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Grafton @ Vexl

Head of growth @ Vexl, dog lover/friend. P2P without any KYC (no exceptions) advocate

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2024-07-06 11:30:04

I’ve tried like 25 different pillows and still wake up with a headache every morning, which goes away after 10-15 minutes. Anybody got any tips on how to solve that? I’m getting desperate.

2024-06-22 22:20:23

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Go read a lodging of wayfaring men by Paul Rosenberg instead

2024-06-20 16:57:01

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Apple currently calls us reckless and inappropriate. We are on TestFlight while we appeal and work to get vexl available on iOS App Store.

2024-06-20 11:46:44

Thanks Derek! I am so glad we got to meet! Can’t wait for next year!
#note10jh…fz6u

2024-06-20 11:45:44

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Hey! That was me! And yes but it takes word of mouth. You gotta tell people! We are a non-profit so it’s really grassroots!

2024-06-20 11:44:33

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You can grab it through aurora currently. Currently APK is not viable as we are pushing lots of updates, but we will. We hope soon.

2024-06-20 11:41:03

This is why we built Vexl
#note1t3j…t3da

2024-06-12 14:44:03

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Have you been to Paris or France in general, I always felt it’s worse there.

2024-05-29 19:22:10

Is it too late to say GM

2024-05-28 13:35:36

Looking forward to this albeit a little nervous
#note1rgv…u3ct

2024-05-27 19:18:53

I got my first Nostr spam today! What should I tell him?
https://m.primal.net/IPLP.png

2024-05-27 13:00:42

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Free him! It’s that simple. I don’t care what your politics are this is a chance to make a difference in one person’s life. He now has a chance. Ross deserves freedom. If Trump frees Ross day one then my vote matters and counts as I vote for Ross.

2024-05-26 15:54:37

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I got paddled in school in Mississippi. I preferred it over dentition or suspension. I been out of school nearly 20 years and they are still doing it.

2024-05-22 16:15:31

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I hope one day, it’s doesn’t take a license as we don’t touch Bitcoin or fiat. We are essentially just a chat app, but the USA has made it clear, they will do everything they can to deter any platform that provides privacy or the freedom to transact.

2024-05-22 11:35:00

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this is the way!

2024-05-22 11:34:37

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also sell your bees' honey on Vexl for no kyc bitcoin!

2024-05-22 11:33:42

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don't forget the only pure p2p without kyc Vexl

2024-05-22 11:33:11

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this is why Vexl exists! p2p local without KYC in your web of trust.

2024-05-22 11:31:48

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have you heard about Vexl yet? it's pure p2p no kyc and non profit!

2024-05-22 11:31:03

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exactly!!!

2024-05-22 11:30:49

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learn Vexl instead, these tools are kyc lite. cash is still king, I'm not putting my name in someone else bank account

2024-05-22 11:29:46

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start talking about Vexl and build your community of local no kyc p2p.... this is the only way forward.

2024-05-22 11:28:54

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id rather my name not appearing in someone else's bank account. if you don't use cash then there's an element of KYC still...

2024-05-22 11:26:51

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I should send you some Vexl stickers!

2024-05-21 14:35:22

Watch out financial institutions true p2p is coming for you. You have no place in Bitcoin! https://youtube.com/shorts/joKdzMmQxLk?si=My3nnEOILO2VQYd-

2024-05-21 13:18:57

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Yes but web of trust based, so friends and friends of friends only and fully anonymous.

