DISCLAIMER: NOT TRYIING TO TROLL/RAGE BAIT I AM GENIUNLEY CURIOUS.

I find the best way to know which coin offers better privacy is to analyze what criminals use to conduct business. After all if a criminals financial privacy and transactions are compromised that can be the difference between freedom and life in prison.

When analyzing popular market places for illegal goods and services, monero is by far the more popular method of payment. If you don't believe me access the dark web yourself check out 10 popular marketplaces for illegal transactions and you will see for yourself how monero is more popular.

Here's my question: Why is Monero the preferred method of payment if you guys argue Z cash is the better privacy coin? Are you saying that all these criminals are wrong? I am genuinely curious!

EDIT: Nobody has answered my question directly. I think this speaks for which coin is more private :).

I’ve been working on a project called PikaSim to help people stay private while traveling or using mobile data.

The goal is to give Zcash more real-world utility without forcing users to go through a centralized exchange or reveal their identity. We accept Shielded Zcash (ZEC) directly for all our eSIM plans.

I’d love to hear your feedback on the checkout flow or if there are other Zcash-specific features you think I should add.

I'm thinking about mining Monero in the future. I want something truly untraceable for people to be able to do w.e they want. I think this should logically be much more attractive in the future than BTC.

...geyser doesn't even have 100k sats, not even $65 worth of BTC.

- https://geyser.fund/project/helpvzla2026/
- https://kuno.anne.media/fundraiser/4wwb/

Yes, both went live at the same time and day...

- Related: https://x.com/rottenwheel1/status/1792578560399433732
- Nitter: https://xcancel.com/rottenwheel1/status/1792578560399433732

Discuss.

Have you guys had any success introducing Monero to friends and family? I find it a little bit hard to get people to use it as there is no "easy" way to get it if you are a complete noob and have never used crypto before. Bitcoin is so much easier to convert people to, but Monero im struggling..

Do most people here use it as money or do you mostly hold? Personally i for the most part use it as savings, and i pay for vpn with it. Curious about others!

This is the weekly Monero market thread. This thread will be posted every Friday and is meant to help accelerate the adoption of Monero. Due to r/moneromarket having only a fraction of the subscribers of r/Monero, we have decided to create this thread to encourage more individuals to use Monero for product exchanges. Until the market matures, we recommend that the Monero community post their products both in this thread and on r/moneromarket (to ensure growth of that subreddit).

Selling items for Monero will boost your (and Monero's) reputation as a legitimate form of exchange of goods. This is necessary for the growth of Monero, our community, and privacy as a whole.

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Finally, credits to cdotsubo for starting the concept!

I travel a lot, so would be fun to start decorating the places I visit (within reason). https://tuxstix.com/product/monero-xmr-stickers/ would be perfect but it is only EU for shipping. https://monerosupplies.com/ also would have been perfect but they seem to redirect to Trocador for some reason now.

Hello,
I use xmr solely for purchases (I don't invest), and value both privacy and convenience. Since last time I bought xmr, things have changed. I used to buy btc on Coinbase, send it to a different wallet, convert it on an exchange, and send it to a mymonero wallet that I worked from.
A half year has passed since I last purchased, and during that time, it seems mymonero ended and folded into Cake (I was able to transfer my remaining xmr to Cake). When I went back to Coinbase to buy my btc, there are a bunch of messages about "confirming my tax status," which I don't like the idea of (I am in USA).

Within Cake, it appears that I can buy xmr with usd directly via Kraken, but they seem to want all my personal information, which I'm not excited about. On the other hand, transferring between all the different wallets and the exchange I used was kind of a pain in the ass. So, should I "confirm my text status" with Coinbase and do all the transferring like I used to, or buy straight from Kraken within Cake?

Thank you for your help!

Is there any reconsideration happening around RandomX now that memory prices are becoming prohibitively expensive? The purpose behind a memory-heavy algo was to ensure cpu farms with little memory are at a disadvantage and something like a gaming PC could remain competitive. I see a new problem this past year of large centralized orgs buying up all the RAM and squeezing the little guy, make RAM more of a luxury and less of a commodity. We all know big tech is inherently a surveillance business. So, how much hashrate could these hundreds of data centers reach if they saw Monero as a network to disrupt?

I would like to buy a prepaid Visa or MasterCard through Cake Pay with XMR to pay for a service online that uses Stripe. I've read from another post here that the Visa option has a pretty thorough KYC process, but I'm not sure what that would entail. Has anyone used these before? Here are the USA options (but I can probably choose to purchase for any country?)

- Visa Reward Virtual Account (no website listed)

- Virtual Promotional Prepaid Mastercard (MyPrepaidCenter.com)

- Swype Global Virtual Mastercard (www.swype.cards)

Has anyone used these, and would there be any issues using with Stripe, and does anyone know the KYC requirements? I don't mind putting in an email and/or physical address but I don't want to use a phone, and I use a VPN and would want to also during activation.

Any other recommendations to transfer XMR to a prepaid card would also be appreciated. Thanks!

Okay, so....I used a crypto fee calculator to estimate the fees for buying LTC, converting it to XMR on Cake Wallet, and then sending it to another XMR wallet. My goal was to end up with $62 in the final wallet, but I only received $58. The system appears to have miscalculated the fees, even though I specified the exchange I was using on Cake Wallet (MP), since it had the best rate at this time & typically always does for LYC to XMR swaps on cake.

Since the minimum LTC purchase on Cake is $20, I’d like to know the best way to buy a small amount of LTC or XMR so I can transfer it through Cake and end up with the full $62 I originally planned for. Only looking to end up with $4 in the final wallet. So accounting for fees, I want to buy about $10 in LTC and transfer it to cake to then swap.it for CMR for swap to it's final wallet. Is coinbase My best option? I'd prefer not to have to make an entirely new wallet and write down and store another group of seeds and phrases on paper & one of My encrypted thumb drives.

Sorry if this is a stupid question to some, despite having a degree in nano material science, you'd be stunned how ai even managed to get a bachelor's in that field considering how absolutely horrendous I am in regards to mathematics.

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