In the "then they fight you" phase, when things are becoming more adversarial for bitcoiners, it's a good idea to have a backup bank or two. You need to be able to say fuck you to your bank. Flag theory.
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i had *alby blocking me because i was using a russian based VPN service even though the actual data centre locations are bulgaria and moldova.
not only banks, anyone running websites is gonna throw this kind of thing up against you randomly, with no connection with your own personal actions.
Yeah I just saw the comments. It's so weird every service seems to be taking action against VPNs in general for some reason.
it's because the web doesn't have identity baked into it so you have to defend against malicious actors whose traffic looks much the same in some way.
if there was wireguard style authentication (ie, elliptic curves, identity keys) at the *protocol level* and not just on the *server side* (CAs) we could get around this problem.
it's a really fundamental, deep issue that i can say has also got its roots in the USPTO since schnorr's patents made EC cryptography expensive until 2011 or whenever it was his patent expired.
you can even say that it was fortunate that ECDSA was low enough cost compute to enable bitcoin at all, as it was a fundamental part when you weigh up the equation of bandwidth and storage capacity requirements. RSA keys would have seen the bitcoin chain bloated to multi terabytes by now.