goatmeal 4d ago • 100%
reminds me of when bitcoin people used to say "nobody ever got prosecuted via blockchain analysis" and they wouldn't stop saying that until it happened. they sometimes learn through experience but that's about it.
goatmeal 2w ago • 100%
I am actually going to end up using bisq2 to buy bitcoin via a reputation-based interaction, turn it into some monero on probably bisq1, and then use the monero to start interacting with haveno. it's way too many steps and fees but it saves me from ever doing any KYC.
goatmeal 2w ago • 100%
a reputation-based trade should still happen inside the DEX. that way the trade can contribute to the seller's reputation score. bypassing it with a simplex contact would not let the DEX see that a trade actually happened.
I am looking at haveno-reto and it has the exact same problem I had with bisq. in order to buy monero on haveno, you have to already have some monero, so you can do a security deposit. so haveno helps to reduce the number of times you have to interact with a CEX or KYC yourself, but it doesn't completely eliminate it. you may still have to do it at least once, like buying some litecoin on a CEX and changing it to some monero. I'd rather start clean with no KYC and it's very important to me. what I am still trying to wrap my head around is, on localmonero and even localbitcoins it was possible for a person to buy coins without already having any. there were always some sellers who would let you send maybe a couple hundred bux even if you had no account history or anything, and there was never a deposit or collateral. they would still send you coins in return as long as they got the cash. someone told me that bisq and haveno can't have this because then people will just initiate orders they have no desire to fulfill, as a form of spam attack that locks the seller's coins for a time, and that this is insurmountable without making the security deposit mandatory. but if localbitcoins and localmonero ran fine for years without this being a breaking problem, why isn't it possible on bisq and haveno? and why can't there be some other way to prevent spam like forcing the user to submit shares to a mining pool to prove that they are earnest? proof of work was invented to prevent spam.
goatmeal 5mo ago • 100%
can't there just be an option to do smaller trades with no deposit if anyone is willing to accept the risk
goatmeal 5mo ago • 100%
not good that a security deposit is required. this means you can't start with zero XMR. it was possible to purchase XMR on localmonero without already having any.
goatmeal 5mo ago • 100%
have you tried doing it on whonix
goatmeal 5mo ago • 100%
when we try to build our own financial system this makes certain kinds of ordinary people really mad for a lot of dumb reasons. they haven't been told that they are allowed to think it's cool yet
goatmeal 5mo ago • 100%
terra required too much manual intervention and also aimed to maintain a USD peg. RAI and pureDAI aren't supposed to be like that. so I wouldn't be so pessimistic. I think there is still a way to do it.
goatmeal 5mo ago • 100%
when are you going to set up a website on tor or i2p so I can download the binaries from there
goatmeal 5mo ago • 100%
can you write a cash in mail tutorial
goatmeal 5mo ago • 100%
is it normal for it to never stop having the yellow indicator
goatmeal 5mo ago • 100%
please consider making this available on tor/i2p in addition to clearnet github
goatmeal 1y ago • 100%
I've been on the microblogging part of the fediverse for a while. what I've seen is, at some point someone's going to have to rip the bandaid off and instances like lemmy.ml need to defederate from instances like monero.town. they can't coexist with anyone who doesn't think the way they do. at some point soon, they won't be able to talk to you and you won't be able to talk to them. it's meant to be.
goatmeal 1y ago • 100%
I always thought that these problems are unsolvable with link aggregators that have a voting system and traditional forums are just better in so many ways
goatmeal 1y ago • 100%
welcome to the fediverse enjoy your new redditors
goatmeal 1y ago • 100%
a huge chunk of any userbase will never care about opsec until bad things start happening all the time
goatmeal 1y ago • 100%
I don't like pinko terms like surveillance capitalism. it implies that mass surveillance is somehow worse when it's private firms doing it, and that the solution is to do away with private firms. as if socialism ever saved anyone from mass surveillance. this is complete nonsense.
goatmeal 1y ago • 100%
it's been done with bitcoin. I'm talking about renbtc. something for monero will come eventually.
goatmeal 1y ago • 100%
I have a peertube instance. I can't get anyone to really care outside of the fediverse. I think peertube has a big chance to come out on top if so many new people are trying out the fediverse for the first time. getting everything to integrate properly would be a godsend.