The monero community is building a lot of infrastructure to build a circular economy, and there is a lot of recent developments in that regard, such as xmrbazaar which is a sort of ebay and the sellers accepts monero. This is great. However, how can we penetrate markets outside of the monero economy? I fear that Monero still has the “dangerous hacker crypto which funds terrorism and north korea” reputation, and although while not true, could severely pause monero adoption and hurt us as a community as a whole.

We as a community value privacy, but i feel like we need to work together as a community to forge an alternative to the mainstream narrative about privacy coins. I’m thinking something revolutionarily positive, at least in the USA, such as making a charity that gives directly to homeless people, or setting up a decentralized network of people that work together to distribute life saving drugs for cheap (because drug prices are really fricking high here). Privacy coins tend to attract privacy minded people, and privacy minded people won’t even touch twitter with a 10 foot pole because of all the injected ads and the tracking, and i respect that. But, one of these days we gotta do something big to break the mainstream narrative.

I personally am locked in, I have a girlfriend and two pets and a full time job, but for those that have less to lose and more time and resources to spare for the cause, i say let’s fking do it. Anything, man. Let’s change society with this thing.

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    5 months ago

    Pardon the noobie question, but exactly what do you mean when you speak of “a working L2”. Many of these terms are brought over from BTC, which is why people like me, who did not spend much time at all with BTC, tend to be confused with this talk of L2. I learned Monero first, I have taken precautions with my seed phrase storage and attempt to use some of the OPSEC principles taught be those in this community, but with the direction that BTC has gone and the trouble associated with it’s users, are we sure we want to emulate them?