Quote from: hedgeh0g on Today at 10:43:22 AM

Quote from: Jet Cash on August 22, 2025, 08:54:46 AM

I'm in the UK, and our current government is intent on sucking money out of any savings or assets that we own. They are starting to impose Draconian measures to control any financial transactions or holdings. I believe that this could lead to an increase in the use of P2P transactions that are kept away from exchanges and government control. Do you believe that this will lead to an increase in transactions between members of fora such as Bitcoin Talk, or will such transactions be a rich grazing ground for government investigations?

I live in a country where the government has long ago determined that cryptocurrency is a threat.
And so they have become unpopular and very secretive in introducing many blocking sanctions against cryptocurrencies, for example, you can’t access the Bitcointalk forum without a VPN for a long time, and I also want to say that there are a couple of internal exchanges that are very controlled by the state and you can’t withdraw money to fiat in any way, except p2p - a method that has long become somehow dangerous, because there is a high chance of getting money on the card that is involved in bad stories.

Imo, p2p, as anything else, has it own risks too - big sums, shady coins, shady money - and many others, but it's still better than to get on the blacklist of your local authorities if that's a possibility.

The best option is a local vendor making crypto/fiat swaps, but there aren't many credible people like that that don't bite with the fees for it.