I was inspired by this post to try to think in XMR instead of United States Dollar or any other fiat currency.

This user script will detect anything that looks like $XX.XX from web pages, and send it to the coinmarketcap api to lookup the current XMR price.

Privacy beware

You are sending any dollar value that appears in your browser to Coin Market Cap including values that might appear in your banking websites. If you don't want Coin Market Cap to know how much you have in the bank, then edit the script to only work on white listed websites or blacklist certain websites.

Be careful with using user scripts, do not trust me or anyone else that tells you to paste some code in a user script on your browser. Please read the source code, it isn't that long.

How to install

1. Install a user script extension such as Violent Monkey
2. Click the Violent Monkey button
3. New Script
4. Paste the code from the gist
5. Get a coinmarketcap api and paste it on the appropriate line
6. Save and close

Dollar values will now appear as XMR values!

Can this really be done? I had always thought that the inability to transact quickly offline would severely hinder usability and thus adoption, but if Monero transactions were as easy as using GPS, then the future looks bright.

You wouldn't really be transacting offline, just that you'd always be online.

Very cool, exciting to see.

Old news that I just happened upon. Open Collective manages donations for many open source projects. Their reasons for discontinuing crypto supports are all problems that XMR fixes.

So frustrating when people throw the baby out with the bath water here. Imagine Henry Ford with his Model-T.

You have to inflate the tires? You have to keep filling it with gas all the time? Only 10MPH? Yeah no thanks, we're banning your "auto mobile" project, this would never work.

This isn't even a good metaphor considering XMR already exists as a solution.