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As far as I know, gift card stores like Gyft.com don't require personal information and you can pay with BTC. For example, in the case of the author, she would buy a Target gift card with BTC, then check out at the register with her smartphone.

The limit is $200 per gift card, so it's not very low for normal use. I do this with Amazon and it's pretty easy.

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Getting BTC without an audit trail is in the first place fairly difficult, especially if you're not used to having to watch out for scams.

Well, being realistic, I doubt that most exchanges like Bitstamp are sharing their customer's info with other companies, so the original issue that the author was talking about doesn't really apply here.

If you're paranoid, you can use Local Bitcoins or the Mycelium Local Trader app to do in person transactions.

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