i’m wanting to get on usenet but remain compeltely anon (vpn, anon purchase, etc).
i know this ins’t stricly a piracy question and is maybe more of a crypto question but figure there ain’t nobody who knows privacy and anoniminitry like you guys do.
so if i want to some amounts of bitcoin/whatever anonymously, how tf do i get it? liek not large amount, just small shit like to buy subs for a few for usenet indexes and whatnot?i know the bitcoin atm’s and banks do “know your customer” stuff (basically they id you first) and are not anon. have hear d that you can mine it anon but not sure if apps track hw specs and whatnot that could be used to id you. is there another ways that dont require you to have sepcial sms accounts or burner phones pr whaetver first? or maybe you guys can recommend me some foss mining apps which are safe that i could check out?
i’m on linux ifg it matters for good mining aps. i can write some bash scripts but im not a super hacker or anthing so ones that dont require a degree are appreciated.
edit: i don’t specifically care about bitcoin. i just don’t know jack about crypto and assumed that was what the usenet service providers would accept. if there’s something else they’d take that is still anonymous, that’s fine with me as long as you guys can help my dumb noob ass understand what to do.
BTC you would “probably” be okay but if you are going full anon i think Monero is the only true anon. im not really into crypto so i dont know how true that is, I just see that mentioned a lot that Monero / XMR is a privacy coin. Cash is king though. Maybe the most annon? frugal usenet and Blocknews actually have a cash payment option on the website at checkout, if you are worried maybe ask them the track record for receiving it. If you are doing VPN to, Mullvad takes cash but you do not need vpn for usenet.
If you’re only getting a little money, then you can use local monero to trade something for monero. And then use that monero to pay for your services.
If you’re going to spend a lot or do this recurring I would recommend just sitting up a central exchange with kraken. Yes they would know you purchased Monero, but once you sent it out of the exchange to your own wallet. They can’t trace it anymore. And now becomes your money. The guarantees of Monero/XMR mean that is not traceable.
Now if you don’t believe those guarantees that’s fine, then you use localmonero.co to get some.
