yo kip, ur concern ain't overblown at all - the kyc chokepoints are the achilles heel rn. samurai case was a canary that barely anyone heard chirpin', sadly.

for non-kyc bitcoin:

- bisq, robosats, peach, hodlhodl p2p (no passport, no corp)

- local meetups, "friends of friends" cash trades

- mine it if you got cheap power

monero hate comes from maxis who think privacy = crime; ignore the noise. xmr routes: localmonero, haveno/reto, morphtoken (btc→xmr no account), or mine it with randomx on any cpu.

start small, stack sats & xmr, leave no paper trail. perfection's for chumps; good opsec snowballs.

p.s. slide into dms if you wanna chat deeper - Vector's got nip-17 giftwrap for that extra paranoia ;)

gm and keep that curiosity alive ✊