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With localmonero shutting down, what would be the challenges of creating a federated version of localmonero? Traders and buyers can have accounts at different servers but still be able to trade each other and see each others' listings.

The pros i can see are: It would be harder to stop without a single point of failure, and brave server maintainers can host their services in different jurisdictions to prevent legal troubles. And it would be very difficult to prosecute server admins, as they aren't the creator but merely hosting a site.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The criminal bankers that control the state will label you as facilitating "unlicensed money transmission" or some other made up term and will put you in a cage.

A service allowing human rights such as free exchange cannot have an admin. Enter Haveno.

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

I’m thinking, only the prosecutors in america will go for this. Other jurisdictions have different laws and are more lax with the money transmission laws. Allowing localmomero to federate means people in america can still make trades in european servers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All other countries will do anything america tells them to do since they have the power to turn off their financial system.

Going forward any activity that threatens the bankers should be done on unstoppable decentralized services that use tor and or I2p. There should be no IP address associated with any server that they can go after.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The world is a large place and there are places which Uncle Sam's grubby hands cannot grasp.

Yes, a federated localmonero instance can have i2p & tor mirrors.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The world is a large place and there are places which Uncle Sam’s grubby hands cannot grasp.

The bottom of the Mariana trench?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Let me guess, you do nothing yourself and just wait for others to do it.

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

idk why i replied that lol. I was bored

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

i'm gonna save this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah that's Haveno. It uses TOR by default if you're more paranoid than normal

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Something that i can access on my browser, like lemmy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anything that you "can access on your browser" can and will be shut down.

Browsers and WebPKI are designed to guarantee this.

You're gonna have to let go of your browser obsession. Or just not get what you want. One or the other.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I was thinking that the federated structure of the fediverse is perfect for something like localmonero. No single point of failure, and naturally server admins will host their sites in jurisdictions more lax "money transmitter" laws

I do not have a browser obsession FYI. I'm thinking more of the normies. Localmonero was the perfect place to get some non-KYC monero & fiat. We gotta stop gatekeeping in monero land and think about the normies lol. We're doing this for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bisq and then change to XMR on other DEXes

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

Just use Haveno to buy XMR directly, way cheaper and quicker than dealing with bisq and BTC transactions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He wants a DEX which is easier to set up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Haveno is literally just a .exe you run. Looks like he wants a DEX with NO setup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess. LocalMonero was an online account

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

And what is easier to take down, a website or a decentralized network of nodes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I didn't ask the question lol. I'm just waiting for reto to be more mature before I step in. I wish Bisq would do XMR. Do you know of DEXes which would p2p swap bitcoin <-> XMR?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Reto has been working pretty well for me. Sure, startup can take a while but I've heard they are migrating all the seednodes to tor pow which should help with the ddos attacks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think we have that already. It's called 'Haveno'.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Also, i’ve been on haveno. Seems like it’s more active in europe. It’s not as active in the US from what i can see.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is like complaining that your new EV doesn't have a large enough gasoline tank.

Haveno is something much better than federated: it is decentralized.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

yeah, ok, cool. I was actually confused because I was already under the assumption that haveno was p2p decentralized and since you commented on my post, which was asking for a federated localmonero, that "we have that already: haveno" i got confused.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The site(s) should operate like Nodes in a peer to peer network over TOR, where it is impossible to trace it back. We need strong enough technology where bravery is not required, the same way that Monero has been designed, for a hostile environment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Haveno is close to what you're describing, it doesnt have federation yet, but it's discussed here https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno/issues/901

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Use Cake if you don't want to use Haveno

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

Since you're not asking about Haveno, the key question is, what are you trying to federate and what do you mean by localmonero?

This is what I liked about localmonero: (1) It had an easy to use web site -- this can be federated over onion; (2) it had many options (especially necessary if you're not using USD or EUR) -- federation reduces liquidity per mistance; (3) It had a reputation system for sellers -- this is hard to federate; (4) The arbiters have been proven over time to be trustworthy -- this may be impossible to federate without a reputation system.

So, IMO, your first task is to come up with a federated trust system for both arbiters and sellers. Once you have that, listings and trading can happen on any platform, even lemmy or nostr or Simplex or Haveno or something like robosats.

In my simpleminded approach, a wallet public key could have multiple reputations associated with it (e.g. seller, buyer, arbiter). There would have to be a way to confirm that sellers actually "sold" and "buyers" actually bought and arbiters actually arbitrated....I'm sure this could be done in a hidden ZK way by adding transaction IDs to the reputation . Could this be abused since a person can create multiple wallets and trade with himself? Sure, but that could also be done in localmonero and it did fall apart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you for your detailed answer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Is there a p2p web browser like bittorent with privacy? No? Then why look for half measures use monero and haveno? Be your own bank also means be your own server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Isn't there also a blockchain on which files and websites can be hosted? ipfs or something?