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Bitcoin Local offers the opportunity to meet a seller at a physical location. Same with Local Monero. If you're planning to exchange $10M, you'll probably need a couple of bag-carriers, and perhaps some muscle as well.

You can also trade for non-physical "cash", e.g. local bank transfer via escrow. As far as I'm concerned, that's a cash exchange.



Won't the usage of escrow trigger a KYC/AML "event" of some sort? That would tie the two parties' identities in a way that a cash evades.


I think local traders are expected to execute some level of KYC. In my experience (under £1K, online) that's a photo of me, holding my driving licence and a piece of paper syaing "I'm buying X from Y". I've never tried a physical cash trade in person.




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