VPN

Altus_Ventito_701

When you send bitcoin, only your wallet address is visible, not your real name. However, if your wallet is tied to your real name (like with Coinbase), your identity can be linked to that address. To stay anonymous, use a non-KYC wallet and a VPN when making transactions.

GrandmasGiantGaper

OK here's a usecase regard. 1. you live in china and you want to send money outside of the country 2. you can't 3. oh wait, you can use a VPN and send someone LTC there you go, there's a single use case

santuccie

I’m a believer in hardware independence, and also concerned about the popularity of hardware wallets, which to me is akin to carrying cash. Personally, I use a secondary phone just for storing my wallets. When the wallets are not in use, I leave the phone in airplane mode. And whenever I need to use them, I have Surfshark VPN always on and kill switch enabled, so the phone’s real IP address is never seen. My wallet keys are stored in Bitwarden, which is itself protected by a unique 30-digit password and 2FA, with auto-fill on page load disabled. The phone has a six-digit password, and can be remotely wiped if stolen.

ExplanationSweet6907

VPN.lat is a good option too. Very easy to use

MPH2025

The only option left will be VPN, and they’ve got that covered in the restrict act.

_who_is_they_

A VPN would help protect you. Just don't use a free one.

Crib0802

Leave your cold wallet in home. Computer Delete all cripto stuff (hot wallets, browser history, browser extensions, cripto software, ) Change your wallpaper if is crypto related , hide or backup your files then delete it, uninstall your email, bank apps, password managers, cloud apps . Also you can create NEW profile on your computer with empty or just basic apps almost default and hide or delete your old one . Set secure password for your computer , remove fingerprint option or faceID . Use trusted VPN provider (Proton, Mullvad) never use Free VPN . Enable on your browser to always use a HTTPS . Do the same in your phone .

cancerboyuofa

The bitcoin network / nodes discovery each other, then run over direct clearnet or tor. Tor doesn't use or relay on port forwarding. Same as tailscale/headscale. Wiregrass connects directly through VPN, not port forwarding. If you wanted, you can always disable the routing on starlink, and create your own subneg/wifi setup with router using bypass mode.

Elfbart

Realistically, how much am I protecting myself by refreshing an VPN and using a new location every time I check my balance?

liamneeson1

VPN is needed yes

tossaway-acct

Do you have to use a VPN or are you good after you submit ur Palau ID?

DesignerAstronaut975

VPN is just a basic necessity for general safe internet use.

javelina86

Hodl does zero KYC/AML so they cannot prevent US citizens from using the service. It's possible a VPN would be required but that sort of defense didn't help Binance et al from having the US successfully go after them.

bewtleg

Whilst I mostly agree with you, I don’t think the internet is a perfect example here. We all use it, even our parents and grandparents now, but in doing so we often give away huge amounts of personal data and open ourselves up to manipulation in all sorts of different ways. Only a small proportion of people understand the risks and intricacies of the internet; the average person probably doesn’t understand what a VPN is or why they might need one. Bitcoin will probably go a similar way. Maybe one day we’ll all use it, but I think most people will be using centralised exchanges and accepting the risks that comes with. The revolutionary concepts of bitcoin will still be there, but they’ll be blurred somewhat. The internet is still incredible in that we can communicate instantly across the globe, but there’s a lot of issues that come with that.

GeeWow

Got kicked off the site for some reason just after posting. Had to start up VPN. Weird.

Life-Duty-965

My VPN offered a 10% discount for paying in BTC back in 2015. I also liked that it was a bit harder to track. I bought the BTC peer to peer and I was a bit like, oh, I only want to do this once so I bought way more than I needed.... I've never had to buy more. I just sell a bit every now and then. Thanks for buying! It's mad that you are all working 100s of hours to buy something off me that I paid throw away money for. I just hope future people do the same for you! I'll be long gone by the time you get there...

glitter_my_dongle

They can make it illegal to own one. Then track each wallet on the block chain to tie it to a hardware wallet and then look at the purchase history to tie it to it. VPN is key too using it as they can track the transaction location of its last use.

BusinessBreakfast3

3 letters: VPN

cyger

That time doesn't fit the crime. While I thought it was rather brash of CZ to still accept US customers and encourage VPN use, the guy came clean and pleaded guilty. But I wonder who were the victims?

