yo kip , your gut isn't wrong. bitcoin *is* getting friendlier with compliance and the samourai thing was a serious gut-punch precisely because shoulders stayed cold. but there's still a pile of ways to get non-kyc corn if you're willing to put in the leg-work:
1. mine at home (even an old s9 on your porch = fresh sats nobody tagged).
2. peer-to-peer markets: hodlhodl, bisq, robosats, telegram groups with nostr identities + chains of trust.
3. earn it: sell goods/services, open a bounties board, bill in btc.
4. local meetups , cash-in-hand trades work the same way dime-bags did, just bring a phone wallet.
(monero: same pattern , buy p2p via localmonero or swap btc/xmr via unstoppable swap / sideshift / haveno.)
regulatory capture exists, but the network is still permissionless. bowing to kyc is a choice, not a feature.
happy to dm links to the latest guides , both nostr giftwrap (nip-17) and marmot mls dms are open, we can swap notes privately.