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Nov 21 2022 12:26am
https://allark.io/ now allows to cash out XMR through cash by mail in US, Canada, UK, Australia, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain for a 3.9% fee:
https://libreddit.de/r/Monero/comments/z0m83y/allark_introduces_cash_by_mail_to_us_uk_oz_and_eu/


On a sidenote, the current 1 year Monero to Bitcoin ratio been growing organically and doubled in a 1 year span:

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Nov 21 2022 04:47am
Only 3.9% fee ? gonna xfer all my crypto into XMR right NOW
nvm : https://bitrefill.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4911057083026-Is-there-a-fee-for-Bill-Pay-

This post was edited by Melatonina on Nov 21 2022 05:12am
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Quote (Melatonina @ Nov 21 2022 10:47am)
Only 3.9% fee ? gonna xfer all my crypto into XMR right NOW
nvm : https://bitrefill.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4911057083026-Is-there-a-fee-for-Bill-Pay-


damn that's pretty nice, didnt even know about it lol, unfortunately only a US thing tho...
anyways, would still choose to keep the funds on XMR through self custody and just use one of those swap exchanges through trocador with the "fixed" option if needing to do a payment on bitrefill

the 3.9% fee to cash by mail is still decent imo, comparing to premium price on localmonero or cex fee or whatever
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Dec 8 2022 03:55pm
https://silent.link
is now accepting Monero to purchase of anonymous eSim

homepage not updated just yet, but is now the only other coin showing alongside of bitcoin/lightning when clicking "Pay with bitcoin" then selecting Monero from the payment menu

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Dec 18 2022 02:35pm
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Quote (derpykitty @ Sep 1 2022 01:15am)

#################
#WHERE TO USE MONERO
#################


Cake Pay is now global:

https://teddit.net/r/Monero/comments/zp2kvv/cake_pay_expands_to_140_countries_and_adds/

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Cake Labs is extremely excited to announce a large expansion of Cake Pay worldwide to make living off Monero simple and easy!

This expansion includes prepaid cards and additional popular gift card brands. Living off Monero has never been easier!

Cake Pay is now global

Cake Pay Web (https://buy.cakepay.com/) is now available in over 140 countries!

Prepaid cards features

  • Denominated in USD, CAD, EUR, GBP, and INR.
  • Available in over 140 countries.
  • Up to $1000 per card with quick virtual delivery.
  • Get a physical card shipped to most locations for $3.
  • Sold at face value.


Please note that USA customers will need to use both Cake Pay Mobile and Cake Pay Web. We recommend that USA users check Mobile first to see if there is a discount, and then check Cake Pay Web.

You may notice a large difference in the amount of XMR you need to pay for a $1000 invoice compared to another provider 😜 https://i.imgur.com/RQnZYoI.png

Cake Pay Mobile merchants will remain discounted 1-2% for most merchants. USA customers will need to use both Cake Pay Mobile and Web for now.

Worldwide gift cards and wider USA gift card catalog

Login to see see all the brands! Check out our website to see how many additional brands are included in Cake Pay. These include everyone's favorite online stores, popular grocery stores, and department stores!

Update Cake Wallet for easy integration

Cake Wallet now supports URIs, which makes paying invoices even easier. Of course, you can purchase cards with any Monero or Bitcoin wallet to pay.

We will work over the coming months to bring the merchants that are available in Cake Pay Web to Cake Pay Mobile.

Have a request? We'll get on it!

With this expansion, the most requested merchants have been added. If you want another merchant, let us know, and we'll try to add it!

The caveats

The activation process for prepaid cards requires you to visit another website and provide some name and some address, even for digital cards. This is clearly non-ideal, but it's the only way we can offer this right now. As we incorporate prepaid cards into the Cake Wallet app, we will concurrently work on a better activation process.

As always, we love your feedback, bug reports, etc.

Visit https://buy.cakepay.com today!

