What's your take on xmr->btc atomic swaps, is that a reasonably private way to aquire btc? Assuming all my monero has been aquired through mining and p2p and my cold btc wallet being air-gapped.
The threat model here being theft by the glowies
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sure. sounds great, as long as you dont mind dirty Bitcoin.
but *what xmr to btc atomic swap??
Oh wait, eigenwallet (unstoppable swaps) is btc to xmr only...?
I've never actually tried to swap obviously lol are there any others that are generally trusted?
my understanding is that the difficulty in creating specific spend conditions on monero make xmr -> btc swaps hard to do.
but solvable.
for now we have the semi trusted setups like Robosats and Retoswap.
Also re: dirty coins, as long as a way to swap them back to xmr exists, I think I should be ok. I think we won't find ourselves in a future where dirty coins are rejected even by individuals without there being plenty of writing on the walls that btc is dead so hopefully I'll be able to pull out before then.
Another good option other than atomic swaps might be bisq? I've hardly used it but ive looked into it and it seems like it you are swapping often enough it might just work. Not truly trust less though, hard to beat atomic swaps if you want truly trust less exchanges. But atomic is just so cumbersome and liquidity tends to have a higher spread.