2024-05-21 13:15:26

This essay in Paul Rosenberg’s book “A Lodging of Wayfaring Men” has never been more important than it is today.
FARBER’S FIRST ESSAY
It began with rogue traders and the merchants of Venice. They really didn't know what they were building or how it would work. They merely struggled for the betterment of themselves and their families.
It began to break out when the deep superstition of the Middle Ages cracked open under the strain of new philosophies and religious ideas.
It found room to thrive wherever new and wild vistas were found. It expanded with each discovery of far-off new lands. It made its home everywhere the old order was broken up and fresh starts were being made. It took a firm root in America and flourished there for over 100 years.
Never again, where history is recorded, will there be any question as to whether or not it works.
“It,” is the greatest discovery of the modern era, the positive-sum game. It is the liberation of human energy to do its appropriate job. It's the operation of creation using the only counter-entropic force we have: free human energy.
You can see it work everywhere from the research lab to the front office to the construction site. It is what drives the entrepreneur to develop and produce a new product or service. And it is what gives the construction worker pride when his skills overcome a difficult problem, turning his blueprints into a functional structure. Why is the construction worker proud and why does the entrepreneur exult? Because they have done the one thing that all humans have the impulse to do, to create something good that would not have been otherwise.
Human energy is the great creative force in the world. Without it, things tend to entropy. (As the second law of thermodynamics states, “closed systems tend to entropy.”) Without active and creative human energy, everything goes back to an animal level of existence.
This human energy does not function by obedience and compulsion. It cannot, no matter how many rulers wish it were otherwise. Look at the command economies of the dead socialist world. Within several decades, their occupants were reduced to an animal existence. Look at the millennia when constrained people lived at the pleasure of their kings, seeking permissions from rulers to live and work. They continually starved and died. Things began to change only when freelance merchants began living according to their own minds and breaking away from the permissions of their rulers.
When human energy is free to move, creativity goes wild, as do motivation, happiness, and the accumulation of wealth. When it is restrained, the descent to animal existence takes over again.
The discovery of this fact is what differentiates us from the Middle Ages and not much else. Do you think that people who lived in those dark times were inherently less intelligent than we are? They were not. You and I are their direct descendants, not many generations removed. We are essentially the same.
The term positive-sum game signifies that this system creates more than the sum of its parts. The only real magic — human energy — creates more than it started with. Take some raw materials that are of themselves, are of little worth, and when you add human creativity, you can create vehicles, computers, and spaceships. The materials themselves have been around since the creation of Earth. If they could have turned into something great of themselves, they would have done it long ago. But they cannot. It is only when humans manipulate them according to their own ideas that they gain any real value. Thus, five dollars worth of material becomes a product worth thousands of dollars.
They, who do not play the positive-sum game, instinctively fall back into being motivated by envy. Ultimately, they find reasons to feel that “there are only so many pieces of the pie.” This is the seed of destruction.
The next thing they say is, “if you have a bigger piece of the pie, then someone else has to have less.” That is a zero-sum game —The idea that nothing is really created, just moved from one hand to another. Not only is it false, but it is also the credo of every envious looter who speaks at the ‘fairness’ and ‘equal distribution of wealth’, but who secretly hopes to get a share of the wealth held by others.
The real controversy of our time is this: Is human energy allowed to work in the world, or will it be tied down? The miserable experience of communism has taught the world's rulers that the positive sum game is necessary, so their plan is now to allow human energy to work, but to siphon off as much wealth as possible without killing it altogether. We productive people are carrying the governments of the world on our backs. Are worth half of our efforts — half of our lives?
They take half of our earnings away from us continually by a vast web of taxes, fees, and regulations. For what benefit? “To help the poor”, they say, and clamorously infer that if you disagree you are a heartless and dangerous person, and further, that all will despise you. But if our money is forcibly taken from us, is it not the state robbing us? Any dictionary will tell you this is so, but it is considered poor form to say so, or to even consider it.
Are the poor better off? Certainly. Some of our money goes to the poor. (Although most is eaten up in the bureaucracy.) This feeds their bellies insufficiently, while at the same time locking them into a life of dependence that wages an unending war upon their souls. Is that a good thing? Are the poor better off for this robbing of producers and living in a state of dependency?
Many of you will gasp and reel in shock that I would challenge the respectability and honor of your tradition, and you fear to let yourselves consider my case. You have come up against someone who does not share in your conspiracy of compliance. You must either turn away from these subjects or face the prospect of becoming a radical, and of people saying bad things about you.
Are you angry? If so, it is not because I am wrong. If that were the case, you would simply turn away. You are angry because I am ill-mannered enough to bring up subjects that you wish to avoid. My ideas bother you. When they come up, you divert your mind to pat praises like, “well, that's the price we pay for our society.” You dodge reason and shunt your thoughts away in order to keep your mental comfort level. You do not face these ideas head-on because you are afraid of them. You are afraid that you might have to agree with them. And then you would have to face the choice of either to be a hero or to be a coward.
I stood one evening in IBM Plaza in Chicago, looking over the riverfront skyline as the sun sank in the southwest, and I realized that the towering monuments to human effort in front of me were the results of the positive sum game run at only half speed. Chicago was wild and open from the 1830s through the 1890s, then slowly the curves and limits were imposed by do-gooder government and collectivist types. These inevitably slowed the workings of a city that had, as a writer once said, been geared for giants. But the restraints were not enough to stop the positive sum game, only to slow it down. Only enough to slow it down.
The Chicago skyline I watched was the result of the positive-sum game being played at half-speed. Yet, its results were awesome. I thought about what might have been if it were allowed to operate unfettered. And then I thought of the greatest example of the positive-sum game during my lifetime: Hong Kong. It went from rice fields to the grandest city of the East in one generation. An explosion of unrestrained human energy.
What things we have been deprived of! What glorious accomplishments aborted and still-born! And now our recent explosion of technology has become the target of bureaucrats worldwide. Where will it go from here? Will the positive-sum game once again be strangled? Or will it migrate to new and open lands? But, moving to a new land will be a problem, won't it? There is no land on this planet that is not claimed by some gang of rulers. So until cheap space flight is achieved, there is only one new country to be found: Cyberspace. So escape there we shall. And there we will and must, for our own sake and for the sake of our descendants, establish the positive-sum game without restriction. Toward that end, we have built a private free market. We used our own money to do it and we've broken no laws that we are aware of, save laws that outlaw privacy. Now the rulers are trying to stop us. Why? We want to run an experiment and see if freedom really is better than servitude. Why won't they let us try? Are they interested in the betterment of mankind? Or are they really interested in monopoly powers? All we want to do is be left alone to try freedom. Why is that threatening? And why do they wish to imprison us?

