So (being in the Eurozone) would you avoid all "Five Eyes" nations i.e. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States?

I've noticed that when looking for a vendor on P2P Exchanges (which utilise an escrow service) it's possible to select their country of location.

Presumably, provided the vendor has plenty of good feedback, then their country location isn't something of particular concern?

I guess one reason why a purchaser might select upon vendor's country location would be if wanting to meet in person. If that's not happening, I guess their country location shouldn't be of any particular concern; particularly if paying by bank transfer?

Any thoughts? 

Thank you, I hadn't realised that.

I was looking at the sign-up procedure for the four non-KYC peer-to-peer exchanges below:

a) Bisq (BitSquare)
b) Hodl Hodl
c) LocalCoinSwap
d) LocalBitcoins

It would appear that only d) localbitcoins.com asks the following:

1) Enter your first names as they appear on your identity documentation.
2) Enter your last name as it appears on your identity documentation.


If one of the main draws to using such exchanges is to prevent personal data being stolen in the event of a hack, I was wondering what thoughts are on this? Would you just stick to the first three exchanges due to this? 

Thank you.

If using one of the major brand cold storage hardware wallets to store BTC, does the hardware wallet have one unique address or can it store many different BTC addresses so that purchased BTC could possibly be stored across many different BTC addresses stored on the same cold storage hardware wallet?

The responses are greatly appreciated. 

So once purchased, I guess it must be reasonably easy to look at the BTC coin history and determine that it has been mixed/joined in the past. I don't know how that is determined, but I guess if you know what you're looking for in the history it's probably reasonably easy to determine.


I haven't purchased BTC (or other coins) before - are there any advantages to using a centralised exchange? I'm not aware of any, other than perhaps it may be marginally cheaper, but if someone hodls for 20+ years (or for good), then the slight difference in price is neither here nor there.

If I had enough stacked at some point, then it appears that it is possible to obtain interest from centralised sites such as Celsius Network, BlockFi or Nexo. Perhaps though, again, it would be best to use reputable de-centralised sites to obtain interest? Any thoughts?

I am considering purchasing some BTC using one of the following sites:

a) Bisq (BitSquare)
b) Hodl Hodl
c) LocalCoinSwap
d) LocalBitcoins

I have discovered online that it is possible for persons to send BTC through a mixer and that if this is done, it may cause issues if attempting to later sell via an exchange.

If I purchase via one of the four sites above from a seller, is there any way to determine if the Sats which I purchase have been through a mixer in advance in case this might cause an issue at some later date if I wanted to sell via an exchange or if I wanted to try to obtain interest for stacked sats, which I believe is also possible.

Is this something which should be of concern?