Have you ever convinced someone to pay with XMR? (monero.town)

submitted 3 months ago by edisondotme@monero.town to c/monero@monero.town

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Have you ever convinced a non-crypto person to use XMR?

The closest I've ever gotten was getting someone who was an eth investor to send some eth to a swap address so I could get paid in XMR for something I was selling on FB Marketplace.

I think probably more people would be willing to pay me in XMR but only if there was a dead simple and fast way of acquiring it and using it, which there isn't.

And then on top of that, it would probably have to be at a discount to offset the trouble for them.

Cake wallet's buy feature is not fast and simple and you have to KYC up the ass just to find out it doesn't even work.

The simplest way I thought of was to ask a buyer to meet me at a Bitcoin ATM so they could put their cash in the ATM and I make them send to my address.

Let's hear some success stories or failure stories, have you ever convinced regular people to use XMR? Whether buying or selling, I'd like to hear it.

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[-] edisondotme@monero.town 3 points 3 months ago

Me and my close friend would send each other crypto when owning up for stuff like paying the rest of the half of the food

Same, I almost convinced a friend of mine to start settling debts in crypto, but he later decided not to because he had heard that this could be a "taxable event" and wanted to be squarely obedient to the IRS.

Now lately it just carries this dark atmosphere of being used for bad and illegal services.

I explained how Monero could fix that, but he immediately said no because he had heard about "bad actors" using Monero. He wanted to use algorand. Some people don't want to be saved.