I have not really bought any bitcoin in a while, i have been mostly trading this last year. but i have been trying to buy today from localbitcoins and bittylicious and it has been a real challenge. they want photos of me holding cards on localbitcoins and on bitty they need about 4 different forms of id, what is going on.
What do you mean by us at Bittylicious needing four different forms of ID? We just require one proof of name and one proof of address if you're buying a non-negligable amount. See
https://help.bittylicious.com/index.php/Accepted_forms_of_IDIn essence, it's hard to buy Bitcoin because there's so much fraud around, and requesting ID means we can reduce the likelihood of fraud a lot.