Currently, this section is comprised of several sets of instruction
It can be shorter and to the point, and doesn't need to be so wordy
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I don't care, I might sometimes forget, but this action doesn't even work for automatic backups so...yeah, I'll do it manually (via `git push gitlab`).
A few are simply typos and grammatical changes:
- Remove Lena's message (as per their request)
- Update chatroom rules for Matrix
- Fix various grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, etc.
- Add Lucas to mod status
- Remove in memoriam of Lena
Lena has requested (very explicitly, I might add) that we remove all of her
"stupid fucking messages". This is me doing that.
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Rebuild PDF with updated images that don't break `Tex2PDF`. This means we can ditch the `imagesize.lua` file also, because it isn't really doing anything now.
Correct link which site redirects to as well,
thgtoa27ujspeqxasrfvcf5aozqdczvgmwgorrmblh6jn4nino3spcqd.onion/
Sorry for this mistake. We forgot to update the target when we updated
the other references to the new .onion
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This Constitution is subject to change but the premise will be generally
upheld from this point forward.
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When it comes to using cryptocurrencies as a means for anonymous payments, the guide seems to put a lot of stress on using Zcash and Monero, while outright discouraging the use of Bitcoin. However, Zcash is simply not used by enough people to provide an anonymous means of financial transactions, so long as anonymity requires the ability to hide in a crowd as is relevant here. Just last year, Zcash was attacked by an entity filling up blocks, causing the [chain size to significantly increase](https://blockchair.com/zcash/charts/blockchain-size) without an [increase in transactions](https://blockchair.com/zcash/charts/transaction-count), while only costing the attacker [approximately $10 a day](https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1577718171468972033). Yet Zcash is recommended as the "Extra-Paranoid anonymous option" in "Online anonymous payments using cryptocurrencies". The reasoning stresses that the crypto algorithms would have to be broken in order to harm the anonymity of its users and that isn't true because an anonymity-focused coin that no one uses is **not anonymous** no matter how secure its algorithms are.
The [resources](https://github.com/Anon-Planet/thgtoa/blob/master/guide.md#warning-about-special-tumbling-mixing-coinjoining-privacy-wallets-and-services-wikiless-archiveorg) provided in the warning against special tumbling, mixing, coinjoining privacy wallets and services all target centralized and/or custodial mixing services, while making no mention of modern privacy protocols that work on Bitcoin and give users forward-facing on-chain privacy guarantees today.
This PR hopes to clarify the risks of using centralized mixers/tumblers, point readers to tools that are non-custodial and actually **do** provide users with forward-facing on-chain privacy so that they can use Bitcoin anonymously, and remove recommendations to use Zcash.
Based on a [previous comment](https://github.com/Anon-Planet/thgtoa/pull/28#issuecomment-1145782407), there was hesitancy on adding a recommendation before its gotten significant review. Whirlpool is an implementation of [ZeroLink](https://code.samourai.io/whirlpool/Whirlpool/-/blob/whirlpool/THEORY.md) which breaks all links between a UTXO and its history. Whirlpool has been used on Bitcoin's mainnet since 2019 beginning with its [public beta](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/samourai-wallets-privacy-enhancing-whirlpool-now-in-public-beta) and has since grown to [6743 BTC in unspent capacity](https://twitter.com/SamouraiDev/status/1615708859641004032). This should provide a basis for "significant review" to be able to recommend.
