A cryptocurrency project creating an encrypted equivalent of the cash economy, where privacy is the most convenient choice.
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Privacy Accelerationists
Topic for next week's X Space: Growing the Veil economy in Nigeria among people doing their compulsory NYSC corps (National Youth Service Corps) service. Saturday 30 May 5 PM UTC.
6 PM Nigerian time. Please mark your calendars!
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@ProjectVeil
US Government gatekeeping of every Android app globally is totally unacceptable and will break the vast majority of everything on your phones, and make your lives worse!
Free software must remain free!
Google is building a registry that ties every piece of Android software to a government ID, and your phone will soon refuse to run anything that is not on it.
Starting September 2026, an app will not install on a certified Android phone unless its maker has handed Google a government photo ID, paid a fee, registered a payment profile, and signed over the keys to their own code. And not just apps from the Play Store. Every app. The one a friend builds you. The one a stranger across the world wrote and gave away. The one you wrote yourself, for your own phone, in your own home.
Your hardware will check it against Google's list, and if the name is not on file, the door stays shut.
Android was the open one. For fifteen years that was the entire pitch, the one phone where you owned the device and chose the software and no one stood at the gate. That is what is ending.
The phone goes from a thing that runs what you tell it to a thing that runs what Google has approved, and approval now means a legal name in a database.
A malware author will buy a stolen identity for $40 and ship his poison the same as ever. He always has. The registry does not touch him. What it touches is the developer who cannot put his real name on his work. The one building a secure messenger for people a government wants dead. The one shipping a tool that embarrasses the powerful. The one who writes under a handle because the alternative is a knock at the door.
The purpose, in Google's own words, is to "remove the cover of anonymity."
The mask is the oldest tool the free press ever held. The pamphlet with no printer's name. The essay signed with a fake one. Every government that ever feared what its people might read started by demanding to know who set the type. Google has volunteered to be the one who keeps the list.
If you want to install software from a maker who refused the registry, you can, after you enable developer mode, swear to your phone that no one is forcing you to do this, restart the device, wait a full twenty-four hours, and authenticate again. A day-long cooling-off period and a coercion check, to put a program you chose on a phone you own.
It is the permission slip with enough friction that most people stop trying, which was always the point.
F-Droid, the free software catalogue that has handed out unsigned, unregistered, no-name software for over fifteen years, called it existential and refused to comply.
67 organizations told Google to kill the plan. Google moved the date for no one.
So learn the way out now, while the door is still open. The stores that answer to no registry. The phones that were never on Google's list. The skill of putting what you choose onto the machine you own, before that skill becomes a thing you have to wait a day and swear an oath to use.
A phone that asks permission before it runs your software was never your phone. It was theirs, parked in your pocket, billed to your name.
Take it back while taking it back is still allowed.
Australia lets the cat out of the bag!
In order to ban under 16s from social media, EVERYONE will have to have digital ID or they wonโt be able to get on the internet
Starmer says Digital ID wonโt be mandatory er Unless you never need the internet ๐ฅ
We would like to specially invite Nigerians to talk with us about how we might be able to grow the Veil private crypto economy with a focus beginning in Nigeria, especially among recent university graduates. Saturday 6 PM โ Nigerian time zone.
5 PM UTC. โฅ๏ธ๐ณ๐ฌ๐
Topic for next week's X Space: Growing the Veil economy in Nigeria among people doing their compulsory NYSC corps (National Youth Service Corps) service. Saturday 30 May 5 PM UTC.
6 PM Nigerian time. Please mark your calendars!
https://t.co/8Wh4g4PRgm
@ProjectVeil
Great new VEIL-INFO web page talked about on the livestream! "Made with love by @Veilminer "
We'll get its DNS info set so you can find it via the official Veil Project website soon.
The $VEIL community is built on privacy, trust, and people who believe in something bigger than themselves.
Sounds a lot like motherhood.
To every mom in this space; the holders, the builders, the ones quietly doing everything right
Happy Motherโs Day. ๐ค๐
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Join this Space to talk about Veil privacy and the strategy toward adoption of the cryptocurrency.
Every Saturday look for a Veil space, if not more frequently!
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@KidPlankton had trouble with ๐ logins earlier, so we are creating this Space on the official Veil Project account. Calling Africa, Europe, America, Asia, and Australia, although it's crazy early there.
@lontivero I feel your pain! Pretenders squatting on your name. The same has happened with Veil, the genuine, default privacy coin with triple algo mining and private zerocoin staking, using RingCT and stealth addresses. There are also others pretending to be Veil, on X and elsewhere.
@heed_sensei Take off the hijab, and put on the Veil, the private digital currency Veil, ironically! :)
Very much needed in Iran, and we don't discriminate.
We love the **people of** Iran.
We've got to break free!
@heed_sensei@ProjectVeil@veilminer007 Curiously, in the early days Bitcoiners thought they were anonymous. The past decade has been a brutal education in how profiling and targeting attacks hundreds of millions, maybe billions of people around the world.
Retake the human right of financial privacy!
Imagine if crypto had actually been built on anonymity and privacy from day one. Privacy coins wouldnโt even need to exist. Mainstream crypto failed its core mission.
Thatโs why $VEIL & other privacy coins exist, to deliver what crypto should have been all along.