Gauging interest in making a community (here on monero.town) where sellers would be able to post their seller profiles, including:
- a min/max amount of xmr they have for sale
- any payment methods, currencies, or coins they accept
- communication methods they accept
- links to accounts on other sites with feedback, and any verification they choose to include
No escrow (unless buyer/seller want to arrange it). Buyers could post reviews on the seller threads.
It would allow buyers and sellers to have a place to find each other, along with all the information they need to make successful trades with established sellers. Buyers and sellers could complete transactions any way they see fit.
As someone already mentioned, try https://retroshare.cc
It is fully decentralized community software with forums, chat, BBS, and file sharing. It is too risky here as they might claim this site is conspiring to transmit money without communist permission.
I made a retroshare board/chat with a daily trade thread. If anyone is interested check it out and share:
retroshare://posted?name=XMR%20p2p%20sellers%20and%20buyers&id=fe3f6d34693bf689a6dd355f5e7c6142
Not sure how to even open this board link in RS, maybe you have to post your RS ID?
In the buildup phase of a true p2p network its necessary that nodes keep running idle to enable the gossip protocol. To collect peers.
This might seem inconvenient, but relying forever on “seednodes” makes the p2p net centralized. It is necessary for resilience as full nodes are for Monero. Same goes for Haveno.
The difficult part is to stick to running your node before the network effect kicks in - by then you can freely connect and disconnect to the p2p network. This bootup phase is crucial to understand. The app needs storage on your machine to remember the peers it finds.
Look at the network graph in retroshare: are you well connected to other peers?
Has anyone gotten the Retroshare App Image to work with Tails? I feel like I’m close. After I register and the app tries to connect to a retroshare node, I get a pop up with a hidden address and an onion address, but also says “Tor status: offline”. But I’m not offline. The hidden address is 9878:127.0.0.1: 27325; It seems like the port should be 9050, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to change it.
Retroshare has its own built in tor instance, you do not need to run it on tails. Retroshare needs to create an onion address because it needs incoming connections so it may by conflicting with tails.
Just run it on a normal OS and select (Hidden Node over Tor) and it will take care of everything for you.
to use retroshare-tor, simply do NOT start tails-tor on OS startup.
To run 2 instances of tor and avoid conflict:
tor -f /etc/tor/torrc.1
tor -f /etc/tor/torrc.2
Some hacking is needed for tails persistant storage also.
