It's one of the cheapest monthly VPN and sometimes this is an option for those who can't afford one-time yearly subscriptions where it gets really as low as $2.

To my mind, Mullvad is one of the best VPN for those who value privacy.
It offers:
Easiest account setup and access process
Very simple and easy interface
€5/month and 30 days money-back guarantee.

Everyone should approach the security and privacy they need. There are types of people who use VPN to hide traces while doing the basic internet stuff. But, there are types of people who do something prohibited (phishing, social engineering, scamming, trading with illegal items) and they need to use more complicated tools and methods to improve their security rather than VPN alone.
With VPN, I feel more self-confident, independent and proud.

Was that an expression of politeness? If yes, then what about making a list of dildo shops? LeGaulois Approved ✔

You are right, companies have to earn trust in this business because promises mean nothing if they aren't backed by the facts. The nature of trust in this business is pretty similar to bitcoin mixers.

Thanks for correction  I'll update that column with: Monthly and Custom.

Yeah, that list is incomplete and I really want to make community based list of VPN service providers. At the moment, this list is created from personal experience with dozens of VPN providers.
I didn't include the Express VPN purposely. They have gone down in quality and I am not a fan of Kape Technologies. If anyone thinks that they are trustworthy, then I am open for discussion, it's very important for us to have a list of privacy-oriented VPNs.

Hello fellow bitcointalkers :')

This isn't the first time that I discovered this website but somehow I wasn't attracted by this coin and was always thinking that it's price was just a huge, big hype that would quickly end but seems it has no end because Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies along with blockchain technologies, DeFi and other projects are just a revolution in this world.

Together we stand, divided we fall!

Every medal has two side, so, if Elon Musk is evil at some point, he has many positive sides. His story gives me motivation, how he was trying to achieve the success, how much work he put to change his fate and become the most successful man in the world, to influence others.
This is good video on Elon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9D4ifGzndY

Governments are afraid that they won't be able to control Bitcoin but at the same time, they know that it's a source of income for many people and they don't want a wave of protests. In fact, it will be the silliest step for them to ban bitcoin. They choose better tactics that will help them to gain more control over time and all of this will be done smoothly: Make bitcoin-related laws and set regulations on exchanges and bitcoin-related services, over time and smoothly. And whoa, it works.

The whole process to gain control on bitcoin is a very complex task and it's a long-term plan. If you could use bitcoin without any kind of resistance in the past, today you need to be KYC verified in order to exchange money, you have to pay taxes if you got your wage in bitcoin and/or if you got profit from your bitcoin investments.

You have to understand human psychology here. The things that I mentioned above didn't happen overnight because it would cause protest but when you slowly do it, then people start to accept it. You can even compare this process to meds tapering on addicts. They taper the dosage slowly and slowly to make the process less painful and in long term, the user gets out of it without pain but if someone does cold turkey, the user is in enormous pain.

I think you are looking for this - https://www.realvision.com/videos/crypto

Haha, I have a feeling that I posted an AMA on reddit  Just kidding, thank you for questions.

In ancient Rome, there was one Thracian slave called Spartacus. He was sent to the gladiatorial training school in Capua where, soon after he escaped with 70 gladiators and took refuge on nearby Mount Vesuvius. Soon, the number of escaped people was 100,000. Spartacus was a leader of runaway slaves that was able to defeat Romans with now called guerrilla warfare tactics. Spartacus and his team become a serious threat for Roman Empire but finally they were defeated.
Spartacus and his story became an inspiration of many writers, politicians, filmmakers. He was a slave but he was never accepting his fate, instead, he was fighting to achieve the freedom and he did it very well because he left his indelible trace in the history, billions of people are dying without notice his life is still remembered.

I think that Satoshi Nakamoto is a modern Spartacus. Current financial system enslaves the people, that's where the cryptocurrencies shine but I am afrad it will end up like the Spartacus, probably like Icarus, it will soar in the skies for a while but finally it will fall.
So, I don't think that it will take over fiat because people can't survive in a decentralized world, they need centralization, a person or a team of persons who will govern them.
I think bitcoin enthusiast people should find a new land (probably artificial land in the ocean) to build a new decentralized country where there will be no government and people use decentralized currency.

Man, you are impolite!
If you have any question when you visit a VPN service provider, you can always check their Support page.
In this case, if you weren't rude, you would discover that ProtonVPN has Four Payment Options.
These are:

• Credit card
• PayPal
• Bitcoin
• Cash

You have to sign up at first under the Free plan and then upgrade your plan from Dashboard to pay with Bitcoin.

