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In person transactions have no paper trail if you don't want them to.

At that point, why not use cash? You’re already restricting yourself to small amounts and avoiding major purchases, so what does adding a cryptocurrency give you?

> why not use cash?

As as been repeatedly demonstrated to you, holding cash is unsafe, because it can be seized by the government without you ever having committed a crime.

> what does adding a cryptocurrency give you?

As has been repeatedly demonstrated to you, you have protection from it being seized through the insidious civil asset forfeiture procedure.

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