Does anyone know an unfreezable stablecoin that is the least at risk of becomming another TerraLuna? I love Monero but its too volatile to keep 100% of my life savings in an unfreezable stablecoin is CRUCIAL. This is such horrible news. Fuck Rune Christiansen for this shit!!

Is Capital Flight into Monero Inevitable? W/ Cryptocomicon (MT 311)

TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman catches up with Cryptocomicon, a software developer who first appeared on Monero Talk in 2022.

The conversation revolves around Bitcoin and its scaling challenges, the emergence of Monero, and the impacts of these developments on the existing financial system. Hear about how Monero serves as a decentralized, private, and fungible alternative to traditional finance, facilitating peer-to-peer transactions without intermediaries.

They also explore the idea of capital flight into Monero as a means of wealth preservation amidst coming financial turmoil and government crackdowns.

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In this tutorial we're going to cover how the Haveno DEX handles trade disputes, which can happen as, after all it's decentralised, and anonymous by default.

https://blog.nihilism.network/servers/haveno-arbitrator/index.html

feel free to let me know if i should improve something in this one :)

New iOS update is resurfacing deleted files that users thought were gone.

In some cases, nude photos, even after the user WIPED it and SOLD the device.

Highlighting the danger of using Monero on iPhones and Macs, https://rebelnet.me/news/0xa6f1ae72427b2f1120

So if you haven’t already, consider switching to Linux and DeGoogled phone.

First step:

BACK UP your haveno wallet seedphrase

Afterwards you can install the update by running the installers from this page (click on the most recent workflow run and scroll down) again or compile it yourself via the repo. Unlike last time, there is no need to wipe any data beforehand.

You can make a manual backup by copying your haveno-reto app directory somewhere safe. You should be able to find it here:

-Linux: ~/.local/share/Haveno-reto/

-macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Haveno-reto/

-Windows: ~\AppData\Roaming\Haveno-reto\

Changes:

• Update Tor by @preland
• Fix the backup function.
• Fix incorrect translations in withdraw screen.
• Fix incorrect amounts and error in order statistics view.
• Deduplicate trade history view.
• Reset state if main wallet is swapped.
• Remove excessive warnings in main wallet polling.

I can't vouch for it, but I have some listings up on tim to try it out. The dev is responsive. Don't want to post the link here but I have a simplex group if anyone wants to discuss, message me.

Release notes:

• Added Bitcoin Frost multisig
• Added Bitcoin taproot support
• Updated Flutter version (1.3.19)
• Finished networking overhaul (it all works now!)
• Added Solana
• Added Peercoin
• Added Tor support for Tezos, Stellar, and Solana
• Lots of Firo fixes and optimizations
• Switched calendar picker library (looks much better)
• Performance updates
• Bug fixes
• QoL additions
• Fixed Ethereum tokens not showing correctly

Also noted in another tweet: >Stack Duo update should be out before the month is up with FROST. Duo is just BTC and XMR.

Hello fellow Monero users,

Before LocalMonero had shut down, I was an active vendor in selling Monero for fiat to help onramp many people. Now that it is gone, I was wondering if are there any good alternatives for selling Monero.

Thanks!

They even included a quote from a redditer that I thought wouldn't be included.

> Feds really must hate monero. Guess it’s a proof to keep using it

In this tutorial I cover how to do a Fiat to Monero trade from the brand new (and long awaited!) Haveno Decentralised Exchange, using the Face-to-Face (F2F) payment method.

using the Haveno Reto Network, feel free to drop in some feedback if you think i can improve that tutorial :) https://blog.nihilism.network/servers/haveno-client-f2f/index.html

The network is live and we have already seen some successful trades!

We have just updated to Haveno version 1.0.4 and this includes some changes to the default application folder so we ask you to please

BACK UP your haveno wallet seedphrase

afterwards uninstall Haveno and clear your Haveno app directory located at:

-Linux: ~/.local/share/Haveno/

-macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Haveno/

-Windows: ~\AppData\Roaming\Haveno\

Afterwards you can install Haveno again via the installers on this page (click on the most recent workflow run and scroll down) or compile it yourself via the repo.

This wipes existing offers and trade history. Impact on users should be minimal since this happened before many trades occurred. We don't expect this to happen again in the future.

At least 2 separate Haveno networks have launched as of today. One is called Reto and the other is called HardenedSteel. Those are the only ones I'm aware of right now, and things are happening pretty fast.

The haveno software was designed with the assumption that only a single network would be operated. People could fork it and run their own networks, but they wouldn't interact directly at all. But it looks to me as of this moment this is not how it is going to play out.

