XMR Monero General

yes local monero is still your best bet
however with Monero you can withdraw from an exchange and use different subaddresses each time, thereby preventing the feds from provably being able to connect that you are withdrawing transactions to the same wallet.
Alternatively, when atomic swaps come to fruition, you will be able to p2p send Bitcoin for Monero. This already exists through Morphtoken but it is not p2p, so it is not perfect and also you are eating fees trhough the service.
There is also Bisq, which is a p2p service. It's not based on cryptography though so you do run into difficulties with the service being attacked.

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