Thx: Honestly depends on how you manage your taxes, and how many gift cards you are willing and able to buy. Also, if you run a network VPN or ise Tor (as you should), it can sometimes be less private in my experience.

Ex: gas card (paid for in sats) requires app, app tracks loaction data. TOS says you don't get your money back if you can't use it behind these kinds of basic OPSEC.

Or, giftcard doesn't work behind a VPN or over Tor.

Some giftcards work with basic OPSEC, but it's a bit of trial and error depending on whatever site you're trying to spend the gc on, and which payment processor they use.

My experience says, stacking coin, using cash or privacy . com debit cards or some giftcards paid for with fully non-kyc sats, but preferring Monero whenever possible, makes the most sense to me.