Evaluate my Monero process

I've really grown to love monero. It's a great crypto that should definitely be used - especially on the DNMs. My process has been the following:

Buy BTC from exchange with CC > Electrum wallet on clearnet > shapeshift to monero > 1st monero wallet on clearnet > 2nd monero wallet through tor > send to self again over tor (churn) > xmr.to > BTC to TAILS electrum > DNM

So yeah it's a bit of an elongated process, but I'd rather be safer than not. I am also running my own node. My question is - can I just send monero to the vendor from my 2nd monero wallet over tor & skip the transfer back to BTC? I ask because that monero wallet I have is on my personal PC, not TAILS. I route all the traffic on my personal PC to go through tor to achieve this. Just feels weird sending from my personal PC to a vendor directly. But is that still safe? Thanks for any advice!


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[4 Points] None:

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[2 Points] STFUMandy:

Yes 100 percent safe.


[2 Points] Roland_Bones:

Not to hijack this thread but would this process suffice as well?

Clearnet: Buy Kraken -> MyMonero. Then move coin to Tails Monero wallet and then to DNM.


[1 Points] mymuse100:

So if I exchange $4200 for 1 BTC then exchange that BTC for #XMR into my super secure XMR wallet, wouldn't someone be able to know approximately how many coins Alice or Bob or Charlie START with in this scenario? What happens after that may be private, but it seems like the initial amount of XMR or any trade into the coin would be public? correct then why would you not move it to another wallet.. effectivly "churning" breaking all link to the exchange.... Churning means simply sending the entire balance back to yourself. There's a privacy increase because by doing so, you increase the distance of your funds from some source. Each churn serves to fuzz the trail by some factor. but wait a day For example, if you send to me via an exchange, you/exchange where that money sits on the blockchain because you're the one who created the output and so does the exchange. When I spend it to a different wallet to myself, you will see it appear as input in some TX, but will see some other possible inputs ringed together with it and won't be able to know for sure if it was me or someone else doing the spending. The probability is 1/N that it was me (where N is the ringsize used). Even if you assume it was me, you can't know if I sent to myself or to someone else. Note how you can't link that output to me anymore, simply thanks to stealth addresses. Now, when that "someone else" spends, again there's a 1/N probability that it's that output which got spent. The "someone else" send to "someone else" again and so on. Finally, the funds arrive to some other person, and he sends to you. Can you tell that those funds actually came from the TX you sent to me 5 hops ago? Probability would be (1/N)5 that it came from me. For ringsize 5, that's 0.0000032% chance. Just one of many possibilities, without any way of knowing which one is the real trail.


[1 Points] lordredvampire:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/71rtxh/localmonero_becomes_the_first/


[1 Points] missalfa:

thats too much lmao you gonna start with 1000 and end with 700$


[1 Points] CookyDough:

You may wish to consider this /r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/72pbjy/shapeshifts_cio_is_an_advisor_for_law_enforcement/