How do I acquire Monero without having to show my id ?

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
    151·
    4 days ago

    RetoSwap.com is a peer-to-peer decentralized exchange program that you download on your computer and you can trade with other users using any supported payment method such as cash-by-mail, ACH bank transfer, wire transfer, PayPal, CashApp, Zelle, etc.

  • ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works
    51·
    4 days ago

    ehh in the monero page there are links to multiple services where you can trade money. I personally deemed it too much work for what it is at the moment.

    You can trade like cash for monero and mail it but there’re also more ways in there depending on where you live, I am very sure most of these are uncentralized too and some even use TOR and all.

  • TwilightKiddy@programming.devEnglish
    33·
    4 days ago

    A bit of an off topic thing to ask, but as long as it’s not a crime to buy it, why do you care if it’s anonymous or not? It’s like withdrawing cash in a bank. Yes, the bank may know that you withdrew cash, but what happens with that cash and where you spent it is entirely up to you and it’s very hard to track it.

    Never buy and spend with the same address and it should be private enough just by design.

    • uxellodunum@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      Because it may not be illegal today, but may become tomorrow. Even if not, it still becomes linked to your PII.

    • greawogh@midwest.socialEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      “the bank may know that you withdrew cash, but what happens with that cash and where you spent it is entirely up to you and it’s very hard to track it.”

      20 year US banking veteran here, in the US an insane amount of time and effort is put into cold tracing cash supply movements. Like, violent stalker ex pinning down your every movement, going through your garbage, zero potential return on investment kinda effort.

      • TwilightKiddy@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        What’s the point? Most of it probably switches over 10 hands through all the cash registers in shops or exchanges between people directly before it ends up in the ATM again.

        Are there any cases of it being somehow useful?

        • greawogh@midwest.socialEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          It’s commonly used in drug cases. But any benefit is dwarfed by the cost of maintaining all the required infrastructure. And, yes, the system is extremely vulnerable to data poisoning

        • TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml
          1·
          3 days ago

          Hopefully not to feed all the data into a dystopian AI that predicts future crimes and prematurely arrests people it sees as high risk potential.