Saki @ Saki @monero.town

New to Lemmy. A privacy advocate. Interested in number theory.

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It’s true that the EU is getting “difficult”. Ironically, the US (without GDPR) can be better, where the right to anonymous speech is more or less protected (although, of course, US hosting companies in general are not good for that).

IncogNet is a good example, where you can get a domain anonymously, just like from Njalla but the price being much affordable. Not only that, they’ll set up an onion/I2P version for your website for free. (This is not a recommendation, though. DYOR.)

Floki was once famous but, yeah… they’re getting a bit less popular now after the Covid things. It’s not Iceland and Seychelles based; basically it’s a German company, having servers in Iceland, Finland, Romania, and the Netherlands. Iceland was once very popular, but anymore. Using a .is domain now assuming it’s “safer” is a bit yesterday.

Especially, be aware of France: they’re like “you use encryption because you have something to hide, doing something bad.” Also, you might want to avoid EU domains (.fr etc.) in general: check about NIS2, so called “Thick Whois“ to see what this means. For example, you can’t get a .nl anonymous domain anymore (a recent change); a similar trend being expected soon in other EU registrars/resellers i.e. “domain KYC”.

PS: Incognet is based on Fran's (Frantech/BuyVM) in Canada, which has been generally trusted and has some good track record. One might want to consider BuyVM etc. too (Not a recommendation, DYOR).

PPS: Incognet accepts xmr, but you can’t do crypto-related things like mining on their servers. A negative point for some of us.

Exactly how does you activate it? Ordering itself is kyc-free (and even Tor-friendly?) but you’ll need to show your IP to activate it, of course?

@stealths@monero.town Thanks for clarification!

1. For example, a user in China can buy a card from you, redeem (activate) it and use it internationally, except they can’t use it in shopping at an online shop China?
2. A user in Pakistan can not activate it and use it at all, though others can use it for shopping internationally incl. at at online shop in Pakistan.

It that what this means? I assume activation then includes GeoIP? I’m very happy that a few user reviews are positive anyway. You know, some “services/companies” advertising here tend to be a bit sketchy or iffy. Your prepaid card business seems a honest one, at least now! Thanks for joining monero.town :) I hope this can be convenient & fruitful for both users and you 🐱

Visa International (Just fyi): The supported country list by Stealths and the similar list by Tremendous are slightly different. The differences (if real) might be mostly relevant to Chinese users.

These three are included in Stealths’ list, but not included in Tremendous’ list:

China, Hong Kong (Taiwan is in both lists), Swaziland

These countries/areas are not inluded in S’s list, but are included in T’s list:

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Congo (Flag of Congo-Brazzaville is shown), Eswatini, Pakistan, Panama, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon

When trying to swap something to XMR (esp. a large amount? or at a small CEX?), it seems that there is always a possibility that the CEX (which may claim you can swap any amount) may not actually have enough XMR.

(They might be offering to sell Monero, when they don’t have enough.)

PS. Historically there are a few warnings: https://metager.de/meta/meta.ger3?eingabe=Exolix%20Monero

You clearly said: “Unlike others exchange aggregator Intercambio is created by Trusted Monero Community members” — implying yours is better, more trusted than Trocador.

If you’re “friendly”, you can ask, “I don’t understand what you mean. Could you explain?“ — Saying “Yes theres uBlock, and ?” doesn’t sound too friendly, not willing to learn new things. It’s irrelevant whether you personally dislike me or not; what you do is honest and good, your business might be successful. We’ll see.

See also: https://monero.town/post/942859 How to sell $300k+ Monero without origin of funds?

@heikomat@lemmy.world If you’re still interested, now the recommendation is, that “in” is bigger: https://monero.town/post/1163754

the market made it’s choice

Theses networks usage peaked the last bullrun

Perhaps by “the market” you mean like exchanges, where investors trades tokens. Most ppl here use xmr to buy things or services. That might be why you sound a bit off.

Imho this idea seems a bit too pushy, while your monero.im multisig escrow experiment is respectable. (I have nothing against you personally. Some of your ideas are interesting! Ideas and a person are different.)

You claimed you’re a “Trusted Monero Community member”; you claimed “I’m pretty known” To cover up these false claims “retrospectively”, now you’re trying to become better-know here (so your pro-profit business might be successful).
\ Recently you made several questionable moves: you said your page is no-js no-log but CF becon js is there. You didn’t understand Tails uBO subtlety either. And you disrepect Trocador.app … Frankly your posts seem a bit iffy. Nevertheless, some of your ideas might become splendid ones :)

Are you new to Monero? To ditch something, you’d have to use it in the first place.

In some areas, xmr are used more than btc, and that was like last year’s news.

Both in the EU and in the US… things are not looking too good.

Pysh also objected to FinCEN’s record-keeping demands regarding “anonymity enhanced CVCs.” These refer to digital assets with enhanced privacy protocols like Monero.

To FinCEN’s credit, malicious actors like North Korea’s Lazarus Group have certainly used Monero to launder money while covering their tracks. However, everyday US citizens also use Monero for legitimate purposes, like purchasing art, video games, or even gifting presents when the sender wants the gift to be a surprise even for tech-savvy recipients.

A copycat in a way, but having more options is not bad. Except this FAQ statement feels a bit disrespectful & preposterous.

Is it really anonymous?

Unlike others exchange aggregator Intercambio is created by Trusted Monero Community members who have years of experience in providing the best possible privacy to their users.

They mean, “Unlike Trocador”…?! “Trusted Monero Community members 🤥”???

I meant the situation. Your assumption that Nitter instances are generally Tor-friendly (with only a few exceptions) used to be true, but anymore. The situation has changed and as such your understanding is slightly outdated.

I’ll accept that you’re saying you did this out of good will. So you too can accept that the results were not necessarily ideal, as many instances are not (or no longer) exactly Tor-friendly.

When talking to Tails users next time, you might want to consider nitter.oksocial.net (officially used by EFF too)

a nice no-log, no-js site…

https://static(.)cloudflareinsights(.)com/beacon.min.js/v84a3a4012de94ce1a686ba8c167c359c1696973893317 etc.

Nitter had been indeed generally Tor-friendly until around September, 2023. After that, even the official instance nitter.net started blocking Tor from time to time (currently not blocking), and there are now relatively few working instances for Tor users.

This is something most Tor users know through daily experiences. The problem seems to be, your link was a "meta link" redirected to a random Nitter instance, right? If so, that’s the problem; not every instance is Tor-friendly. Another problem is, your knowledge about this privacy front end is not up-to-date.

The current situation is so obvious for actual users that if you were actually using Tor/Tails every day, you would have never done what you did. But it’s okay. Thanks for a $20 donation to Tails, you seem to be very proud of. Well, xmr user would be more likely to send or say 0.2 XMR etc. because we tend to think in our native currency :)

We have uBlock Origin on Tails, not just Tor. If you were on Tails, you’d know a working Nitter instance.

PS.

1. When a random instance is randomly called, the instance might be behind CloudFlare, which wants to “scan” Tor Browser, saying “One moment please…” (TB users know this too well.)
2. While this is annoying and time-wasting, if you’re using a vanilla version of TB, chances are they’ll let you go.
3. On Tails, however, we have uBO, so fingerprints are different. This sometimes causes an infinite loop of “One moment please…” perhaps b/c uBO blocks CF scanning scripts.
4. Because of this, and because CF is everywhere nowadays, when something doesn’t work on TB on Tails, the first thing a user might say is “We have uBO.” Hope this makes sense! And sorry, I was not clear enough.

If you were actually always on Tor, you’d never post a non-Tor friendly link. The right answer is: use DEX.