According to my recent test, the premium was 4.7 percent compared to spot rates, hence their pricing is not competitive and Bitrefill remains without a serious contestant. There you'd only pay the ~0.5% fee for going through an instant exchange in order to have your XMR arrive as BTC.
EDIT: Now, a day later, I did another test and got percentages from 1.8 - 2.0 % which is much more reasonable.
Hint: To quickly get the hidden fees of any purchase, execute units like this: ./units.sh '<xmr-cost-at-checkout> XMR' '<EUR|USD|...>' or ./units.sh '<xmr-cost-at-checkout> XMR / <value-in-fiat> <EUR|USD|...>' '%' for the total percentage asked.
Adding the image seems to have removed the original URL ... while maintaining the link's description. I suspect a bug (@admin?).
In any case, I've added an explicit link at the end of the original post.
For those seeking to trade more efficiently on the platform, I just published a tool for updating TradeOgre-orders from the command line: Terminal-Interface to TradeOgre
A couple of months ago, rumors about TradeOgre blocking withdrawals for an unrelated crypto asset circulated.
I began avoiding the exchange, but when the other day a user urged to trade on the platform, I decided to publish this tool regardless. It might prove useful to some people in the community.
OGRE is a terminal interface, both console and CLI, optimized for swing-trading XMR<->BTC on TradeOgre.
It is similar in use to XMRPC, but instead of managing your Monero RPC, you manage your orders on said platform.
Please refer to the corresponding section on xmr.zone.
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Curiously, most ended up preferring a less readable XMR ID, leaving many common and given names available.
Maybe this is because nowadays we tend to assume the good ones online to be taken - so it's actually a great idea that you point that out! Let's see how it affects the trend.
It's a command-line interface that allows you to do "anything Monero". You will find details in the linked resources and can get a better idea by looking at the screenshots.
more aliases are available to register
This one is technically not true until you add Punycode support - and only if you manage to remain below XMR.ID's user count by that time :D
(Without Punycode, staying RFC-compliant, and applying XMR.IST's restriction of 30-characters max, we could provide roughly a count of 30^37-1-<amount of users>, but even if we had a 10-chars limit, the number would still be unfathomable.)
Welcome to the space - it feels less lonely now!
A new version of XMRPC - the alternative Monero CLI has been tagged.
Highlights
- Portrait-view for mobile and narrow terminals
- Read wallet password from PGP-encrypted file
- Auto-save wallet data
- Auto-select Tor node
As will be held commonplace with XMRPC, every important aspect is tweakable through environment variables.
By default, it does what it can to get new users set (using maximum privacy available). As they advance, they may employ options to confine XMRPC to select preferences.
For more details refer to the documentation or download the new version 0.2.0-beta directly:
If you haven't previously cloned XMRPC
git clone --branch v0.2.0-beta \ https://gitlab.com/fullmetalScience/sxmo-onfire.git
If you are working with an existing clone
git fetch origin tag v0.2.0-beta git checkout tags/v0.2.0-beta
Your feedback and questions are welcome!
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You may also be curious about the initial announcement.
In personal discussions, people of such credentials confirmed that they also just "trust the [academic] process" and "don't have time" to check the foundations of their convictions. And that they didn't know, but "there surely was someone specialized" who does.
More clearly, in this context, saying you trust your mate is equal to saying you trust your recorder that is replaying the cassette that someone happened to have left in it.
Personally, when I opened the link yesterday, I wondered if I was looking at a product for 4-year olds: Big round shapes, bright colors, ... and nothing that would give me a clue about what I am actually looking at.
I might simply not be in it, but who's the target audience here?
If you are anything like me, you much prefer a good CLI over clicking around in a GUI.
Now, with Monero it's never "fire up, issue transaction, exit".
Catching up on a week's worth of blocks can mean a long wait - especially if there are anonymity networks between you and the node.
If you decide to cope by leaving the CLI running, you find your tx-notes gone after a reboot. Less recent versions would even loose your sync level. Uff.
You could make it a habit to follow your set_tx_note up with a save, but that's not ideal.
XMRPC
To tackle the issue for myself, I've started to write XMRPC, a POSIX-compliant shell script that allows you to interact with monero-wallet-rpc.
This way you can have the RPC continuously syncing in the background and interact when necessary.
In fact, XMRPC takes care of launching the RPC and also creates a wallet if you happen to be starting from scratch.
The tool is aggressive in that it doesn't require user confirmations. If you tell it to transfer, it will try to do just that - with whatever fee or delay the official Monero client suggests at the given moment.