The client has the network info hard coded. So to use more than one, you need two copies of the client. This means that for most people they have to pick one. And, users might not understand this, just google "haveno" and pull the first git repo they see. This has significant, fast moving and quickly ossifying network effects with big repercussions.

We need to be very vigilant right now, as we are about to witness the very swift rise of a major power broker in our community. We don't want to start using a Haveno network run by scammers or authoritarians. Each network is it's arbitrators, and soon, the merchants on each one.

I think it's probably a good idea to figure out a way to connect to multiple networks, and to show listings with details about which network/arbitrator set a user is trusting when taking up a listing.

I'm cautiously optimistic, Monero has gotten rid of powerful people without a hitch before. But it is a bigger community now and that will be much harder to do. If we are vigilant during this time and we get through this successfully I think we become unbeatable, but the road directly ahead of us is treacherous, the next few days are going to move very fast.

In the last couple of hours we have laid out the groundwork for the very first live instance of Haveno called Reto.

We have set up multiple seednodes and have trusted arbitrators.

We expect to be able to provide simple instructions on how to join Reto within the next 24 hours, after which we will hopefully see the first trades happen!

Join our SimpleX group to stay updated:

https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-4&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FSkIkI6EPd2D63F4xFKfHk7I1UGZVNn6k1QWZ5rcyr6w%3D%40smp9.simplex.im%2FMplYm7uxopKyUOrKqnWySpXQIGxoJWYB%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAs8PcRwnf_-H30yXfwV0MSbka9I_xBeVNr4vKJNoReBw%253D%26srv%3Djssqzccmrcws6bhmn77vgmhfjmhwlyr3u7puw4erkyoosywgl67slqqd.onion&data=%7B%22type%22%3A%22group%22%2C%22groupLinkId%22%3A%22YT2t__GnjpZ1W2MjJAz6Sw%3D%3D%22%7D

See you soon on Reto!

The easiest way to get going is with the pre-build installers found when on this page (click on the most recent workflow run and scroll down).

Alternatively you can clone the repo here.

Reto has a total trade fee of 0.6% (0.1% taker, 0.5% maker) which goes to arbitrators in it's entirety, there is no direct network fee.

Join the Reto SimpleX Group to stay up-to-date!

Note:

If you previously installed Haveno, first clear your Haveno app directory to reset things, located at:

-Linux: ~/.local/share/Haveno/

-macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Haveno/

-Windows: ~\AppData\Roaming\Haveno\

Hello,

For background please check these posts: https://monero.town/post/2748829 https://monero.town/post/2818104 https://monero.town/post/2983582

Now we decided to remove fees in bets to see if it helps increasing adoption.

So far the biggest challenge has been for users to coordinate among themselves to create bets and the respective automatic multsig-wallet generation.

We changed the time window from 6 hours before event start to 1 hour. We saw some more bets taking place as a result, but because we have so few users right now, chances of bet offers being spotted and accepted by other users have been low.

On the bright side we see that the typical odds being offered tend to be 10 to 15% better that what you typically find in sports betting websites. That should not be a huge surprise since there is no "house" taking a huge spread in each bet, so all the bets tend to be fair bets. One more benefit of disintermediation.

We have also added a donation url for anyone that would like to support.

Costs so far are low but we are not Wikipedia, so any small tip helps :)

https://sigmanero.org/donation

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Thanks!

It looks like some plans changed at the 11th hour. People on r/monero were saying that in the current climate, the seed nodes would be shut down and the Haveno Council members arrested.

So instead, it looks like the devs are just releasing the software, and there are to be multiple competing instances of Haveno. Anybody can create a Haveno mainnet, they are responsible for finding hosting, appointing arbitrators, setting maker/taker fees, and staying anonymous. The seed nodes are hidden behind Tor hidden services. If one instance gets shut down, several more can immediately start up. The Haveno and Monero developers avoid being operators or taking fees, which makes it more difficult to lawfare them.

Hello Monero Town,

I wanted to thank you for all the feedback you gave us when we initially proposed our project to you. We went back to the drawing board and reworked a few things. Notably, as you can see, a new website, and more communications. We’re still working on the design, but it’s getting there.

We also integrated another payment method with a friendly ecosystem, but we still are, and will always be, preferring Monero to be used. We stand by privacy.

