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Monero, a decentralized censorship proof cryptocurrency, has no real utility with regard to solving MasterCard’s censorship and only depends on a pyramid of investors to function at all?

Monero - the digital token with no real world value, yes. You don’t need crypto to fix this issue. Brazilians can use Pix and would not depend on MasterCard and Visa, and this includes everything from physical purchases to digital storefronts to paying in installments and more. All attached to currency that actually means something and zero crypto bros trying to pump the value up or down on their delusional subreddits.

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misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Pix sounds trivially easy to censor, freeze, or control from the government’s perspective. Unless I’m missing something that makes it easier for the government to censor innocuous NSFW content.

Monero can be used immediately without storing a balance for longer than a few minutes, although a correlation attack would be trivial like that. But at best it is not subject to market whims any longer than you decide is necessary for your anonymity needs. It’s the perfect case for purchasing NSFW software, where you want the purchase private and uncensored even when it’s perfectly legal. That sounds like an incredible real world value, even after the crypto bros are long gone.

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- kadup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  Pix sounds trivially easy to censor, freeze, or control from the government’s perspective
  
  If the Brazilian government decided to go against the constitution to censor my online purchases like that, buying hentai games would be the least of my concerns. And then it wouldn’t matter if I’m using your fake crypto bro tokens or not.
  
  And we don’t have anything like it in the US
  
  Of course not. You live in a weird techno feudalism where the government can’t do anything because that’s socialism and the only solutions you trust are some random tech bro dependent crap like CashApp.
  
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  - misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yes, so you agree that Monero has value then, especially in countries like the US?
    
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    kadup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    so you agree that Monero has value then
    
    Nope, I’d rather use seashells than something like Monero. Crypto is got negative value, the time wasted hearing people like you preach about it is never going to be returned to my life.
    
    especially in countries like the US?
    
    Seashells would be an upgrade in a country like the US, but failures of your payment systems do not change anything for the inherent value of random online tokens.
    
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