Same

The bill pay tools used to be going strong but they all disappeared somehow - thank you for sharing!

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'm not a coder but I'm working on the Bitcoin standard nonetheless.

Gn #nostr

I haz a very eepy #catstr

Just saw a new nostrich say "Primal fam". And that's what I think will become the norm. Nostr will become less known, remaining in slight obscurity as the foundational protocol. In the way no one says "HTTPS google that". And most people don't refer to it as ActivityPub either, but just as "Mastodon" or "Lemmy". Folks will only be mostly familiarized with the front-end experience of Nostr. "You gotta get onto [client], you can't be banned there!"

All the guides we make for Nostr are simplified, and we see you make simple, and beginner friendly guides too ✊️.

The Nostr, Bitcoin, and Cryptocurrency space grows when we educate people effectively 😃!

non-technical people understand freedom of speech and freedom of choice. technical people understand how nostr enables this with decentralization, protocols, and code. we win when all of these can be merged together in a easy to use package for the masses. we're not there yet.

Pretty sure I just had some dipshit try to phish me on NostrAddress.com by them fake claiming to have been billed without knowing what it was about and proceeded to send a sketchy link to a PDF of bank statement (that I didn't open), despite not being able to find any historical charges for the person in Stripe. If you run a #Nostr business lookout for someone calling themselves "Ben Gutierrez"

what? no cumrocket?!

People do be saying “deserve” a lot more these days

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WTFdym the var REPLACE_THIS doesn’t work

Elon Musk said he was against Censorship but banned our page on X because we created an account during the crypto bot era.

They also banned many other legitimate pages.

Luckily here on Nostr we can’t be censored!

Elon Musk said he was against Censorship but banned our page on X because we created an account during the crypto bot era.

They also banned many other legitimate pages.

Luckily here on Nostr we can’t be censored!