Exchange guides

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Step-by-step guides to buying and swapping crypto without handing over your identity, and to picking an exchange that will not freeze your coins.

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 and trustless atomic swaps compared, with step-by-step instructions.
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 KYCHunter'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.