• @[email protected]
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    215 months ago

    FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!! That is absolutely the last fucking thing we need right fucking now.

    • @[email protected]
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      55 months ago

      Keep mining and remember the Bitcoin will have to go somewhere when that gets banned…which it will because it can

  • @[email protected]
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    165 months ago

    End of an era. For p2p with fiat we are going to need Haveno soon, or we are stuck using bisq and bitcoin.

      • @[email protected]
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        25 months ago

        If they collect no fees, run no servers of any kind and just write and publish software I don’t see how they can be held liable for anything.

          • @[email protected]
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            85 months ago

            Well, then they’d better drop the project and let it be forked and continued by a team of anonymous developers wink wink. Or ditch the fees.

            I dunno. It’s still peer to peer, there’s no coordination and no service being provided. I know, I’m living in a world that no longer exists, one where the rules matter and are clear. I don’t doubt for a second that some day the government will try to jail these guys. Even if they do everything right, collect no fees, run no nodes, have no connection to the project other than having wrote the code, the government will come after them. I think we all need to accept this fact, that it’s not about the rules, it’s about power, and that when you threaten power it will try to destroy you, and we need to start hosting code on Tor and publishing and contributing anonymously.

  • @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    This is heartbreaking news. LocalMonero enabled anyone capable of navigating Ebay to convert XMR.

    Thank you, Alex & the team, for all those years of providing what is probably the best Monero-service of all.

  • @[email protected]
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    95 months ago

    We are a reputable trader on there -> https://agoradesk.com/user/geterdone

    and we have decided to build an I2P and Tor replacement. We have not slept since they made the announcement so we can get it up and running as fast as possible for the community. We are currently on the Matrix chat if you want to reach out to us for any questions, etc. -> @geterdone:matrix.org

    We would have posted this elsewhere but, literally the only places you can post are constantly blocked. You can tell this very quickly like what happened when localmonero announced on reddit.com/r/monero they had 38 messages but only 15 showed. The fight for privacy is becoming a war and the battlefield is open.

  • @[email protected]
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    85 months ago

    Whoa wait, what’s LocalMonero and how does it relate to Monero? Does this impact Monero itself?

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        45 months ago

        Fuuuck so, and sorry for my ignorance, if I use something like Kraken to get monero, this could end up affecting that?

        • ᴅᴜᴋᴇᴛʜᴏʀɪᴏɴ
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          105 months ago

          Kraken is a CEX, “centralized exchange”… If they still support XMR, eventually they won’t, like all other US exchanges.

          • @[email protected]
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            45 months ago

            Damn, that really sucks. So is this just a death sentence then?

            Btw thanks for the help, I use monero but am totally ignorant to how most of this works.

            • ᴅᴜᴋᴇᴛʜᴏʀɪᴏɴ
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              75 months ago

              No, depending on how fast the developers can get done with the decentralized exchanges / swaps so that they work perfectly and are somewhat easy to use. They’ll most likely want these to be hidden services to prevent also being shut down (I am only assuming that’s what happened to L.M.)

  • fernandu00
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    Damn! It was so easy to buy xmr there… I hope I find a good substitute for localmonero when I need to buy xmr again

  • @[email protected]
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    65 months ago

    The forever boot on humanity wins again… Thanks for your service (never used them, don’t even know what monero actually)

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        45 months ago

        Forced retirement is what I’m wondering, since they’ve seen others who “enable the use of privacy coins” get arrested in the freest country in the world.

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          @beeng IANAL, but I’m pretty sure that “enabling the use of privacy coins” has not been the charge in any US case.

          “Money Laundering” is the charge.

          And this is why WE NEED DEXES, and why I do what I can to support my preferred project (Haveno)

          • @[email protected]
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            25 months ago

            Ahh this might have been a mistake on my part, I thought Samourai was a Monero wallet.

            I’ll checkout Haveno!