What are good ways to acquire Monero
from Zachi103@feddit.org to privacy@lemmy.ml on 15 Jun 04:29
https://feddit.org/post/31268272
from Zachi103@feddit.org to privacy@lemmy.ml on 15 Jun 04:29
https://feddit.org/post/31268272
How do I acquire Monero without having to show my id ?
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Welcome to Lemmy, Donald
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ehh in the monero page there are links to multiple services where you can trade money. I personally deemed it too much work for what it is at the moment.
You can trade like cash for monero and mail it but there’re also more ways in there depending on where you live, I am very sure most of these are uncentralized too and some even use TOR and all.
RetoSwap.com is a peer-to-peer decentralized exchange program that you download on your computer and you can trade with other users using any supported payment method such as cash-by-mail, ACH bank transfer, wire transfer, PayPal, CashApp, Zelle, etc.
I notice that the website has a “Powered by Tor & Haveno” button at the top. What’s the relationship between RetoSwap and Haveno, exactly? Is RetoSwap a fork of Haveno?
It’s a Haveno network. Haveno is the platform; RetoSwap provides a network for the Haveno platform.
This
Thanks for the explanation!
I nevers heard of it before is it better than bisq?
Yes.
Bisq uses bitcoin which means everything is on a transparent blockchain
RetoSwap uses Haveno …which uses Monero, and means that everything is on a private blockchain.
https://haveno.exchange
Still in development, I’m afraid. Not yet ready for regular use.
A bit of an off topic thing to ask, but as long as it’s not a crime to buy it, why do you care if it’s anonymous or not? It’s like withdrawing cash in a bank. Yes, the bank may know that you withdrew cash, but what happens with that cash and where you spent it is entirely up to you and it’s very hard to track it.
Never buy and spend with the same address and it should be private enough just by design.
“the bank may know that you withdrew cash, but what happens with that cash and where you spent it is entirely up to you and it’s very hard to track it.”
20 year US banking veteran here, in the US an insane amount of time and effort is put into cold tracing cash supply movements. Like, violent stalker ex pinning down your every movement, going through your garbage, zero potential return on investment kinda effort.
What’s the point? Most of it probably switches over 10 hands through all the cash registers in shops or exchanges between people directly before it ends up in the ATM again.
Are there any cases of it being somehow useful?
Hopefully not to feed all the data into a dystopian AI that predicts future crimes and prematurely arrests people it sees as high risk potential.
It’s commonly used in drug cases. But any benefit is dwarfed by the cost of maintaining all the required infrastructure. And, yes, the system is extremely vulnerable to data poisoning
Because it may not be illegal today, but may become tomorrow. Even if not, it still becomes linked to your PII.
I use bisq and retoswap.
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