GrapheneOS@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

This account has been posting lies about what GrapheneOS has said and done for the past several days. Those are being widely propagated across this platform. People are being played.

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This is very clearly a lie about what we said about codeberg and they're also lying about us about deleting posts we haven't. In previous threads they lied about us deleting a file we clearly never deleted and similarly lied about many things we said and did.

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GrapheneOS@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

@zm Codeberg also banned cryptocurrency which is our primary source of funding and is what we use to send money to nearly everyone on our team. A huge portion of our users are cryptocurrency users. Many of them care about financial privacy and support Monero. We also support financial privacy.

Most of the people attacking us on this platform aren't our users. We aren't being attacked elsewhere. People in our chat rooms oppose the attacks on us and it's only an active topic in the media rooms.

GrapheneOS@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

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Cryptocurrency enables us to reliably pay a team distributed around the world. It has provided the majority of our funding and is how we're able to run GrapheneOS as a non-profit entirely funded by donations. Many other privacy projects also receive the majority of their donations via cryptocurrency.

We're being attacked because we're transparent about how we're funded, how we pay our team and our general belief in technology protecting people from authoritarian states.

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GrapheneOS@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

@darkwolf GrapheneOS is an open source privacy project with a development team spread around the world. It exists to protect people from corporate and government surveillance.

GrapheneOS isn't a business and our legal entity is a Canadian non-profit organization.

GrapheneOS is entirely funded by donations. The majority of the donations are made via cryptocurrency.

We pay people an hourly rate set in USD or CAD. We currently pay around 14 people with Ethereum donations and 1 person with CAD.

GrapheneOS@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

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We strongly believe in privacy including for financial transactions. People should expect nothing less from a privacy project.

It should be obvious we aren't fans of traditional banking and financial services built to enable mass surveillance.

We also aren't fans of unencrypted blockchains and believe those should be fixed.

We believe in the privacy of cash being preserved in the same way we believe in people's private conversations and thoughts being protected.

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GrapheneOS@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

@darkwolf People's conversations, thoughts and financial transactions have been largely private for most of human history. Law enforcement still managed to do their jobs. They can continue to do so in a world where privacy technologies preserve historical privacy norms.

We use and support open source projects working on restoring the privacy provided by cash including Monero. Moving from cash to credit cards, PayPal, etc. is an ongoing privacy disaster. Bitcoin and Ethereum currently are too.

Andrea Pappacoda@tachi@infosec.exchange

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@GrapheneOS yes, I excluded Monero from my message as I'm aware that it provides privacy on both ends (which, for this reason, I'm not sure works well with AML regulations, at lest here in the EU).

My message was more centered around the other cryptocurrencies, which are less puzzling to use for a newbie as they are available in many mainstream personal finance applications: don't they only provide anonimity, and zero privacy?

Hence: why not also push Taler forward, which provides privacy for the buyer while being designed with existing regulations in mind?

Sorry if this sounds too dumb :)

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