Hello, do you know any place to buy Monero for online payment ? It seems that LocalMonero is winding down and I don’t want to use some big exchanges like Coinbase for obvious reasons. Thank you very much!

    • Manmoth@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      “Every bit helps”

      Not if it defeats the purpose of whatever you’re doing in the first place.

    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
      7·
      4 days ago

      Alternatives - like what? I understand the concerns but for now Monero is the closest we have to “digital cash”. Hope there would eventually be a more energy-efficient successor.

      • Hirom@beehaw.org
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        4 days ago

        Alternatives like actual cash, proof-of-stake cryptocurrency, or even EMV.

        Most alternatives aren’t completely anonymous payment methods, but Monero’s anonymity isn’t worth wasting so much resources.

        • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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          4 days ago

          I do use cash when possible indeed! But Monero is for things that you can’t physically receive in a store’s office, like a domain name. It’s not a lot, but it is necessary. Gift cards are not available everywhere, and the ones available somewhere would not necessarily work in other countries.

          I think cash-like anonymity is something we do really need in online payments. For me personally it is not critical. But I would still not like my VPS and domain name KYCed to me, for example if, say, something like censorship evasion is prosecuted retrospectively.

        • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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          4 days ago

          That doesn’t have any of the privacy and anonymity features. I’d have to read more on this project, though - did hear about it before. Also, what’s relevant right now is that it’s not accepted as commonly as even Monero (which in itself is sadly not as common as Bitcoin).