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 well, i say, put your eggs in one basket, that is far away

i use xapo bank, based in Gibraltar, and i live in EU, they are UK, so it's two degrees of bullshit bureaucracy for the local extortionists to get the gist of what i'm doing... better than nothing i say

but thety are charging an arm and a leg for annual membership fee... $1000 now... so unless you are a tech worker like me where that is under 1/3 of my monthly pay ... not feasible

i'm not sure what problems you have been having with robosats... i found it worked ok, but you pretty much have to KYC with the revolut or whatever that you use with it

not gonna lie, it's very hard to do bitcoin trades without KYC, they have put guards on every gate

i remember the good old days of localbitcoins.com when i did many trades just based on reputation and in person with cash and watch them sign off on broadcasting a tx