If you would be so kind to have a look and let us know your thoughts, if you feel like you’d use the VPN service, why/why not, and any tips on improving our project would be greatly appreciated.

https://ariavpn.net/

Best, J

It seems that Monero's Dynamic Block Size technology ( https://localmonero.co/knowledge/dynamic-block-size ). It's called Adjustable Blocksize Limit Algorithm ( https://odysee.com/@BitcoinCashPodcast:2/ABLA_Explainer:2 ) and works on a slightly different algorithm, but it's the same essential technology. The reason it's good news is that it shows that Monero was on the right track (the blocksize wars were pointless) and the competing algorithm allows for both blockchains to test out and optimise future versions of the Dynamic Block Size technology.

"Missed Monerotopia Episode (#165)? Check out the Price, News & Guests Segment Reports here!

Price Report:

Youtube: https://youtu.be/ZM2F9T6uGDA

ODYSEE: https://odysee.com/@MoneroTalk:8/macro-signals-in-conflict-05-11-24:1

News Segment:

Youtube: https://youtu.be/xpDFRb863aQ

ODYSEE: https://odysee.com/@MoneroTalk:8/localmonero-shutting-down%2C-trump-on:5

Guests Segment:

Youtube: https://youtu.be/-CbPRCW3GYc

ODYSEE: https://odysee.com/@MoneroTalk:8/monero-outreach-lnc-2024-enemies-of-2:7

I have made a CCS Proposal for a peer-to-peer trading room on Matrix.

• No trade fees
• No listing fees
• Accessible from web, mobile and desktop
• Accessible over Tor and clear-net
• Supports all currencies

In summary it will be an easy way for people to buy and sell Monero for fiat peer-to-peer with no KYC and no fees.

It will compliment users that want to use Haveno but do not have any Monero for the security deposit as it will be a way for them to obtain Monero easily.

It will also be useful for those wanting to trade Monero for no fees.

Tari XTM is the new PoW asics-resistant Privacy coin by Fluffypony. This is the link for the Airdrop game. Live since May 14, 2024.

Merge-Mining XMR has already been implemented. All you have to do is enter your Monero address with the miner.

cross-posted from: https://monero.town/post/3124759

> Good enough for North Korea...

Privacy is Pro-National Security w/ J.W. Verret (MT 310)

TODAY'S 🎙SHOW:Douglas Tuman interviews J.W. Verret, a practicing lawyer and law professor at George Mason University.

J.W. discusses his role as an expert witness in the Roman Sterlingov trial, where he argued that Sterlingov could not have allegedly ran Bitcoin Fog. J.W. and Doug also talk about the implications of the government's recent overreach related to privacy and cryptocurrency technology by exploring the indictments against Tornado Cash and Samurai Wallet.

Hear about who in the US Congress are allies in the movement to normalize privacy and the potential hope Monero provides to resist increasing government infringement on privacy.

Watch Here (YouTube) ➡️ https://youtu.be/ZLJMyQ9dcOI Watch Here (Odysee) ➡️ https://odysee.com/@MoneroTalk:8/privacy-is-pro-national-security-w-j.w.:e Listen Here 🎧: https://www.monerotalk.live/privacy-is-pro-national-security-j-w-verret-310

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Bitcoin Number-Go-Up Degenerates are like Gun Owners who support a law banning the sale of new semi-automatics if it would make the semi-autos they currently own more valuable.

Monero Wallet built into Signal, using the Molly fork. https://rebelnet.me/news/30c9be88e2d4748825a2

Hello frens! We have a lot of news so we'll be breaking this post up into sections.

🧡 OrangeFren Forum

We're excited to announce the launch of the 🧡 OrangeFren Forum 🥳. A new bulletin board style forum for the cypherpunks in Bitcoin and Monero.

The forum already has threads by:

• WizardSwap instant exchange
• Liberation.travel geographical arbitrage travel agency
• Stealths.net no KYC prepaid card provider
• kycnot.me OG directory of no KYC exchanges & services
• Cryptosteel manufacturer of metal mnemonic backup solutions

The last ones even offer a 5% discount on order made by OrangeFren Forum users 🏷️

If you run a service that caters to the cypherpunk community, or are looking for a forum for persistent, long, discussion then join the OrangeFren Forum 😎

🎟️ MoneroKon ticket giveway

Thanks to eXch we'll be giving away 4 MoneroKon tickets for 🆓FREE🆓

To be added to the giveaway, just leave a comment in this thread on the OrangeFren Forum

The winners will be selected on Monday the 13th of May at 4:00 PM UTC

🇨🇭🇮🇹 Lugano meetup sponsored by eXch

Thanks to eXch.cx (Tor) OrangeFren.com is organising a meet-up in Lugano, Switzerland 🇨🇭, in two weeks on Sunday the 26th of May.

