I'd like to have some anonymous money just in case the future gets really dark, but I'm not sure if it's wise to flag myself as a BTC purchaser that changes to XMR.
Of course, if the future is dark enough for a list of everyone who has ever bought XMR to be compiled, then your name would be on it, along with mine.
If you're worried about that, I suppose you could distribute the XMR to a bunch of different addresses over some length of time. (All addresses you control, unbeknownst to the authorities.) Then if they do hunt you down you have a plausible story that you spent it all.
stop using surveillance coins to begin with and just use Monero natively instead of as a conduit
In the mean time pollute the pool by doing more lawful transactions in monero, monero is half as old as bitcoin and has only been used on darknet markets for half of that due to its older user experience challenges
Just swap to the more fungible asset. Its a flight to liquidity the market always chooses that.
The state just figured out how to use transparent blockchains as a tool a decade late and the market has already moved on
The ROI won’t be great but you’ll have virgin coins to do what you want with.
even in hot climates where power isn't cheap enough, buying digital asset mining computers to breakeven or even take a 5-8% loss is the best way to convert any amount of money from that local economy into the global digital economy.
For real money, hire someone who knows what they're doing.