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Xmr.to shuts down Monero exchange service
- muskox2 6y agoI wonder if the recent price drop (from $280 to $180) is related to this.
- zmnxos 6y agoThey announced this before the price ran up to $280.
- thinkmassive 6y agoYou don’t need to wonder, it’s specified in the post: “we won't compromise on our principles and, to give one example, are not prepared to turn our back on digital privacy preserving technologies such as TOR and VPNs. We have now got to the point where it no longer looks feasible to run this service in a manner consistent with our core beliefs.”
- john_alan 6y agoThis was announced weeks ago. Before the rise recently.
- thinkmassive 6y agoCorrect, the linked post is from Jan 31.
- sn_master 6y agoDoes this mean they were getting push back from law enforcement agencies?
- thinkmassive 6y agoThere’s a tiny bit of speculation here, but it doesn’t seem like any further official clarification will happen https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/la46ds/comment/gllqh3o https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/la46ds/comment/gllq...
- YeBanKo 6y agoIt’s more likely from their lawyers, who recommended this to avoid compliance issues in the future.
- babaganoosh89 6y agoAnonymizing BTC via BTC -> XMR -> BTC seems hard these days.
- spinny 6y agobisq is the most anonymous way that i know of
- john_alan 6y agoGood luck spending the tainted BTC you buy on Bisq.
- x86_64Ubuntu 6y agoSo they actually have measures to stop tumbled coins from re-entering the supply?
- rattlesnakedave 6y agotainted BTC doesn't exist.
- Kranar 6y agoIt absolutely does, there are plenty of BTC addresses that are tainted and not accepted by exchanges.
- alfiedotwtf 6y agoHow does it work if you just send the entire “tainted” coin to a new address and then send that to the exchange? Sounds like smoke and mirrors to me
- john_alan 6y agoVery simply. They don’t allow coins with that lineage. There are so many people ignorant of the reality of bitcoins fungibility problem it amazes me.
- seibelj 6y agoFYI - this happened several months ago, before the BTC run up.
- sn_master 6y agoWhat's the alternative to buy XMR? Does anyone know of any major exchanges that support XMR? I only found (Kraken) but it doesn't support where I am (WA state) and others either don't support it or support buying/selling but no sending to a private wallet.
- gaspard234 6y agoI use https://simpleswap.io/ https://simpleswap.io/
- pcthrowaway 6y agoI've seen this around reddit today, wouldn't use them personally: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/lqickm/simpleswap_is_a_scam/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/lqickm/simpleswap_i... Swapspace seems similar, but I haven't done any research on it yet.
- cassepipe 6y agoPeer to peer buying with Bisq. You can buy or sell with/for BTC. There's an escrow system. Works well.
- locust101 6y agoVoyager
- dewlinedew2 6y agotradeogre but they told me it is classified as high risk
- andrepd 6y agoHitbtc
- me_again 6y agoI run a cloud service where you can get a small amount of computing power as part of a larger free trial offer. The number of people who try to rip us off to run xmrig is simply astonishing. By my estimate you could only make $1-$2 a month per fake user but they still keep coming. This blog post's talk about the "Monero faithful" and the "community" seem quite ironic to me.
- ev1 6y ago$1/m/fake user is still better than 0, therefore they will try to make thousands of fake users and hope some of them survive bans.
- ajkdhcb2 6y ago>This blog post's talk about the "Monero faithful" and the "community" seem quite ironic to me. How is it ironic that people believe in the only digital money that doesn't enable mass surveillance? Because people try to profit off free computing? I don't understand
- solarkraft 6y agoThere's a huge difference in the motivations of miners and users. The latter group is being addressed here.
- ajkdhcb2 6y agoAlternative similar 'instant exchange' XMR-BTC services include SideShift, MorphToken, SimpleSwap, Xchange.me, Godex, ChangeNOW, Fixedfloat.