Why not buy monero directly if you can? Kraken has Monero. Say you lose it in a gambling accident, never reuse wallet addresses, you have some plausible deniability no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't like CEXes and the whole transfer money in and transfer out process and Kraken appears to require an account. and I see a sign in. If ChangeNow or any other instant exchanges that don't require 3D KYC/AML, I'll use it. I haven't purchase XMR in the last few months since I have enough for a major emergency and I can't tie up more money, so I don't know the current state of instant exchanges. But when I do need to buy again, if I can't find an instant exchange with low KYC out there to buy XMR, I know that they still exist for the popular POW coins so I'd go the DEX route. But if those don't exist, I will be more open to explore other options like Haveno or Kraken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Regardless, CEX’s are the most convenient way to obtain monero. People should do what you describe, try to dodge as much KYC as you can.

On a sidenote, this is probably why i think Monero is undervalued in the market lol, a large proportion of monero trades happen outside of CEXs, and the market prices come from the API’s of CEXs