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Re:Binance to Delist Monero, Zcash in 4 European Countries by fathyb on Sunday June 04, 2023 @08:53AM (#36185238)
The real killer feature in Monero is privacy by obfuscating transactions. Using an exchange wallet tied to your government identity for private transactions defeats the purpose because a bad actor could access the exchange database, like with a traditional bank account.

Send money from the exchange to a local anonymous wallet (like the official one [0]), and then use that wallet for private stuff.

[0]: https://www.getmonero.org/

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Re:Binance to Delist Monero, Zcash in 4 European Countries by super256 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:03AM (#36185288)
CEX are important because they provide liquidity.

Most people who offer XMR/FIAT exchanges (like localmonero.co) are trading on exchanges like Binance in the background, and sell it to you (privacy focused, anonymous user) with an additional commission.

Such traders aren't concerned about a "government identity being tied to an exchange wallet" and whatnot. They just want to make money, and liquidity is important for a currency.

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