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#Amethyst (non-google version) with always-on VPN installed on #GrapheneOS with killswitch engaged or via the baked-in Orbot (Tor) option, or both.
Be mindful though, going through Tor will be very slow, so a VPN like Mullvad or ProtonVPN (my personal recommendation as it does not get blocked by sites as often as Mullvad) will be a good balance between performance and privacy.
https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst
I personally prefer #garnet since it also has support for Monero. It is quite stable. However, as an alpha/beta downstream fork of Amethyst, it is currently lagging behind in updates, does not use the gossip relay model, and is still very, very early in development, so that is a personal decision.
https://github.com/retrnull/garnet
#Obtainium to track and keep APKs updated.
https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
#Citrine is useful for private on-device relay for Amethyst drafts.
https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine
#Amber event signer helps keep your nsec safer by using your phone as a signing device (with Orbot (Tor) activated). This is more secure than giving clients and apps direct access to your nsec.
https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber
#Ntfy is great. It's the open-source standard for push notifications.
https://ntfy.sh/
Get on #F-Droid Basic for unattended updates. I recommend F-Droid Basic over F-Droid when an APK is not available directly from the developer.
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.basic/
I have no recommendation for a coinjoin after what happened with Samourai.
BTC can be marked "tainted" by centralized exchanges, and coinjoins leave a distinct fingerprint (i.e., you can tell they have been coinjoined). I don't use them for this reason, and never have.
Bitcoin is not private on a protocol level, and all the hoops people try to jump through to make it private will likely not stand the test of time as regulation increases and AI gets put to the task of on-chain analysis of BTC's public blockchain.
If you can get non-KYC BTC, that's awesome, but you will pay more for them from a decentralized exchange like Bisq or Robosats, and you don't know if they are marked "tainted" until you try to off-ramp them for cash through an exchange.
I use #Monero. It is secure, private, and untraceable by default. I highly recommend it.
https://www.getmonero.org/
https://libereco.xyz/resources/
Be mindful though, going through Tor will be very slow, so a VPN like Mullvad or ProtonVPN (my personal recommendation as it does not get blocked by sites as often as Mullvad) will be a good balance between performance and privacy.
https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst
I personally prefer #garnet since it also has support for Monero. It is quite stable. However, as an alpha/beta downstream fork of Amethyst, it is currently lagging behind in updates, does not use the gossip relay model, and is still very, very early in development, so that is a personal decision.
https://github.com/retrnull/garnet
#Obtainium to track and keep APKs updated.
https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
#Citrine is useful for private on-device relay for Amethyst drafts.
https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine
#Amber event signer helps keep your nsec safer by using your phone as a signing device (with Orbot (Tor) activated). This is more secure than giving clients and apps direct access to your nsec.
https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber
#Ntfy is great. It's the open-source standard for push notifications.
https://ntfy.sh/
Get on #F-Droid Basic for unattended updates. I recommend F-Droid Basic over F-Droid when an APK is not available directly from the developer.
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.basic/
I have no recommendation for a coinjoin after what happened with Samourai.
BTC can be marked "tainted" by centralized exchanges, and coinjoins leave a distinct fingerprint (i.e., you can tell they have been coinjoined). I don't use them for this reason, and never have.
Bitcoin is not private on a protocol level, and all the hoops people try to jump through to make it private will likely not stand the test of time as regulation increases and AI gets put to the task of on-chain analysis of BTC's public blockchain.
If you can get non-KYC BTC, that's awesome, but you will pay more for them from a decentralized exchange like Bisq or Robosats, and you don't know if they are marked "tainted" until you try to off-ramp them for cash through an exchange.
I use #Monero. It is secure, private, and untraceable by default. I highly recommend it.
https://www.getmonero.org/
https://libereco.xyz/resources/