oh, so likke you're skirting around the goverment and making exchanges with currency they can't tax you on is that it?

Even if t were supposedly backed by gold it isn't you'd be better off getting physical gold

No

no it's taxed

the fuckers

It's taxed

aw shit

it's taxed like stocks

There ARE people who do illegal shit but it's gotten a lot harder

to do the illegal shit or catch them

It's harder to get money OUT in large amounts

yeah. you can be anonymous when using it, but it takes work.

To do it

right like a vpn and stuff right

Yeah you gotta use tails, multiple vpns, tor

it's essentially an interesting experiment in economic theory

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crap I don't know what tails are

oh my god @Buddy Hobbs not here

DNS masking, I would say that tot is definitely co@promised

Tor*

only use an address for one transaction

I know Tor

and vpns

yeah Tor is compromised and the government would rather let a pedo go than tell us how they did it.

why's Tor compromised?

TAILS is a live image OS that runs completely without record

Well it was built by the govt

TAILS is dope. never played with it but it looks interesting.

For military use

Tor was or Tails was?

Tor

TOr

ah

Tails is safe

so basically don't use it

use Tails

Nah u gotta use both

it's still okay to use if you want to stay anonymous from ad trackers and shit like that.

Just gotta make sure the exit nodes on tor are safe

But looking at WikiLeaks is illegal. It's different for media though.

just maybe not for dodging state sponsored surveillance

Always use pgp

Yeah exactly

you used keybase at all?

Also make sure your vpns are safe not DNS leaking

and not logging.

don't use a VPN in the states.

What about canada

correction. don't use a VPN based in the states and don't use servers based in the states.

Yeah keybase is good

I wouldn't use Canada unless for piracy

Lol

I use Iceland

And Switzerland

keybase is sweet. they need to work on the speed of their stuff though. can get bogged down sometimes.

as in actually going there to do your pirating?

i think hong kong is okay too.

And some Eastern European non EU nations

yeah. sends the request to that server and then that server sends the request on your behalf

Russia is good so is belarus

so the place you're getting the otrrent from only sees the VPN server, not you.

I run a bunch of connections chained thru each other

oh okay so you mean don't have your vpn hosted in the US have it hosted in one of those other places

i have heard that isn't as effective as you would think though. i read somewhere multiple connections aren't any more effective than just using one.

although i believe everything i read on the internet.

I ssh into my main box that is in Switzerland

@Gerry yes

Which has a dedicated Ip and I use ssh keys to log in

Then I use that to log into any number of additional ones

Then my Icelandic one which has arguably the best data protection laws anywhere

hows ssh'ing into a server and requesting from there any different than proxying a request through a VPN in Switerland.

Well

Firstly it keeps my Icelandic box super safe

Am I next?

Set rules on the sshd daemon to only allow connections from my home static Ip and my Swiss Ip

@Picassoツ I would hazard a guess that no you are not, I could be wrong.

Then the Icelandic one i installed a hyoervisor and use it as a virtual machine; which has the benefit of acting as a remote PC that I then plug in my thumb drive with TAILS on it and use it that way

If that makes sense

But yeah I take a lot of measures. I only use cold storage for my btc wallets. Single use wallets

well i agree that it's much more secure to do things that way, but does it improve anonymity?

paper wallets?

Yup

damn that's hardcore.

you write that shit down, right? can't trust the printers!

Well I tend not to but BtC anymore really

Yup

No printers

Mad tinfoil hattery up in here but it's legit af

yeah i don't have enough in ethereum for it to be worthwhile but in the future i'm gonna have to figure out better ways to store my ether.

it may be tinfoil, but at least it's safe.

plus that's alot of money i'm assuming you have if you got in that early

I've just come to terms that I'm being tracked. It sounds hard to be anonymous

Either that or I type up a plaintext file with the info and then encrypt the file and put it into an encrypted volume on an SD card

Yeah I was lucky to get in early

Was tempted to sell when btc got to 300, now it's over 11-1200

Estimated to go up to 10k eventually wouldn't be surprised if it does

i'd probably go that way. i'd be afraid i'd write the wrong address down. one character wrong.

damn. that high?!

yeah. better hold onto that.