I would say that everything comes with pros and cons. By online banking, we are able to comfortable store our money on bank account and withdraw cash anytime we wish, so we don't have to store all the money at house, pay comfortably and avoid issues, send & receive money in seconds. But it has the evil side: We aren't really insured and if a bank or the government wish, they can do whatever they want and shock the population. They can freeze our accounts, they can limit withdrawals as that happened in Greece.
Is crypto an alternative? Sure, but people aren't ready to use crypto as an alternative that will be a great escape. The majority of people think that they'll move on crypto and use crypto exchanges but that's not an alternative, that's like getting eaten by shark instead of lion, does that matter? Anyway, you are eaten alive.

Crypto would be an alternative if people use offline wallets to store their money instead of traditional centralized crypto exchanges. That's very risky too cause you can't predict the price but at least no one can steal a thing from you.
I don't believe bitcoin will experience this kind of support because people trust banks, seeing posts on this forum can't help you to make the right conclusion because there is a different picture on this forum compared to real life.

Every day I start to think that Anarchy can be a better alternative because the governments suck very much but then I realize that people always form social bonds and then the government or similar structure is formed again.

Total security for me with a Paper wallet looks like this: Old personal computer (with an old CD of Windows/Linux) with old printer and old keyboard/mouse, no antivirus, no internet connection.

For the maximum security, I would use as old gadgets and operational system as possible. I don't think that 2020's Printer will be secure even without internet connection. Maybe this sounds like a comment from Paranoid person but no!

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Tip 1

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During the VPN session, don't use Russian servers if anonymity is your priority because Roskomnadzor has high control on them.

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Tip 2

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Russia's firewall doesn't work well and compared to the Chinese firewall, it's very weak. Websites are blocked by ISPs and you can still access blocked websites by using the VPN that has servers in other countries.
The list of VPNs on this thread will help Russian people to get out of the information vacuum and check blocked news websites.

Ukraine can turn into a crypto hub and build the economy on cryptocurrencies after the war. One week ago officials said that Ukraine suffered nearly $120 billion in infrastructure damage. The damage will at least double because Russia isn't going to stop and Ukraine is also not to give up. Both side lost a lot of money in the war, Ukraine is backed by the modern western world.

Once the war ends and I hope Ukraine will win, the main mission of this country and the government will be to attract money, investors and rebuild the country. The current war is a bright picture of how easily can any law change in force majeure even in 21th century.

My prediction is that Ukraine will become the crypto hub of Europe!

Visit UpWork, Toptal, Freelancer.com and some other websites.

Your best bets are on:
1. AWS Development
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5. Content Management
6. Data analytics
7. Software Engineer
8. Digital Marketing

But you can even monetize your non-it skills. For example, if you are into fitness, you can be an online coach and help people to achieve a good look.
If you are a gamer, you can stream your gaming sessions.

You can really monetize every skill you have if you are better than others in it.

Yeah, I have even mention that before. Since your quoted my last post, I assume I forgot to edit the text.
It's correct now: The first one privacy-focused and the next three non-privacy-focused providers offer you this benefit: Windscribe, Surfshark, CyberGhost & NordVPN.

I also updated thread two days ago and added NordVPN and SurfShark because not all people are prioritizing privacy and some people simply want to unlock netflix and other platforms. But to make things clear, I put Non-Privacy Focused Mainstream VPNs title on them.

Oh, didn't know that news. If NordVPN bought SurfShark, then sure I'll move SurfShark into a non-privacy-focused VPNs list.

Bitcoin mixers can be trusted in a way you trust your friends who know your secrets. It depends on your friends whether they tell your secret to someone else or not but keep in mind that friends can be tortured to reveal your secrets.

Keep in mind that Blockchain analysis and tracking methods are improving daily. You not only need to trust bitcoin mixers but to trust your computer's software/hardware, trust your OS, trust your Browser and then trust your mixer.

There are problems that you should always keep in mind:
1. Mixer will scam you and not send your coins.
2. Mixer is run by authorities.
3. Mixer stores your log and data.
 3.1 - Mixer may sell your data
 3.2 - Mixer may reveal your info/data if they get in trouble with authorities.
4. Mixer website contains viruses.

There are chances that you'll experience at least one problem from the list and there are chances that you won't experience any listed problem. This is the situation where you have to trust their words, it's a risk anyway.

