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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
Nano
https://nano.org/en/sustainability
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).