I am new to using Monero. What are the rules to moving anon. and safe with Monero. Safest exchanges, Wallets, and sources to spend online would be ideal. How does one turn cash into crypto. Debit cards possible or surrogate spenders?
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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I don’t know how safe this is, but what I do:
Spend it where you can, not many places. BTCPay server, which can be self-hosted, supports it, so there are options.
there’s a surprising amount of sites where you can buy gift cards with Monero, for a lot of services. there’s also a few where you can buy a prepaid card
I would rather not use KYC even for low-sensitivity transactions. Because I am afraid of such sensitive info leaking. Sure, I do KYC for things like phone service already - but would avoid it at any cost where it can be done.
Do people not trade at meetups anymore?
To be safe: paper wallets.
The rest: YMMV
coinatmradar lists ATMs.
have someone used those crypto atms?
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There’s as well !monero!monero@lemmy.ml which I guess halted in favor of !monero!monero@monero.town?
If this is the case, I’m wondering why not locking the community, writing a message in the community information to go to the actual active one (!monero!monero@monero.town)…
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The official Monero website has some good recommendations. There’s always the option of using cash (etc.) to buy Monero from one of the decentralized exchanges, but you may have to interact irl.