the whole buying giftcards and prepaid visas and then doxing yourself when you use the product ( in most cases ) has never made sense to me and no one seems to talks about it.
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the use case is mostly so you can spend Monero at regular vendors
often they're used for online purchases anyway
Well, what you can do with the cakepay prepaid visa cards is use an alias when registering the cards and a different address. Or if you are using it to get something shipped to your spot, you can at least use your real address and an alias name/burner phone number. It is of course better to just get anything you buy online shipped to another address than the one you live at if you can.
For stuff like grocery store cards, they don't require any personal info and you can just wear a covid mask when you use them. Don't forget not to use a doxxed rewards card with your anon grocery gift card! It's super easy to set up a rewards card under a burner name and number if you still want to use coupons with your anon funds.
Since they are trying to restrict VPN usage when buying cards, you can at least use public WiFi instead of using your home internet.
#privacy #monero
Depends what you use it for, but ya definitely not ideal.