• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    Buying a product is actually rather easy. You’re just presented with an address and an amount and you can copy and paste that address and amount into your wallet and click send. You are also presented with a QR code where you can scan it and a lot of websites even present a open with wallet button that you click and it will auto fill in the address and amount necessary.

    • SparroHawc@piefed.world
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      10 hours ago

      You’re ignoring the fact that you have to:

      • get a wallet
      • make sure your wallet is secure
      • fund the wallet from a trusted source
      • back up your wallet

      Crypto is many things, but it isn’t exactly as friendly as a credit card provided by your bank. Or PayPal, for that matter.

      • Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        45 minutes ago

        Been a sec I used XMR, but getting a secure wallet was simply built into the desktop gui wallet (which is the default recommended option on getmonero.org). While getting that wallet it also tells you to backup the seed phase (preferably by printing it iirc). It has a simple mode especially for non-tech users.

        So installing the GUI wallet takes care of 3/4 points, then to fund it you just find any reputable crypto exchange that supports sending Monero in your region (I used kraken before in the eu). By design in Monero the platform (which does have to do KYC probably) doesn’t know anything about where they sent the money. Transactions are not traceable in Monero.

    • Noxy@pawb.social
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      9 hours ago

      your wallet

      what if I don’t have a “wallet”? the fuck is a wallet in this context anyways?