If you know they’re Iranian, yep! That’s the law.
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you can't be reasonably held accountable for knowing that based on an lnurl
Yes you can, that’s the law
its not, actually. the law is about knowingly doin businesses. read it. read the cases. this is a made up fear
Not all crimes require the gov’t to prove intent.
You mean those crimes where the government is the criminal and trying to lock you in for it?
It's not about intent, it's about knowledge
If I zap somebody 2 cents for a post, and there's no reasonable way for me to know where they are from, and no reasonable expectation that my 2 cents matters
I will happily break that law and happily win in court
In the case of companies that are doing large amounts of transactional business with repeat customers
and have access to their IP addresses and have reasonable knowledge of where they're from
those are the ones that get fined
In fact if you look at the web page around the sanctions you can see that that there's a lot of language around this
it has to be a significant amount of business and it has to be where you know who you're doing business with or your required to know who your business is with
not all transactions require full KYC
there are transactional limits
and obviously if you're shipping
If you’re running an lnurl server you know the ip. Thus you at a minimum have to make a best effort here
oh I would agree for that
I just don't think random zaps on nostr matter
No, not everyone has to care about what US authorities say.
And aside from that, it has no moral or ethical authority. These sanctions are implemented only to mollify rich US Jewish groups (AIPAC), to punish political enemies, for economic hegemony (nordstream demolition), etc. ad nauseam.
It’s all 100% bullshit.