EdgeLord19941

It's for people who aren't logged in and are using TOR/VPN I believe

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Hackers have leaked the source code of El Salvador's state-operated Bitcoin wallet, Chivo, on a hacking forum. The hacker group CiberInteligenciaSV released the code and VPN credentials, which are part of the Chivo Wallet ATM network. This incident follows the exposure of personal data of nearly the entire adult population of El Salvador earlier in April. The government has not yet responded to the hack. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

Wonderful_Fun543

Any Canadian using Binance is VPN'd right to hell, I can't imagine too many of my countrymen will be affected. The Canadian version of the SEC, SEA notoriously hands out fines that they fail to collect on, with over 400 million of uncollected fines to date. It surely isn't going to hurt like the hammer blow delivered by the Americans, a small consolation for stakeholders. "Through the mud and the blood, to the green fields beyond"

siammang

Yeah, that one day you forgot to turn on Tor/VPN because you're in a hurry.

deftware

Move the coin to a private wallet made with a proper bitcoin client through a VPN or over Tor, or through a tumbler, etc... then sell it privately if you ever need the fiat and the IRS will never know you had shite. When they ask what happened to that coin you bought on an exchange in the early 2020s you just say it was stolen and they can't prove otherwise.

sgtslaughterTV

> Let's stop innovating "Innovation" on that coin stopped in 2018. >cult of holders (as you can't use it anyway) You can. I've used it to pay for my VPN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW-7XBrSqCI

purplecowz

hope you're on a VPN right now

huskerarob

Prolly forgot to turn off that VPN, then cries ignorant when account gets locked. This is the case more often than not anymore.

Good-Bot_Bad-Bot

What you don't seem to understand is Good-Bot\_Bad\_Bot has almost 3 Bitcoins BY ITSELF is not useful at all. IP address points to my VPN. I could turn off 2FA and post my password and allow my account to be taken over and that is not going to get you to my Bitcoin. Sorry LOL

NICE_JJAK

Use VPN

cahphoenix

One of a VPN's primary use cases is hiding your IP address because the traffic looks like it's coming from the VPN server you connect to. It's not going to hide your GPS location if you are sharing it (unless there's some setting to strip certain headers/data out somehow). IP address is one of the primary ways that websites determine what country you reside in. So, you can access things you normally shouldn't be able to by using a VPN in a different country which makes it look like your traffic is originating somewhere else. HTTPS encrypts traffic. A VPN encrypts traffic. My whole comment was explaining that you don't really need a VPN because everything you do on the web is already being encrypted. If you tell me what's hard to understand about that I'll try to be more specific.

xamboozi

Of course a VPN is encrypted. But it's not going to hide your location.

AceKittyhawk

It’s not that complicated yet. I mean, if you have stuff to hide, sure they can figure out what you did. Most of the time nobody cares what vpn people use for what legal pron they wanna access. Sometimes I accidentally leave my VPN on and an exchange won’t let me connect anyway. At this point, the responsibility and risk is on the exchange end. Who cares about small retail investors not knowing which exchange people use in which country or state

Amber_Sam

Use VPN, download the app from a [third party store](https://www.androidauthority.com/best-app-stores-936652/) and move the sats out.

teinimon

> Ps. Use a VPN isn't this not allowed to use in some exchanges when you access your account?

neitze

Are you in private communities? HMU for an invite if not, so long as you're going to seed 1:1. Even without a VPN I haven't seen a letter (since joining). Fair warning, leeches banned quick. Inactive user acct for long periods = ban. Shitty referrals strips ability to invite. Nothing wrong with running a VPN. Just remembering how garbage open sites were compared to curated, funded, and moderated platforms.

fn3dav2

Hello Reddit. 5 hours after this was posted, I will now tell you the main reason for this: It's difficult to get coins off the Korean exchanges nowadays, onto the blockchains. They need you to 'register' receiving wallets (that you withdraw from the exchange to) and deposit wallets (that you send to the exchange from). The exchange site needs to 'connect' to the blockchain wallet, and it's not going to accept anything mildly out of the ordinary. It's not going to connect with SolFlare, it'll only do Phantom wallet. You can't use it with Brave, only Chrome. You can't do it in a VM. Turn your adblocker off. Don't use a VPN or they won't let you interact with the blockchain until you send them many months of financial records. There are of course monetary limits on how much you can deposit and withdraw too. So most people nowadays don't bother, and just keep it on Upbit or wherever. Those CEXs are focused on KRW pairs. So Koreans are trading with KRW mainly.

