Here are some excellent wallets depending on your preference to start using today 👇
2/ First off, no matter what wallet you use *save your seed*!!!
Always do so in multiple locations, in ways that you can find and recover, and inform your family or loved ones of how to recover funds as well, just in case.
3/ The first wallet recommendation is @cakewallet (or @MoneroCom), both of which are very simple to use and beautiful, work on both Android and iOS, and have native exchange functionality.
While this is "just" the front-end, this continues the trend of "privacy tools" preempting regulatory pressure to kiss the boot of our benevolent overlords.
#Monero cannot do this by design, and that's what makes it such a powerful tool.
To be clear here, there is no reason multiple exchanges would need to maintenance their wallets at the same time.
No network outage, no bugs, nothing.
This is happening with @binance and several others.
Quick clarification thanks to others pointing it out -- I'm not accusing @FixedFloat of anything, but exchanges like them usually rely on liquidity providers like Binance that are currently undergoing "maintenance" that smells of fractional reserves or paper trading.
1/ I have thoroughly been enjoying WBD lately, but the #Monero mentions here are absolutely not based in reality.
That is on @jimmysong and not on @PeterMcCormack, Jimmy misuses his authority in the space and is either intentionally misleading or woefully lacking technicals.
2/ The first - and often most important - step is avoiding know-your-customer (KYC) exchanges whenever buying or selling Bitcoin to ensure you don't provide a trivial link between your ID and on-chain transactions:
1/ This is only the beginning, and it's time you start preparing for the inevitable adversarial environment many of us have been preaching about for years.
This will be much more broad than just cryptocurrency privacy, so here are some resources to get you started 👇
The speed with which tyranny is spreading, "laws" are changing, and our financial freedom and privacy is being taken with us is absolutely mind-blowing.
Wake up and start opting out *now*.
One of the most important ways we can further enable tools like Monero is to start spending it and working with your favorite merchants.
If we can use Monero *directly*, it becomes a much more powerful tool.