Like 90% of existing offers asked for either altcoins or for some KYCed third party apl. Not sure what happened with the offer either but it legitimately would not let me place it.

I appreciate all the attempts people have made to try to help me with the whole process but like I said, unless something changes or a better solution appears, I'm done even trying.

"It's very hard to do Bitcoin trades without KYC" is exactly the problem. Hell will freeze over before I KYC for anything willingly and I'm certainly not doing it for $50 of Bitcoin in a personal trial run... which sucks to say because I do see many of the ways it can significantly improve our future. However, if governments can simply block all the entries like this, I'm not sure it's quite the be-all/end-all that many claim.

The dumb thing is, I'm not even explicitly anti-KYC because I want financial privacy (though that is still quite important). It's that I'm not about to give sensitive documentation (which is difficult to replace) to a centralized platform that's highly targeted by blackhats, especially not when I'm incapable of verifying that they're doing due diligence. I'm also not about to give selfies to these platforms for Lord knows what purpose, which would make a data breach even WORSE for the victims involved.

Sadly not feasible when you live and work in a generally low-tech small town.

Unfortunately not. Couldn't even get an offer set up when I tried.

This sort of snowflakery is exactly why I deleted my Lemmy account and haven't looked back. The Fediverse is pretty full of people like that but Lemmy is a world unto itself. 🙄

Unnecessarily hated band. Maybe they were a bit overrated during their prime but they were never a bad band.

Yep, didn't work because of either absurd minimum purchases or payment methods that won't work for me.

I'm done. I've literally tried every means and method of buying Bitcoin without providing identifying documents, a selfie, my left kidney and firstborn child. Not one of them has worked. I've attempted to be patient, to try all the suggestions for no-KYC Bitcoin that I've received, but again, none of them has worked. Not ONE.

I've had it up to here with this nonsense. This year-long attempt to get into Bitcoin has been a MASSIVE waste of my time. People can put their info at risk so they can buy and hodl all they want, I'm not having it. If I refuse to KYC, and can't get it via the no-KYC methods, then I have no reason to keep trying because it's a currently hopeless endeavor.

Bitcoin is some really awesome technology with some truly great potential to fix many problems, but so long as KYC exists (or, at the very least, remains this strict), people like myself will never be able to get on board.

So yeah, I'm done. Glad y'all are having fun with it but I'm not wasting any more of my time on absurd and hopeless scenarios. I don't need that kind of BS stress in my life.

#Bitcoin #KYC #DEX #stress

Wasn't aware of that, I appreciate the info and will look further into it! I won't be able to afford a new phone anytime soon though, so I have some time to look it over.

I do want a Silmarillion movie (or rather, movies) but they need to be by independent producers not under Hollywood's control.

It's not that I think I won't like it, I'm just concerned something weird will happen, whether in their TOS or something like that, especially since everyone's moving to eSIM.

A master class in trolling, good grief 😂

Better than celebrating somebody who thinks that we don't need a God. In clear terms, I'll gladly take Trump over Kamala.

Good to know for whenever I upgrade, thanks. Just concerned about effectively ruining the phone if it ends up NOT working with Tracfone regardless.

No worries, I appreciate your input. I might go this route someday but I'm not giving up Tracfone for it lol, so if I do go for Graphene, it'll only be if I can confirm with them that Graphene works with their service.

I'll see if it works for me. Not getting my hopes up though. I'm sick of having failures in this space.

But what about the escrow thing? From what I heard, most DEXes use that and I have no idea how the technicalities work for the person making the offer.

What are you saying? Tracfone usually runs with Samsungs now...

I've seen and held Pixels, they're butt ugly and don't really feel good in the hand, IMO. I'm not able to afford a new phone as it is, even on sale, so I'm just stuck for now (as unfortunate as it may be).

I'm not sure how to set up that sort of offer, and I'm unsure if it's a good idea for a first-timer, is it?