Anyone interested in an XMR p2p trading Community?
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.
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.
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?
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.
He needs to share his certificate. ID is not enough. Standard is you become friends (see below) first. Then you'll see his chat lobbies, forums, etc.
Try this on a test account, Do not systematically sign or authenticate your friends' keys. Use DHT mode on clearnet to test.
Retroshare ID is not enough to connect. Share your certificate (PGP public key) with your friend and request the certificate from your Friend. This is normally done in person or any other secure trusted channel. Both need to ACK each others pub key.
Moreover both need to be online to find each other.
First... our beloved friends from the 3 letter agencies are the first to create groups. They fork Haveno. Post "help" videos. etc. etc. Pretend that we censor them when we call out their honeypot website ads in here.
Second... people don't understand that "creating a new group" is not enough. They need to share their public PGP key (or hashed version). SimpleX makes this easy in the form of a http:// link to onboard new users. Even this process is too difficult to understand for most noobs.
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.
Retroshare has its own built in tor instance, you do not need to run it on tails. Retroshare needs to create an onion address because it needs incoming connections so it may by conflicting with tails.
Just run it on a normal OS and select (Hidden Node over Tor) and it will take care of everything for you.