Some percentage of every population are essentially stateless, unbanked, passportless, etc..
Some of those are criminals and some do quite well while existing outside of government ID.
Off-the-book services for fake ID's and whatever else is needed to secure accomodation, or other ID-dependent services for daily life certainly exist.
A global black market estimated at $1.6 to $2.2 trillion annually couldn't exist without it.
> Blocking it is like collaborating with oppressive regimes.
Not like, it actually IS.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out that CF operate quite a few Tor entries.
Any alternative is worth supporting.
What in the Ethereum is going on here? Closed-source monero wallets??
Probably best to think of it as an IQ test.
RISC-V looks awesome, thanks. I had no idea and I agree, desktop RISC-V could be a great and viable future.
Serbian citizens will no doubt flout what is "legally allowed", as is their natural right via non-KYC/AML exchanges/swaps/local and long may it live.
Let's not forget this too when it comes to Monero, the global black market is worth trillions. The 3-letter agencies have a trillion-dollar vested interest in an untraceable off-the-books currency too. ZCash lost, XMR wins.
This is admittedly worrying since the war on privacy is being waged globally on both hardware and software fronts simultaneously.
Both fronts are a battlefield. Hamas slipped through Israeli intelligence in part because they evaded SoC backdoors using Huawei to coordinate.
> in Serbia (they) aren’t legally allowed to accept crypto directly, they must go through a third-party “money transmitter” licensed by the government.
Insofar as I trust GrapheneOS, there are also alternatives:
* Purism's Librem 5
* No smartphone at all, and all comms and crypto is performed via non-ME corebooted computers using either QubesOS, TailsOS, or PureOS (see Purism, https://puri.sm/products/, and NitroKey, https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop)
But yes, crypto on-ramps are getting squeezed from all directions. I even heard that Binance have blocked UK from becoming new users.
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