Of course, thanks for the kind words on what I do and my pod :)

Hoping to focus next season on Bitcoin/Lightning/Monero and do some deeper dives on topics like sender privacy, receive privacy, circular economies, avoiding KYC, etc.

Thanks Seth, and thanks for your work in this space.

timechain

If you use proper privacy practices after withdrawing, it 

 prevents the simple surveillance that exchanges/governments 

 on Bitcoin post-withdrawal, but it doesn't prevent the other three issues.

As for your other question -- so far there are no known cases of exchange accounts getting shut down for withdrawing to Samourai Wallet as far as I am aware. The only known case of exchange blacklisting is one user at Bottlepay getting their deposit rejected post-mix:

At this point it doesn't seem to be a major issue for people, but that could rapidly change. Just another reason to stop asking permission and go no-KYC-only ;)

bitcoin

Any thoughts on if this is a good way of un-KYCing Bitcoin?

Yes, the main issues with KYC are:

1) Gov/exchange knows how much you purchased when, so could easily knock on your door to confiscate or force you to disclose what you did with the sats
2) Allows governments to build nice, tidy lists of Bitcoiners to go to if they decide Bitcoin is too problematic for them and they want to stop it's use
3) Allows hackers/criminals to steal KYC data from exchanges (who are notoriously poor at cybersecurity) and then hit you with a $5 wrench attack to send them all your sats, as they have an address, face, and amount of Bitcoin purchased/withdrawn to leverage
4) Allows govs/exchanges to easily surveil Bitcoiner's usage of Bitcoin post-withdrawal and build deterministic links between IDs and on-chain activity

If you use proper privacy practices after withdrawing, it *only* prevents the simple surveillance that exchanges/governments *are doing today* on Bitcoin post-withdrawal, but it doesn't prevent the other three issues.

As for your other question -- so far there are no known cases of exchange accounts getting shut down for withdrawing to Samourai Wallet as far as I am aware. The only known case of exchange blacklisting is one user at Bottlepay getting their deposit rejected post-mix:

https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/fungibility-graveyard/#samourai

At this point it doesn't seem to be a major issue for people, but that could rapidly change. Just another reason to stop asking permission and go no-KYC-only ;)