It can be launched interactively as seen in the image or as "one-shot", where only the command passed as argument is executed (e.g. ./xmrpc.sh balance).
Support for labelling transactions has yet to be added, but some parts of XMRPC have already been powering the OpenAlias-service XMR.ID successfully for a while.
You can check out this first version, tagged 0.1.0-beta, at https://xmr.zone/sxmo-onfire/xmrpc.
Oh. XMR.ID is not an email service.
Names simply resolve to Monero destinations to simplify payments for the sender.
The two formats whatever@example.org and whatever.example.org were chosen by the designers of OpenAlias, the set of definitions XMR.ID builds upon.
The animations in the website's screenshots-section show XMR ID's in action.
Note that the email address requested at signup is used by the system to send further instructions.
The test for improved XMR ID sign-ups has concluded on stagenet and the form is now active for mainnet-registrations of "real" XMR ID's at https://xmr.id.
With this, the parts of the sign-up that do not require human interaction got a boost - while nothing has changed for active XMR ID's. The qualities of those are the same - regardless of when and how they were registered.
For those interested in the test's findings, here's a report for transparency.
If you'd rather be spared the details, feel free to head over to !xmrid@monero.town instead, where I publish tips and announce software aimed at making your Monero-life easier.
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Sign-up Test Report
Three major issues were encountered and taken care of:
DNS outage
Our provider for the xmrid.com (secondary) domain experienced a partial service outage. For a couple of hours the DNS wouldn't return any responses to queries.
Our internal monitoring reported the error at around 11 p.m. local time. Even though the primary domain xmr.id was unaffected, such issues are particularly stressful, as their resolution depends on a third party.
After resolution, the provider explained:
> "It was an issue with some domain updates that got triggered by adding records."
Spam detection
Some major email providers categorize messages from @xmr.id as spam, preventing further sign-up instructions from reaching the user.
There is the drawback of the new, form-based approach: Since you no longer message us first, your hoster doesn't know that our response is desired email.
At the time, the best way to handle such a situation is to send us an email or message on one of the other channels mentioned in the description box at c/XMRID.
Emoji support
A user tested the form with an emoji username - thereby reminding us that this "edge case" hadn't been automated by the time.
Adding emoji support demanded most of the resources since the test. It is now working with support for both, Unicode and Punycode submissions and as an added (internal) bonus it also led to establish a more efficient method for automated testing.
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Onward
I have decided to leave the stagenet form active for the time being, so that developers and curious users have a playground for testing OpenAliases in Monero. Note that I will clean up names every once in a while.
So, if you want to try an emoji just enter a heart 🧡, an animal 🦅, a ninja 🥷🏿, some flag 🏳️, your favorite ᚱune or a simple (anti-)smiley 😡 into the username field when filling out the form :)
Independent of the topic of registrations, there's an integrators guide around the corner. There are certain things that wallet devs can do to further secure XMR-ID use. Oh, and the guide will be accompanied by a tool for simplified Monero transactions that fans of "suckless" software are bound to love ...
Finally, a big thanks to all the testers who participated!
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(Note that none of the stagenet restrictions apply to "real" XMR ID's from https://xmr.id.)
As it currently stands, I suspect Haveno will be in the same situation as LM, legally.
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.
cross-posted from: https://monero.town/post/2936546
> While our XMR.ID stagenet test is about to conclude, I've taken the time to polish and publish another piece from my Sxmo collection - a set of tools that should help simplify your everyday Monero use on desktop, terminal and mobile. > > It's called units and is intended to be used as your main calculator and friendly companion for quick XMR rate-conversions. > > Details: https://xmr.zone/sxmo-onfire/units/ > > Feel free to report any issues. > > --- > PS: The first piece of the collection is codes, a means of monitoring gift card spending and balances. It was published in September and announced on XMR.ID's Matrix. >
Address reuse NOT being a problem in Monero is the reason this service can be provided in good faith.
Why is Monero address reuse not discouraged?
You can find further details in this Monero Stackexchange thread.
The time required depends on where you start. Someone who knows how to register a domain but has yet to read up on OpenAlias will probably need about an hour or two (if we do not take into account the hassles associated with DNSSEC with many registrars).
Then the cost of a privately registered domain starts at around 15 dollars per year, whereas the same is roughly the one-time price of a permanent XMR ID with two domains secured against each other (meaning that both, DUKETHORION.xmr.id and DUKETHORION.xmrid.com will return the same Monero destination). Wallets can opt to verify this.
