What do they do with Monero? buy other things with it exchange for cash through the black market This exact same thing happens w/ a lot of other things, such as: US dollar (or perhaps Euro) transactions in countries that manipulate their currency drug smuggling - the drug dealer "launders" the money to whatever currency they want Basically, the same thing that works for illicit transactions protects activists, political dissidents, etc in authoritarian regions. All privacy coins provide is a convenient digital medium of exchange, how that gets turned into another medium of exchange is up to the merchant. For things like utilities, authoritarian regimes tend to be pretty corrupt, and they already do under-the-table transactions. Using Monera vs drugs, foreign currency, etc isn't going to change that. I wouldn’t be surprised if your transactions would be less private with monero than a bank payment (because of Monero’s unlicensed nature). How so? Monero explicitly hides transaction details, so even if a large actor like the Russian, Chinese, or US government wanted, they can't track transactions, even if they compromise one end of the transaction. The wallet ID you use when buying something is ephemeral, the protocol creates a ton of misleading transactions so tracking down the correct one is very difficult, and even if they did, they'd have to break the crypto to link two transactions from the same wallet. Transactions are also very inexpensive, generally costing under a penny, so even if you wallet gets compromised, you can inexpensively move it to a new wallet. The only way Monero would be less private than a bank is if government regulations make it so and under-the-table transactions are blocked effectively. But that would require a heavy surveillance state, and the heavier the surveillance state is, the more attractive under-the-table transactions become. Privacy coins get pushback from governments because they're effective at protecting privacy. It turns out, governments like spying on transactions, and would get rid of cash if they could get away with it. They get used a lot for illicit transactions because they're effective at it, and that's why governments have started to restrict their use (i.e. banning Monero from exchanges). I'm not a crypto fan boy by any stretch, and I don't think anyone should "invest" in them because they don't generate any form of value (I feel the same about precious metals). But I do think privacy coins have a place in society as a digital cash replacement, because I'd really rather not have my transaction details spied on by governments. If you want practical reasons for this, look no further than the Mastercard/Visa scandal w/ porn gaes on Steam and other platforms.

Meta and meta mess again

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Then make those serious filters obligatory

Still gonna need a large screen somehow unless you watch all your stuff at the desk or through a laptop.

a subtle edit resolving a duplicate reference in a way that removes displays from the list of parts that must be replaceable by a layperson with basic tools That's fucking significant change, considering probably even more smartphones become ewaste from cracked screens than anything else by a long shot...

Got it, at that point (extremely high voltage) you'd need suppression at the panel. Which I would hope people have inline, but not expect like an LVD.