Recent content by cionide

I will admit I did not look up the auditing etc on USDC and only read in the past about USDT but my point still stands regarding stablecoins in general. They're only as good as their backing.

I have read many bad things about Duka on this forum. Check if HSBC Expat in Jersey will accept you? They give you IBANs for various currencies and the min deposit isn't that high. It was 50k GBP equivelent but I think they raised it to 75k now?

Diversify. Keep some in a bank with some in USD and some in one or more other currencies. 5-10% in physical gold or silver and bury it in your yard somewhere. I'd probably not trust any stablecoin with more then 40-50k, as there is a rather large risk there. MICA basically ended USDT in Europe...

How do you know molly or simplex aren't honeypots? Sure I can analize a million lines of code on github and compile it myself but who's gonna do that? The features it lists are at most useful if your phone is seized but if that is your thread model you shoudl be using apps like wasted or...

I switched us over to element.io (based on matrix), nice and encrypted, works very well - much much better then skype and you can set "bubble messages" so it even looks like skype. We're very happy with it.

Mullvad turns out is actually firefox not chromium. Tor brings it's own set of problems - you don't know who is running the exit nodes.

Question is what does amiunique.org use in their fingerprinting? If it's using IP as well then you are a unique configuration to that IP and thus 'unique', but otherwise you may well be the same as every other mullvad browser user. https://mullvad.net/en/browser/mullvad-browser there's some info...

It's defacto just chromium that is always in incognito mode. It resets to zero every time you start it. It stores no history, logins, etc so keep that in mind.

There are countermeasures for fingerprinting. Mullvad browser, vanadium instead of chrome etc.

That's pretty difficult to setup, you won't generally be able to connect two VPNs at the same time because they'll try to bind to the same interface. It can be done, it's just really hard. Also it nets you nothing as far as banks go as they still just see you as the second VPN.

Check out Mullvad. You can pay with crypto (monero included), and you don't even give them an email. You just get an access id number, no password at all. Works quite well. They also have a setup where your entry server is different then your exit server (you can pick each) so someone watching...

https://www.idanalyzer.com/ this is the cheapest one I found that has a decent API that integrates easily - used it for a a client's fiat->crypto onramp. If you don't need to actually do ID verification and just need to do age verification, you can self-host go.cam which does biometric or id ocr.

There's a few banks in luxembourg that have 500k minimums only. HSBC in Jersey requires only I think 100k GBP minimum nowadays and will open for most EU citizens - and while Jersey is a small country HSBC is one of the biggest banks in the world and wouldn't be allowed to fail.

Vodka works but you have to be consistent. You can't be all "I don't feel like drinking today".

Probably as long as you didn't submit that document earlier with your name already.