Curious I found spending Monero in the US rather limited. Has that changed?
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It's true, in the US at least, not many brick and mortar stores you can go to that accept Monero.
But shipped physical products and digital services online is a different story...I buy coffee, authentic maple syrup, grassfed beef, dairy products, raw honey, books, ammunition, VPN subs, email subs, alias email subs, burner phone number, and more with monero fairly often...
Spend Monero directly:
-monerica (massive merchant directory)
-moneromarket(dot)io
-kycnot(dot)me
...and Darknet Markets!
You can also buy gift cards with Monero, for just about anything, to fill the gaps:
-coincards
Thanks!
That's a better list than what I've seen on getmonero in ages.
Sorry for the many questions. I was wondering. I originally ran the node and gui wallet back in 2016 I think. I then moved to a node GUI Wallet with ledger device setup which allows me to use monerujo on android since it supported ledger. But Monerujo was a bit of a hot mess. I saw Cake Wallet but it didn't look like it supported hardware wallets. I then sold and got out 2019 (I know).
What wallet setup y'all like best?
No problem, glad to help if I can. I like to keep it simple. All I use is a software wallet for spending amounts (Liked Monerujo, but enjoying the newer "stackwallet" atm. Great UX imo.) on a phone (GrapheneOS) and also have a seperate cold storage steel plate seed backup of my savings.
These are probably the most popular and recommended software wallets in the community. Theyve come a long way since 2016/2019. All open source:
-monerujo (Android only)
-stackwallet (Bitcoin/Monero only version available - Android, iOS)
-cakewallet (Monero only version available - Desktop, Android, iOS)
-featherwallet (Desktop only)
-monero gui (Desktop only)
Ledger has always been dicey especially with the recent controversy. I think the only hardware wallet recommended right now is Trezor T model. Open source as well.
Alternatively, you can create your own cold storage:
1. Generate a seed offline
2. Generate a subaddress to save somewhere for depositing Monero into later (and/or turning the address into a QR code)
3. Etch the seed on steel plate backups (or steel washers + bolt method).
Optional: You can also use the view key for a watch-only wallet of your cold storage if you like.
If you are familiar with bitcoin SeedSigner there is a fork called "MoneroSigner" being worked on, but no ETA available.
You stack Monero only? Or Bitcoin too ?
If both, what would be your ideal stack split between them?
Thanks a lot for your messages, they are very useful!
Yes, I stack both Monero and Bitcoin. I couldn't tell you an ideal split. It would just be speculation. What I can say for sure is that Bitcoin has proven to be a better longterm SoV (so far).
Because of it's default privacy, simplicity, and very cheap tx fees I find myself mostly using Monero. It's a superior MoE. Too expensive, clunky, and potentially harmful to use Bitcoin all the time especially with coinjoins.
They complement each other well imo.
Glad you find my info useful!