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update: Tidy up Cryptocurrency page and recommend places to buy Monero #2823

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List of changes proposed in this PR:

The main change is adding some recommendations for where to buy Monero. This a list of various reputable places with different requirements (Kraken: KYC ok; Cake Wallet: avoid KYC; RetoSwap: P2P and no country restrictions).

I also added some sub-headings for wallets and nodes and put the comments about Monero's resilience in a summary+detail box.

Finally, some cross-linking between the advanced/payments.md and the cryptocurrency.md pages.

I have just written this in Markdown so hopefully the end result will render correctly. Also happy for to make changes, this is just a first draft.

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Seems like the geographical restrictions admonition box and the footnotes are not formatted correctly. How do I fix it?

@friadev friadev marked this pull request as draft November 28, 2024 03:21
@eylenburg eylenburg marked this pull request as ready for review November 28, 2024 10:55
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Thank you for your suggestions! I kindly request that we wait until MAGIC Grants can do a legal review of proposed money/cryptocurrency PRs before merging, due to the sensitivity of some related laws. This is something we should get to this weekend or early next week. Thank you for your understanding!

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Thank you that's absolutely no problem.

By the way, Kraken and Cake Wallet are mentioned on the website currently (in advanced/payments.md and cryptocurrency.md respectively). Only Reto is new but seems to be the "go-to" recommendation in the Monero community since LocalMonero shut down.

@friadev friadev changed the title Draft: tidying up the Monero section and recommending some places to buy it from update: tidying up the Monero section and recommending some places to buy it from Nov 29, 2024
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@eylenburg please check to see if you have any questions or concerns with the changes. Thanks!

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The internal links for the Notices and Disclaimers page on each edited page are broken, which need to be fixed before merging.

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New website for Retoswap is online now: https://retoswap.com/

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The only minor suggestion I have for you is to replace the old RetoSwap URL with the new one you posted earlier.

Otherwise, this PR looks good to me. Thanks y'all!

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<details class="warning annotate" markdown>
<summary>Geographical restrictions when buying Monero</summary>

Kraken does **not** allow the purchase of Monero for customers from (1):

- _Europe_: European Union member countries, United Kingdom, Norway, Iceland, Russia, Belarus

- _Asia_: Japan, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan

- _Other_: Australia, Cuba, DR Congo

Cake Wallet and Monero.com **only** allow the direct purchase of Monero (through third-party providers) for customers from (2):

- _Europe_: European Union member countries, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iceland, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom (not on Monero.com)

- _North America_: Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, United States

- _South America_: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay

- _Asia_: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Israel (not on Monero.com), Lebanon, Maldives, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

- _Africa_: Algeria, Angola, Central African Republic, Kenya, Niger, Republic of the Congo, Seychelles, Sudan, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe

- _Oceania_: New Zealand

</details>

1. Last checked: November 2024. Country lists: [[1]](https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001368823-Where-can-I-use-Kraken-) [[2]](https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/support-for-monero-xmr-in-europe)
2. Last checked: November 2024. Country lists: [[1]](https://guardarian.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/80001151826-what-are-the-supported-countries-regions-) [[2]](https://docs.dfx.swiss/en/faq.html#which-countries-are-served-by-dfx)
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Is this really something we want to maintain a list of on the site?

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Yeah good point, might remove that part.

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