How can users who buy cryptocurrencies through KYC/AML compliant exchanges protect their privacy? What is the arrangement between these exchanges and analytics / surveillance firms? What is the safest way to get cryptocurrencies, or go between fiat and cryptocurrencies? These questions were part of the monthly live Patreon Q&A session for April (rescheduled to May 5th). If you want early-access to talks and a chance to participate in the monthly live Q&As with Andreas, become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/aantonop RELATED: Worse Than Useless: Financial Surveillance - https://youtu.be/n4F-h4xuXMk Money as a System of Control - https://youtu.be/FyK4P7ZdOK8 Bitcoin: Privacy, Identity, Surveillance, and Money - https://youtu.be/Vcvl5piGlYg Why I earn bitcoin instead of buying - https://youtu.be/Ci7TyD8jETY Aadhaar and blockchain identities - https://youtu.be/GylSvJf53zI Airdrops and privacy implications - https://youtu.be/JHRnqJJ0rhc Wealth distribution statistics - https://youtu.be/X2Qsz4eaSPY Re-using addresses - https://youtu.be/4A3urPFkx8g Mixing services - https://youtu.be/rKoMvOH4zoY MimbleWimble and Schnorr signatures - https://youtu.be/qloq75ekxv0 Offline transactions and fault tolerance - https://youtu.be/TSpKO1RaWU4 Using paper wallets - https://youtu.be/cKehFazo8Pw Decentralised exchanges with fiat - https://youtu.be/3Url8tbQEkA Decentralised exchanges and counterparty risk - https://youtu.be/hi_jaw0dT9M How is fungibility tied to privacy? - https://youtu.be/VuI-8EwqIS8 Fungibility, privacy, anonymity - https://youtu.be/y3s8c7YDtXU The price of losing privacy - https://youtu.be/2G8IgiLbT_4 Why we should resist financial surveillance - https://youtu.be/KBFedmrDTQw Why KYC is dangerous: microviolations of privacy as payment - https://youtu.be/rwF7nMWUjBs Criminalisation of ownership? - https://youtu.be/5xihdO7bVZE