So if I wanted to use XMR to pay for goods, could I buy ETH from coinbase, send to GDAX and then send to Exchange, convert Eth to XMR and then send the XMR straight to market? Would I be okay or would that redflag the exchange to block/ban/suspend my account? Would I need to send to an XMR wallet beforehand and then from the wallet, send to market? Thanks!
I would recommend going to ETH --> XMR and sending that to either https://mymonero.com or GUI wallet. I personally would not send from exchange straight to the market since the exchange knows where you are sending to (most likely vendor will use different address / escrow but still might not be worth it). XMR provides anonymity from the sending side and i could hurt OPSEC sending from exchange. Using something similar to shape.shift to go from ETH --> XMR into your monero wallet... then to the DNM would be optimal. i know shape.shift probably working with LE so there may be better services out there https://getmonero.org/community/merchants/