Where? Impact Hub Ticino, Via Antonio Ciseri 3, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland 🇨🇭 When? From 15:00 on Sunday the 26th of May

👉 Sign up here 👈

🆕 Updates to OrangeFren.com

We have recently added tabs to find providers for swaps between fiat and crypto 💱

We currently list offers from Bisq and AgoraDesk 💔.

If you'd like to get a prepaid card 💳, without KYC, that you can add to your Google Pay or Apple Pay wallet and use around the World, then we also added those.

Want to sell more than 10k USD in crypto in exchange for physical cash 💸? Without KYC 🥸? We've got you covered. We recently added contact info to a trusted broker to the website. You'll find it under the name "OrangeFren Broker Partner" when searching for offers to sell crypto

(Please remember in many jurisdictions trading P2P is legal, but you have to declare selling this much Monero, Bitcoin, or any other crypto for cash. 👮‍♂️)

🤝 OrangeFren Affiliate Programme

Lastly, we're excited to announce the OrangeFren Affiliate Programme 🤝

The programme works by you providing us with your existing ref links to any of the services we list on the website. Then, when a user visits OrangeFren.com using your link, we'll replace our ref links with yours for all the services that you provided us your link for.

This means, your profit share is 100%! And we never hold custody of your affiliate earnings.

You'll find the link to join the footer of OrangeFren.com

AgoraDesk/LocalMonero is shutting down 😞

Their app is fully open source and is a slick app written in Flutter.

Upvote this request on their github if you show interest in AgoraDesk/LocalMonero in releasing all of their source code for the back end as well. It is a long shot but if AgoraDesk/LocalMonero is going to shutdown, maybe they will release their source code to allow someone else to launch a new P2P trading platform that is a fork of AgoraDesk/LocalMonero and can do so with less work.

If you are anything like me, you much prefer a good CLI over clicking around in a GUI.

Now, with Monero it's never "fire up, issue transaction, exit".

Catching up on a week's worth of blocks can mean a long wait - especially if there are anonymity networks between you and the node.

If you decide to cope by leaving the CLI running, you find your tx-notes gone after a reboot. Less recent versions would even loose your sync level. Uff.

You could make it a habit to follow your set_tx_note up with a save, but that's not ideal.

XMRPC

To tackle the issue for myself, I've started to write XMRPC, a POSIX-compliant shell script that allows you to interact with monero-wallet-rpc.

This way you can have the RPC continuously syncing in the background and interact when necessary.

In fact, XMRPC takes care of launching the RPC and also creates a wallet if you happen to be starting from scratch.

The tool is aggressive in that it doesn't require user confirmations. If you tell it to transfer, it will try to do just that - with whatever fee or delay the official Monero client suggests at the given moment.

It can be launched interactively as seen in the image or as "one-shot", where only the command passed as argument is executed (e.g. ./xmrpc.sh balance).

Support for labelling transactions has yet to be added, but some parts of XMRPC have already been powering the OpenAlias-service XMR.ID successfully for a while.

You can check out this first version, tagged 0.1.0-beta, at https://xmr.zone/sxmo-onfire/xmrpc.

I only had time to read it once but here are some interesting points:

• This would put a 2-year moratorium on mixers.
• It interestingly classifies 'Privacy Coins' in a different category than mixers.
• States there are 'legitimate uses' for mixers
• Would have the Secretary of the Treasury prepare a report that includes information on "The capacity of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, and Federal and State law enforcement agencies to track, prevent the transfer of, freeze, and confiscate funds that have been processed through digital asset mixers, privacy coins, and other anonymity-enhancing technologies"

Full proposal available here: https://casten.house.gov/imo/media/doc/blockchain_integrity_act.pdf

The test for improved XMR ID sign-ups has concluded on stagenet and the form is now active for mainnet-registrations of "real" XMR ID's at https://xmr.id.

With this, the parts of the sign-up that do not require human interaction got a boost - while nothing has changed for active XMR ID's. The qualities of those are the same - regardless of when and how they were registered.

For those interested in the test's findings, here's a report for transparency.

If you'd rather be spared the details, feel free to head over to !xmrid@monero.town instead, where I publish tips and announce software aimed at making your Monero-life easier.

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Sign-up Test Report

Three major issues were encountered and taken care of:

DNS outage

Our provider for the xmrid.com (secondary) domain experienced a partial service outage. For a couple of hours the DNS wouldn't return any responses to queries.

Our internal monitoring reported the error at around 11 p.m. local time. Even though the primary domain xmr.id was unaffected, such issues are particularly stressful, as their resolution depends on a third party.

