Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on Today at 12:26:00 PM

Quote from: Porfirii on Today at 10:56:15 AM

I buy my food in a local store that accepts Bitcoin as a means of payment. As my income comes from the signature campaign, my deposit address is public in this forum, and I don't want the owner of the store to know my virtual identity, I have been using Wasabi for a long time.

For coinjoins, I suggest you look onto JoinMarket. It's decentralized, more flexible with coinjoin sizes, has better fee structure, and of course isn't prone to blacklisting certain outputs. If you can't stand of the terminal, there is a UI now, called Jam. I haven't tried it yet to see how easy it is to setup.

Thank you BlakHatCoiner, I will definitely take a look into it. It is a pity, I was really happy with Wasabi, but things move.

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on Today at 12:26:00 PM

Quote from: Porfirii on Today at 10:56:15 AM

For example, I am witnessing how supermarkets in my country are raising the prices of some products more than 50% in the last year, and this could not have been done without all the information they've collected thanks to their loyalty cards.

Supermarkets have been raising prices due to inflation. I can't see how the fact that they might have collected personal information about their clients is related.

This is what news say, but inflation simply means that the prices have risen. It is a descriptive term, not causal:

Quote from: Wikipedia

In economics, inflation is an increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy.

In my country, prices have risen (or we have a high inflation) due to many factors like the Ukrainian war, money printing, easy access to credit... and IMO exaggerated benefits from food supply chains and other commodities due to data analysis:

Some years ago, a professor in my University told us that, among other benefits of loyalty cards (apart from the obvious: sales increase due to "loyalty" benefits, targeted advertising, etc.), they were used to figure out the maximum price that people is willing to pay for each product. I have always thought about it like a really enormous scale A/B test somehow. Unfortunately, my professor didn't mention any source, I am not an expert on Big Data, and I have no proof that this is true, but it makes sense to me and this is what I believe. If someone proofs me wrong I will sleep much happier tonight Embarrassed

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Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 02:00:39 PM

Quote from: Porfirii on Today at 10:56:15 AM

I buy my food in a local store that accepts Bitcoin as a means of payment. As my income comes from the signature campaign, my deposit address is public in this forum, and I don't want the owner of the store to know my virtual identity, I have been using Wasabi for a long time.

It would be interesting to know what kind of payment processor that store you shop at uses? I doubt they keep the crypto or self-host the service through BTCPay Server. Maybe one day those less trustworthy payment processors might consider employing a blockchain analysis company to inform them what coins are "dirty" and "tainted". It would be unfortunate if your BTC was confiscated and you had to do KYC for something like that because they decided that Wasabi is for criminals.

In fact, he does keep them: I buy in a little local store owned by a crypto enthusiast freelancer. I pay him P2P via LN using Wallet of Satoshi. It is just that I don't want him to write my address on Google and show him "Porfirii" as the only result, that's why I've been using Wasabi before sending the funds to my smartphone.

I don't think my BTC could be confiscated but, if they were, I only send there little amounts from signature campaigns not linked to the other savings I hodl, so fortunately little would be lost.