Crypto (Monero) payment provider recommendations?

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I’ve been asked a few times recently to support Monero payments for a service, and I’m having trouble finding a good/reliable privacy-respecting payments provider that supports Monero, is Europe-based and is not super-shady about their origin. I’d rather not implement my own wallet and node for each cryptocurrency, so, do you have any suggestions/recommendations?

Thanks.

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Not an expert on this by any means but have you looked into nowpayments.io?

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Thanks! I have looked into a few that I’m not confident are trustworthy, but from all I’ve seen, NOWPayments has the best online reputation and has their address in their Terms and Privacy Policy (rare, and their different products are tied to different companies, in different places), tied to the Caribbean (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) or Hong Kong, and I’m looking for someone Europe-based. If I can’t find anyone else better, I might give them a shot.

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Either BTCPay Server or Bitcart:

You only need to support Monero payments, so you can either deploy a local node or configure a remote node instead.

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That does mean I’d be running with my own wallet and node, but more automatically, which helps, I guess, but in that case I might want to have a bit more control. Thanks for those suggestions, I’d only seen BTCPay Server.

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I’ve seen https://oxapay.com/. I don’t remember where, though.

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I wonder how Mullvad and IVPN are managing their crypto XMR payment purchases. Perhaps you could do the same way they are?

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Mullvad VPN has a custom implementation, and IVPN appears to also have their own as well, although with data-v-app as the root identifier on their website source code.

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Thanks. I’d looked into them but didn’t inspire much confidence. Their terms and privacy policy are vague and mention no country or holding company. Online reviews are mixed, though slightly more on the positive side.

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I’ve talked with Mullvad and they run their own node and wallet, as I suspected and would like to do, eventually, but right now it seems a bit too much of a burden.

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I recommend you to look at options mentioned on their official website

(go at the bottom)

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I think they self host their, but the OP want something that is third party hosted.

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What do you mean by privacy respecting?
By design the provider couldn’t see who is paying and you can obscure for what if you minimize the information handled by the provider.

I would search for a low fee and flexible custodial wallet that offer API keys to interact with it in an automated way.
But I don’t know something like this for Monero, only for Bitcoin

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Thanks. I’d missed that, but it seems they also link to CDPay which is no longer around, so it looks like it’s not very up to date.

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Mostly that they won’t be doing a bunch of (obvious) tracking on their side/pages.

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You would only need a wallet, wouldn’t you? I’m not sure why you’d need to run a node to receive payments. It’s very easy to set up with Cake Wallet, and you can select one of the nodes they list in the app to update your wallet.

I run my own node at home just as a hobby and find it mostly painless. I would do that on a separate hardware PC with its own internal (500 GB) SSD drive, connected via an ethernet cable.

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Maybe Douglas Tuman from MoneroTalk can help you with this. He’s very approachable and a big proponent of helping set up a Monero economy for privacy. Monero Talk - Douglas Tuman

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To basically create sub-wallets (or something like that) and more quickly verify the transaction. Indeed it’s not “mandatory” for the node, though.

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