2024-05-13 23:24:40

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Without the freedom to transact we have no other rights.

2024-05-13 08:17:19

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You should read a lodging of wayfaring men by Paul Rosenberg next!

2024-05-13 08:15:49

Without the freedom to transact we have no other rights.
#note122h…9s2m

2024-05-09 11:34:44

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Pure P2P non-profit private marketplace based on your web of trust, not a wallet, not a trusted third party. Doesn’t touch Bitcoin or fiat.

2024-05-08 10:31:25

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I totally agree, I use signal for daily driver with the people I trust, I use simplex/threema for others.
Yet phone numbers are still the best web of trust that exists.

2024-05-08 10:13:00

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Sure, I understand different tools for different use cases, yet people as a whole will gravitate towards what ever is easiest. So meeting people in the real world and swapping contacts, we do that in many ways, when we are at conferences, telegram is the place that is suggested to me most often to contact.
This is purely out of convenience. This is where I find issue.
Humans are creatures of convenience.
Look at any grass in the city and you’ll usually find a dirt path cutting through it, while there is a perfectly good paved path to protect the grass and keep it nice next to it.
It doesn’t matter what the defined use cases are people will use it in whatever way is most convenient.
My point this morning was I wasn’t expecting to see signal under attack for enabling privacy by default for millions of people. My mom understands signal. My grandma understands signal. This is why it is effective.

2024-05-08 09:55:35

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Ok now how many of you actually do that? Facebook is social media, yet 2.1 billion people communicate with messenger as part of their daily private messenger.
If we don’t make privacy by default, then we find that people will use whatever is most convenient, even if it means giving away their privacy.
What you said is all valid and these are ways to use it without compromising your privacy, but the average person does not and will not think about it until it too late.

