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points by SXX 5 hours ago | 0 comments
Cryptocurrencies that are transparent to government tracking are also transparent to whatever criminals want to beat you up and take everything from you.

Your usual non-crypto millinare likely have less money to steal on them than average grandma. Fiat millionare likely have two credit cards and $100 in a pocket. Or useless iPhone with Apple pay. So there is zero profit in trying to rob fiat millionare or billionare and tons of downsides.

And moving any amounts of transparent crypto over $100,000 just paints huge "rob me" target on your person.

[–] razodactyl 5 hours ago
https://xkcd.com/538/ I've never been so honoured to be able to link one of these.
[–] SXX 5 hours ago
That's classic, but whole point with Monero is that no one cant really tell who sent money and who get them.

It doesnt exactly solve on-ramp / off-ramp, but it hides very well how much you actually have in total.

With nornal crypto you create direct track from a CEX to every place where you spend the money.

[–] skinfaxi 5 hours ago
How would anyone know you have monero if it can't be linked to other transactions like bitcoin?
[–] jeremyjh 5 hours ago
They can't help but brag about it.
[–] privacyishuman 4 hours ago
I vaguely remember actually the number 1 and 2 "rule" of Monero to not say how much you have. We're lucky how dumb many cybercriminals are.