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  • Don’t have to be in zero G. Just make a large enough structure to spin slowly and generate a little bit of gravity through centrifugal force. The moon’s gravity at about 16% should be enough to make things move in the correct directions while not being crazy high. Not only that, but we get to experiment on a bunch of rich fucks, because we know that zero-g is not good for the human body, and we know that one-g is fine for the human body, but we know nothing about long-term exposure to different g-forces, such as the moon’s gravity. By doing that we might find out that the moon’s gravity is perfectly serviceable for humans or we might find out that there is still problems and that higher gravity is needed.











  • Yep, with the security deposit system, the Monero buyer does not get the Monero until they have paid. And the security deposits mean people are less likely to try to run away from a trade and not pay. Zero deposit offers do exist, but the seller is the only ones who can create those. And so they can choose to not do those if they wish.

    Getting a smaller quantity or using a higher risk payment method does generally mean a higher premium.



  • In Switzerland, yes, you absolutely can walk into a grocery store and pay with Monero at the checkout counter. In the United States, you can buy an Instacart gift card and get the grocery store to deliver your food or go pick it up and pay with Monero.




  • There just aren’t many small peer-to-peer traders yet, but that will occur over time, and Kraken in the EU did have to stop selling Monero, but at least Kraken in the United States still does, although as I said I don’t expect that to last long. Don’t get me wrong, there are some small peer-to-peer traders on reto. Just not many.



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    I have been buying my groceries with Monero since January of 2023. And I’m still alive, so it must work. Otherwise I’d be long dead of starvation.

    Edit: I have found that the absolute most difficult things to pay are the things that require a direct ACH transfer such as your car payment, credit card bill, or mortgage. If anything at all accepts a debit card, it can be paid for with crypto.




  • The biggest problem with doing it that way is you have to go from fiat into Bitcoin, and then you have to go from Bitcoin into Monero, which incurs Bitcoin’s network fees, which currently are not high, but can spike to ridiculous levels very quickly. Also, just as of yesterday RetoSwap has just done a higher monthly volume than bisq for the first time. I expect them to duke it out with each other over the next couple of months before RetoSwap comes out ahead all the time.


  • One of the very few KYC exchanges that has Monero is Kraken and I really don’t expect that to last all that long so you either have to buy something like a stablecoin on an exchange and then do an instant swap from that to Monero or you can just buy Monero directly with Fiat on https://retoswap.com/. That’s a software that you download to your computer that lets you exchange in a decentralized manner between Fiat and Monero.