Gauging interest in making a community (here on monero.town) where sellers would be able to post their seller profiles, including:

  • a min/max amount of xmr they have for sale
  • any payment methods, currencies, or coins they accept
  • communication methods they accept
  • links to accounts on other sites with feedback, and any verification they choose to include

No escrow (unless buyer/seller want to arrange it). Buyers could post reviews on the seller threads.

It would allow buyers and sellers to have a place to find each other, along with all the information they need to make successful trades with established sellers. Buyers and sellers could complete transactions any way they see fit.

  • aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’m so fucking down man. I have thought about selling some of my monero and didn’t want to go through a centralized exchange which can hold your funds on their whim.

    • shortwavesurfer@monero.townEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Thats what Haveno is for. If it did occur, then you would have to be really small amounts because of no escrow anyway.

  • admin@monero.townM
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    6 months ago

    1 condition from my side: Don’t ever talk about what you are going to use the Monero for or where you’ve gotten it from, otherwise I’ll have to ban you from here.

  • tusker@monero.town
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    6 months ago

    As someone already mentioned, try https://retroshare.cc

    It is fully decentralized community software with forums, chat, BBS, and file sharing. It is too risky here as they might claim this site is conspiring to transmit money without communist permission.

    • CaptainCanaryLLC@monero.townOP
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      6 months ago

      I made a retroshare board/chat with a daily trade thread. If anyone is interested check it out and share:

      retroshare://posted?name=XMR%20p2p%20sellers%20and%20buyers&id=fe3f6d34693bf689a6dd355f5e7c6142

        • hfond@monero.town
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          6 months ago

          In the buildup phase of a true p2p network its necessary that nodes keep running idle to enable the gossip protocol. To collect peers.

          This might seem inconvenient, but relying forever on “seednodes” makes the p2p net centralized. It is necessary for resilience as full nodes are for Monero. Same goes for Haveno.

          The difficult part is to stick to running your node before the network effect kicks in - by then you can freely connect and disconnect to the p2p network. This bootup phase is crucial to understand. The app needs storage on your machine to remember the peers it finds.

          Look at the network graph in retroshare: are you well connected to other peers?

          • tusker@monero.town
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            6 months ago

            Yes, I have it running. What I was saying is that I cannot find where to put that share link to find the board Captain has created. I think they need to share their retroshare ID so people can find them on the network.

            Here is my retroshare ID, if anyone wants to connect and try this thing out.

            ABBoJ5fsnoFayyBIJYYlRaXLAxQ3CbybJPUM1BTbdmcS+IjL8xLcXwEFZ2VrdXSQRAAAAAImlmh5Z3psemwyaHh6bnhmeGd6bDNzZ2hvdm51YjVwamY1NTVvcDcyZXZxYWdpaHN6a2h0bnoyYmFkLm9uaW9uBAMK/p4=
    • ksilverstein@monero.townEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Has anyone gotten the Retroshare App Image to work with Tails? I feel like I’m close. After I register and the app tries to connect to a retroshare node, I get a pop up with a hidden address and an onion address, but also says “Tor status: offline”. But I’m not offline. The hidden address is 9878:127.0.0.1: 27325; It seems like the port should be 9050, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to change it.

      • hfond@monero.town
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        6 months ago

        to use retroshare-tor, simply do NOT start tails-tor on OS startup.

        To run 2 instances of tor and avoid conflict:

        tor -f /etc/tor/torrc.1
        tor -f /etc/tor/torrc.2

        Some hacking is needed for tails persistant storage also.

  • hfond@monero.town
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    6 months ago

    asking for trouble… why not go p2p with i2p or retroshare?

    SimpleX TOS:

    We reserve the right to remove such links from the preset servers and disrupt the conversations that send illegal content via our servers, whether they were reported by the users or discovered by our team.

  • shortwavesurfer@monero.townEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Personally, I am somewhat against this, primarily because I do not want to have this site exposed to legal liability as facilitating money transmission, when Haveno is set to do that job as a decentralized exchange that cannot be taken offline.