We believe in the power of cryptocurrency payments. Thanks for using Cake Pay to help change the world!
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Dec 18 2022 03:43pm
can't edit OP anymore but here's updated:


Quote (derpykitty @ Sep 1 2022 01:15am)




DO NOT USE CLOSED SOURCE WALLETS such as exodus, as software that are not open source can do shady things in the background without anyone knowing about it
DO NOT KEEP FUNDS IN EXCHANGES:
If you dont have your keys then it's not your coins, coins that are stored on exchanges do not belong to you since those exchanges dont share the private keys/mnemonic seed with you, you might not have heard of Mt. Gox yet but every centralized exchanges can do exactly that at any point in time
Instead, you can make a paper wallet, for example with the offline paper wallet generator by opening the `.html` file in an offline browser and writing down the 25 words mnemonic seed to backup your keys

###########################
# HOW TO RESTORE WALLET FROM SEED:
###########################

with the official monero CLI for example, it would be with the `--restore-deterministic-wallet` parameter while launching `monero-wallet-cli` (`monerod` also has to be opened and synced up at the same time, instructions on how to sync the blockchain are below)

so if on linux:
Code
./monero-wallet-cli --restore-deterministic-wallet

then paste the 25 words mnemonic seed when prompted

if on windows:
right click in the same folder the `monero-wallet-cli.exe` is, create a new file with the extension `.bat` (can be .txt document then renaming the extension to change it to .bat, however windows doesnt show extensions by default anymore so make sure it's enabled)
open that newly created `.bat` file in text editor like notpad and edit it's content with:
Code
monero-wallet-cli.exe --restore-deterministic-wallet

save it, double click it and paste the 25 words mnemonic seed when prompted to restore your wallet from seed


###################
# SYNCING THE BLOCKCHAIN:
###################

It is also good practice to be your own node and having locally the blockchain data rather than relying one someone else's node
Currently the Monero's blockchain is about 150 GB which in comparaison Bitcoin's blockchain currently is about 500 GB and Ethereum about 900 GB (full Etereum archive node is few Tera Bytes)
If you do not have the storage space (150 GB), you could just run the official monero GUI in "simple mode" and it'll automatically connect to a remote node (which may or may not be trusted, same way as with bitcoin when using wallets such as electrum and such that do not require you to have the full blockchain data stored)

When launching the daemon `monerod` it'll by default sync the blockchain in the folder `~/.bitmonero` if on linux or %APPDATA% if on windows, to manually change the path to where you might have enough space would be with the `--data-dir` parameter
So same instructions as above for restoring from seed, if for example you want the blockchain to be stored on the "F:\" drive instead of the default C:\, that would be something like:
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monerod.exe --data-dir F:\Cryptocoins\Monero\BlockchainData

some more parameters options can be found at: https://monerodocs.org/interacting/monerod-reference/

It's worth noting that, syncing on an SSD usually takes about 12 hours (assuming there is no bottlenecking on internet connection, cpu and such)
Or could be few days if on an HDD, so if you really want it to be on an HDD instead, it's still better to sync in it up on SSD first then manually moving it to HDD only after it's already fully synced up


###################
#HOW TO USE MONERO-CLI
###################

By typing `help` in both `monerod.exe` and `monero-wallet-cli.exe` you'll find an exhaustive list of commands you can do, they both have their own list of commands
so for example, to send monero to someone, while both `monerod` and `monero-wallet-cli` are opened and fully synced up, typing the command in the `monero-wallet-cli "transfer ADDRESS AMOUNT" so like:

Code
transfer 42oK1ttyF1nMK5T8u8RXmabV3wu48jrKh17k8XHANnwzLjoY5EsriXJNPLWDbQTNGUbUJETcJYxXT7uVqNtJs12sTqdwzCd 4.20

would be sending 4.20 to that address or "sweep_all" would be to send everything at once without having to specify the amount so like:

Code
sweep_all 42oK1ttyF1nMK5T8u8RXmabV3wu48jrKh17k8XHANnwzLjoY5EsriXJNPLWDbQTNGUbUJETcJYxXT7uVqNtJs12sTqdwzCd

sidenote: addresses that starts with a "4" are main address, only 1 per wallet, addresses that starts with an "8" are subaddresses which you can have as many as you want per wallet

###################################
# WHAT IS MONERO AND WHAT IS IT AIMING AT TO BE
###################################

You might have heard about "NFTs", well, Monero is the complete opposite of that as it's aiming to be fully fungible, same way as cash is
It's widely known nowadays that 1 BTC != 1 BTC due to it's lack of fungibility, every bitcoin has an history and can be refused, blocked or even censored at the protocol level (BIP 119 was the proposal that would allow to censor bitcoin at the protocol level)
Monero fixes that due to it's privacy nature, 1 XMR = 1 XMR, same way as a banknote would be accepted by merchants like any other banknotes without discrimination from their potential hiistory

