Quote from: pokeybear on May 09, 2025, 11:16:14 PM

I'd stay anonymous, too. For safety, I keep a small canister of pepper spray/tear gas in a hidden but easily accessible area of every room in my house. That way, if anything happens, no matter where I am, one will be handy. I can get to them in less than a second. Pepper spray in these small canisters is legal in my country and provides a non-lethal way to incapacitate an aggressive attacker and get to safety. I haven't needed to use one yet, but I'm glad they are available. Readily accessible pepper spray is not an option for people with children.

Now your pepper spray are useless, having 2 or more criminals who want to kidnap you also make your pepper spray useless.

Quote from: slaman29 on Today at 08:18:41 AM

It doesn't promote anonymity, and the way most people use Bitcoin, it actually doesn't even promote privacy. I'm an example, I use the same address for all my sig payments, so everyone absolutely can identify me just from my address.

Use an exchange or an app for your BTC? Guess what, they KYC you and can track all your payments and savings just from your single address. Anyone can do this too, they'll even know your exchange.

Its a great tool but sadly most of us don't use it the way its meant to be. Most services don't allow us to use it the way its meant to be.

Wish more 'influencers' talk about this.

Such influencers would be hated by government and centralized institutions. Instead of trying to be safe, if someone did that, they open a can of worms, even they use pseudonym or didn't reveal their identity.

If the influencers gone viral, I'm sure they will be targeted by the centralized institutions.

Another thing, influencers make money not only by ads and views, they make money from endorsement, 99.9% of endorsement came from centralized institutions.