paying an annual server bill with coinjoin outputs and the "crypto" intermediary straight up seizes the funds after they confirm. 🤡🌎
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I think we need to aggregate a list of companies that do this foolishness so that we can just simply stop using them.
Compliance via rug-pull. That's a new one.
Waiting for Cryptobro support to reply for 24 hours so far. ☠️
Anyway this is for a personal server and not a relay. Last year this vendor was using some other crypto commerce thing. They just change providers every so often instead of doing the right thing and running btcpayserver. Super lame. Probably time for me to find someone who does the right thing. And pay a lot more for a server. 🤷♂️
3 days on and no support response. Will be moving this server to a different provider, Racknerd. they were using Coinbase last year, and are now using Coinify. Paid them with change from the exact same utxo and went through no problem, this time.
No luck finding a competitive provider that uses btcpayserver yet. Will have to keep on the lookout.
They finally just responded with this:
"Cryptomus Support Team: Hello. Thanks for waiting.
An AML block has been triggered on your transaction
Can you please let us know if this transaction has been paid? If payment has not been made, please block the application on your
side. This payment will be held.
To confirm the origin of the funds, please answer the following questions in full:
- Through which platform did the funds come to you? If possible, please provide screenshots of the sender's wallet/platform withdrawal history, as well as a link to transaction in the explorer;
- What service you received the funds for;
- The amount of the transaction and the date and time it was executed;
- through which contact person did you communicate with the sender of funds? If possible, please provide screenshots of the correspondence with the sender where we can see the confirmation that the funds were sent.
Please request the following from the person who made the payment:
Screenshot of the output of the platform from which they transferred funds, showing the details of the transaction."
Obligatory addendum to this story is that I pointed my Ansible playbook to different servers and migrated to Racknerd overnight. I politely told off the crypto commerce and they returned the funds back to the address of the payment input utxo. Samurai wallet indicated that the transaction was a "mix" which was weird given the situation (turned out my whirlpool cli was still running so I finally shut that off).
Devops practice helps avoid this turning into a real fire alarm, but it's still extremely lame that vendors will switch payment gateways every year. They're probably just chasing promotional/introductory offers.
Feels absolutely disgusting to use these crypto commerce services. Almost as bad as using credit cards.