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The original was posted on /r/monero by /u/Character-House-1515 on 2024-10-24 05:50:43+00:00.
So, in the little time that I have known about Haveno (learned about it 3hrs ago), Ive seen quite a few complaints on Reddit from my little research, on the ease of use and complexity of Haveno.
I'm not sure where this sentiment is coming from, but the process is incredibly easy and straightforward. If anything, being able to open an app to connect to a DEX that is using the TOR protocol with pretty much just a few mouse clicks, is down right amazing.
Ive known about and have followed Monero about a year or two after its creation. By no means was I an avid user of it, but I would buy it here and there as payment for services I use (vpn service and stuff) or to buy goods off some special markets ๐. Up until recently I used LocalMonero for most of my buying. Today I found out that it is being shut down, I was devastated. This is what brought me to Haveno.
I was able to follow the guides posted here and elsewhere and get Haveno-reto up and running on my MacBook.
I played around a bit creating buy and sell orders to see how the system worked. Took a little figuring out what everything means and how it all works, but once you get over the initial unfamiliarity, it makes sense and, honestly, is incredibly simple and intuitive for what it is.
The biggest hurdle I can see for anyone is having a little bit of XMR on hand for the security deposit for the transaction. Luckily I had a few dollars worth of Monero sitting in a wallet that I used to pay for the deposit. I initiated the transaction, waited a bit, and sent the payment. Payment was received and the transaction was compelete. Took about 2mins from me sending the payment to receiving the confirmation. Got the Monero into my account and sent over to my external wallet shortly after.
All in all going from discovering the death of LocalMonero to buying Monero on Haveno, was about 2 hours, while being stoned.
If my dumbass can figure it out, so can most anybody. I understand that that these days one click proprietary apps that do everything without you ever having to touch the command line and simple website interfaces on a centralized KYC Exchange are the norm, but the freedom and anonymity that a DEX + Monero provides, requires only a modicum of extra effort than using the aforementioned services.
Anyways, thank you for coming to my Ted talk.