.

Edward Snowden co-founded Zcash, yet he uses Monero. Nobody uses Zcash except banksters dumping it on clueless retailers.

Zcash directly links your IP to every TX, zero protection for non-tech-friendly users. Monero uses Dandelion++: your IP address is never linked to your TX. There is a reason why, in the criminal underworld, Monero is preferred while Zcash is rejected like the plague.

If you buy a VPN with your IP address exposed, your VPN provider, in addition to already having access to all your traffic, has also linked your IP address to your username. Remember that neither a VPN nor Tor, used alone, will anonymize you. IVPN has a section full of information, take advantage of it! ivpn.net/privacy-guides/

Hackers breaches Europol’s network and demands ransom in XMR ONLY. We all wonder why we'll never see this with zcash. Oh wait, I have an idea…

Monero is the coin your grandmother runs without realizing she’s torching the surveillance state. IP vanished. Tx bulletproof. Zero trust. Zero mercy. I don't care about the price, I'm using it to piss off the new world order.

500 million French speakers. ZERO Monero YouTube channels. This fiasco gives me the urge to launch THE French-speaking channel to pull thousands into XMR. I could also cover many topics/tutorials on privacy. This space is currently empty, but it seems like a very time-consuming task. Lost in thought.

LISTEN, BUDDY!!!! Electric Coin Company (Zcash) received money from the US GOV during the COVID pandemic, yeah. You'll never see that in MONERO. u.today/former-btc-dev-peter…

A picture is worth a thousand words. Cypherpunk is a state of mind, not a brand name. Help me ratio this scam, it’s our duty to expose it.

Never leave a single byte unencrypted. MicroSD cascade encryption: Twofish-256 + Serpent-256 + AES-256 = Key size: 768 bits SHA-512 key derivation algorithm to deliberately slow down brute-force attack attempts. Multi-layer security has never been easier, thanks veracrypt.

Encrypting sensitive data on a microSD with Veracrypt is so underrated FOSS software + industrial-grade microsd = Underestimated power

Privacy is normal and should not be a privilege reserved only for the elite.

wild ratio of trezor against ledger

If you're a privacy maximalist, regardless of the coin or tools you use, we're in the same boat.

When I first started publicly promoting Monero I received so much love and kindness from the majority of the community, you won't find that anywhere else, it's unique to the Monero community. When my account was suspended at the end of 2023 I lost contact with a lot of people, I realized it when I took a look in my private messages, I almost felt nostalgic. The Bitcoin space is somewhat similar but with a completely different mindset, which I also appreciate, but the Monero community is really special tbh, although it has changed a bit lately. Heart to you all.

Fun fact: while Monero fights against every state while managing the entirety of the darknet, zTrash pays influencers and creates investment funds to pump their coin. WE ARE SO NOT THE SAME

These guys are worse than corrupt politicians, we don't harass these scammers enough.

Privacy by permission is about as bad as having no privacy at all.

please not you

A mining pool controls 67% of the zcash hashrate?? You don't hate them enough. miningpoolstats.stream/zcash

"Bitcoin with complete privacy" What kind of idiot could say that without feeling ashamed?

Since guns work, criminals use them to slaughter the innocent. At the same time, innocent people use them to protect themselves from criminals. So tell me, who’s the criminal? I am so saddened by your state of mind.

When my account was permanently suspended, I lost a lot of momentum and motivation, but I think that's starting to come back.

making a deal to send the full power of a bot team from Pakistan

Le gars n’a clairement pas fait ses devoirs, 99 % de la vidéo est complètement à côté de la plaque. Je ne sais même pas par où commencer entre le fait qu’il cite Dash comme un privacy coin, que Monero a profité de la hausse de Zcash ou même le fait qu’un projet est "sans intérêt" une fois délistée des CEX. À partir du moment où tu as accès à n’importe quel projet listé sur un CEX, tu peux obtenir Monero via un DEX ou Atomic Swap et l’inverse est également vrai. D’ailleurs, les exchanges comme Binance n’acceptent pas non plus les Zcash qui sont entrés dans le pool de confidentialité.

10-20 years from now, the biggest risk won’t be holding BTC & XMR. It’ll be not holding any. Few.

It's literally you who comes here to cry.

lmaooooo well done @fluffypony

The choice is quickly made: go down the rabbit hole.

Get a thinkpad, physically disassemble any internet connectivity components like wifi, remove the SSD, and run Linux on the RAM, import veracrypt dependencies from a usb or other and have fun.

This article is also very informative about VPN providers larping and their false promises. ivpn.net/blog/misleading-pro…

How much did they pay you for that?

IVPN has already sponsored many Monero meetups and natively accepts XMR as well. This is not a promotion, btw. They have interesting free content related to privacy.

Also, don't forget to create hidden volumes that will serve as decoys.

Two different use cases, PGP symmetric encryption (AES-256) is strong like verzcrypt, but.. PGP uses asymmetric algorithms (eg RSA) for key exchange, which are vulnerable to quantum computing via Shor algorithm. If an attacker knows your public key, they could derive your private key on a powerful quantum computer, compromising the encryption. With veracrypt, you can use cascading encryption algorithms, such as AES-Twofish-Serpent, for enhanced security. Its numerous key derivation iterations (customizable) via PBKDF2 make brute-force attacks, even quantum attacks, very difficult. In short, veracrypt does not use an asymmetric algorithm at all because it is more suited for content encryption than content exchange, so, I would therefore say that it is even more resistant than the PGP due to its design.

It's excellent for being able to travel with sensitive data, total sovereignty.

Nothing is infallible but that's why you get an industrial grade microsd with nand flash memory and make multiple copies.

GM King

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I don't know who needs to hear it. Cypherpunk is not for sale, you can't buy it.

could not agree more

of course, he's a security expert, which is why he uses monero and not zcash.

btw several similar sources have been removed, there were literally dozens of articles on this at the time.

The average non-tech-friendly zcash users. She's completely naked on the network but doesn't know it.

"Problem solved" Another average Zcash user, unfamiliar with technology, thinks they become private by pressing a button.

Glad to see a woman in the Monero community 😁🧡

Why can't I find the number of up-to-date zcash nodes? lmao this crap is worse than I thought.