well for the record I've set up what I can now identify as self custody wallets in the past as well as different exchanges. Quite a few seems to have gone bankrupt or closed doors to certain nationalities in the process.

I think I was going for bisq for the ability of peer to peer no personal id data transactions and open source thing. I don't like being asked for photos, SSN and IDs.

Was gonna try hodlhodl next if I can't figure out the bisq thing and look up what you are sharing here.

Maybe the study guide I started getting plugged into is geared to more techie people.

I am def not a total beginner and have plenty of Bitcoin knowledge base accumulated in my braincells over the years. I'd say I am intermediary. But yeah bisq ugh was quite frustrating to try and figure out before going to bed last night.

It's appealing too, because even just yesterday caught someone attempting to scam me, based on my past usage of an exchange that went down. So it seems their databases get scraped or something.