$ (XMR) Monero

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TheCuntler said:
What would be the best way to aquire Monero? If possible by cash?
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I had my doubts before I tried but use a swap service like Trocador. Kraken bent the knee to the EU and removed the ability to buy/sell XMR..

The cheapest (and equally anonymous as cash) would be to just buy BTC or something on a safe legit exchange and use that in a swap, once it is XMR it is completely separated from your identity.
 
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TheCuntler said:
I don't want to make money with it. I want to have something that is more stable and that I would and have used in real life. But the fees have probably been quite high.
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If you don't really care about making money, and are actually going to use it, a cheap rig would probably be worth it. There are a lot of guides on how to do a simpler one. Or you could rent rackspace, which I think would still diddle the fuck out of you but nowhere near as much as the total assrape of crypto ATMs.
Shartin' Luther said:
The cheapest (and equally anonymous as cash) would be to just buy BTC or something on a safe legit exchange and use that in a swap, once it is XMR it is completely separated from your identity.
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Or this or any other crypto. ETH and Doge are the only ones I've personally mined.
 
TheCuntler said:
I don't want to make money with it. I want to have something that is more stable and that I would and have used in real life. But the fees have probably been quite high.


No, my phone number, but it amounts to the same thing. I would prefer if I wouldn't have to, but it seems to have been mandated in the EU. As long as the government can't see what I'm doing with it, I don't really care.

What would be the best way to aquire Monero? If possible by cash?
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I use cake to buy directly from it and send it to my feather wallet

 
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I come again in a time of need. I, a retard, was trying to change the location of the blockchain on my computer, as it was automatically put on my C, where I only have 3 gigs left now. For context, I am using Monero GUI and have mostly used the simple mode. The data.mdb file is 11gb large, and I wanted to simply move it and select that path, following the tutorials that I have come across. Apparently this doesn't work and I have to be in advanced mode to do that. Ok, no problem, I switch to advanced mode, but I think I have to download the whole blockchain now, which is around 55gb (that's what the program predicted).
That's what I am doing now. I have two questions though.
Can I replace the newly created data.mdb file with the one I already have (11gb) and the download will just continue adding to that file?
Why is the download so abysmally slow?? I am downloading at maybe 50kb/s. I am assuming that that's not normal. Any way I can speed this up? I am not downloading to an SSD, but that still shouldn't be that slow. At least a couple of MB/s. On a speed test I get 40mb/s download speed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: I stand corrected, downloading it to an SSD is like 100x faster.
 
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I'm currently trying to pick a DeFi exchange/wallet so I can convert cryptos without paying my KYC exchange's fees beyond the initial fiat purchase and transfer out. I like this 'Atomic Swap' thing because it has the escrow function. But it looks like none of the DeFi people touch Monero. (The ones that do touch it appear to be floating face down in the water.)

I'm not hellbent on having Monero, but I was hoping to find a way to make it work. How do people even exchange it now without wearing trenchcoats and meeting in dark alleyways? Is it only the people who already have it, so they continue to trade with it to help obscure their actions?

Nvm another 2 minutes of lurking helped me. (kycnot.me)
 
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Haveno is gaining good liquidity, currently 3100xmr for sale on Haveno-reto right now.
740xmr sold yesterday
>https://haveno.markets for stats
>https://RetoSwap.com to use the market
haveno sales.png
 
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TwoToes said:
Haveno is gaining good liquidity, currently 3100xmr for sale on Haveno-reto right now.
740xmr sold yesterday
>https://haveno.markets for stats
>RetoSwap.com to use the market
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For anyone sceptic, I used it and works pretty well. The support is very nice as well. There aren't to many resources that guide you through the process, but if someone has questions, I might be able to help!
 
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You only have to pay taxes when you sell crypto for USD, right? Like if I had BTC on an exchange and sold it for an equivalent amount of XMR, that's not a taxable event, correct?
 
The Stranger said:
You only have to pay taxes when you sell crypto for USD, right? Like if I had BTC on an exchange and sold it for an equivalent amount of XMR, that's not a taxable event, correct?
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Its only taxable when you cash out AKA convert to USD or sell for USD. Basically when you buy at a low price and then cash out at a higher price (gains). Still wouldnt recommend paying taxes though for crypto.
 
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The Stranger said:
Not really an option unless you want to go through the hassle of selling it for cash on haveno or risk not claiming your gains as income and having the IRS come for you.
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As far as my dumbass can tell crypto tax is optional (or still in a grey area) depending on how much you make in gains. If you feel like filing then go for it but it just reenforces taxation on crypto.
 
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