Mark

Money Reform Activist
Anti-CBDC

Freedom Dollar (fUSD)
Zano (ZANO)
Monero (XMR)
Bitcoin SV (BSV)
Nano (XNO)
Dash (DASH)
Zcash (ZEC)
Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR)

[Mark @MarkAlexaSmith]

Hal Finney - "Protecting Privacy with Electronic Cash"

The most respected cypherpunk in Bitcoin's history told you transparent ledgers are designed to harm individual privacy, and the Bitcoin community pretends they never heard him, Monero is what Hal was actually describing.

[Mastering Monero @masteringxmr]

Feeling bored? Mastering Monero is a FREE online resource that explains Monero and the importance of privacy. Read it today!

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[Mastering Monero @masteringxmr]

🚨𝗕𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻!🚨

Bitcoin can't protect your financial privacy. Monero does.
Learn more: https://t.co/ha1NWbovB9

[Heidi @blockchainchick]

What’s the main difference between Monero and most altcoins?

There aren’t VCs, MMs, exchanges, pumping the price

It has organic demand

[Sam Bent @DoingFedTime]

Coinbase can blacklist your Bitcoin based on where it's been,
miners can refuse your transactions, and your "decentralized" money has a permanent criminal record,
Monero solved this with stealth addresses and ring signatures in 2014.

[MoneroWire @MoneroWireHQ]

Vitalik just published a privacy roadmap for Ethereum.

Hidden balances. Private transactions. Censorship-resistant block inclusion.

Everything Monero has had for a decade.

When the biggest chain in crypto starts chasing your features, you were right all along.

[Thomas Vaneck @Vaneck_Intel]

Buying $XMR is an act of preservation, mining it is an act of rebellion. Supporting these domestic mining initiatives is the only logical response to the centralization of the Grid. In 2026, sovereignty isn't something you ask for, it's something you host. Each additional hash is a bar being sawn in the cell of the financial Panopticon.

[Monerica @MonericaProject]

Let the shaming begin!

https://t.co/idcHQbGzaG

[ZanoList.com @zanolist]

It’s weird that in crypto, “fully public forever” became normal.

Imagine if your salary, savings, and purchases were displayed on a billboard downtown.

That’s not financial freedom.

#Zano is building something better.

[ZanoList.com @zanolist]

Imagine if Uber emailed your entire ride history to everyone you've ever met.

Sounds ridiculous.

Yet public financial history became normal in crypto.

Use https://t.co/ULqGmAJunY

[Zano Intern @Zano_Intern]

@BitcoinCom Merchants who value private freedom money right now 🔒

[Bitcoin.com @BitcoinCom]

Your phone is now a crypto checkout terminal.

https://t.co/PX6hb90Z46 Checkout lets merchants accept crypto payments anywhere in seconds.

🔸No new hardware
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🔸Auto-settle to stablecoins — no volatility
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Enter amount → show QR → get paid

Start accepting crypto today.

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[Glimpse @GlimpseMarkets]

Hal Finney described Bitcoin in 1993.

[Mark @MarkAlexaSmith]

THE HAL FINNEY TEST

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

In my five-minute, unscripted talk at the Network State conference, I disclosed a private conversation between Hal Finney and me shortly before he died: https://t.co/goJq3mJH9q

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

In my five-minute, unscripted talk at the Network State conference, I disclosed a private conversation between Hal Finney and me shortly before he died: https://t.co/goJq3mJH9q

[Mark @MarkAlexaSmith]

https://t.co/KvKWLeXpWf

[Mark @MarkAlexaSmith]

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[Mark @MarkAlexaSmith]

Hal Finney - "Protecting Privacy with Electronic Cash" 1993

In this prescient and timely article, Finney shows how we can use cryptography to build a more private economy on public networks using electronic cash.

https://t.co/D8lGqoXx3s

[Satoshi Nakamoto Institute @NakamotoInst]

Website: https://t.co/a50O1Umoyn
Apple: https://t.co/KEtuIvnuXT
Spotify: https://t.co/haEog79MLb
YouTube: https://t.co/JldCNEuSPw
Rumble: https://t.co/M06BSmo3bF

[Anatolii ▲ @quasa0]

Zooko on the «Hal Finney test»

«He was, a mentor to me. He was older. He was more experienced. He was a lot smarter. And Hal was super patient. He would teach me things even if it took a long time»

Many years before Bitcoin was invented Hal said:

«If you see a proposal for an electronic money system, check to see whether it has the ability to preserve the privacy of financial transactions the way paper money does today. If not, realize that the proposal is designed to harm, not help individual privacy»

Hal was the first ZCasher.

Bitcoin has failed at that.

Use the Hal Finney test, apply it to Bitcoin.

«Maybe it's useful for nation states to trade with each other or whatever, but it is not a payment system that can empower individuals the way the ZCachers and Hal would have wanted»

Source: «The Network State Conference 2025 - Livestream» @ 7∶11∶34

From «The Network State Podcast» on YouTube, Oct 3, 2025

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