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Will you offer an anonymous payment method?

I use Mullvad vpn and pay using monero, so this was the first question in my mind. If you look at Mullvad's privacy policy, they made clear that paying with card obligates them legally to store personal information about the customer. Obscura in their FAQ says the payment method is Bitcoin, and Bitcoin can be traced to an exchange unless it was mined.

Bitcoin or any cryptocurrency can be converted to monero, which can then be used to pay (or converted back to BTC to pay) via any number of shady coin conversion services.

Bitcoin can also be anonymized via coinjoin like samurai or Wasabi, although Wasabi is not recommended: https://medium.com/oxt-research/a-statement-on-two-discovere...

In fact, if you're truly trying to be as as anonymous as possible with privacy redundancy, coinjoining before converting to XMR is your best course of action.

If creator of service claims you can pay anonymously with crypto and doesn’t offer XMR, they are not being earnest and intellectually honest, because we know they know XMR is the only legit actually anon crypto. Why would anyone use this service when they can use Mullvad or IVPN and pay via XMR directly?

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