This seems to hard to get a trustworthy trader though, withdrawing funds now.
Thank you for the insight.
You sound like a scammer. Talking all this garbage with a tone like you're appealing to people here to take your Venmo. It's like rhetorical talking... "this seems so hard to get a trustworthy trader" bla bla.. It's you who needs to offer a trustworthy payment method! Venmo and bitcoins are not compatible.
There are safer methods but the way you write is as if you are defending Venmo (fraud is fraud i would assume a lot of sites can be funded via stolen info). You know it is REVERSIBLE and I bet you have intentions to reverse the payment after getting the bitcoins!
People, just don't do it. Don't accept Venmo from this guy. You WILL lose your bitcoins.