EDIT: Don’t take this too seriously; do not actually send a donation (unless you really want to, like admiring “Nice photoshopping!” “Thanks for the fun pic”). While it’s entertaining and thought-provoking, using their work this way is ethically questionable too. As @z0rg0n pointed out, one could even see this as a scam. Although it’s a fine work and freedom of expression is more important, this may more properly belong to “Memes”.
EDIT2: This post and “cool if real” by @alphonse https://monero.town/post/1122495 were created almost at the same time. That was a coincidental post conflict; @alphonse’s post was actually earlier by about 1 hour!
Is someone crowdfunding a Monero ad in India’s economic newspaper?
Interestingly, a Monero ad could be circulating in India’s traditional English newspaper: The Economic Times. The pseudonymous Stoic, author of “The Monero Standard,” shared a picture of the newspaper’s November 16th edition. In the picture, it is possible to see the paper’s opened front page with a large ad about XMR.
“Monero transactions respect your privacy. Can you say that about the INDIAN RUPEE or the U.S. DOLLAR?”
Moreover, the image also includes a QR-Code for donations in “XMR only,” which suggests its owner is expecting to crowdfund what was spent for this supposed insertion.
I’m skeptical. The source of this image is some random PM to some crypto influencer. With the anonymous nature of Monero we need to be extra careful with scams since it’s difficult to verify how funds are being spent.
sirs please donate sirs
In retrospect, I should have added a black line or something so that this QR thing will not really work.
Btw, did you read this blog post by VC? Most probably he’s talking about active people including you (Kyun).
One thing I’ve always been pleased to see is when people draw inspiration from cock.li for their own service
yeah i did, not sure if he was referring to me or other similar mail providers (like https://pissmail.com/)