It's also aiming at being fully decentralized and not controlled by corporations, ASIC manufacturers and such
It's mining algorithm allows it to be mined by most people using general purpose hardware they already have, unlike bitcoin which is centralized through specialized hardware
So by being on CPU, it allows anyone with a desktop, laptop, phone, single board computer (raspberry pi, odroid...) to support the network
Back in 2020 when china banned mining, we could see on the graphs that all the cryptocurrency mining power went down, except monero that kept going up at the time due to it's actual decentralized nature unlike bitcoin

It is very cheap to transact, can literally buy your daily coffee with it for only half a cent in fees that are going back to miners
Unlike bitcoin which is extremely expensive (few dollars) to send a single transaction
(Which, bitcoin is trying to solve their issues by adopting "layer 2 solutions" (such as segwit back in 2017 and now Lightning Network that are meant to take the fees offchain), issue with those solutions is that, the fees that were meant to be mined by miners are now being taken offchain so that removes the incentive for miners to keep supporting the network when the block reward will be getting lower after few more halving and will eventually lead to layer 1 network security issues in few years, hence why bitcoin solutions to bitcoin are creating more issues than they solving and the reason why Monero already solves those straight up from layer 1 through the "tail emission" with that constant 0.6 block reward + network fees)

#################
#WHERE TO USE MONERO
#################

  • https://shopinbit.com
    in europe: have computers, computer parts, laptops, phones, general electronic, bikes, electric bikes, sports/workout thingies and recently added a lineup for self care and such
    they dont even requires a customer account (can still make one if you need package tracking but works well without), also have the "concierge service" which is basically personal shopper, can send them a link from anything like amazon or whatever, pay them in monero and they'll do the purchase for you

  • https://coincards.com
    USA/Canada giftcards/coupons for like amazon, some food/groceries and such (they released their numbers few months ago that monero got ahead of bitcoin from their userbase in USA)

  • CAKEPAY from their cake mobile wallets: https://cakewallet.com and https://monero.com (they're the same wallet, only difference is that the cake one is multi currency)
    here's a youtube video of techlore using it: https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=gFIg2ycs5-s
    Now available globally, more info on that reddit thread: https://teddit.net/r/Monero/comments/zp2kvv/cake_pay_expands_to_140_countries_and_adds/

  • https://bitrefill.com
    worldwide: similar to coincards so like, giftcards/coupons for like amazon, local food/groceries stores (also things like just-eat and such), ikea, some clothings or whatever, phones top-up, thingies for video games so like blizzard, steam, riot games balance etc
    actually bought my D2 and D2R copies thanks to that one :3
    unfortunately they dont accept monero just yet (even tho their CEO did an interview on their youtube channel few months ago: https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=ZZekMo4mCg4 saying that there is only 2 real coins out there which are bitcoin and monero)
    so maybe soon, in the meantime, can use https://trocador.app with the "Payment" option to pay them by sending monero and it'll automatically do the conversion to send them any other cryptocoin they may accept without registration required

  • https://travala.com
    hotels, flights around the world, they been accepting monero for few years now

  • https://moneromarket.io
    like ebay with monero

  • https://allark.io
    giftcards and options to cash out through sepa, paypal, cash by mail [...]

  • https://silent.link and https://simxl.com
    eSims providers

  • https://kycnot.me/services
    lists a few services that also accepts monero such as vpn, vps providers, personnal shoppers and such
  • Some more lists can be found over: https://www.getmonero.org/community/merchants/ and https://acceptedhere.io/


#####################
# HOW TO ACQUIRE MONERO:
#####################

If you dont already have any other cryptocoins:

  • Mining
    https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig is the software that can mine, there is a bunch of people mining on the network so you might not get much, maybe just to cover the electricity costs, so like, could just run some mining in winter to have free heating (at electricity cost basically)

  • https://localmonero.co
    local sellers/buyers of monero, prefered option with less tracking and avoiding kyc would be with "cash by mail", "cash locally" or also "cash by ATM" which is giving an ATM code to the seller so they could withdraw cash directly from an ATM with it

