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Much more than KYC payment apps like Zelle or CashApp and WAY more private than KYC exchanges. USPS privacy law is strict and the trail is only kept on paper unless law enforcement can prove probable cause or you declare a value over $10,000 in which you have to submit an IRS form of the transaction. You can send it in the mail in another state, writing with your left hand, wearing gloves, with cash recieved from businesses instead of an ATM, with a fake return address etc. etc. This is nearly perfectly private but risks loss of funds. The tradeoff is up to you.

Bro it’s SUPER simple. If you don’t get why it’s better to buy private money with an unverifiable supply and no supply limit that requires a registered legal mailing address and your linked government name to prove custody of privacy tokens in case you get scammed mailing cash to get the tokens then I don’t have that much more time to convince you…. Just a few more lengthy paragraphs of insane mental gymnastics 😂😂 Monero is such a shitcoin and shitshow. Saifedean is completely right, the demand for privacy money will never be large. 99.9% of transactions do not require privacy. There will never be demand at scale for monero which renders its “killer” feature effectively useless. The trade offs monero has to get privacy are a huge detriment.

Demand for privacy money was near 100% before transaction methods like cheques and credit cards. For all history before that transactions were completed with cash or coins. Only I'm the last 50 years have we been subjected to surveilled money and only in the past 15 have we been subjected to publically surveilled money with Bitcoin.

Also the supply is verifiable through proof of contradiction in which we can use cryptography to prove the lack of an inflation bug which, by contradiction, proves the supply is limited as programmed https://www.moneroinflation.com/ You don't need to have a mailing address or name to prove custody of the coins. Registered mail provides more evidence in the case of attempted scam when trying to buy monero with cash. That risk is identical on Bisq when buying Bitcoin with cash. You can also use uninsured mail for more privacy but incur risk. You can also use Zelle or another KYC payment app to buy Monero which is a safe and quick method but less private than registered mail. Same goes for Bitcoin on Bisq. You can also buy Monero from a KYC exchange like Kraken, the advantage of that over Bitcoin is that after you withdraw your Monero is KYC free unlike Bitcoin. With Bitcoin you'll need to swap to self-custodial Lightning or use a mixer to break the link. How do you buy your Bitcoin? KYC exchange? Cash without a return address on Bisq? Do you coinjoin your UTXOs?

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