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Bitcoin only, no more fiat for me.

Just hit the point where I can't use fiat anymore.

Almost a year ago I told someone I draw the line with using banks when they force me to use facial recognition or fingerprints to use my "own money". I take what I say seriously and always do what I say.

Today is that day. Two or three months ago, they started with fingerprint / facial recognition on the banking app but I could still disable it. As if today I can only make fiat payments if I do facial recognition. And I'm not willing to compromise.

I don't really keep much fiat in my bank anyway, basically just for what I have to do at the moment. I knew this moment would come. I used a scan to pay method to bypass the facial recognition for now to pay for the meat I ordered locally.

My fiat banking account is now empty and it will stay that way.

As of today I am Bitcoin only and if I can't pay for something with my sats, I'll have to DIY it!

Wish me luck!

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Discussion

🥚 1y ago

If it's not intruding too much: do you have kycless btc? Otherwise you already scanned your face to get it.

I'm not saying this is okay, though.

EchDel 1y ago

Just want to notify you of the peer to peer part of Bitcoin. It makes KYC meaningless in a circular economy because ownership of coins fades after two or three tx's. People who invest are a different category to those who are shifting to a bitcoin standard.

Investors buy hold and sell.

Bitcoiners opt out of the system spending their time building the world they want to live in. Many investors become opt outers with time. It's a journey and a sacrifice which everyone does in his own way and his own capacity.

Peer to peer is the miracle and it's use as a non kyc onramp will become more evident this cycle.

If someone's trust has been abused once does not mean that you have to accept abuse into the future, just because it already happened.

Opt out of abuse.

EchDel 1y ago

If I install software and accept the terms I would like the terms to remain a constant. If I use the software, become dependant on it and the terms change I am forced to accept thos changes because of my dependance. This is an abusive business relationship.

Banks do it, we use Bitcoin.

Facebook does it, we use Nostr.

Windows does it, we use Linux.

When are we actually losing?

It's liberating. Like were winning or something.