I want to tell you one thing, if everything that you do is legal and you just wanna hide your legal transactions, then you can feel secure by using popular bitcoin mixers. If you do something illegal, which I hope you don't do, then trust nobody or every trust will carry serious potential risks.

Do you really think that money can motivate people for war? We don't live in the middle ages where countries and/or Lords were hiring a team of warriors to fight against their enemy.
Ask yourself, why would someone risk their own live today when he lives comfortably at home with his wife and kids?

The only case when WAR will succeed is when people are strongly united and share the same ideas and thoughts. You need no fear in war, the idea that unites the people must be something that will make them super confident around the idea that they'll succeed and they'll get rid of all anxious thoughts.

Just a reminder: Pervitin played a huge role for Germans in world war 2. This substance made them enormously energetic, super confident and fearless. This is an artificial state of mind but at the moment that worked like fairy dust but the cons of this were psychosis, hallucinations, heart attacks, strokes.

Putin is mad! Psychopathic! Crazy guy! Putin wants to revive the empire of the Soviet Union, he wants to be the most strong and influential on the earth. He and oligarchs that stand with him lose nothing in this war, they have a comfortable life and zero sanctions will ever affect their life. All of these sanctions & restrictions affect Russian people right now and the idea behind this is to make them say no to putin and prove it with live actions but I highly doubt that will happen. Putin is a person who will do everything to keep a power and he will declare war with his people if the situation requires.

Do you suggest it's better to stop?
Guys, this war isn't typical war between Russia and Ukraine, this war will have significant effect on western world.

Let me clarify what's happening and what's the reason.
Ukraine wants to join European Union and NATO. They want to develop, they want high quality of life without corruption and nepotism. They don't want to be under the influence of the Russian government because Russia brings regress and Western countries bring progress. Have you ever been in Russian countries? The only cities where people really live are Moscow and Saints Peterburg, other cities are dead!

If Ukraine fails in this war, this means that countries like Ukraine (Moldova, Georgia) will be punished if they ever dream to become a member of a Western family. It means that they are and will always be under the claws of Russia.

Ukraine fights for its rights. You rather die a hero or be a slave. Ukraine chooses freedom!

Read the whole post because I don't discuss only about paper money!

It seems that almost the whole world decided to isolate itself from Russia while the economics of Russia is connected with the western world and if we keep in mind its GDP and other factors, then the cons will terribly hit them.

It's expected by some economic experts that SWIFT ban will cause:
1. Up to 10% recession.
2. Up to 50% decline in export.
3. Inflation of Rubble.

The Rubble lost more than 30% of it's value in recent days.
Officially Russia’s Ministry of Finance has ordered businesses that trade abroad to sell 80% of their foreign currency earnings and convert them to rubles.
You may notice at streets that some banks and currency exchange services offer very different rates on buy/sell orders. You have to sell X Rubble to buy 1 USD but when you sell 1 USD, you get half of X.

Ukraine also asks crypto exchanges to ban people from the Russian Federation and there is a chance (slight to my mind) that this will happen.

It looks like, Russia will be left majorly with only Rubble. Paper money has no value if no one wants it, doesn't matter how big reserves you have. Once valid and useful money reserves can turn into totally unuseful papers because none country wants to trade with you with it. And locally Russia isn't a strong country, they can't produce computers, smartphones, high-quality technics. They will have to say no to a comfortable life.

But can that stop Russia? During world wars, they survived with water, vodka and bread.

The idea behind sanctions is to show the Russian people how terrible president they have and how he sinks a country deep in crisis and terrible life.
People in US & EU live a comfortable life, they don't want war, no one wants war. These sanctions are a way to awake Russian people to go against their corrupted and criminal government and change them for their own and the whole worlds' welfare.

I want to quote this again!
Are there any better alternatives when man warns us with nuclear weapons? If Russian people think that we shouldn't treat them this way, then they have to change their government and end war! Otherwise, it looks like they support their government!

Freedom of speech like every combination of sentence with freedom is totally misunderstood by some individuals.
As I understood, there is a trust system on this forum where any user, including newbies like me with no story on this forum, can tag anyone. This is the freedom of speech! But it doesn't mean that I can spread my laws on anyone. I have my own laws, you have your own laws but we shouldn't harm each other and we shouldn't abuse our capabilities because of freedom of speech.

The freedom of speech is even limited at some point but it still is what it means.
If I couldn't give trust to someone on this forum and only certain users would be able to send trust, then this wouldn't be a freedom of speech.