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[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is why cryptocurrencies were created. getmonero.org

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

No, they were created to facilitate pyramid schemes and scams.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 2 points 6 hours ago

That's true for all non precious metal currencies.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Not originally, but they became the very evil they sought to fight against. Some are still holding onto the good fight, most just see it as a virtual online casino.

[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Cool, I'll keep transacting privately and uncensored with minimal fees, no middle man and predictable inflation with my pyramid scheme and you're free to stick to your surveilled, censored, ever inflating FIAT.

[–] gurnu@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What actual items or services are you buying with crypto? Trading and buying other crypto doesn't count, neither does selling the crypto

[–] Laser@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

If you haven't bought illicit drugs from a darknet market, you're doing crypto and possibly life wrong

[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

My VPN, VPS, phone bill, bunch of games and license keys, steam points, sms verification services all directly for crypto. I also buy gift cards to grocery stores, takeout delivery apps and the local equivalent of Amazon all for crypto and use them to do most of my shopping. Other things I used it for is donating to foss projects I use and some just for fun penny gambling/predictions. Once I even got paid in crypto for some freelance work I did. If you count the gift cards most of my spending is done in crypto, usually monero.

Have a look at monerica.com and xmrbazaar.com if you're looking for places to spend your crypto.

[–] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Buying gift cards, which are in fiat currency, defeats the whole point lol

[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

Obviously I'd prefer to pay in crypto directly but some of the stores I shop in don't accept it yet. In person I can pay in cash but shopping privately online is a different story. Gift cards are the next best option, and thanks to them I can use the self checkout scanner and online stores without my purchasing history being tracked. It also allows me to store my savings in a hard asset that can't be easily confiscated, frozen, inflated or stolen, that I can permissionlessly spend whenever I need to, that no one knows how much of or if I have, that if needs be I can flee the country with in an instant without worry that it will be sized or lost. And it gives me the freedom to not be at the mercy of the banking system and just take their debit card fee, debit card issuance fee, debit card replacement fee, transfer fee, deposit fee, overdraft fee, underdraft fee, too little money fee, account having fee, fuck you what you gonna do fee...

[–] gurnu@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Gambling/predictions" I bet most of your crypto goes there, eh? And no, I'm not clicking a link that says "money america" or "bazaar"

[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"Gambling/predictions" I bet most of your crypto goes there, eh?

No, I'm not rich enough to be wasting money and don't really enjoy feeling like my heart is going to jump out of my chest, gambling with literal pennies once in a blue moon is more of my style.

And no, I'm not clicking a link that says "money america" or "bazaar"

No worries, I'll post some screenshots for you.

Screenshots

[–] gurnu@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Those literally look like scam sites. How fucking dumb can cryptobros be???

[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 hours ago

Well, they're not. Monerica is just a repository with links and short description of monero accepting businesses and monero related stuff. Xmrbazaar is a p2p craigslist/facebook marketplace/ebay like service that uses monero instead of FIAT.

Example listing