they added the pair wow<->xmr directly so that's really cool so dont have to bother with btc or eth or usdt or whatever lol, directly xmr <-> wow, just awesome :3
and solo-mining wow is really cool, yall should try that solo-mining thing with wow, that's really cool too lol
Latest service reviews
NanoGPT
Positive
good service for llm subscription thing
would still recommend to self host for people that can
like, as of this review Qwen 3.6 works well locally
(soon Qwen 3.8 with openweights should be released as well)
else if lots and lots of hardware, Kimi K3 can be self hosted as well
but if cant be self hosting, then even Kimi K3 is listed on nano-gpt
also, as of their service name thing, they started as a service for the cryptocoin nano in the first place, but monero is what's being used the most on there nowadays, so great adoption from monero community there 👍
This is a good service, which has been around for a while.
The review stating "Forces you to disable VPN to claim the card. HONEY POT SCAM!!" is a misunderstanding. Stealths allows you to buy the cards over a VPN or Tor, Cryptomus doesn't block this. It's when you go to redeem the card from the 3rd party site that this is required. This is true for every prepaid card out there. Remember, you are going into fiat when you buy this and that's why you need to be on a residential IP.
You got caught posting fake AI Generated positive reviews to your monerica listing, do not use this service.
Owner reply
Monerica reviewed this and has now acted: the note has been removed, both
reviews were deleted, and the listing is back to Admitted status. Anyone can
check it directly: https://monerica.com/site/ghostvps
We did not post or commission those reviews. Monerica also told us the two
reviewers had supplied XMR transactions with them, so they may have been real
customers who used an AI tool to write their text. We did not ask for anyone to
be penalised for that — we asked for the note attributing the reviews to us to
be reconsidered, and said we would rather show no rating at all than one we
cannot vouch for.
We have not solicited reviews on any directory and we will not. Fair criticism
is welcome and stays up.
Discussed openly in our thread here as well:
https://monero.forum/thread/ghostvps-anonymous-vps-pay-monero-no-kyc-intro-ama-1
XMRVCC
Negative
i just doing a petty review on that one, while i havent even tried the service, it's probably working tho lol
and if their service is actually working as intended then would be better than the cake team i guess? LOL, i mean, since literally got scammed by cake for "no KYC credit card thing" but ended up getting shotgun KYC'd, so maybe that xmrvcc service would be even less scammy than cake somehow
still leaving negative review cause all their threads are like AI generated and it's pissing me off reading AI emojis everywhere and all of that, that's just cringe
and their only "postive review" on this forum is from someone that hasnt even been active for some reason and it's the only review they posted, so red flag of self reviewing themselves, might not be the case
they have positive reviews on monerica tho
but the AI generated slop thread pissing me off so negative review for that
Xmrsim very good website and worked well recommend
XMRSIM
Negativebeing dismissive about actual concerns regarding new centralized services and ghosted someone that did a lenghty post reviewing all of the esims providers
this service forum thread:
https://monero.forum/thread/xmrsim-buy-anonymous-esim-plans-monero-no-kyc
the thread from user they ghosted:
https://monero.forum/thread/tested-no-kyc-esim-providers-actually-take-monero-notes-what-works
XMRMatters
Negative- centralized
- closed source
- had to be called out for mislabelling himself as a "DEX"
- lied about "localmonero leaving an empty void that needed to be filled"
(while an actual opensource DEX finally went live at the time of closure) - using "LLM for formating" on their forum threads...
all redflags from honeypots, might not be one, but would not recommend to anyone that i care about their safety, especially when they're handling data as SENSITIVE as actual home addresses, bank account information and so on...
too much corporate slop nowadays about "no ip log no nothing, user privacy yaddy yadda", just meaningless corporate slop speak while they're handling the most sensitive informations for individuals
for actual opensource solution that could definitely need more contributors:
https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno
which at the time of writing, the working network for it would be:
https://github.com/retoaccess1/haveno-reto
those github links are the type of technologies that could be improved and use more dev resources on these
XMRMatters and recently an other one "xmrpool" are literally corporate slop honeypots wannabes
to be expected to have more of these spawning and trying to normalize and desensitize people to using centralized services (even when the decentralized options already exist for those)
Monerica is the go to directory resource for sites and services that accept Monero.
MynymBox
Positive
Good experience with domain name on MynymBox. They didn't respond to my ticket, but it wasn't related to my domain and wasn't an issue. I still wish they responded at least saying something or closing, though. Hopefully they would respond if somebody had a problem.
privacy 8/9
Monero 9/9
vibecheck 8/9
transparency 8/9
branding 9/9
reputation 9/9
memorability 7/9
recommendability 9/9
total
67/72
93%
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A tier
5 stars
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XMR.CARDS
Positivexmr.cards been a great alternative to bitrefill, since it accepts xmr natively and bitrefill doesnt, hopefully it keeps being as consistent as it has been so far, would recommend
:thumbup:
MI
Minimal.Blog
Positivepretty cool website for minimalist blog, minimalism is nice, i like it
there's a free plan which is totally fair and does the job
and the paid plan which is totally affordable for more features
:thumbup:
Servers Guru
Positive
one of the best out there, very affordable compared to other monero accepting vps providers, but they seem to resell hetzner.
Servers Guru
Positive
i used them around 3 months, it was good experience so far. whenever i need something, tech support helped me very quick (25 port for email) prices also better most of other alternative.
Monerica has been my go-to source for products that I can purchase with XMR for the past several years. The sites recognition in the community is unsurprising and it's a credit to their dedication of expanding the peer-to-peer economy within the Monero ecosystem. From personal experience, my vps I use regularly was found because of this directory as well as a precious metal dealer.
XMRVCC
PositiveI've used single use vcc's and giftcards , it was fast and clear delivery.
Bought 200$ worh single use vcc and 100$ giftcard both of them worked very well.
Thanks for service.
Stealths
NegativeForces you to disable VPN to claim the card. HONEY POT SCAM!!
One of the best instant exchangers I highly recommend.
Owner reply
Thanks a lot for the recommendation! We’re glad you had a smooth experience with PegasusSwap. We truly appreciate your support and look forward to helping with your next swap.
Monerica is the best resource for the Monero community :)