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Testing your money in a UK based financial institution is like putting your hand in a fire and testing if the fire will burn you.

I think LTC is better than BTC and would perform better than BTC if it had the same network effect. I like LTC because mainstream vendors who accept crypto will usually accept LTC and I can enjoy lower fees and ease of use than the slow, bumbling BTC. If say, Amazon began accepting LTC for...

Me neither. Funny how open source crypto wallets are safe while banking apps are malware.

Same reason sheep accept being farmed. The sheeple do as they're told and give up their independence in exchange for having their lives controlled by the shepherds. They are beneath our respect.

Quite terrifying that they keep tightening the noose on our privacy necks.

The stupidity of the sheep cooperating with KYC has resulted in the chickens coming home to roost. My contempt for the sheep is not without good reasons like this.

While I don't have direct experience of them yet, I see advantages, compartmentalizing your activities more conveniently from the same device. Right now I fiddle with multiple devices. I don't know if GrapheneOS has this built in (I actually use CalyxOS right now), but use a mac address spoofer...

I like Session and I do use it. I also use SimpleX which is probably the leader these days in terms of security. But Signal is the most normie-friendly, its interface is pretty much identical to WhatsApp and normies feel familiar right away. They would be a bit weirded out by the other two...

I know, SMS is so not secure but they think it is. Stupid companies. I genuinely feel more secure using just a username and password.

I'm stubborn. I say Signal is the only way to reach me. It surprises me how many people actually install Signal just for you when you tell them that. Family and friends is easy because if it's the only way to reach you, they'll install it. For others, I'm a bit machiavellian and tell them things...

That sucks. Mine send me a physical card reader device for 2FA.

Laptop. Browser with VPN And wean yourself off the need for apps. My phone has Signal, maps, and not much else. I barely ever take it outside. GrapheneOS is very good, I very much recommend it.

He wants to cash out to fiat and not leave the UK. Travel is not an issue in his case. Although it's better to keep the gold and liquidate a coin here and there when you need fiat. The limitation is how much crypto he has, which isn't mentioned in the OP. Dealers tend to have a £10k max per...

If you want to go a bit grey with this, buy gold coins of the realm with your crypto. Coins of the realm would be gold Sovereigns and gold Britannias. Coins of the realm are Capital Gains Tax free, so you can sell these coins without paying CGT. There are legal ways you can buy them without KYC...

^^ This man is wise.

Exactly. If they cared about privacy, they would not peddle BTC wallets. Proton sells snake oil privacy. They have reported users to governments many times upon subpoena. Decentralized is the only way to ensure privacy. iPhone is another snake oil seller, they locate you to within inches and...

I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would put their crypto in the control of an organization (who are arms of the government). Just use your own wallet, it's not that damn onerous! I like how the button on that page is "Protect my Bitcoin". More like "Endanger my Bitcoin"

Otherwise known as protecting your money from being stolen.

OP's image is the Borat comedian actor.

Lots of them, not a few. Ethereum, Cardano, Solana, Cosmos, Monero. In fact, many shitcoins are technologically better than BTC. Adoption is not a solid premise to call BTC a hard currency or digital gold, because a new angle or gimmick can make people drop BTC and adopt the next shiny thing...