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Here is some advice for those of you who may strike it rich in the future using not–so–legal means:
There are some major differences between running a business on the surface and running one in the underground, and one such difference is restraint. Despite what you see in the media and pop culture of gang bangers and criminals getting rich, buying luxury cars and jewelry, and spending ungodly amounts of money on cocaine and hookers, if you want to survive in the long run, then you must learn restraint.
If you make 1€ million within the span of a few months and the proceeds are entirely unreported and originate from within the black market, then you obviously can't go ahead and simply report those funds. What some morons out there do is immediately cash out the money and spend it thinking they aren't far away from making yet another million. They buy fast cars, boats, trips to exotic countries, and all sorts of other nonsense that will without a doubt raise suspicion. This is particularly true if you previously only ever earned a small fraction of that sum within any given year. The tax authorities of your jurisdiction and maybe even other jurisdictions will note and log each of these purchases. If they see a fast car outside of your house, they will snap some photos, and catalogue all the evidence. Matter of fact, this is one of the use cases for Palantir's software. Think of the old school boards with pins and strings leading from one photo to another photo to some piece of documentation effectively establishing relations between different entities, activities, identities, and documents. Palantir's software handles precisely that function albeit digital and much more comprehensive. Each time you are buying some new luxury asset, you are unknowingly helping the government build a case against you.
There are also those who keep all crypto currency funds within the same wallet, which has to be one of the stupidest things you can possibly do, if you are being targeted by a state actor. Unless you are using well–established and vetted privacy coins, then all of those funds and their corresponding transaction history are ridiculously easy to trace. It is not just easy for state actors, but also for everyday nerds who take an interest in putting the pieces together themselves using entirely free and open–source software to do so.
Everything you do needs to be thought through. Each transaction you initiate, every connection you make, and every word you send over the internet leaves a paper trail. There are many who were caught precisely because of the sudden fortune they accumulated and other stupid mistakes which they could've easily prevented had they delayed instant gratification and didn't become lazy, complacent, and greedy. Simply making money on the darknet anonymously and keeping it there doesn't raise your risk nearly as much. One of the biggest bottlenecks is and has always been transferring funds and assets from the underground to the surface, because somewhere in there is a connection that leads back to you. While everything carries risk, transferring money from the surface into the underground isn't anywhere near as risky as transferring money from the underground to the surface — the latter of course is the entire point as to why many end up on the black market. They don't just want to earn money on the surface so they can spend it on the black market — they want to earn money on the black market and spend it on the surface. Fact of the matter is it is both risky and expensive to cash out and there are too many people who haven't been caught before and they are thereby under the illusion of being above the law or being such a genius that nobody will ever put two and two together.
If selling illicit goods won't get you caught, money laundering will.
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Reposting my reply to XMR Bazaar is a failed Experiment: http://xmrbazaar6wzcr3wvj4anpnfwv5tcikgdurtzzfba233g52fa2fjx3qd.onion/forum/topic/221/page/1/
> What do you expect? The Monero fanboys who are out there talking about using Monero in everyday life to buy coffee, donuts, and clothes are delusional. Monero is a crypto currency that will not automatically displace fiat currency no matter how hard people push it as a mainstream currency. The Monero economy is relatively small and the part of the users actually attempting to use it for everyday life is even smaller. Instead, it is largely dominated by digital services within the privacy, security, and darknet spaces. I like XmrBazaar and as someone who is building a platform that integrates with Monero as well (Not an eCommerce platform), I do appreciate all the work the devs have been putting into it. It is not easy especially considering the lack of resources and how confined we are within our own distant corner of the internet.
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> Based on my own research and activity within the field, there are two major and — more importantly — realistic use cases for Monero. The first is the darknet — buying goods and services anonymously as anonymity is a requirement and not optional for certain use cases. This one is pretty well established at this point. The second is using Monero as a proxy currency. This is already being done in a way as people buy gift cards with Monero, get others to buy items for them with Monero, and use other middlemen to access goods and services they could otherwise only purchase with fiat. The latter is something we are in desperate need of expanding. Instead of trying to artificially create demand, the smarter way of going about it is by filling the void in supply for existing demand.
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> How does that look in practice? Ordering affordable electronics anonymously, such as Google Pixels, Dell and Lenovo laptops, and desktop components; real proxy shops that will place orders on your behalf and ship them wherever you want them and in exchange you pay them in Monero; artists and other professionals providing legitimately good quality services; providing Monero payment gateways for existing vendors with their own websites or convincing them to provide their services on XmrBazaar in addition to their regular website. Those are just some of the examples I can think of.
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> You may be asking: Doesn't all this already exist? The short answer is no, not really.
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> Can you order Google Pixels and Laptops with Monero? Yes, but they are extremely overpriced just because they are preloaded with GrapheneOS. I would without a doubt buy most of my equipment with Monero, if they sold refurbished equipment. Why? Because there really isn't any good reason not to buy refurbished. They are substantially more affordable and looking at the current Monero demographic, it does not consist of trend chasers who need the latest and greatest hardware — it's people who desire function above all else.
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> Aren't there people offering proxy purchases? Yes, but not in all countries and you never know how legit the person on the other side is. They could be using stolen credit cards for all you know and next thing you know you get a visit from the police as they think you placed an order using stolen cards. This is a major risk and is currently only handled on a small scale.
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> Aren't there artists and developers who provide services for Monero? There are, but the artists either suck or they just use AI, which I could just as easily do myself in that case. The devs meanwhile have a limited reputation and, if you or the dev is an anon, then you have absolutely no recourse if anything goes wrong. This means you are either paying a premium for subpar work or you are getting conned in some way.
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> Aren't there already payment gateways for vendors, such as Cryptomus? Yes, there are, but there are a lot of vendors who know nothing about crypto, nor do they know how to even handle such an integration. Most of them aren't techies. Additionally, a big part of running a business is marketing and promotion. XmrBazaar could provide that marketing and promotion by listing services and products from those sites, which could be sold directly on XmrBazaar. This does require direct outreach to these vendors and much better marketing. Legit vendors are unlikely to sign up, if the homepage makes XmrBazaar look like another Black Hat eCommerce site.
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> There are many, many more things we need in the Moneroverse and some of these may be better as separate standalone services that could integrate with other software in the field, such as XmrBazaar or Trocador. There is a lot we need and it's important to focus on the things we do need.
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> As for those who keep complaining about the existing services, their design, or their lack of features, it isn't easy as a solo developer to actually build something and see it through. It requires significant experience and expertise that most users are unlikely to have. Most quality talent out in the world is also unlikely to forsake their comfy big tech corpo job earning 300–500k TC to build their own product within a niche space that may even give them legal headaches in the future. If they did want to build their own startup company, they would be in a much better financial and legal position, if they just kept it fully legit and on the surface.
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> The only people with the necessary expertise and experience left are diehard no–lifers who are mission driven more than money driven. There is a place for money in all this and I do hope all the people who legitimately care about Monero's purpose become rich as a result of their contribution, but it is not the primary driver for people who actually contribute within this space. They are driven by another purpose separate from money and they are willing to sacrifice the opportunity to attain a comfy high paying corpo job for the sake of pursuing something else. We don't have many of those people, so it's best to be supportive of them and learn to contribute yourself rather than insult them and their work.
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Release P2Pool v4.15.1 · SChernykh/p2pool https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool/releases/tag/v4.15.1
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