I originally posted this as a comment, but a kind user suggested I make a separate post so more people can see it and guide me better. They even sent me the sats needed to cover the posting fee! I'm so grateful and happy to find such a supportive community here. I hope to learn a lot from you all.
Could you please spare a few minutes to guide me?
I live in Iran. Because of the crazy inflation here, everyone is trying to move their savings into crypto just to survive. Our national currency loses value every single day. But we face big problems: the government monitors exchange activities closely. If they see us buying crypto, they classify us as "wealthy" and cut off our subsidies and food coupons. On the other hand, major foreign exchanges block Iranians and freeze our assets.
I found a way to buy some LTC and Polygon (MATIC) manually through Telegram groups, but they don't sell Bitcoin because of the fees. Now I have some LTC in my wallet, but I'm terrified of the price dropping and losing my hard-earned savings from years of working in a tailor shop. I’ve been searching for a way to swap LTC to BTC/Lightning without KYC or registration, but I only find big exchanges that require ID.
If you know any safe, non-KYC ways to swap these into Bitcoin/Lightning, please help a fellow pleb out. Since I'm using Google Translate, I apologize if some parts are hard to understand. Thank you for your time and for welcoming me here!
I haven't touched altcoins for years but there are some swap services that you could exchange for Bitcoin. It's pretty intuitive.
Try Fixed Float or Trocador App
https://ff.io/en/
https://trocador.app/en/
This comment is valuable. On those two sites, you can exchange shitcoins for Bitcoin. And on Robosats and the Telegram bot lnp2pbot, you can exchange fiat or stablecoins (USDT-USDC) for Lightning Bitcoin.
Yes, I also thank you for your guidance, dear friend
Thank you. Another person suggested one of these. Thank you too
Can you explain better so we should understand you easily
Hi friend, first of all I have to say welcome to SN..... But to answer your question, it is better to consult with some other older and more experienced people here to guide you and hear their opinion. But if your decision was to change your currency to another currency and not register and authenticate anywhere, I think fixedfloat is a good option, it is very simple and well designed and you can do it. And do it with a smaller amount of 5 or 10 dollars first, if you could do it without mistakes, then you can do the amount you want. .... I say again, be very careful and definitely wait for the opinion of the experienced people who are here and see what they suggest to you and don't just make a decision based on one person's words. Good luck. I hope you got the answers to the questions.
Hello, thank you. I'm really stuck here, it's like a piece separated from a world full of theft and cowardice, where you can't trust anyone, this is a piece as if it was separated from that world and remained clean and safe... I'm really happy to be here, thank you for your guidance, dear friend.
Try https://stealthex.io/
Or search 'non kyc exchange' and then further research their reputations.
Always try small amounts first until you can be confident of the platform.
Welcome to Stacker News
If you can attach a sending wallet as well as the receiving wallet you have already I will zap you 5000 sats.
It would be amazing to have a genuine Iran citizen here on Stacker News and if you could tell us more about life and events there now at this time it would be much appreciated and invaluable.
Who do you think will be insane to give you valuable sats for those shitcoins?
You played with shit, you eat that shit.
SHITCOINERS MUST PAY FOR THEIR STUPIDITY.