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Console said:
On the April 11th, 2025 Mad at the Internet, in response to @Monero Extremist, @Null said someone sent him a way to buy Monero with a credit card without Know Your Customer, but he needed them to send it again. Did Josh ever get that? Or does anyone here know what method he's talking about?
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Hi,
Just like he asked I sent him the flowchart again, it's the one that I already posted in this thread and that I attached to this post.
In most jurisdictions it is legal to buy crypto (up to a certain amount) without additional KYC if you use a credit card, since the card itself is a partial KYC through your banking information.

There are plenty of websites that allow you to buy crypto by just entering your CC information, we ended up recommending CakeWallet in the flowchart since it aggregates a lot of those websites and shows you the ones that are available for the coin you want, the fiat you want to pay with, and the jurisdiction your IP is in.

Depending on where your IP is you can sometimes buy Monero directly, and if you can't because privacy coins aren't available where you are, the easiest way is to buy Litecoin and then swap it for Monero.
 

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Console said:
On the April 11th, 2025 Mad at the Internet, in response to @Monero Extremist, @Null said someone sent him a way to buy Monero with a credit card without Know Your Customer, but he needed them to send it again. Did Josh ever get that? Or does anyone here know what method he's talking about?

I have also seen that an exchange called Mt Pelerin seems to offer direct bank transfer purchases of other cryptocurrencies without KYC, but I haven't used it yet. Discovered it through Trocador, which the thread trusts from reading, and I think I've used to pay crypto invoices before. If there aren't other no-KYC options, is buying thought Mt Pelerin, then swapping for XMR a decent path?
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tl;dr: he says get Cakewallet, buy a crypto with cc, then exchange to monero.
 
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Just as any FYI to anyone thinking about mining using P2Pool, at the moment the mini pool (-mini on the command line) intended for small fry with less godly CPUs has been mogged by someone who apparently has unleashed a whole ass datacenter worth of CPU power (well over 100MH/s on their own) on the mini pool which is basically making it impossible to find shares, and thus get payouts, if you have less than a few hundred KH/s in mining power to throw around.

You seem to be better off on the regular pool at the moment despite that strictly speaking it should be harder for lower hashrate CPU miners to get shares there, though pickings are still slim.
 
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Just as any FYI to anyone thinking about mining using P2Pool, at the moment the mini pool (-mini on the command line) intended for small fry with less godly CPUs has been mogged by someone who apparently has unleashed a whole ass datacenter worth of CPU power (well over 100MH/s on their own) on the mini pool which is basically making it impossible to find shares, and thus get payouts, if you have less than a few hundred KH/s in mining power to throw around.

You seem to be better off on the regular pool at the moment despite that strictly speaking it should be harder for lower hashrate CPU miners to get shares there, though pickings are still slim.
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Pretty sure this is because Tari, the new project by Fluffypony (former main dev of Monero) has hit mainnet. And his new project merge mines with xmr via p2pool. They should have not made it mine on -mini
 
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TwoToes said:
Pretty sure this is because Tari, the new project by Fluffypony (former main dev of Monero) has hit mainnet. And his new project merge mines with xmr via p2pool. They should have not made it mine on -mini
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Interesting, it's gotten less ridiculous in the last day or so in that the top miner on mini is only 20MH/s now as opposed to a couple hundred so something is being corrected, the mini pool is slowly becoming minable again as a result.

The main pool's top miner appears to have gained a hundred or so MH/s in the meantime so that power seems to be gettng reallocated slowly but surely.

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I just found this post while looking into Tari:
which led to this:

"Nano sidechain for mini refugees"

 
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Is there any reason someone else can attribute to this surge? The FCMP upgrade ain't for what, over a year? Same thing with the euro ban. The only things I have noted out of the ordinary are random 1M market buy orders behind a couple of the spikes, no news, no nothing. An explosion in hash rate followed the price, checking the rental sites is enough proof of where it came from. And for the first time in years I'm seeing block backlogs for transaction on network. And the various XMR related ciruclar economy memes hasn't spiked, that I know of. Did I miss something?

I'm just angry I sold at $320, crash faster please.

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Pretty sure this is because Tari, the new project by Fluffypony (former main dev of Monero) has hit mainnet.
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I don't know how anyone even got that working, the main appimage just white screens and the CLI node spams so many errors it OOMs, so I gave up. Both already issues on the github before I even started.
 
Nooo don't drop yet, it's taking forever to synchronize my wallet, I have just enough for T&H!

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It was quite close to $400, still in reach.
 
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Is there any reason someone else can attribute to this surge? The FCMP upgrade ain't for what, over a year?
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I've seen some chatter around that a Chinese darkweb market that was using BTC and other crypto went down and now tons of Chinese people have been moving to xmr to do their dealings. How true this is who knows, but it would make sense for a coin that grew in the first place due to online marketplaces using it.
 
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I'm fearful for when this slams back down to normal price it is going to be a stain on its reputation.
At least I know there aren't many Indians smart enough to have bought any XMR to possibly make money on this.
 
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I've seen some chatter around that a Chinese darkweb market that was using BTC and other crypto went down and now tons of Chinese people have been moving to xmr to do their dealings. How true this is who knows, but it would make sense for a coin that grew in the first place due to online marketplaces using it.
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Four things from what I can gather:

1) The heavier (sentence) enforcement of the relatively new "Privacy Data law of the PRC". 3 year minimum laogai (work camp) for unauthorized distribution of Personally identifiable info.
2) MSS (Ministry of State Security, think NSA, FBI, CIA in one) is cracking down on bitcoin by busting the rings and rubberhose cryptoanlsysing people until they give keys up after 3) happenend
3) A floating rumor (I can't go too in depth) that the new AI model for surveilling the "dark net" and managed to penetrate the (invite) major crypto exchange tg groups
4) I think Temu's parrent company (PDD) got busted for their cybersec guys pulling black hat stuff on the side and fucked around with JD (Chinese amazon), and found out by gettingtheir asses handed to them publicly by JD. They were in botting everything online from routers to phones via an RCE on the JD offical app (Everyone does this there, it's just PDD got caught using someone else's app lmao).
 
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Just as an update, the Nano pool works fine though actually finding blocks is on the difficult side since everyone that migrated there is low hashrate shitters, and not all the low hashrate shitters migrated because most of Mini probably doesn't realize Nano exists so there's still less than 400 known miners and aggregate computing power is on the low side.

Mini pool got shit on again a day or so ago but has died down since, hopefully the Tari related shenanigans stop soon...
 
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gagabobo1997 said:
i fucking sold all my XMR i had fucking 36 of them that would be like 14 thousand dollars now im going to kill myself
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If it makes you feel any better, I gambled away enough btc on digital roulette back in 2010 to have retired as a millionaire by now, so I completely understand the urge.
 
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The merge mining with Tari must be super popular.
Monero Ocean mining pool is pumping out big payouts lately for Monero.
They tweet daily about payouts


Before the merge mine they were paying out ~15-25XMR and now its pushing high double digits to triple digit numbers!
May 28: 292.61 XMR was paid to 2152 miners
May 29: 266.71 XMR was paid to 1920 miners
May 30: 412.94 XMR was paid to 2174 miners
May 31: 96.97 XMR was paid to 812 miners
June 1: 84.00 XMR was paid to 872 miners

Miner count severely drops when xmr dipped back under $400
 
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