As much as you want to support a bitcoin circular economy, be smart and never compromise on Opsec.

✅ Purchase p2p goods online

✅ Only make face to face purchases from reputable vendors and as discreetly from other clients as possible

❌ Never Buy and sell bitcoin from strangers face to face

❌ Don’t list your primary residence on sites like airbtc

❌ Don’t wear any bitcoin logos or god forbid tattoos

Any assets in self-custody is any thief’s wet dream. Why would you make it known that you’re carrying your wealth in your pocket unguarded? Don’t put yourself and your family at risk.

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Question: if youre helping promote, educate and show bitcoin to the world, using social media, blog, newsletter or video content...wouldnt it be inevitable for people to assume that you hold your keys and therefore make you a potential sibject of kidnapping/robbing?

How would you still promote and share content without putting yourself at risk. Is an anonymous account the obly way?

Anonymous account on centralised social media? Haven't you heard about KYC?

Here on Nostr you can only preach to the converted.

I mean if you dont have a random meme for a picture or like to just show your picture, and specially if youre a public figure or a marketer people will eventually know who you are regardless of having a nostr account. And if people know who you are and that youre into bitcoin, they can find out where or with who and eventually turn to those kinds of activities. Thats what im saying

Your safety is largely dependent on where you live. Whether you own your btc in cold storage or on a hot wallet, the access point is you. Ultimately you’re responsible for your own safety.

Bitcoin speaks for itself and everyone will get it at the price their deserve. I promote it by using it (run a node, stack no-KYC, spend it) along with other freedom techs (Nostr, self-hosting).

Love it. Absolutely true. Always in charge of your own safety and maintaining it, the right to bear arms and protect yourself is also a factor as well as the location and community. I agree 100% it was just a question for the extreme cases where youre exposed, at one point or another, anyone can become exposed to criminals. And it depends on how determined they are whether they can do something to penetrate multiple layers of security

Or just use monero.

Privacy should never be optional and you're just learning that now the hard way.

Your first opsec failure is using Bitcoin, when you should use Monero. Else I agree.

Not against using monero. I just haven’t seen any monero circular economies developing or physical stores accepting it.

Regarding my post above, monero in itself doesn’t protect you from wrench attacks.

It is most often used for donations and direct payments between people. Afterwards only possible to convert into a government approved virtual coin and get fiat.

Wasn't like this two years ago. One needs to remind that binance and all major exchanges were forced to remove monero. This included shutting down localmonero.org which was the top spot to buy and trade monero locally.