# Privacy focused crypto exchange

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/privacy-focused-crypto-exchange/24687
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** 2025-02-05T00:07:04Z
**Posts:** 8
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## Post 7 by @jerm — 2025-02-06T12:29:55Z

> [@bitsondatadev](#):
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> - Obtain common public currency (often BTC) [in as private/secure of a way as possible for centralized](https://bisq.wiki/Funding_your_wallet#How_to_Obtain_Your_First_Bitcoin), however you should assume traceability when using centralized exchanges IMO.

Bisq have a lot of tainted coins. Your best bet of “Privacy focused crypto exchange” is by using Haveno [Retoswap](https://retoswap.com/).

> [@bitsondatadev](#):
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> (I use [Bisq](https://bisq.network/)), but this doesn’t run via the TOR network

No, from their [website](https://bisq.network/), “Your data is stored locally on-disk, and is never sent to a central server. Every Bisq node is a Tor hidden service by default.”

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