Is there a respectable email service provider that takes Monero in lieu of having to sign up with personally identifying info or a pre-existing email address?

apotheon: maybe riseup.net or disroot.org

riseup requires an invite code and disroot seems to have massive wait times for by-hand processing of accounts, at least, and I don't see any evidence of Monero payments offering any benefits or perhaps even being accepted

In fact, it seems like they pretty much just shut down the ability to even initiate an attempt to sign up on weekends and holidays at disroot.

weird

a web-based service that closes on the weekends

apotheon: registered on disroot approved in 24-48h, not sure.

you actually want to pay for a good mail?

I want something that will not be rejected by various services as a usable email address for signing up, but offers a way to sign up essentially anonymously (e.g. in a browser over Tor without having to, for instance, provide another email address during signup).

. . . and I'm trying to avoid ProtonMail.

If I have to pay, I'd like to pay with Monero so payment doesn't serve as a way to pierce the veil of privacy.

what about cock.li?

hmm

Could that, for instance, be used to get a gmail account? (just as an example of being usable to sign up for various services)

think they're hosted with floki, been around for a while. think they've closed free registrations due to too much spam.

not sure how gmail treats cock.li mails

hmm

or just make your own mail server on a vps paid with monero for 3$ :)

cock.li apparently requires an invite code

I'm not especially interested in becoming a sysadmin for this.

maybe somebody around here has a cock.li invite, wait and see

It seems deeply weird that there's no "you need nothing but a Monero address from which to pay your bills" email service.

hmmm.. :)

Maybe I should pseudonymously create an email service with a group of shadowy figures around the world I don't know.

wheefun

the problem, of course, being that I don't want to be a sysadmin

^^^ +1

. . . and my experience of small-time operations like this is that, if I'm not prepared to do *everything*, ultimately *nothing* gets done.

I wouldn't pseudonymously try to drum up some co-conspirators on Libera Chat, either, of course, because it effectively prohibits real anonymous use of the IRC network.

It's kinda disappointing that Monero conference registrations seem prone to requiring a bunch of name/email/address/etc. information, though (having never run an event bigger than a free, informal roundtable meeting) I suppose there might be some legal requirements around that for being able to secure a venue and avoid someone ending up in court.

disappointing, but not necessarily the fault of the people running the events, I guess

good day everyone.

Just an update, I "seem" to be mining with my extra laptop at a blistering pace of 947 H/s using 3 threads. i maybe can retire in the year 3034. But it is a lot of fun just being able to do it.

i am using the Monero GUi wallet, and i have ./monerod running in a terminal window. Quite boring to watch. But all my system commands return that I am actually mining.

can someone tell me advantages to using xmrig to mine, vs the monero wallet?

It's faster.

hi moneromoo. tHank you. so do i download the binaries, input my wallet info, and run it? thats it?

Yes. Address only, no keys, ofc.

how does the wallet sync with xmrig? Or are they completely separate? once I get a payout, then my wallet has Monero in it...and xmrig does its own thing by itself...correct?

you may want to look into p2pool

@dont_thread_on_me thank you, yesterday I was talking about that pool. let me get some more experience solo, then I am really okay with P2Pool.

how to do check xmrig is using my wallet address?

okay...did some reading, and voila....found out how to add wallet address in json config file. Thank you, though!

until tomorrow....everyone take care!

same!

Is the official GUI compatible with Apple's M1 hardware?

I'm not really seeing much online. I've been running the GUI on intel hardware for years

I see builds only for amd64

you should try to compile it yourself

I'd prefer to just know before I buy an M1 machine :)