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anyone else experience #cashapp declining transactions with a robosats seller?

i haven't experienced this before.

the response from support:

"We use a variety of security measures to protect your account. We review multiple data points in real-time to determine whether a transaction can be completed. If anything appears out of the ordinary, we'll cancel the payment for your protection. That’s what happened here."

#cybersecgirl #kyc #robosats #bitcoin

The Everything App?

Forget it. Nostr is The Everything Protocol

There is no "review board". If the code doesn't compile using only free software, it is rejected. F-droid is about pure open source.

Way too many random apks from the internet are loaded with 3rd party tracking, at the least.

Anyone can setup their own f-droid repo and serve up their own apks. Izzydroid, divested, guardian project, calyx, cromite, etc have all done this.

Obtanium is basically a fancy curl interface. It doesn't verify anything and so long as the binary blob downloads, you can install it. Its no different than a user browsing and downloading binaries off the internet.

F-droid needs lots of work, and it's a constant work in progress, but I feel it's vastly better than the alternatives right now.

Yes, the app is FOSS, but the app is the least important part of F-droid. The key is the catalog of apps that is extremely controlled by a few individuals that review. To give you an idea, Firefox is not opensource enough for F-Droid's review board. Which is bonkers.

To me, as an app developer that publishes constantly to both Google and F-Droid, the F-droid review board has been way more controlling of what I can do in the app than what Google does. Which is also bonkers.

But again, neither Google, nor F-droid is there to decentralize things from themselves. Both are incentivized to keep as much control as possible. And that's my hole point to move away to Obtainium.

FOSS doesn't mean necessarily mean decentralized.

No idea. The main question is who decides what shows up in Aurora's app catalog?

Yeah if you're using Telegram you already dgaf about privacy.

Yeah if you're using Telegram you already dgaf about privacy.

We already have SimpleX, Signal, Telegram, etc...

Nostr should play to its strengths.

i trust myself to use #btc privately but it's not easy, everything must be done just right. most people buy kyc coin from exchanges, use it on-chain in a non-private way and shoot themselves in the foot, exposing themselves and their finances on a permanent record (the blockchain).

bitcoin is awesome but the way most people use it is not "freedom money" or "private". it needs a 2nd layer to be more fungible and private.

tbh it's disturbing how many people hear these buzzwords and get into bitcoin in a non-privacy preserving way. they have no idea how much chain analysis heuristics can reveal about you and your finances.

fiat would would not only be more private, but less dangerous the way most people use #btc.

monero on the other hand is privacy at a protocol level. you get the same privacy guarantees no matter which wallet you use. i recommend most people use monero.

i love bitcoin, and i highly encourage people to study it and learn how to stack it and use it in a private way, but the truth is, it's a privacy nightmare by default.

just ask the canadian "freedom convoy".

#cybersecgirl #privacytechpro #bitcoin #monero #privacy