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What's the safest way to transfer money relatively anonymously nowadays? by relatively I mean that I don't care if gov/police knows, but the person who sends/r

What's the safest way to transfer money relatively anonymously nowadays? by relatively I mean that I don't care if gov/police knows, but the person who sends/receives money doesn't know me, I just don't want people from games to know me I've used paypal account with random name like Snarky Snark and managed to transfer like 300usd, but I'm worried that the next time they may block me somehow

ntauthority 4y ago
Somewhat regrettably given the connotations also associated, cryptocurrency. In countries where there are legal, regulated exchanges, this pretty much meets the requirements there.
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- soulofmischief 4y ago
  Why regrettably? Also, crypto doesn't mandate anonymity if you go by the original Satoshi whitepaper. You'll have to specifically recommend an anonymous ecosystem like Monero. And at that point, it's like regrettably mentioning American dollars because the Ruble has bad connotations.
CyanBird 4y ago
> transfer money relatively anonymously nowadays Monero and that's pretty much it Russian banks are managing deposits in etherium, and if you want you could send money over in alt-coins, bounce it around through other alt coins some and then retrieve it elsewhere, issue is that you will lose a fair bit on the exchanges with the rates, transaction fees etc Also, you will need atleast a visa/mastercard internationally enabled card associated to a bank to your name to do any of that. Do that, or buy it personally/insitu from someone
anm89 4y ago
Zelle / venmo are better in cases where you are withing their account limits AFAIK. I'm not aware of either of them having the history of seizing user funds that Paypal has.
- testesttest 4y ago
  Venmo is owned by PayPal and will freeze your account just like PayPal.
  - anm89 4y ago
    I can't believe I didn't know that. Thank you for calling it out.
eozoon 4y ago
Money order in post office / banks / WU. The place generating the order will usual check your ID but they do not require you to include that info on what's sent to the recipient.

ntauthority 4y ago

Somewhat regrettably given the connotations also associated, cryptocurrency. In countries where there are legal, regulated exchanges, this pretty much meets the requirements there.

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soulofmischief 4y ago
Why regrettably? Also, crypto doesn't mandate anonymity if you go by the original Satoshi whitepaper. You'll have to specifically recommend an anonymous ecosystem like Monero. And at that point, it's like regrettably mentioning American dollars because the Ruble has bad connotations.

CyanBird 4y ago

> transfer money relatively anonymously nowadays Monero and that's pretty much it Russian banks are managing deposits in etherium, and if you want you could send money over in alt-coins, bounce it around through other alt coins some and then retrieve it elsewhere, issue is that you will lose a fair bit on the exchanges with the rates, transaction fees etc Also, you will need atleast a visa/mastercard internationally enabled card associated to a bank to your name to do any of that. Do that, or buy it personally/insitu from someone

anm89 4y ago

Zelle / venmo are better in cases where you are withing their account limits AFAIK. I'm not aware of either of them having the history of seizing user funds that Paypal has.

testesttest 4y ago
Venmo is owned by PayPal and will freeze your account just like PayPal.
- anm89 4y ago
  I can't believe I didn't know that. Thank you for calling it out.

eozoon 4y ago

Money order in post office / banks / WU. The place generating the order will usual check your ID but they do not require you to include that info on what's sent to the recipient.