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Hey mate, might want to copy the full paynym address into the website url field. Your paynym.is link will probably fail. Maybe update to the current paynym.rs paynym.

Replying to Avatar L0la L33tz

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 👇

KYCnot.me has a lot of resources. As for bill pay, depends on country you're in...

I just had a similar scare this morning with Wise asking me for some proof of something.

I've not had much issue since I have a normie job which let's me file normie taxes which gets Wise the documents they say they need.

Not sure what I'll do when I become financially independent and they randomly ask for some document I won't have and get my bank shut down...

Still possible to buy prepaid $500 Visa cards.

Bitrefill

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Check this out for a more complete list of resources https://expatriotic.me/expatriotics-master-list/

I'm bored.

I'm new to nostr.

#introduction

I'm cool. Give me zaps and boost this so your friends can zap me too.

Thanks.

Oh I'm not a bot.

Promise.

Thanks.

I wasn't a bitcoiner at the time and it was mandatory for my job as an international school teacher.

Plus to move around freely in Indonesia most buildings had a QR you needed to scan and then you had to show the guard your app was green to get in.

Unvaxxed people would be denied entry.

I was in Indonesia and got the (what I deemed to be inferior) Chinese Synovac...

Later I felt really lucky to have gotten a traditional rather than experimental vaccine

Yes "Crypto" is cringe

Yes Bitcoin is the OG cryptocurrency.

I understand the desire to keep people away from scams like XRP...

But Bitcoin is a "Crypto"

Words are funny boss... Deal with it.

Update: if you block the words Bitcoin, nostr and lightning, your feed WILL freak tf out. It's glorious. But calming.

Let's stop the circle jerk. Post something real. Build shit. Do shit.

I wonder what my feed will show if I block the words Bitcoin, nostr and lightning... Can't get worse...

Replying to Avatar Super Testnet

Is this actually all you post about? Imagine disliking something and then spending all your energy posting about it...

Seems like a waste of time. Purely engagement farming.

Just build stuff and talk about it man. A quick scan through your profile looks like > 50% is trying to dis monero.

Replying to Avatar Super Testnet

Your lightning address is literally coinos.io

Try responding without memes or I'll start calling you darthcoin.

It's unclear what your critique is. I run a LN node... What exactly is your argument?

Do your best to use LN in a self custodial way and maintain your privacy. By all means. But again, please don't argue onchain Bitcoin is more private than onchain monero...

I've used LN long enough to lose tons of sats trying to work with something that's a fair headache at times... You seem like an ostrich about that.

I don't trust or respect people that can't see LN's drawbacks or shortcomings for self custodial use.