That’s because to do so, you really need subpoena power. If you are a nation state, you have the power to subpoena the exchanges and force them to give up information that they otherwise would not.

That’s what market makers are for. Average joe/jill don’t have open orders on the exchanges. They just have their crypto that they purchased sitting on their exchange account.

Yep, am I taking it you are volunteering?

Well, for everyone else Monero exists. It actually is truly untraceable.

Yeah, a nation state actor can get away with using Bitcoin for illegal activity. Regular people, though, cannot.

Considering Bitcoin is almost entirely traceable, it is a really, really bad idea to use Bitcoin for illegal activity.

It is. Only idiots leave their crypto on an exchange.

Exchanges are a lot like public toilets. You should go in, do your business, and get the fuck out. But a lot of people decide that they like the public toilet, and they’ll just stick around and chat about the weather.

Bitcoin is far from untraceable. In fact, it’s one of the most traceable currencies that’s ever existed.

After all, you can see exactly what address sent exactly what amount to exactly what other address. All you have to do is compromise the addresses and then you know the people. And KYC from Exchanges does an incredibly good job at that.

Yes, have bought a couple of things through there and had good experiences each time.

I actually just bought a new laptop from the 2020 era to replace my laptop from the 2012 era. Going from an Intel Core i7 3rd generation up to an Intel Core i5 11th generation

I’ve been running Linux on it all this time and so it’s been properly up to date with security fixes and stuff like that, but I’m using it for compiling software more now than I ever have in the past and the dual core 4 thread processor just isn’t up to the task.

He can pry my local AI out of my cold dead hands. My gpu is capable of running it and damnit i will run it locally

I have been buying groceries through giftcards for over 3 years now and i have not died of hunger or dehydration. The cold is admittedly a bit harder. I dont have that one figured out yet.

But I am able to take my Monero and use it to interact with the brands and companies that everybody else uses.

What I was saying above is that for companies that accept different types of cryptocurrency directly, Monero is always in the top one or two spot.

Closest by far is Monero. They are actually willing to spend it as a currency, and when looking at statistics from companies that accept different cryptocurrencies, Monero is always either number one or number two on the list.

I know right, total insanity.

If they are any kind of intelligent, very little of it, because they will put it into Monero, and they will leave it there, and if they need fiat a little bit at a time, they’ll pull it very slowly into fiat, as needed.

Totally unaffected. Haven’t even visited that site for several years.

I use me@mydomain.com as my primary, contact@mydomain.com publicly, and storename_or_servicename@mydomain.com for stores or services

I honestly cannot remember the last time I used Google search.

Though if I had to guess, it would be something around several years.

I get my groceries delivered once a month from Instacart because I’m blind, so if I wanted to go grocery shopping myself, I would have to spend money on an Uber to take me there, then get a shopping assistant to help me pick up the stuff I need, and then pay for an Uber back home, so it actually ends up being cheaper to just get it delivered, and I can see what I’m purchasing in the app.

It’s the only way to do it though, so you have no other choice.