  • https://haveno.exchange (WIP)
    currently not out yet, HavenoDEX (https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno) will be same principle as localmonero but as an actual decentralized exchange, it's a fork of https://bisq.network but based on monero instead of bitcoin, and also has an other fork of it being worked on (Penumbra: https://github.com/l0nelyc0w/Penumbra)

  • https://kraken.com
    centralized KYC'd exchanges are to be avoided but if it's your only option (which it shouldnt) then could use it if kraken is available in your country, there's also binance in europe that has xmr, still, centralized exchanges (especially binance are to be avoided)

If you already have other cryptocoins such as bitcoin:



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# ADDITIONAL LINKS
##############

Why KYC is actually dangerous, is putting people at risk and should be avoided:
https://bitcoinqna.github.io/noKYConly/
https://agorism.blog/anarkio/why-the-states-monopoly-on-identity-is-more-dangerous-than-google-facebook
https://agorism.blog/anarkio/the-rarely-discussed-dangers-of-kyc-and-what-you-can-do-about-it

Overall good practice to adopt:
https://blog.keys.casa/how-to-protect-your-bitcoin-from-5-wrench-attacks/

Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard, why bitcoin doesnt work as a currency and how it keeps failing over and over again:
https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/fungibility-graveyard/

cipherpunk and crypto-anarchist manifestos:
https://activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
https://activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html

monero charts and metrics:
https://moneroj.net/coincards

monero news, what's new and what's what:
https://monero.observer

monero community crowdfunding system (CCS):
https://ccs.getmonero.org
to help you fund your projects related to monero
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Jan 8 2023 02:49am
Having a paypal account is no longer required to pay paypal invoces
Global Paypal Invoice Payments for XMR now available with https://allark.io


https://libreddit.de/r/Monero/comments/106cv1s/allark_adds_global_invoice_payments_via_paypal/
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Jan 24 2023 12:43am
https://www.themoneromoon.com/p/the-monero-moon-issue-61

In the past 24 hours, there have been 11k+ Monero nodes observed on the network worldwide. To add context, Ethereum also has approximately 11k active node: https://etherscan.io/nodetracker

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Mar 8 2023 11:27am
Cake Wallet: https://cakewallet.com integrated https://trocador.app to their mobile wallet so can exchange those coins directly within the app:

Code
https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/11l8cie/updates_cake_wallet_460_and_monerocom_130_tor/

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https://www.reddit.com/link/11l8cie/video/0r2icfgt9dma1/player

Big news Cake Wallet users!

As a privacy first wallet we are excited to announce Tor-only fiat API & exchange options are now available! When exchange & fiat API are set to Tor only, and a user is using a Tor node, then the wallet software will explicitly disallow clearnet connections for those, preventing accidental privacy leaks.

We've added Trocador to the exchange! Trocador is an exchange aggregator and one of the hottest new ways to trade XMR. We're adding Trocador AnonPay in a future update, so stay tuned for that as well!

Additionally you can now send and receive coins via Twitter using Bird Pay addresses in Tweets and Bios! Bird Pay (https://guides.cakewallet.com/docs/advanced-features/special-address-services/#twitter-bird-pay) looks for a Bitcoin, Monero, and/or Litecoin address in someone's Twitter bio or pinned tweet. It looks up this info if a user types @username in the send screen. It only pulls in the address for the relevant asset and this update adds the pinned tweet as an option.

Stay Safe!

Changelog

  • Add Tor-only fiat API and exchange options.
  • Add Trocador.
  • Bird Pay Address lookups from Pinned Tweet (in addition to bio).
  • Added Indonesian, Czech, Urdu, and Bulgarian translations.
  • Enhanced and reduced error reports.
  • Fix Haven sync for Android only (not iOS yet).
  • Add confirmations to Monero/Haven transaction view.
  • Bug fixes.

Cake Wallet (multi-coin wallet)

Apple iOS: https://cakewallet.com/ios
Google Play: https://cakewallet.com/gp
Android APK: https://cakewallet.com/apk

Monero.com by Cake Wallet (Monero-only wallet)

Apple iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1601990386
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.monero.app
Android APK: https://cakewallet.com/apk


Cake Wallet is also now in beta for desktops:

Code
https://libreddit.de/r/Monero/comments/11b4f3f/cake_wallet_arrives_on_desktop_beta_release_for/

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