Quote from: theymos on May 22, 2019, 10:18:50 PM

- Cons: You should use Tor with Monero, but you have to set this up manually; it's all more difficult;

Or you can use Monero wallet with Tails, which isn't very complicated.

Quote from: theymos on May 22, 2019, 10:18:50 PM

Monero has an anonymity set of 11 per transaction.

But with three important things:

Ring Signatures -- protects the sender;
Ring Confidential Transactions (RingCT) -- protects both parties;
Stealth Addresses -- protects the recipient;

Quote from: theymos on May 22, 2019, 10:18:50 PM

hosted wallets

... like FreeWallet, are scams. Check this for more info.

Quote from: theymos on May 22, 2019, 10:18:50 PM

using your own Monero wallet, not a hosted wallet

Yeah, of course it's better to run your own node, but it could take a long time. You can connect you GUI/CLI wallet to the remote node. The list can be founded here or you can use our XMR.RU-node (bitmonero.log is 'set_log 0')

- Pros: You synchronize your wallet pretty fast.
- Cons: see this.

Also there is another option, you can download the blockchain via Torrent from here (The language of the page is Russian. Use a translator

).

Quote from: whotookmycrypto on May 23, 2019, 02:14:35 PM

Any guides on how to do this?

Without KYC:

Quote from: Kavelj22 on May 23, 2019, 04:08:02 PM

Mixers represent a good privacy preservation tool for many users.

That's a big misconception. Using the mixer, you're already drawing attention to yourself. There are also services that don't want to accept mixed BTC or will require 100,500 documents from you. The message from our local chat.

Quote from: ETFbitcoin on May 23, 2019, 04:57:45 PM

It will be different when Kovri (I2P modification) is integrated with Monero.

Or this.

Quote from: mjglqw on May 23, 2019, 05:29:00 PM

Binance should also work fine, right? Even though they require registration, I think you could easily use fake information and just create multiple free emails through email services like ProtonMail[1]. As far as I know they don't lock suspicious accounts, though I'm really not sure.

Uniquely wrong opinion! See this.
Then do not be surprised when the exchange will block your account due to violation of the rules of use of the service.

Quote from: theymos on May 23, 2019, 06:51:49 PM

xmr.to

Which is integrated in Monerujo and works just awesome.