Manipulation of any record would immediately trigger a notification to all affected users, leaving me with nothing but a destroyed reputation.
The most granular use I can think of is telling someone in-person to load your XMR ID on their device and then confirming what you see.
Coupled with a client that stores the result in a local address book - and compares it with the current DNS responses every time - even senders can be sure that they are still working with valid information.
(An extension to the official Monero client supporting this is in the works.)
It's from monero.graphics. It could use an extra dot, I agree :)
The theme resonated - especially in the context of OpenAliases - as I consider more personal and memorable Monero destinations an important factor in the context of building parallel economies, human to human, thus making Monero "greater" through use.
As we ramp up to celebrate Monero's 10th birthday, here's an opportunity to get acquainted with Monero ID's - easy and free!
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TL;DR: Fill out the form at get.xmr.id/form.html to get your very own stagenet OpenAlias.
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OpenAlias is great: You hand someone a simple domain name and their Monero client resolves it to a destination. No copy-paste, no QR-code scanning - just ready to send!
To make your life easier, XMR.ID provides this as a service.
Now with faster activation
Previously, setting up your "XMR ID" required significant manual intervention, that delayed the process more than necessary.
After a broad set of optimizations, new aliases are now typically ready-to-use within 15 minutes.
The new automations repect XMR.ID's design goal of avoiding web-based self-service, thus maintaining the previous level of security.
Wanna play?
Before enabling this new method in production, we will test in on STAGENET - a parallel Monero network that works just like the real deal, but with its funds considered worthless.
If you haven't used stagenet before, this may be a great opportunity for you to not only get acquainted with XMR ID's, but create a risk-free playground for your own experiments!
It takes about 5 minutes. At the end you will have an account that can receive funds at <yourname>.stagenet.xmr.id, filled with some zero-value Monero, ready to be sent around.
To try it, simply fill in the blanks at https://get.xmr.id/form.html (onion). No ninja-skills required - and you may contact me about any issues or inconveniences you encounter.
Hackers welcome
Put your white-hat abilities to the test, fool around a bit, probe and report any faults or security flaws if you want to help harden this part of the Monero ecosystem - or just do a speed-run and get your alias.
Your stagenet-alias
This test is set to run for a week, starting today, but your alias will remain active afterwards.
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Contact
Let's chat in our Matrix room #xmr.id:monero.social or message me directly at @f:monero.social.
c/XMRID is our place in town. There's also an email address. You'll probably run into it as you go.
Talk soon, f
Whenever someone would publish their experiences with AllArk on Reddit, the thread would get "downvoted into oblivion", with some people raising concerns of them themselves using bots to do so.
I also remember seeing an email log of a user "losing" a couple of hundreds to that same entity. I thought that was on monero.observer, but cannot seem to find it now.
Maybe someone else feels inclined to dig something up, but in general, just be very careful with what people recommend in the space. Most of the time they saw it mentioned somewhere and, with best intentions, just pass it on.
This is bad news for those of us who were not only looking to give old mobile hardware a longer lifespan, but simultaneously obtain privacy and security while doing so.
The arguments provided in the blog post are rather faint and give a vibe of "holding on to last straws", as other distributions and even BSD's have managed to run both GNOME and KDE fine, even before pmOS.
For readers unfamiliar with systemd's drawbacks, these resources can serve as good starting points:
without-systemd.org // nosystemd.org
Out of curiosity: Can you point to a log of the communication with the Alpine team?
My concierge-service test as mentioned in the interview at ~13:40:
https://safereddit.com/r/Monero/comments/eb0iie/how_i_bought_a_3d_cam_anonymously_and_got_it/
calling qualified developers
Hello, could you add the camera Sensor Support for: IMX519 please ? Found a Source here https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/blob/rpi-5.19.y/drivers/media/i2c/imx519.c
I would like to incentivize timely (1-2 months max.) implementation of pmOS camera-support for SDM845 devices by offering a bounty of 6 XMR (Monero, the digital cash). The intent to win the bounty has to be discussed here beforehand.
If supporting the entire list of devices implies significantly more effort than a subset, the minimum should be OnePlus and Shift. Details from comment:
> When one opens a camera application (like millipixels), the screen should show what the camera points at and capturing color photo and video of that content should be possible. It should run in a stable manner (meaning no anticipated crashes) and the required changes should be accepted into the postmarketOS edge branch.
If bounties happen to be against the ethos of the project, let me know.
On the contrary, I hereby invite others to chip in.
Comment if interested.