I think your podcast link might be broken.
Yes! That is possible, check out this guide. Pruned db is smaller but it will first do a full sync and then prune it so you still need enough storage for the "peak".
Haveno-reto.com has plenty of links to different guides and most bisq documentation and principles carry over to haveno.
https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno is set to stagenet but I don't know if there are any offers to take.
Reto has been working pretty well for me. Sure, startup can take a while but I've heard they are migrating all the seednodes to tor pow which should help with the ddos attacks.
Haveno is literally just a .exe you run. Looks like he wants a DEX with NO setup.
Thanks everyone who reported the comment. I should probably look into getting another admin or two on board.
Hm i see, you're right. Maybe because monero.town isn't your home instance? I might set the default to "new" if that's the case.
Just to make things clear, the Bitcoin ledger is entirely transparent so not actually anonymous. While it's technically possible to not get caught with bitcoin, it requires a ton of extra effort and if you mess up only once, you might retroactively link everything back together. In Monero there are some known attacks that could reduce your privacy but if you are aware of those they can be easily avoided. There's actually a whole youtube show on those.
Imagine extorting $50k from someone, you can see the bitcoin move from the extortionists wallet to a non-kyc instant exchanger and 30 minutes later a non-kyc instant exchanger sends $50k minus transaction fees to a Binance account. Doesn't exactly require breaking encryption that's been around for years to make the connection.
Doesn't really matter though. If he had held onto the Monero, he would have still gotten caught because he accidentally uploaded his /home directory with personal info and published it with his extortion-account when trying to upload stolen data.
Monero is the solution to this specific problem though? Acceptance is a different problem and can be solved by asking the org to accept Monero.
Be advised, openmonero has been "hacked" before and users lost funds held in the sites escrow. I highly recommend to use the decentralized Retoswap over this.