ryncewynd

VPN is not for security or protection from scams

filenotfounderror

I use a VPN because 2x ive gotten letters from my ISP re: torrenting and that was 2x too many :|

DMT_Elf_on_a_shelf

I use a VPN to buy/sell on MEXC as well. They just emailed everyone that does this, letting us know they know and are going to implement KYC in June. If you're in a country that's prohibited, VPN isn't going to help anymore. Super sad to see that email the other day. MEXC has all the best microcap gems. Also, I've never had an issue withdrawing from them.

dugi_o

Much better off buying security keys (yubikey etc) than use a VPN service. Also use the allowlist for sending with 24 hour delay.

conceiv3d-in-lib3rty

This is subjective. Using a VPN, you're essentially placing your trust in the VPN service provider, hoping they're not engaged in any shady activities like selling your data, the literal marketing reason for using a VPN. The only real use of a VPN imo is in safeguarding against Man-in-the-Middle attacks on public Wi-Fi. Other claims about enhancing privacy through VPNs often border on marketing gimmicks, leaving consumers feeling compelled to obtain one or they won’t be “safe” without it.

RogueKira

VPN is pointless in this situation and for the most part useless period they aren’t as good as people assume do some research into and see. I thought vpn’s were great but unless trying to view content from other parts of the world or get away from locked content online it doesn’t really do much in the sense of security.

xamboozi

Or like you brought a snorkel to a flight, but the attacker isn't making you walk the plank, he has a knife like a normal villain. And it's really unlikely you'll come across a pirate, but damn these VPN companies are good at selling people snorkels in case of pirates.

xamboozi

A VPN isn't going to do anything for those. A VPN defends against a man in the middle attack. Idk why you'd be getting mitm'd while visiting those.

jamesc5z

Lol yeah exactly. A VPN is completely pointless on a classic phone scam.

yellcat

If you live in a large metro area, one could more easily assume you may have crypto, and it might be useful to help throw off the scent if you are browsing a number of sites. Otherwise if you choose the WRONG VPN they could end up sniffing more of your data than just going through your home wifi or cell service

xamboozi

As a network engineer, a VPN only protects you from a MITM attack. It's really not going to do that much - it's only really useful if you're in airports and coffee shops a lot and there happens to be a hacker sitting right next to you. There are SO MANY other vulnerabilities you can exploit even while the target is connected to a VPN.

cahphoenix

Vpn is only going to hide your location . 95%+ of all traffic on the internet is already encrypted by default. There are a few things that VPNs help protect, but really, their claims are mostly marketing. Use a VPN if you are paranoid or need to hide your location.

conceiv3d-in-lib3rty

The suggestion of using a VPN by OP seems irrelevant though, as it doesn't mitigate the risk of falling for dumb scams like this lol.

ROBINHOODEATADIK2

Sincere ? … I’ve been considering switching to VPN , specifically for things like MEXC which are not available in my area . ( no im not looking to duck the tax man just want access to exchanges to make trades unavailable at the main ones ) but I’ve heard stories about people who used them then got their accounts frozen when they went to withdrawal because of having used a VPN … is this really a concern or do you think it’s safe to utilize VPN ‘s for that type of thing ?? PS I will be transferring to hard wallet after purchase /swap is complete

JeepGuy207

Fail forward. You’re female, 66, using Reddit and trading crypto. That’s pretty badass and cool. We fail to get better. I bet you won’t get ripped off again anytime soon. Ps. Use a VPN

relephants

This is called moving the goalposts. I named a merchant that exceeded your requirements. Now suddenly it isn't good enough. NordVPN, the largest VPN service in the world accepted monero for years, but sadly stopped accepting it last year.

relephants

Mullvad VPN Grosses more than 3 million per year. Are you going to try and move the goal posts?

maximusIota

For now I use a VPN and change exchange when they require KYC. Plan B: Bisq and DEX should get your around centralized off-ramp shitty exchange.

Laterxgater

Good looking out! I did feel like a dunce - I deleted my VPN software trying to reset it for some anxious reason - I also moved to a place with shit internet and synching has made it hard to stream shit so when I tried again last to reset it I got tired and kept pausing it until I turned it off again. NOS machine basically though!

subdep

Yeah, this guy should have used a VPN/TOR with Duck Duck Go. Dip shit probably used Google while signed in to Google.

Logical_Lemming

These days, only if you wanna use a VPN and break their terms of service.

