Is there any way to get around the bank statement? Some other document? What if someone lives mostly off-the-grid and only does in-person cash trades?
1. I don't think that there is even an option for in person cash trades anymore on localbitcoins. If you click on "post a trade" you'll be greeted with 2 options only, none of which is cash-related:
This depends on where you are in the world. Here in the Philippines, I can still do cash-based trades on LBC, and they are still pretty active and a lot of traders are still using the platform even up to this day. But then again, expect a lower amount when you sell your bitcoins to them and a premium of
at least 5% of the spot prices in the local exchanges when you wanted to buy. I also see that same page where you're referring to, and it does not give me any other different methods but there are adverts which still have their preferred payment method as in-person cash, at least for some of the verified, trusted users that is.
2. You raise a very valid concern, but it's not within LBC's powers to make a change imo. They're likely only doing this because of regulatory pressures. They simply wouldn't do this if there was none of that - they know well enough that they'd be losing out on a lot of potential customers.
Ditto. They are losing a lot of users honestly with centralized exchanges being favored upon by regulatory bodies. I think it's a matter of time before LBC gets off the grid and completely succumb to regulatory pressures.
In the recent days I am constantly doing trading on localbitcoin through creating advertisements but from the past few weeks I am getting notification of verification needed to continue trading which is called tier level.I already verified tier 0 and tier1 but still I did passed the limit of tier1 so I need to verify tier 2 which ask for bank statement and much more documents,even I did upload everything its still in the process for more than 48 hours.
Anyone has experience with this?
I am level 2 verified on LBC (and IDK why I did that) and it took 4 business days before everything is processed and sorted out between the bank and LBC. It usually takes longer for confirmation but I might have been lucky on that occasion.