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I hit it all the time though i am getting better at ignoring it. And no way to disable or reprogram it that i have been able to find.

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Another day, another exchange I am suspended from.

All of my funds are conjoined or swapped between LN/XMR for privacy before sending to exchanges, triggering all sorts of nonsense AML flags.

The exchange I am with now is requesting proof of funds, meaning it wants to see fiat coming into my bank account from an entity I have a business relationship with, asking me to "kindly assist them" in surveilling me.

Except that all of my business relationships are handled in bitcoin – meaning that it is impossible for me to show proof of fiat funds.

Alternatively, the exchange says, I could send them “the address” to which I received payment in the last year, matching the amount of money I have exchanged on their platform.

Obviously no such address exists as I create a new address for each transaction (and so should you). Additionally, much of my money comes in through donations, for which I simply do not have an invoice.

I could now send them every single zap I ever received on nostr in the past year – for context, that would be over 250 zaps in the past week alone, s/o to all the zappers – or I could move my business to Switzerland, where I can exchange up to 1000 CHF per day KYC-free (for now), which is what I’m going to do.

However, since I’ll be more heavily relying on peer-to-peer exchanges from now on, I’ll likely have my bank account flagged for receiving weekly payments from randos on the internet, making it fairly foreseeable that I’ll be losing my bank account in the coming months as well.

Fundamental rights violations aside, the amount of complete nonsense work – and with that costs – this system creates both for the Government and private institutions is absolutely astonishing. If there ever was a true bullshit job, compliance officer would no doubt be it.

It’s time we end the global discrimination complex inherent to the financial system in which we are all guilty until proven innocent, only to upkeep an inefficient system that is useless in preventing crime but formidable for imposing mass surveillance on the people.

So no, I will not "kindly assist you" in surveilling me, and if I die on this hill.

Until then, shill me your favorite tools to pay my bills in bitcoin 👇

I appreciate your integrity as you have repeatedly attempted to inform and warn the community of this very thing. Sadly I don’t have an answer to your very important and specific need here and frankly, the majority(all) of the recommendations thus far mentioned are both telling and somewhat depressing because I am seeing alot of naïveté versus seriously considered implications.

If you're saying "I don't care that much, I just want a little privacy from Big Tech"

Then I'm replying that these tech giants are everywhere, on all these services, and sharing data. So isolating browser fingerprints with our VPN, is a fast, one-click, easy way to stop your data from being sold. While not dragging you down with inconvenient tools that get you blocked or stuff won't load right.

While as if you're saying "I am worried government AI is monitoring me"

Then I'm replying that nearly all of these VPN companies (such as Mullvad, IVPN, and Proton) all use the same huge international datacenters, like M247 and Datapacket, and so those same datacenter providers are seeing BOTH home IP addresses of nearly everyone you're interacting with.

The exact same size packet is flowing in a linear path, from your house, to M247, to any service, to M247, to your friend... for all your Nostr DMs, Signal texts/calls, and literally everyone you're talking to. Even if you're using IVPN, and they are using Mullvad, you're both sucked into same legal court order to that same UK-owned provider. Instead, we focus on smaller underdogs, operating in only one country.

Listen,

Our VPN is easy to use, yet it's very hard to get people to understand why they should, and actually take a few minutes to download an app and do it... just like Nostr.

So when you pitch Nostr, and your friends roll their eyes and say "yeah yeah later", that's how I feel right now. If only they cared, if only they'd see how it helps them:

https://vpn.simplifiedprivacy.com

I took the plunge. Agreed it is easier to use than it may initially appear.