Too bad, good thing we have a high-quality livestream for the talks :)
I could be wrong but, based on the limited documentation, it looks to me like they hold on to the Monero and then send it out when someone claims the voucher. Think of it like a fully centralized second layer (since you can essentially transfer Monero without on chain transactions, even if you have to trust that the admins won’t just run with all the Monero from non-spent vouchers). I don’t really see the point of this because Monero is already very inexpensive to move on the base layer and you are trusting the admins to never touch the idle Moneros.
Not saying that it can’t have any usecases, for example: it would be easy to hand out a bunch of vouchers at events (and these guys are sponsors of this year’s Monerokon 😜).
I use it for spending and to store value.
It is up more than 2x since the binance delisting last year and has outperformed Bitcoin, anyone saying Monero can’t work as a store of value is wrong. Because it’s so stable, it works even better. During this week’s crash I was not very worried because I knew XMR is rising in price die to its utility, not from speculation, and this crash did not impact its utility in the slightest.
No, there are now 0% deposit offers. You currently need to figure out how to get in contact with a seller beforehand though, the next update will add contact information to the offers which will make them a lot more useful.
Looks scammy to me. Just use Haveno.
Just reposting the release notes here for anyone that missed it. I really like the custom info boxes because you can put contact info in there, which will make it way easier to actually take the 0% deposit offers. There are some lag-spikes for me on Windows but I believe a patch is already in the pipeline. We will probably get a bunch of fixes in 1.0.20