I get that, but the extra context here is that they also require KYC for customers buying a €10 pizza - at least in The Netherlands. So now they presumably want my node id too (not happening, I'll find a downstream node to open a channel to).
Ffs BitPay... 
It's a surprising pain in the ass indeed. At least my DNS seeds both crawl and can be reached via IPv6.
I'm getting these ads a lot now on the bird site. Can't tell if it's a phishing operation or some hare-brained Ethereum Foundation scheme. But X is taking their money. 
Reminder that space does imply privacy. nostr:note19sge7qclx55fx5ewf8amr795rmuw00u73k6vesnhkaz3c94ha38swwsh35
(Hypocritically reposting since I do still hang out at the bird site) nostr:note1fk6lq9dtdpsy7y0tgmneg4uhka3ffk6q5948ghhnvlt2rvw3dfdq9tj4s5
Excellent nostr:npub1r8l06leee9kjlam0slmky7h8j9zme9ca32erypgqtyu6t2gnhshs3jx5dk episode describing how the EU's various attacks on Bitcoin impact human rights activists, not just in far away dictatorships but right here.
They agree that Bitcoin will win anyway in the long run, but there's shorter term concerns too.
Etsy, depending on merchant settings. Apparently the platform also removed the ability to manually settle a payment, so you can't use Bitcoin even if the merchant wants to.
US cities are pretty bad when it comes to public transit, noise and homelessness. Try it for a few months. Then try Amsterdam (or Utrecht if you're feeling more adventurous). Then for more contrast, try Hong Kong.
Sadly some shops only accept PayPal. I closed my account years ago and have no plan to open another one. There is a Guest Payment feature but they do everything to hide it. This time I had to switch the language from Dutch to English to see the "pay with creditcard" option.
PayPal is to fiat what plastic is to glass. It's bad enough not to accept Bitcoin, but ffs at the very least don't force customers to use PayPal.
I thought #Txitter getting users to pay for accounts would stop the bots but it hasn't and now that you can just buy your verification and get preferential display in feeds and comments, its made it pretty fun for scammers to get a hold of accounts
Regulatory bodies like #SEC, brands like #Coingecko and security firm #CertiK and even Politicians have seen their accounts hacked and used to either troll or worse shill crypto projects or phishing scams
Unfortunately, those who want to use these platforms and tend to trust and don't verify will get rekt.
https://protos.com/crypto-hacks-on-x-show-no-sign-off-slowing-down-in-2024-1/
I don't think the SEC hack counts in this analysis. Not enabling 2FA is criminal negligence. You could blame Twitter for not mandating it, but that seems unrelated to the issue of paid accounts and/or bot fighting.
Assuming you have wifi and it doesn't fail. You could implement a remote deadman switch to market-buy puts?
And "all hotels in Bedford" is just nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx's basement?
I saw this recently, very nice. Haven't had time to review though. Maybe nostr:npub18d4r6wanxkyrdfjdrjqzj2ukua5cas669ew2g5w7lf4a8te7awzqey6lt3 has some folks who can help?
It indeed remains to be seen. Perhaps one day someone figures it out.
I do think the incentive now is too much such that the silent majority can't stop nonsense (in their eyes) from spreading. Unless you speak up, the default is for the spreader to receive likes, sats and reposts from the subset who agrees.
To some extend that happens in a bar too in that people will avoid confrontation. But there's a bit more signal in the form of blank stares. Maybe fact checking isn't the right way to address this though.
As I said "nobody is in charge", by which I also mean that nobody gets to decide what is correct.
But you could opt-in to have other people hold you to a high standard of intellectual honesty. That could include not spreading information that you knew at the time was unreliable, but would get lots of zaps.
It's still up to yourself or your group of peers to figure out what standards to hold and how to enforce them. The latter is a really hard problem if your goal is to avoid group-think.
Interesting observation about social media in a book I'm reading. It was a dead end with for-profit platforms, but Nostr could be different?
How can we introduce expensive signals? Maybe allow people to put up a bond in sats for x years that gets burned if it turns out they spread incorrect information? Since nobody is in charge, users could appoint a number of npubs that can make the slash happen? 
Amazon is quite small here, but still, good job! nostr:note1fuhea87u0ul2g2eplp66qm6f5qsn2ydje8k33uadwzru4aly7kfq3jxr65