As a US citizen living abroad, i have first hand experience of how the US does indeed make it difficult to make certain transactions in the country I live in. Impossible if you refuse to give them all the information they want on you. Before the ended the International Postal Money Order service (IPMO), I eventually had to show my residents card (think Green Card), my local version of the US SSN, which is new here, and wait for permission from the main post office in the nation’s capital to cash a forty (40) dollar money order from my parents to my kid for their birthday and state the relationship between myself and the sender and the purpose of the money sent. I have had to provide more information on IPMO I have sent to the Us many years in the past. With IPMO service ended, I have had money wired to me. Eventually this too required all the above except having to await permission to receive the money. When I make local monthly bill payments, the bill comes with a bar code with all my data that is scanned when I pay it at the convenience store. Then we have the fact that every single transaction from my local bank is report to the US because I am a US citizen.
This most, but not all of the controls I am aware of, there are undoubtably more.
Yes, once you have money in Bitcoin, it MAY be private, but getting it there and out lets the world know how much you put in and how much you took out. And unless everywhere accepts bitcoin, you are going to need to convert some of it to local currency at some point, which will be reported.
As a US citizen living abroad, i have first hand experience of how the US does indeed make it difficult to make certain transactions in the country I live in. Impossible if you refuse to give them all the information they want on you. Before the ended the International Postal Money Order service (IPMO), I eventually had to show my residents card (think Green Card), my local version of the US SSN, which is new here, and wait for permission from the main post office in the nation’s capital to cash a forty (40) dollar money order from my parents to my kid for their birthday and state the relationship between myself and the sender and the purpose of the money sent. I have had to provide more information on IPMO I have sent to the Us many years in the past. With IPMO service ended, I have had money wired to me. Eventually this too required all the above except having to await permission to receive the money. When I make local monthly bill payments, the bill comes with a bar code with all my data that is scanned when I pay it at the convenience store. Then we have the fact that every single transaction from my local bank is report to the US because I am a US citizen.
This most, but not all of the controls I am aware of, there are undoubtably more.
Yes, once you have money in Bitcoin, it MAY be private, but getting it there and out lets the world know how much you put in and how much you took out. And unless everywhere accepts bitcoin, you are going to need to convert some of it to local currency at some point, which will be reported.
I see your problem more clearly now: you really don't have much in the way of a supportive community around you, i.e., like minded people.
Nope. Not a one. Like be adrift at sea, water water everywhere but not a drop to drink. People people everywhere but not a helping hand.