there may be support for L2 networks soonish. the best you can hope for is a L2 copypaste of some other smart contract network at some point in the far future if anyone even cares enough.

reminds me of when bitcoin people used to say “nobody ever got prosecuted via blockchain analysis” and they wouldn’t stop saying that until it happened. they sometimes learn through experience but that’s about it.

I am actually going to end up using bisq2 to buy bitcoin via a reputation-based interaction, turn it into some monero on probably bisq1, and then use the monero to start interacting with haveno. it’s way too many steps and fees but it saves me from ever doing any KYC.

a reputation-based trade should still happen inside the DEX. that way the trade can contribute to the seller’s reputation score. bypassing it with a simplex contact would not let the DEX see that a trade actually happened.