After resolution, the provider explained:

> "It was an issue with some domain updates that got triggered by adding records."

Spam detection

Some major email providers categorize messages from @xmr.id as spam, preventing further sign-up instructions from reaching the user.

There is the drawback of the new, form-based approach: Since you no longer message us first, your hoster doesn't know that our response is desired email.

At the time, the best way to handle such a situation is to send us an email or message on one of the other channels mentioned in the description box at c/XMRID.

Emoji support

A user tested the form with an emoji username - thereby reminding us that this "edge case" hadn't been automated by the time.

Adding emoji support demanded most of the resources since the test. It is now working with support for both, Unicode and Punycode submissions and as an added (internal) bonus it also led to establish a more efficient method for automated testing.

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Onward

I have decided to leave the stagenet form active for the time being, so that developers and curious users have a playground for testing OpenAliases in Monero. Note that I will clean up names every once in a while.

So, if you want to try an emoji just enter a heart 🧡, an animal 🦅, a ninja 🥷🏿, some flag 🏳️, your favorite ᚱune or a simple (anti-)smiley 😡 into the username field when filling out the form :)

Independent of the topic of registrations, there's an integrators guide around the corner. There are certain things that wallet devs can do to further secure XMR-ID use. Oh, and the guide will be accompanied by a tool for simplified Monero transactions that fans of "suckless" software are bound to love ...

Finally, a big thanks to all the testers who participated!

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(Note that none of the stagenet restrictions apply to "real" XMR ID's from https://xmr.id.)

"Missed Monerotopia Episode (#164)? Check out the Price, News & DEV. Reports here!

Price Report:

Youtube: https://youtu.be/opMXVkfwiNY

ODYSEE: https://odysee.com/@MoneroTalk:8/tides-turning-in-monero%27s-favor-05-04-24:d

News Segment:

Youtube: https://youtu.be/YXVabQP41yY

ODYSEE: https://odysee.com/$/download/roger-ver-charged-with-fraud,-elliptic/ac9e4c61a261eb0536f0dc0134a687473927d804

Dev Segment:

Youtube: https://youtu.be/xUrswy2plcE

ODYSEE: https://odysee.com/@MoneroTalk:8/brilliant-feather-wallet-post-mortem-05:b

Just wondering, is somethink like RoboSats possible in Monero (Robonero?). The source code is open source (https://github.com/RoboSats/robosats/blob/main/federation.md) so it should be possible to make Monero compatible, just like Bisq was made compatible through Haveno.

I never used LocalMonero because it seemed a bit intimidating, but RoboSats seems friendlier and the Tor by default and per trade anonymous robot feature seems more privacy preserving than LocalMonero. It also has a Telegraph plugin. Liquidity would be an issue, but there's no reason it has to rebuild the wheel. Simply provide a Haveno or BasicSwapDEX or Serai backend and expose their liquidity. Eventually, the Monero to Lightning code that was recently published could be integrated, so in theory the Bisq network could also be integrated for trades.

There's been little incentive to port Robosats to Monero until now, but since LocalMonero is going, and BasicSwapDEX has stated they want a website front end, this is a good opportunity to use a technology that's already open sourced, distributed, and been proven to work. And since its starting off after Haveno/BasicSwapDEX/Serai it can rely on the existing ecosystem rather than build its own from scratch.

Kraken powered by DLT Finance Asset Support The exact service start and other dates may vary. Clients will be contacted with confirmation of the dates. Kraken powered by DLT Finance will support a slightly reduced set of assets and Opt-in Rewards services. Clients holding the following unsupported assets are advised to either exchange these assets to a supported asset (e.g. Bitcoin or Euro) or withdraw to an external wallet or platform before July 10, 2024.

Verified clients’ unsupported assets, if not actioned before July 10, 2024, will be set to withdrawal-only mode and unstaked or opted-out, if applicable. Supported assets, which are currently Staked with Kraken, will be migrated to the Opt-in Rewards program.

Supported Assets

The following assets will be supported by Kraken powered by DLT Finance from July 10, 2024: . . . . .

Unsupported Assets* Monero Ticker XMR

LocalMonero is shutting down. How do you plan to do fiat<->XMR now? Do you just keep the addresses and accounts of traders on file and keep going? What about people who haven't started exchanging fiat for XMR yet?

Thanks

A popular feature in other social media is tip crypto like Nostr using Lighting and Farcaster using Ethereum tokens.

There is no social media using tipping as piconeros, looking for opinions and discussion if this could be done in Monero.town?.