I would say yes that would be a KYC free purchase. KYC/AML is the requirement for regulated institutions to collect personal information about customers. This makes it easy for state actors to identify you should they wish. Buying through KYC channels means next to zero anonymity for you. The smart plan is to be increasing your anonymity around purchases as much as possible. Things like mining and cash purchases (possible on Bisq) give you a very high degree of anonymity but it is hard to build a substantial stack in this manner. Buying through a p2p exchange using bank transfers is far more straightforward than mining and cash purchase say, but reduces your anonymity to a degree. Your counterparty will know your name and bank details, your bank will have record of the transfer as will the other party’s bank, though it would not be immediately obvious what the purpose of the transfer was. Someone would need access to the BTC seller’s xpub to be able to infer which UTXO was involved.

My point being that using Bisq puts a significantly higher barrier in front of state actors looking to confiscate or punish. In a 6102 scenario states will go for the 99% that used regulated exchanges. Don’t be part of the 99%.

When introducing interested friends and family explain this to them. If they want to dabble a small amount but want a path of least resistance don’t let an exchange be that path. As an example buy through Bisq on their behalf and send some sats to a BlueWallet on their phone.

Nostriches, let me reaffirm that humanity's medical system is an absolute disgrace.

I had some form of hope moving around so many countries but no, all hope is lost, they are all the same, mediocre at best.

We are nothing more than P&L to hospitals and insurance companies whose very existence, by the way, is a shame

This is a cartel

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On Bisq try posting an offer to buy BTC. You can set the percentage above or below current market price that you’re willing to pay. Post an offer to buy at or just below market price and it’ll get accepted by someone eventually. I’ve bought at/below market price on Bisq. The whole 5-10% premium thing isn’t a thing if you don’t want it to be.

The mempool.space project has a Bisq tab on their website. Go there and look at the latest trades section to confirm. There are trades above market price (these tend to be people putting up offers to sell) and trades below market price (these tend to be people putting up offers to buy).

Try Bisq, it’s not hard and not expensive. There is no Bisq premium when done right.

I still find zapping a bit counterintuitive. Hard to reprogram the fiat scarcity mindset. It is quite fun though. #zap #plebchain

Just blew my dads mind…deposited $120 fiat into #[0]​ Strike app…sent it to my #[1]​ over Lightning that auto-converted from USD to BTC and then to his strike app over lightning from BTC back to USD. Instantly. Final. Zero fees.

This is how you orange pill someone. Once they see this in action, they’ll always question why their bank/PayPal/western union etc takes days to transfer money or their debit card to settle payments.

You can see on the post who sent it, what client are you using?

This wouldn’t be nearly as much fun if our adversaries in the legacy system were somewhat decent people. But they’re not, and that’s what’s going to make this so badass.

People are always asking what they can do to help the cause, but it’s really simple. Just buy Bitcoin and hold it. That’s the single most important action you can take to suck their monetary energy out of their cesspool of lies and activity.

It’s on the App Store now. Go!

Paid and tx in queue ⚡️

Is a free version announced or do we have to help ourselves?

Going to be wild when I launch this to app store

Appreciate your good faith engagement and argument (genuinely). My counter to that is, what if the stakes of the action you are trying to prevent is SO high that talking about a ‘response’ is silly? I.e. nuclear bombs and existential bio weapons.

Imagine if tomorrow someone invented a type of bomb that you can make in your back yard and has the power of a nuclear bomb. Should we just publish that information freely on the internet? I feel like self censorship of that information should at least be considered?