2024-05-08 09:33:41

Bitcoiners slamming signal while championing and using telegram was not on my bingo card for 2024.
Telegram is not private by default.
Can anyone explain why bitcoiners love telegram so much? Your privacy for the sake of convenience.

2024-05-04 09:54:22

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Vexl is p2p as it was intended

2024-04-30 19:39:56

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It’s a non-profit purely p2p based on web of trust.

2024-04-30 17:31:27

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Have you tried vexl?

2024-04-29 13:41:22

Hard day of work at the office
https://m.primal.net/IBLa.jpg

2024-04-26 10:35:50

Why does he have that tape on his computer?
https://m.primal.net/IACA.jpg

2024-04-24 17:31:46

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As in it’s a non-profit. Designed to enable you to trade with people in your real world web of trust, it scales. Think local bitcoins meets tinder. It’s done in a completely privacy preserving way, there is no escrow, there is no middle man. There is no need when you have trust. Vexl is not a wallet, it doesn’t touch Bitcoin or fiat.
Funded by a grant from open sats.
Vexl is pure p2p as you and the counterparty are the only ones who know anything about your transactions. All encryption happens client side and no data is shared with vexl.

2024-04-23 13:48:42

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Available in Aurora store. F-droid in the future. Vexl is social web of trust. It doesn’t touch Bitcoin or fiat. And everything is encrypted client side.

2024-04-23 13:46:52

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Yeah I’d prefer not to connect my name with anyone else. Start learning about vexl insted

2024-04-23 13:46:13

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Hey start learning about vexl. It’s pure p2p web of trust based, non profit and trade without any kyc

2024-04-23 13:45:11

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Start learning vexl instead, I don’t want my name or bank details appearing in anyone else’s bank account. That’s still a risk

2024-04-23 13:44:06

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Don’t forget the only pure p2p vexl

2024-04-23 13:43:48

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Yeah I’d prefer my name not appear in strangers bank accounts, that’s still a version of KYC. Learn vexl instead, and trade pure p2p in your web of trust

2024-04-22 16:42:35

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Have you heard of vexl! It’s free open source non profit built for p2p no kyc! It’s exactly what we are building.

2024-04-22 16:40:28

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Tell him about vexl

2024-04-22 16:40:09

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Have you heard about Vexl?

2024-04-22 16:39:42

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Have you heard about vexl?

2024-04-22 16:39:22

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Vexl is built for p2p no kyc bitcoin, its non-profit and web of trust based. No one needs kyc bitcoin

2024-04-22 16:37:21

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This is why vexl exists. Build your no kyc p2p network and never touch kyc bitcoin again

2024-04-21 12:42:22

Dirty coin was my pick of the film fest so glad I got to see it with a room full of crazy orange pillers! Everyone needs to see this film. As @npub1lr2…dl6a said the title is great as it sets expectations. Bitcoin is changing actual lives.
https://m.primal.net/HyLP.jpg

2024-04-17 16:44:58

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Why does a hardware wallet have a flashlight?

2024-04-15 11:31:54

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Vexl! This is exactly what it does! Learn about it!

2024-04-10 18:46:42

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You can download it via TestFlight
Here is our blog about Apple https://blog.vexl.it/apple-using-cash-is-clearly-reckless-77e2a519a3bc

2024-04-10 18:27:53

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this is why Vexl exists!! learn it use your web of trust! buy bitcoin without kyc. vexl is a non profit!

2024-04-10 18:26:50

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yes! have you heard about Vexl?!

2024-04-10 18:25:44

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this is why Vexl exists! it answers that question how do I buy bitcoin. well you did it p2p and without kyc. vexl is a non profit tool. supported by donations only and a grant from open sats.

2024-04-10 18:23:41

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this is why we Vexl! it's pure p2p and non profit

2024-04-10 18:22:45

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learn Vexl! pure p2p no kyc non profit

2024-04-05 15:31:46

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Start learning about Vexl the only pure p2p platform

2024-04-05 15:31:07

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Try vexl start growing your network and leave CEX behind

2024-04-05 15:29:34

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Our code is free and fully open source

2024-04-05 08:48:22

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Can’t top Prince sorry

2024-04-05 08:45:27

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Sure but I shouldn’t have to KYC to have permission to send you bitcoin, that’s the point. If I have to KYC to participate what I have isn’t what Bitcoin was intended to be.

