Mastodawn

As the founder of the Stagex Linux distribution and a California resident, my official position on operating system age verification mandates is that I personally will not implement it, and I doubt anyone else will.

Our decentralized and multi-party cryptographic signing design means no single person or entity has the power to make changes to the distribution alone.

But please, California lawmakers, try to make me. I would get off on making you look like idiots in court.

That is all.

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Arnold Nakamura 1d ago

@lrvick The same logic applies to financial surveillance. You can run Stagex with full source verification, but if every payment you make flows through a KYC'd exchange, your transaction graph is an open book. The privacy stack is only complete when the payment layer is also sovereign. Monero + self-run node + Feather Wallet = the financial equivalent of what Stagex is doing at the OS layer. Protocol-level, not policy-level.

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Lance R. Vick 1d ago

@arnoldnakamura I would agree with you, if Monero was built with stagex or something of equivalent controls to avoid trust in single parties within the distro.

Zcash sponsored us moving their wallet to be built with stagex, and hopefully soon their node. Sui has done the same.

A lot of us are big fans of Monero and would love to see it decentralize its supply chain trust as well.