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On the wall of our local coffee shop. He really owns the military dress, don’t you think? Original artist is Steve Payne (https://www.photographize.co/articles/stevepayne/)

#noonewilleverbelieveyou

I seem to recall en Suisse there used to be a rule requiring citizens to keep government-issued weapons and ammo in your house for the common defence. Is that still so?

I would zap you some sats but I can’t get Primal to work with my AlbyHub… 😶

GE. I’ve got something to confess about that’s both embarrassing and very frustrating.

Last week I posted on a telegram home mining page about wanting to buy 2 x S19 XP’s to immersion mining and heat our pool and asking if anyone hade feedback about buying directly from Bitamain or their Chinese reseller Beacontek.

Someone called Sats4me replied I could buy them locally (I’m in New Zealand) for a sharper price through Rich at Used ASICs and said he good to deal with.

I was immediately DM’d by Rich at UsedASICs, (in retrospect a red flag) who said he has 6 month old S19 XP’s at the sharp price of $1300 AUD each.

I was cautious of not getting scammed, said I needed to conduct some due diligence, asking for his mob no and npub, but he asked if I’d like referee and gave me a telegram contact to message (probably him too) who said all he’d bought arrived as stated.

He didn’t provide me with his mob no or npub though. (Once again, another red flag.)

In retrospect I should have pushed for those, especially the npub, and a website. The social proof of the npub would have been valuable, but I felt I was being difficult and rude and he ‘seemed’ to be politely accommodating my due diligence checks.

I paid him the $2600 AUD, and emailed him the next day asking for the tracking.

I then checked my telegram chat with him only to find all messages wiped. It was then that the penny dropped.

I was naive to have not been more suspicious. Lessons learnt (the hard way.) 🙄

Not that it will probably stop his shitbag behaviour, but I text him:

Really? Is this how you make a living? Ripping people off.

Going through the motions of building trust when you’re really a fraudulent thief.

The fact that with Bitcoin, Nostr, Fedi etc, we’re trying to make a better, fairer, more harmonious world, but then there’s you, a lying fraudster scamming people rather than work towards a better future and trying to be the best person you can be.

You’re obviously intelligent, you should have more faith and self respect of yourself and aim higher.

I know humans can justify anything. How do you justify this cuntfuckery?

I’ll recover from this theft of yours and will let my wife know I’ve been scammed, while you have to live with your conscience that you’re a thieving, lying piece of shit.

Sleep well scumbag.

Anyway. Hopefully you can learn from my mistakes.

Be careful out there people.

Mate sorry to hear that. There are some real scum sucking shitbags out there and I’m as surprised as you were to find them on nostr of all places.

I feel like nostr could use a feature called “unzap”, where a post is so bad I can take sats off you as a penalty for having to read your drivel. 😬