"Leather" is the result of killing a living being, and selling it for your adornment.

You literally make things out of living being's skin. Good luck with your AI therapist.

You literally make things out of living being's skin. Good luck with your AI therapist.

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 👇

⚡️🇩🇪 NEW - German sports scientist and sports historian calls to make the country's national youth fit for potential war.

What do you think? #asknostr

Nostr is a great technology but when people post stuff that isn’t related to bitcoin or nostr itself they struggle to get traction and build an audience.

Other platforms have algorithms or tools to cultivate multiple communities of users and interest. We’re a bit stuck with just one at the moment. Solving this is essential for Nostr’s future.

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I have the cure to anxiety!!! ...you know, kinda.

Of course there are two halves to anxiety, your subconscious thought patterns and the inflammation in your body, and it’s hard to address just one as one will cause the other.

But, here is my “cure” for the thought pattern portion of things…

You don’t control the outcome of a situation, not any situation ever. Lo siento. In some cases you have quite a lot of influence, but you don’t have control, ever. As such it makes no sense to focus on the outcome. Instead focus on who you want to be in this story. You aren’t the author of the book, but you are the creator of one character in that book and so you have to focus on that character, you.

Instead of constantly asking yourself “what happens if xyz occurs?” and “how can I prevent abc?” etc. Instead ask “How can I behave in a way that I can be proud of?” and “Who do I want to be in this story?”

“Who do I want to be in this story?” that’s the cure! ...for me anyhow. Might help you too.

How?

Help me to be louder. Join our coalition to establish FreedomTech Embassy in Brussels and then in other capitals of the EU.