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Im looking to buy monero privately, and so i want to remove myself as much as possible. the easiest way to buy some on localmonero.co is thru paypal. i was looking to use google voice maybe? just make a new gmail for it? idk tho, what yall think?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How do you use this on iOS?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

JMP is compatible with any XMPP client. However, this iOS app was linked on their website: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/snikket/id1545164189

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

get a burner phone and have a homeless person pay for it with cash... so you dont get on cameras (make sure you dont bring it home, dont have your regular phone next to it, dont drive with it while its ON, avoid all cameras, etc..)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

It really depends on where you are located. Some jurisdictions allow activation of SIM cards without personal info, some do not. Then there's the matter of physical and financial surveillance.

But seriously, unless you are actually that desperate for some reason, why would you have a hobo pay for a burner phone? Wouldn't that being recorded on camera be more suspicious?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you checked out Bisq?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

yea I'd have to buy I've $100 tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

just don't link id to your number and don't activate it near your home

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I need to give google my phone number for it. won't let me make a google account without

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

you can make a google account without a phone number by using an android 4 device.
also what i nean is you can just get a sim card from a normal carrier or any reseller (go with resellers if possible, like small kiosks/grocery stores that resell sim card boxes).
This may not work in countries sith mandatory id verification for phone numbers tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

don't have another ohone, could I just emulate one on PC?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

ik google and privacy dont go together very well lol. ideally free? but privacy costs money so it is what it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

what exactly are you trying to do? you are being very unclear

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

get a phone number not linked to my name that i columns use for a PayPal and whatnot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

to them buy monero? why not just do monero for cash? you're over complicating

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

idk bit of a hassle to meet up with someone and I don't trust the us postal system with cash in an envelope

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

do a postal money order or something. anyway you're making this way over complicated. but you do you.