Hi everyone,
a few weeks ago I decided to leave BTC, ETH and Solana.
I’m tired of banks, CEXs and institutions manipulating.
They are ruining the dream of crypto freedom and privacy.
From now on, I’m buying Monero daily. I also set up an old server to help the network (not for profit, my hardware is tiny), just to contribute and be part of the last real cypherpunk community.
I have some technical skills, but I’d like your advice: is my privacy plan enough or should I change something?
My plan so far:
Dedicated PC just for Monero and privacy work.
Tails OS for anonymity via Tor.
Only keep wallet files and wallet software in persistent storage.
Use Tor-only (.onion) nodes for syncing and sending XMR.
No personal accounts or other software on this PC.
Should i buy a Ledger hardware wallet for extra security?
Any tips or suggestions are welcome. Thanks!
Let’s take back our financial freedom — one Monero at a time.
but i guess alot of people still doing work from tor, and haveno itself routes traffic through tor as well anyways
tails i thought was mostly to boot up the thingy from a liveUSB and maybe have persistent storage for pgp keys and things like that but i guess it makes senses to have some monero persistent storage too
i personally doing virtual machines instead, like literally any linux distro, and inspired with the design of QubesOS for compartmentalization, have a VM for monerod and then an other VM with monero-wallet-cli that points to the local IP of the VM that does the daemon
and then backup the mnemonic seeds with paper wallets / encrypted storage with LUKS encrypt
single use rig is a smart choice, which seems like that’s what you’re planning to do, like, that 1 rig dedicated for that and nothing else
as for ledger, i wouldnt trust, pretty sure that’s them that fucked up their customers few years ago by leaking their data, so people were receiving scam calls pretending to be law enforcement and things like that…
and more recently the ledger ceo or whatever that couldnt even do very basic math regarding the qubic attacks, throwing random numbers on the twatter that were like hundreds or thousands times bigger than they actually were, company run by a literally clown that cant do middle school math lol (not even exaggerating, literally basic addition and substraction type math and he couldnt even do that)
like, always seen those hardware wallets just for the cryptobros that wanna showoff that they doing the cryptothingies, making them more vulnerable to $5 wrench attacks type thing…
would recommend paper wallets and encrypted backups over a ledger literally any day tbh
Not really necessary in my opinion. Hardware wallets protect against infected machines that have your private spend key. Now that we have technologies like Cupcake, you can save yourself the money spent by just using a dedicated, offline phone.
Also closed source hardware wallets have had security vulnerabilities pop up recently, so the trust is shaky.
