Moving Out of Monero: A Practical XMR to BTC Guide

You hold XMR and you need BTC. Maybe a counterparty only settles in bitcoin. Maybe you want to sit in deeper liquidity for a while. Maybe the platform you used for years quietly dropped the pair, and you only found out when you went looking for it. The reason matters less than the question that follows it. How do you move out of Monero into bitcoin without overpaying, without handing over a passport scan, and without losing a deposit to an a…