Therefore if you decide to trust one of those popular Centralised Exchanges to buy / sell monero, the implications are way, way worse than what we previously explained;
Those centralised exchanges all comply with the requests of governmental entities such as FBI, LA, Robinhood, IRS-CI, UNK and of course Chainalysis, and due to that fact alone you cannot trust them.
If you decide to trust a popular centralised exchange, you'll first see that it'll run you through KYC procedures (and if it doesn't, rest assured that they will eventually be forced to do so). That is to deanonymize you, and to know who to blame if ever asked by the authorities. NEVER KYC IF YOU WANT TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS!
-This meeting of theirs has been preety revealing, not only do these centralised exchanges give out everything they have about their users to Chainalysis (as "Transactions of interest", mentionning the amount transacted and who transacted) But it's also naming a few of THOSE very centralised exchanges that are now confirmed to actually comply with their requests:
+This meeting of theirs has been preety revealing, not only do these centralised exchanges give out everything they have about their users to Chainalysis (as "Transactions of interest", mentionning the amount transacted, the transaction ID, and who transacted) But it's also naming a few of THOSE very centralised exchanges that are now confirmed to actually comply with their requests:
Changenow,
FixedFloat,