Privacy guides
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Step-by-step guides to buying, holding and spending crypto without handing over your identity, and to the tools that keep you private online.
- How to buy Monero without KYCFour ways to get Monero without ID: peer-to-peer markets, atomic swaps, instant exchanges and cash. Step by step, with the risks of each.
- How to swap bitcoin for Monero privatelySwap BTC to XMR without an account: instant exchanges, swap aggregators and trustless atomic swaps compared, with step-by-step instructions.
- How to set up a Monero walletPick a Monero wallet, back up your seed phrase and receive your first XMR. A beginner-friendly guide for phone and desktop.
- What is KYC, and how do no-KYC exchanges work?What KYC means, why exchanges ask for ID, the risks of handing it over, and how Monereo's A to F KYC scores tell you which exchanges never ask.
- How to avoid a held swap at an instant exchangeWhy instant exchanges sometimes freeze a swap and ask for ID, and seven practical ways to make sure yours goes through.
- How to pay for a VPN with MoneroWhich VPNs accept Monero, how to sign up without an email, and how to pay so the VPN account cannot be tied to your name.
- Tor vs VPN: which one do you need?How Tor and a VPN each protect your privacy, what they cannot hide, and when to use one, the other or both. Plain-language comparison.
- How to accept Monero paymentsAccept Monero and bitcoin on your website without KYC: self-hosted processors like BTCPay Server compared with hosted gateways, step by step.