I just went to donate, but OpenCollective turned out to be cloudflared and therefore doesn’t let me pass (for originating from Tor).

Though I could steer around this and as much as I would like to financially support the project, I cannot, in good-conscience, support the use and propagation of the worlds biggest MitM attacker.

You are right.

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.

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.

Could you lay out the scenario you are contemplating?

Whenever someone would publish their experiences with AllArk on Reddit, the thread would get “downvoted into oblivion”, with some people raising concerns of them themselves using bots to do so.

I also remember seeing an email log of a user “losing” a couple of hundreds to that same entity. I thought that was on monero.observer, but cannot seem to find it now.

Maybe someone else feels inclined to dig something up, but in general, just be very careful with what people recommend in the space. Most of the time they saw it mentioned somewhere and, with best intentions, just pass it on.

The current design appears to rely on fees.

My concierge-service test as mentioned in the interview at ~13:40:

https://safereddit.com/r/Monero/comments/eb0iie/how_i_bought_a_3d_cam_anonymously_and_got_it/

As it currently stands, I suspect Haveno will be in the same situation as LM, legally.

This is heartbreaking news. LocalMonero enabled anyone capable of navigating Ebay to convert XMR.

Thank you, Alex & the team, for all those years of providing what is probably the best Monero-service of all.