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fullmetalScience

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It does make sense that the tables are for Monero-exclusive applications. Loaded GUI’s lead to user confusion and thus errors.

Think absolute beginner: “I installed that secure app you recommended and bought <thatothercoin> and happily transacted and now you say that wasn’t secure?!”

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According to my recent test, the premium was 4.7 percent compared to spot rates, hence their pricing is not competitive and Bitrefill remains without a serious contestant. There you’d only pay the ~0.5% fee for going through an instant exchange in order to have your XMR arrive as BTC.

EDIT: Now, a day later, I did another test and got percentages from 1.8 - 2.0 % which is much more reasonable.

Hint: To quickly get the hidden fees of any purchase, execute units like this: ./units.sh '<xmr-cost-at-checkout> XMR' '<EUR|USD|...>' or ./units.sh '<xmr-cost-at-checkout> XMR / <value-in-fiat> <EUR|USD|...>' '%' for the total percentage asked.

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Adding the image seems to have removed the original URL … while maintaining the link’s description. I suspect a bug (@admin?).

In any case, I’ve added an explicit link at the end of the original post.

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For those seeking to trade more efficiently on the platform, I just published a tool for updating TradeOgre-orders from the command line: Terminal-Interface to TradeOgre

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Curiously, most ended up preferring a less readable XMR ID, leaving many common and given names available.

Maybe this is because nowadays we tend to assume the good ones online to be taken - so it’s actually a great idea that you point that out! Let’s see how it affects the trend.

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It’s a command-line interface that allows you to do “anything Monero”. You will find details in the linked resources and can get a better idea by looking at the screenshots.

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more aliases are available to register

This one is technically not true until you add Punycode support - and only if you manage to remain below XMR.ID’s user count by that time :D

(Without Punycode, staying RFC-compliant, and applying XMR.IST’s restriction of 30-characters max, we could provide roughly a count of 30^37-1-<amount of users>, but even if we had a 10-chars limit, the number would still be unfathomable.)

Welcome to the space - it feels less lonely now!

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In personal discussions, people of such credentials confirmed that they also just “trust the [academic] process” and “don’t have time” to check the foundations of their convictions. And that they didn’t know, but “there surely was someone specialized” who does.

More clearly, in this context, saying you trust your mate is equal to saying you trust your recorder that is replaying the cassette that someone happened to have left in it.

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Personally, when I opened the link yesterday, I wondered if I was looking at a product for 4-year olds: Big round shapes, bright colors, … and nothing that would give me a clue about what I am actually looking at.

I might simply not be in it, but who’s the target audience here?

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Oh. XMR.ID is not an email service.

Names simply resolve to Monero destinations to simplify payments for the sender.

The two formats whatever@example.org and whatever.example.org were chosen by the designers of OpenAlias, the set of definitions XMR.ID builds upon.

The animations in the website’s screenshots-section show XMR ID’s in action.

Note that the email address requested at signup is used by the system to send further instructions.

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