My 7a being $300 was already very expensive for me. None of those prices are acceptable for a phone of all things.
My 7a being $300 was already very expensive for me. None of those prices are acceptable for a phone of all things.
At least in some places, having open wi-fi without KYC is illegal, so the neighbors aren’t going to do this - passwordless is not the default.
It was soon after Samourai arrests, so apparently the owners got scared of potential cryptocurrency crackdown and legal pressure. Its closure was pretty abrupt.
Localmonero died recently :( Haveno is the one that is taking its place.
I avoid KYC exchanges at all cost. I am less concerned about law enforcement in this case and much more about leaks.
Your supermarket accepts payments in cash, which is better anyway.
(I say as someone who pays for certain services in Monero)
In the case of GOS in particular, it is made ridiculously easy by the web installer though.
That’s why here, giving a student a laptop without supervision is unthinkable… Good if the school has computers at all anyway.
Correction. Briar is true p2p, while Simplex relies on servers - but said servers can be hosted by anyone and interoperate.
Not even that. Go set it up even with a phone number but without a smartphone.
Let’s just say my mom would not be able to do that.
And effectively cannot be selfhosted.
The problem is actually further - it’s that they push people to use Signal on mobile.
In the official desktop client, there is no option to register (even though it would likely be not that hard to add a box accepting a verification code), they tell you to use it in the mobile app instead. All while far from all phones can have privacy-respecting OSes installed on them at all.
Yes, there are ways around (Signal-cli or an Android VM - and even then you have to use Molly since the official client requires you to scan a QR rather than following a link). But arbitrarily directing people to a platform that is harder to make private is nonetheless weird.
Or just a gray sim registered to a rando, at least here they’re still illegally sold. The ones on silent link are e-sims, afaik you’d have to enable google services to manage it.
Seems like there is nuance though.
Yea, IIRC XRay is the most advanced solution for that now.
There is also sshuttle if you want to route everything through SSH, but not tried personally.
it’s just a way to reward volunteers
Yea, but creating a node requires a BIG initial stake. So wonder how likely it is that you’d at least break even with this.
My issue is effective impossibility to selfhost. XMPP, Simplex, even Matrix are very possible to run on your own, while a Session node would be insanely, arbitrarily expensive (requires around $1000 now, IIRC used to be more). A hobbyist like me and you would not want to pour this much into something they provide out of the goodness of their heart.
Seriously, if you have this much disposable money, you’d be better off running a few Tor nodes in various places).
Well, there are enough public XMPP or even Matrix servers, so doesn’t seem THAT unlikely…
Also the size. My “a” was already at the edge of being usable with one hand, while Pro is even bigger. Plus - the "a"s don’t have glass backs, unlike the Pro and even the normal ones.