[mycall]

> Moving real money into Bitcoin will leave a paper trail, as does moving it out.

That will change with the Lighting Network.

[acdha]

If I have $50k in USD, how can anything avoid leaving a paper trail when you convert that to something else?

[vageli]

In person transactions have no paper trail if you don't want them to.

[acdha]

At that point, why not use cash? You’re already restricting yourself to small amounts and avoiding major purchases, so what does adding a cryptocurrency give you?

[Frogolocalypse]

> why not use cash?

As as been repeatedly demonstrated to you, holding cash is unsafe, because it can be seized by the government without you ever having committed a crime.

> what does adding a cryptocurrency give you?

As has been repeatedly demonstrated to you, you have protection from it being seized through the insidious civil asset forfeiture procedure.