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 With the proper knowledge, time, and money you can remain anonymous on Bitcoins blockchain. But you can *never* be private because everything is visible to everyone in the world even if they don't necessarily know who you are.

Yes, ideally you would buy no-KYC and Coinjoin often (but that will be relatively expensive and time-consuming). Most transactions are naively traceable because hardly anyone Coinjoins.

If you want anonymity *and* privacy, the future ultimately boils down to making your transactions on a second/offchain layer (ecash, lightning, drivechain, zkrollups, etc), or a privacy-focused blockchain (Monero, LitecoinMWEB, etc). Each thing has it's own advantages.

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 very insightful. is there a no-kyc ecash? Most of them ask for a long list of data about you. πŸ˜” Or the one that works in Europe! ☺️ 
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 Really? I actually don't know of any ecash right now that requires KYC πŸ˜… and the protocols are permissionless so anyone can spin up a mint that doesn't require it.

Ecash provides very strong privacy and anonymity within the mint (even from the mint itself), but one big caveat: It requires some trust since they are custodians. They can steal your Bitcoin or issue unbacked tokens (fractional reserve).

I sent you some ecash in a message you can claim and play around with

You can use a VPN to get around any geoblocking. I use Minibits but here are a few that don't require KYC: 
https://www.minibits.cash/
https://www.enuts.cash/
https://wallet.cashu.me/
https://nutstash.app/ 
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 ta will look into it! Haven't seen these ecash before so much appreciated! πŸ‘ŒπŸ’―πŸ‘ 
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 ENuts!!


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