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The ongoing Russian conflict has caused Euro Union and other political powers to heavily sanction Russia. Some of these sanctions involve blocking bank transfers between the eurozone and Russia.

Now I do not want to enter a political discussion here, but I think most of these sanctions are actually hurting the individual citizens more than the government to whom they should be targeted.

This has caused that a lot of people that live abroad cannot for instance send money to their loved ones in the country, spend money whenever they go there for a visit, or for people who live and earn money in Russia to spend that money abroad.

Additionally, many banks have seized Russian-owned bank accounts in Europe, essentially stealing their money without them being able to do anything to prevent this.

Of course we could get in the argument here that you do not really own your hard-earned fiat money. After all, if I cannot spend my fiat money in a bakery in Russia, do I really own my money?

This is where Monero shines (or should be shining) in my opinion. Monero should give Russians the ability to break free from these sanctions and actually spend their money however they want.

However, looking into Haveno, there are 0 offers in Russian Rubles (RUB), and historically there have been zero trades with RUB. Also trying to find information on Russian forums about Haveno, no one seems to talk about it at all.

However, before Haveno came out officially, I used another centralized P2P exchange called bitpapa, which I do not promote or recommend, as even though I used it without problems on some occasions, I do not know if it can be fully trusted.

My experience is that (maybe just a coincidence) all trades I did there were done with Russians. So it seems that that platform might be the one preferred by them.

And here is where I want to open a discussion:

Why do you guys think is the reason that there are so little trades in a currency so heavily sanctioned, when Monero is supposed to fight exactly against this kind of issue?

Perhaps there is some failure in our communication methods, and the information about Haveno is not reaching the relevant forums or circles?

say someone asked you to open your wallet and asked you where your funds came from, can you just say that you mined it? since XMR cant be trace afaik

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I have a question regarding Monero fees.

Currently a transaction gets you to pay around 0.00003 - 0.00005 XMR of transaction fee.

This is a very small fee, and given that XMR is priced at ~150€ it results in less than 1 cent of fee (0.6 cents approx).

I know of Monero's dynamic block size and that it will contribute to keeping fees small in the future given increased usage.

However, imagine a scenario where Monero's price skyrockets. Let's say current BTC price of 66k€.

A similar transaction fee of 0.00004 XMR would result in 2.64€ of transaction fee. This would make XMR unusable (or at least not interesting) for transactions of 10€ or less, given that the transaction fee would be 25% or more of the intended spend value.

I know that it is very unlikely that XMR reaches those values, but in that hypothetical scenario, what would happen with the fees? Would the absolute fee value in XMR go down? Is there a system already in place for this? Would the devs manually lower the fees?

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MoneroPay, Metronero and the Monero ATM w/ Irem Kuyucu & Laurynas Cetyrkinas (MT 330)

TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman talks with Irem and Laurynas, the creators of Digilo, a remote IT company specializing in hosting, DevOps, and cybersecurity, which accepts Monero as payment.

They highlight their work on several Monero-related initiatives, including Monero Pay, a Monero payment processing platform, and Monero ATMs, designed for cash transactions. They also touch on the development of a future project called Metronero, a checkout system for merchants to easily accept Monero.

Additionally, the conversation delves into the team's efforts to develop open-source software for kiosk hardware, making it easier to implement Monero ATMs and other devices that handle digital payments to foster greater adoption of Monero.

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Just a week ago we found out that they were scamming people by not allowing withdrawals while allowing trading (AKA paper Monero).

https://github.com/monero-project/monero-site/issues/2395#issuecomment-2418722532

For those that INSIST to use tails, the install script is now working thanks to the reto team recently placing the signature file in the correct location in the release page.

This is the instruction to install debian package on Tails the instructions: https://github.com/retoaccess1/haveno-reto/tree/master/scripts/install_tails

Easy mode below/ step by step instruction after you already have a tails usb.

Enable Persistance https://tails.net/doc/persistent_storage/index.en.html

Set up administration mode https://tails.net/doc/first_steps/welcome_screen/administration_password/

Run this command to download and run the script from the reto repo. Enter the admin password you have setup when requested

curl -x socks5h://127.0.0.1:9050 -fsSLO https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno/raw/master/scripts/install_tails/haveno-install.sh && bash haveno-install.sh "https://github.com/retoaccess1/haveno-reto/releases/download/v1.0.12/haveno-linux-deb.zip" "DAA24D878B8D36C90120A897CA02DAC12DAE2D0F"

You can then run Haveno by finding the icon in the launcher. It should connect OK and see yellow or green connection at the bottom. Create any account.

Reboot tails. Enable persistence and admin mode again. Launch tails as you did before and confirm you can connect OK and your account is there.

This is the Haveno-reto public signing key of fingerprint above. https://haveno-reto.com/reto_public.asc

Addendum. Reddit seems to block VPNs and has issues with tor as well as easily banning or shadowbanning people if using tor. Monero.town has issues with tor thanks to cloudflare but AT LEAST IT WORKS fine with vpns and is not censored. Consider making monero town your reddit alternative.

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Discussion welcomed for discussion of possible future rule to take place upon FCMP++ hard fork activation. This rule would retroactively ignore the unlock_time field of transactions past some future block height. This would make the migration to FCMP++ tree building easier.

Why Tornado Cash Free Speech defense was rejected in Court w/ Tor Ekeland Mike Hassardl (MT 329)

TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Michael Hassard, an attorney from Tor Ekeland Law known for defending clients in federal criminal trials, especially in cases involving technology and cryptocurrency,

He dives into their current legal battles and discusses their defamation lawsuit against Chainalysis for falsely labeling their client’s cryptocurrency project as a scam, as well as the broader implications of government overreach in cases related to digital privacy, cryptocurrency, and open-source development.

Michael provides his take on the Tornado Cash and Samaurai cases. Including how charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering are being abused by prosecutors. Tune in as they break down the intersection of law, technology, and privacy rights.

Various privacy tech projects and philosophical concerns about privacy, regulation, and technology are explored throughout the spaces!

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These nodes were found displaying behaviour that the normal Monero nodes would not do.

I'm trying to arrive at the function that describes the following, but can't quite figure it out for multiple blocks. (there are some useful insights for a single block here.)

assume the Poisson point process that is the arrival of proof-of-work blocks on Monero. the mean of the block times is the target block time t (120 seconds).

also assume n subsequent blocks.

also assume p, the probability of n subsequent blocks having a mean block time less than or equal to T.

given t, n and p, how can I calculate T?

Created a simple sample jackpot website for educational purposes, especially educational when you look at the rigged version of this even thought it looks legit https://github.com/ErikASD/simpyle-xmr-arcade-rigged with all the bs provability fair.

Whenever possible, use QR codes from sub-addresses to share your wallet.

Alphanumeric character strings, as we know our wallets, are much easier for analysis companies and AI to collect and analyze.

Hi everyone, I'd like to know if you use instant crypto exchanges when you need to buy or sell Monero? I mean such services as Exolix, Trocador, simpleswap and similar?

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Guys, Get on Nostr, there's a growing Monero community trolling Bitcoin maxis,

Garnet is a new nostr client to tip XMR,

for example: as Italy Raises Capital Gains Tax on Bitcoin from 26% to 42%:

https://primal.net/e/note1nsk54jclkjsx3sv4kmwhjmjept0v73rzascn02wt2zs2k6lqlctskltd57