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 What's the best place to buy XMR if you're in the US? I'm okay with buying from an exchange and immediately moving to self-custody. #XMR #Monero 
 Swaps on stack duo are pretty great.  
 Ladies and gentlemen, the winning answer!
Stack Duo is my new favorite app 
 what is the backend for their swaps? 
 Good question... 
 I'd get BTC and flip it on Bisq. 
 You could set up haveno-reto.com or bisq.network 
 I was pretty impressed with Haveno-reto tbh

its a lot simpler than Bisq i think
feels more lightweight 
 Cake wallet has an integration with OnRamper right now. But I second the Haveno-Reto option 
 Yea I started clicking through the onramper thing in Cake and was like, "hang on a minute..." And came here 
 I’m surprised that there is any exchange left for Americans. I thought we were already at Haveno Reto being the only option 
 I didnt go through the whole flow. Might get stopped at the end due to region 
 Fiat buys?

Large amounts OTC
Small amounts Haveno-reto 
 If you don't care about KYC then probably Kraken

If you want to buy it directly with fiat P2P without KYC then Haveno-Reto, or indirectly through Bisq/Robosats

https://haveno-reto.com/
https://bisq.network/
https://dex.robosats.com/ (use Tor browser) 
 Ive got it connecting to a node on my LAN rn and it starts pretty fast 
 Could try that. Thanks 
 Looks like something to be careful about though. 
I see in the chat that somebody had a problem when they set it to an inaccessible node and the application wouldn't open. 
 That's not good. Guess the only way to get access again if this happens is a reinstallation.
Would be better the app would switch to reachable nodes after a long enough time without connection. 
 it looks like if you mess up the config you can force the node with:
/path/Haveno --xmrNode=192.168.1.1

but the user said it won't actually take a comma separated list of IPs like the "custom nodes" field says it will

¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ 
 That's a better way than doing a complete reinstall 
 yeah

looks like the guy didn't get the memo about that in time and ended up doing the reinstall
sounds stressful 
 You need to use --xmrNodes not --xmrNode for a node list 
 Could try that. Thanks 
 Looks like something to be careful about though. 
I see in the chat that somebody had a problem when they set it to an inaccessible node and the application wouldn't open. 
 That's not good. Guess the only way to get access again if this happens is a reinstallation.
Would be better the app would switch to reachable nodes after a long enough time without connection. 
 it looks like if you mess up the config you can force the node with:
/path/Haveno --xmrNode=192.168.1.1

but the user said it won't actually take a comma separated list of IPs like the "custom nodes" field says it will

¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ 
 That's a better way than doing a complete reinstall 
 yeah

looks like the guy didn't get the memo about that in time and ended up doing the reinstall
sounds stressful 
 You need to use --xmrNodes not --xmrNode for a node list 
 That's not good. Guess the only way to get access again if this happens is a reinstallation.
Would be better the app would switch to reachable nodes after a long enough time without connection. 
 it looks like if you mess up the config you can force the node with:
/path/Haveno --xmrNode=192.168.1.1

but the user said it won't actually take a comma separated list of IPs like the "custom nodes" field says it will

¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ 
 That's a better way than doing a complete reinstall 
 yeah

looks like the guy didn't get the memo about that in time and ended up doing the reinstall
sounds stressful 
 You need to use --xmrNodes not --xmrNode for a node list 
 it looks like if you mess up the config you can force the node with:
/path/Haveno --xmrNode=192.168.1.1

but the user said it won't actually take a comma separated list of IPs like the "custom nodes" field says it will

¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ 
 That's a better way than doing a complete reinstall 
 yeah

looks like the guy didn't get the memo about that in time and ended up doing the reinstall
sounds stressful 
 You need to use --xmrNodes not --xmrNode for a node list