LocalMonero / AgoraDesk will be winding down it's operations — LocalMonero
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After almost 7 years of operation, due to a combination of internal and external factors, we have made the difficult decision to close our platform.
  • geterdoneOnagoradesk@monero.town
    5·
    2 months ago

    We are a reputable trader on there -> https://agoradesk.com/user/geterdone

    and we have decided to build an I2P and Tor replacement. We have not slept since they made the announcement so we can get it up and running as fast as possible for the community. We are currently on the Matrix chat if you want to reach out to us for any questions, etc. -> @geterdone:matrix.org

    We would have posted this elsewhere but, literally the only places you can post are constantly blocked. You can tell this very quickly like what happened when localmonero announced on reddit.com/r/monero they had 38 messages but only 15 showed. The fight for privacy is becoming a war and the battlefield is open.

    • tusker@monero.town
      4·
      2 months ago

      These clowns do not know what crypto is, they are puppets put in place to protect the banker monopoly.

    • xmr_unlimited@monero.townEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Keep mining and remember the Bitcoin will have to go somewhere when that gets banned…which it will because it can

  • fullmetalScience@monero.townEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    This is heartbreaking news. LocalMonero enabled anyone capable of navigating Ebay to convert XMR.

    Thank you, Alex & the team, for all those years of providing what is probably the best Monero-service of all.

  • tusker@monero.town
    3·
    2 months ago

    Did not see that coming. Wish they would stick around until the DEX’s are fully mature.

      • mister_monster@monero.townEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        If they collect no fees, run no servers of any kind and just write and publish software I don’t see how they can be held liable for anything.

          • mister_monster@monero.townEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Well, then they’d better drop the project and let it be forked and continued by a team of anonymous developers wink wink. Or ditch the fees.

            I dunno. It’s still peer to peer, there’s no coordination and no service being provided. I know, I’m living in a world that no longer exists, one where the rules matter and are clear. I don’t doubt for a second that some day the government will try to jail these guys. Even if they do everything right, collect no fees, run no nodes, have no connection to the project other than having wrote the code, the government will come after them. I think we all need to accept this fact, that it’s not about the rules, it’s about power, and that when you threaten power it will try to destroy you, and we need to start hosting code on Tor and publishing and contributing anonymously.

  • fernandu00@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 months ago

    Damn! It was so easy to buy xmr there… I hope I find a good substitute for localmonero when I need to buy xmr again

  • xmr_unlimited@monero.townEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    The forever boot on humanity wins again… Thanks for your service (never used them, don’t even know what monero actually)

      • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        2 months ago

        Forced retirement is what I’m wondering, since they’ve seen others who “enable the use of privacy coins” get arrested in the freest country in the world.

        • Dragon-sided D@sciencemastodon.com
          2·
          2 months ago

          @beeng IANAL, but I’m pretty sure that “enabling the use of privacy coins” has not been the charge in any US case.

          “Money Laundering” is the charge.

          And this is why WE NEED DEXES, and why I do what I can to support my preferred project (Haveno)

          • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            2 months ago

            Ahh this might have been a mistake on my part, I thought Samourai was a Monero wallet.

            I’ll checkout Haveno!

  • Hirom@beehaw.org
    02·
    2 months ago

    That’s unfortunate for people using it, but a good thing in the long run.

    Cryptocurrencies that use proof-of-work, and haven’t already migrated to less resource-intensive schemes, are doing more harm than good.

    • tusker@monero.town
      3·
      2 months ago

      Time to stock up on mining hardware and 5x my current mining operation 😁

      PS. The US military burns billions of gallons of fuel per month and they murder people, I think we should stop worrying about proof-of-work and focus on real threats to the world at large.

      • Hirom@beehaw.org
        01·
        2 months ago

        That make total sense. Let’s just give up and accumulate a few more tokens while the world burns.

        • tusker@monero.town
          2·
          2 months ago

          Nothing is burning. There is a parasitical class that has hijacked the currency and is conducting large scale evil operations because they can manufacture what most believe to be money.

          Monero is here to replace their fraudulent system.

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Okay. I’m open to other options. What fungible, distributed, seizure resistant , digital money system do you recommend that doesn’t use proof of work?

      Please cite a specific actionable example I can do research on and compare to monero.

    • lltnskyc@monero.town
      0·
      2 months ago

      less resource-intensive schemes

      Tell us about the options.

      And I sure hope you are not talking about “less resource-intensive schemes” that are based on “let’s give money to people who have the most money” thus making the cryptocurrencies that use it not only unfair but also even more centralized than bitcoin with its ASICs, right?

      • Hirom@beehaw.org
        01·
        2 months ago

        Tell us about the options.

        Literally anything but proof of work: taler, proof of stake, proof of weight, fiat currency, gold coins, pokemon cards…

        These all have advantages and disadvantages, it depends on what users prioritize: polluting less, privacy, decentralisation, convenience, …

        • lltnskyc@monero.town
          1·
          2 months ago

          proof of stake

          well, already addressed that in my comment :)

          proof of weight

          seems to be mostly the same thing as PoS.