On Reddit and the LocalMonero forum, users discussed alternative means of buying XMR, which, with a $2.5 billion market cap, is the largest privacy coin. These include buying another cryptocurrency like bitcoin (BTC) or litecoin (LTC), sending it to the privacy-focused Cake Wallet and then swapping for XMR.
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