nokyc.watch - Privacy-friendly and no-KYC crypto services

Every year it gets a little harder to spend money without explaining yourself.

Buying crypto now usually begins with a passport scan, a selfie and a utility bill. That data does not stay where you put it: it gets breached, sold, subpoenaed, and attached to every transaction you make afterwards. The exchange that demanded it may be gone in three years. The copy of your documents will not be.

This is not an argument for hiding. It is an argument for proportion. Buying a hundred dollars of bitcoin should not require the paperwork of opening a bank account, and it should not create a permanent record of who you are, held by someone whose security you never got to inspect.

What this catalogue does

It answers three questions about a crypto service, and only those three:

• Will it demand your documents?
• What will it learn about you if you use it?
• Does it work right now?

Every listing carries a KYC level from 0 to 4, a privacy score, a trust score and a scheduled availability check. Nothing here is a paid placement.

Why the answers can be trusted

Because they are shown, not asserted. The KYC level is derived from attributes a moderator confirmed one by one — nobody, including us, can type it in by hand. The method is published in plain words, and every attribute's exact effect is listed on the service's own page. Listings climb a ladder — community, approved, verified — and every step, up or down, goes into an audit log with the reason for it. Advertising exists, is labelled as advertising, and touches nothing: not a score, not the ordering, not a status.

And the site keeps for you what it measures in others. There is no email or phone field in the account model and there never will be; there are no third-party scripts, fonts, CDNs or analytics; reading and filtering work with JavaScript switched off. A page that graded privacy while leaking it would be worth nothing.

Why this matters now

Privacy is not a feature you can add later. Once a service holds your documents, no change of policy gives them back, and who owns that database in five years is not your decision. The only durable protection is choosing, in advance, services that never collected the data — and being able to tell which ones those actually are.

That last part is the work, and it is what this catalogue is for. The method is public and the corrections are yours to send: if a listing is wrong, say so. The next reader's answer should be better than the one you got.