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How do I acquire Monero without having to show my id ?

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[–] catdog@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Good wars to acquire crypto

Welcome to Lemmy, Donald

[–] Zachi103@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago
[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's a Haveno network. Haveno is the platform; RetoSwap provides a network for the Haveno platform.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the explanation!

[–] Gulliver@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I nevers heard of it before is it better than bisq?

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

I use bisq and retoswap.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago
[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

Still in development, I'm afraid. Not yet ready for regular use.

[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] uxellodunum@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Because it may not be illegal today, but may become tomorrow. Even if not, it still becomes linked to your PII.

[–] greawogh@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] greawogh@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

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.