• shortwavesurfer
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    8 个月前

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

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      8 个月前

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

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    8 个月前

    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.

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    8 个月前

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

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      8 个月前

      As it currently stands, I suspect Haveno will be in the same situation as LM, legally.

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        8 个月前

        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.

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            8 个月前

            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.

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    8 个月前

    Did not see that coming. Wish they would stick around until the DEX’s are fully mature.

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      8 个月前

      It was an inevitability, however I thought tradeogre would get disappeared first.

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        8 个月前

        I really hope they publish the source so someone can open up a similar service on tor and i2p.

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    8 个月前

    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.

      • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works
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        8 个月前

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

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            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.

            • 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.)

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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

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    8 个月前

    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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      8 个月前

      These clowns do not know what crypto is, they are puppets put in place to protect the banker monopoly.

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    8 个月前

    We are lucky we have Haveno and other DEX. The war is getting tougher.

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        8 个月前

        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)

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

            I’ll checkout Haveno!