Most of the exchanges have to deal with centralised payment organisations (such as visa, mastercard and banks) if you accept cash and don't kyc (wherever you are) you're at a higher risk of being scammed by a chargeback or by something being counterfeited/faked.

There are peer to peer and decentralised options for loading and unloading funds but they're not as trusted because of the higher risks involved (eg bisq only allowing small cash conversions to attempt to mitigate scams).

Even though they're backed by centralised exchanges, stablecoins might be the best alternative to trying to buy crypto without kyc (after mixing funds bought on a kyc exchange in some way or using a proxy).

You cannot anonymously buy bitcoin in a centralised exchange, they have their protocols and they must comply to government regulations which include KYC and AML policies. If you live in an area where there are Bitcoin ATM's, then it is a good way to buy bitcoin anonymously with cash, you can also try out other peer to peer options like Paxful, HodlHodl, Bisq were you do not have to provide KYC or identification to exchange your bitcoin.
Are you so sure about that, buying bitcoin has never been completely anonymous, except through peer to peer decentralized options, or if you want to buy from a friend, you send cash in exchange for bitcoin or the other way round, centralized exchanges have done their business in this way, you either comply or not use them.

but which countries are the best for here?

also what true dex's are there? Binance used to have a Dex but apparently that was a lie as they started implementing kyc.

which ones are tor friendly? Kucoin seems to not like me using tor to use their exchange.

Kraken seems to work but i need to select my country of residence. which country has the best/most lax laws?

what would happen if an exchange opened in a super crypto friendly nation decided to ignore the US demanding it have KYC?

which nations have the best crypto laws of lack-thereof

Exchange are all about more business now than trying to uphold the values of Crypto-currency, some centralized exchange right now did not start of like that, they where decentralized and didn’t require KYC, but in other to have more business deals and not having any issue with countries law, so they are now compromising and turning centralized, but still you can find decentralized exchange that are private, secured and upholds anonymity.

Without having made an exhaustive study of the issue, I would say that these are the countries that have not yet regulated it, nor have they banned it, if there are any left. This excludes obvious cases such as El Salvador, where no income or capital taxes are paid on bitcoin.

https://es.cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-investors-are-reportedly-exempt-from-taxes-in-el-salvador

But the moment they regulate it, governments will want people to identify themselves in order to tax them, and this has happened at least in the countries I know of.

I do not think there is any country in the world accepting the existence of Exchanges without KYC.  I am pretty confident they all require some sort of AML or KYC policy for suspicious cases.  The times where Centralized Exchanges existed without KYC are pretty much gone.

What is still real however is the existence of Centralized Exchanges known not to selectively scam (a k a require valid proof of identity all of a sudden) their clients and do KYC in very rare cases or, the ones I love the most, Decentralized Exchanges.  With the latter you just have control over your coins and know there is no policy that would steal your money or lock you out of it.

If a country decided to never accept KYC, it has to be a small one and they would likely be automatically threatened and punished by larger powers for doing so.  They would automatically label the country 'pro crime'.  KYC is now more about politics and surveillance and less about anti crime movement.  This is why it became so hard to purchase Bitcoin in a more private way.  Binance used to be a no KYC Exchange until last year when they decided it should be imposed for each and every client of theirs.

Anyway.  If you want a comprehensive list of which Exchanges, either Decentralized or Centralized, are better for privacy, then you should take a look at kycnot.me.

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Govermnents don't protect your privacy at least with their laws. You know what happened with Ukraina vs Russoa war and reactions from.many nations including Swiss. Swiss is a nation with neutral approach and strategy from army to finance. They changed it by seize and freeze money from Russian orligarchs.

Fortunately with Bitcoin non custodial wallet, Coin Join transaction, Tor connection, you can have better privacy and anonymity by yourself. You don't have to rely on services provide by governments and their laws which can be changed anytime.

Of course they also feel the impact of the current decline in bitcoin prices.
But they may have other money so they can cover their shortfall when the market is not as volatile as it is now.
If you say about losses, of course they feel the loss, especially since the price of bitcoin has fallen very far this time.

AFAIK, it is Malta who was the friendliest of them all and gave that go signal for those exchanges that they're tax-free. But it is for the benefit of the exchange and they still have to follow policies such as asking KYC for their customers.

As given which is the best for actual dex, go with Bisq.

Just expect that even the friendliest countries will still ask the exchanges to follow their rules and the exchanges will implement KYC for all of their customers as needed and required by law.