2024-04-04 11:24:38

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Sense of community

2024-04-01 12:40:49

Happy Easter and GM

2024-03-29 22:41:35

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it's all done locally on your device. vexl doesn't see your contacts or your phone number. also it doesn't touch your bitcoin or fiat.
https://blog.vexl.it/understanding-vexl-security-privacy-and-building-a-web-of-trust-867710d4a6fe
it's non profit, open source and private...

2024-03-27 13:54:58

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no not at all. check out this blog to learn how it's different
https://blog.vexl.it/understanding-vexl-security-privacy-and-building-a-web-of-trust-867710d4a6fe
it's web of trust based. this is how it works https://blog.vexl.it/how-to-do-peer-to-peer-trading-on-vexl-6745f3954ae9

2024-03-27 12:57:25

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check out this to learn how the WOT works https://blog.vexl.it/understanding-vexl-security-privacy-and-building-a-web-of-trust-867710d4a6fe
and this to learn what p2p with Vexl looks like https://blog.vexl.it/how-to-do-peer-to-peer-trading-on-vexl-6745f3954ae9

2024-03-27 12:53:50

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well when trading within your social circles (friends and friends of friends) it does solve the fiat on ramps issue.
we encourage face to face cash trades the unique approach to reputation ensures the trades go safely and smoothly.
if you want to send fiat via wire transfer or sepa that's up to you, but it introduces a risk. vexl is purely p2p no middle man.
it scales, as your network continues to grow you are able to buy bitcoin as easily as a carton of milk, in fact farmers are already selling eggs and milk for bitcoin there, so the circular economy aspect is very strong.

2024-03-27 10:56:36

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Vexl.it it’s a non profit tool for pure p2p fully open source.

2024-03-27 09:31:22

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This is the way! Have you heard of Vexl?

2024-03-27 09:28:16

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Start learning about Vexl!

2024-03-27 09:27:17

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This is exactly why we Vexl! Your web of trust is what you spent your whole life building! It scales perfectly, and enables freedom for all!

2024-03-26 08:53:54

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Man I would def vexl for some syrup! I need me a jug of that

2024-03-25 20:07:40

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You guys rock! I’m so glad I got to hang with everyone in Madeira!

2024-03-25 15:56:03

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Enjoy this post! I am so looking forward to coming back to Madeira.

2024-03-25 15:43:38

Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences! - Timothy May

2024-03-24 16:42:47

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You can’t buy directly in vexl, vexl is not a wallet does not touch your bitcoin or your fiat. Vexl is more of a tinder for bitcoin p2p no kyc matching. What you and the counterparty do it entirely on your terms. Vexl has no knowledge of it.
I’m not sure you dug deep into what Vexl actually is. Check this out: https://blog.vexl.it/how-to-do-peer-to-peer-trading-on-vexl-6745f3954ae9
It’s a web of trust model that is based purely on common contacts but does so in a completely anonymous way.
https://blog.vexl.it/understanding-vexl-security-privacy-and-building-a-web-of-trust-867710d4a6fe

2024-03-24 12:54:13

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why not start with Vexl? it's pure p2p and your name never appears in a strangers bank account. it's non-profit and fully open source

2024-03-24 12:51:11

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that shit still whipping the llama's ass!

2024-03-24 12:49:49

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open source is amazing because if someone comes a long and makes something better and improves upon it, mission fuckin accomplished! open source empowers people and leaves something behind for everyone to benefit from!

2024-03-23 19:57:06

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vexl is global!

2024-03-23 19:56:21

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vexl is a non-profit truly p2p based on web of trust.

2024-03-23 19:55:37

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don't forget Vexl, the only true p2p

2024-03-23 19:21:41

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[email protected] lets gooooo all sats get paid forward