God_Of_The_Mods

Just use a VPN and disposit cash in a friendly nations’ bank.

Thomas5020

I mine XMR then use it to pay for my VPN.

GTAmirite

IP address is for sure a fake one using a VPN

Physics-Pool

None. Kucoin with VPN. Don't complete KYC. Buy LTC on PayPal and transfer to Kucoin..sell for USDT then buy and trade at will...on margin..and with every feature you'd expect to have as a freedom loving God fearing citizen of these United States.

mR_m1m3

you still have a chance to delete this comment, before everyone gets to know you actually believe VPN equals privacy!

i_am_starborn

I mean, you are proving my point. It’s easy for an experienced and slick practitioner to pull social engineering scams on people via a range of methods. Reddit isn’t excluded from that just because it’s Reddit and a person is using Reddit with a burner account covered with 2FA accessed over a VPN connection. One can make the assumption that “no info is divulged”, but that’s never the case.

Onad55

If you have something to hide you would use a VPN. If you want to find people with something to hide you would run a VPN. A list of all SSN’s ever issued and then some are compiled in a searchable index at this Private Investigations page: www.angio.net/pi Of course mine I4I-S9-265E is index number one. (clearly obfuscated to keep the bots from harvesting it)

Illustrious_Plate610

Bro thinks we don’t know what a VPN is and we link our Reddit account to our social security number

RizzoStaxx

I’m American but I live in the Bahamas actually. The boat I work on has a VPN so maybe that’s why I’m able to use river. Maybe you could do the same?

HODL-MOFO

Literally all the companies mentioned here have a bad TrustPilot score - except for BitBox. So that's what I went for. Oh, and it's Swiss. Doesn't get more secure than that. I thought about Cold Card too for a while, but it's Canadian and I'm sorry for all the Canadians browsing this sub, but Trudeau really lost the plot. I know the chances of it happening are *very* slim, but if that dude goes even more fash than he already did in the past ~4 years, I can see him even ban crypto companies and make them give up personal details of their customers. No thanks. You ending up on some list isn't worth it for some plastic little box. Switzerland is the safest bet when it comes down to that, that's why I switched to Proton as well with all my mail/drive/VPN stuff.

stumblinbear

There's also storage and VPN services through it iirc

SmoothGoing

Depends on personal preferences. TOR and VPN can help with privacy, sure.

Ok_Plastic_3055

Good point! This could be fixed with a VPN I suppose. Under the assumption that you're using a popular server of a popular VPN provider. Another point is that you can contact different nodes each time you want to validate a transaction. With these 2 arguments I suppose you could get acceptable privacy of not having multiple addresses getting linked to you. But I get your point that having your own node will always be more private. What do you think?

conceiv3d-in-lib3rty

A lot of these platforms are blocking VPN usage now though and I fully expect this trend to continue.

Present_Bill5971

Uniswap Labs is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, US. At some point more stuff will block US users so get a VPN. For venture capitalist, just don't invest in US based companies. Maybe even avoid project owners with US citizenship

JeopardyQBot

so she has CAD on binance? that's actually an interesting problem and pretty annoying they don't give a clear answer on what to do. the last email i got from them in october said you are still able to withdraw > To confirm again - this means that you will no longer be able to use any product on the platform, except to reduce, redeem or close open positions and withdraw assets from the exchange. but obviously that doesn't help if there's no CAD withdrawal option and you need to buy another coin to withdraw and buying is blocked.. here's what i would do: * Contact support and explain the situation and ask what you should do * Use a VPN to login from somewhere that isn't blocked and see if any more options are available. You might be able to swap for another stablecoin and withdraw that. Not sure how exactly this would work though because there are no CAD pairs now. You'd probably need to use the Convert feature on the wallet page if possible. if it's a large amount of money and nothing i said above works you could get a lawyer involved and force them to give you the equivalent value in another coin and close your account i'd be interested in hearing what happens cuz this is a pretty messed up situation. tell her not to give up on it.

NoPotato7788

My go-to platform is [BYDFi](https://www.bydfi.com/invite?ru=dpcfWp&f=frmrdt) and they accept US traders without VPN or KYC thanks to the MSB regulation they have in the USA with FinCEN. 200x leverage, 400+ altcoins and TradingView charts. 0.02% limit order fees and 0.06% market order fee (much cheaper than Binance and Bybit). Seems like they are growing fast in the US.