I should point out that your personal relay app isn't really a relay, it's just a filter between relays and your client that reads from, and publishers too whatever relays you set it up to use.
It doesn't act as a relay, it's a personal proxy to relays that you can apply your own personal filters too.
Basically, the legislation is so vague, LEO can point to any transaction of any type, and claim it's illegal under the act. And they'd be technically correct.
To beat such a charge, you'll need very expensive lawyers, and political support.
This way, people with power are exempt from the law, but you and I are buggered.
#hashtags allow you to follow topics or say hello to everyone using the #introductions hashtag.
You can follow #news or #sports or #nature too. Follow topics and people that interest you.
I reckon that relays should be removed from clients completely.
A dedicated relay app on your device that can concentrate on filtering, retrieval and publishing will do a better job than trying to squeeze all that into the UI. That work doesn't need to be done by the UI at all.
You can then get more complex filtering and user control, and build tor into a dedicated app. It can become the gateway to nostr that all your nostr clients use. You can then build a trust network of relay apps that can share blacklist, whitelist, keyword lists, etc. Getting your UI client to do that is just too much to ask.
Then, no matter which client you use on your computer or phone, you have it use your local relay gateway app.
Client devs can concentrate on working on the UI. Relay devs concentrate on relaying, spam and filtering.
There's legal money laundering through registered banks that pay bribes to politicians. Drug cartels and international sex traffickers give them 5 stars for service, but two stars for fees.
And, there's illegal money laundering by any method that doesn't pay bribes to politicians.
The legal ones pay the bribes so that the politicians will shutdown their competition.
It's just business, nothing personal.
Geo-blocking 330 million Yanks is better than sharing a cell with Julian Assange or living next door to Edward Snowden. The weather in Russia sucks.
Sure. Still, it's no one else's problem. All the abuse that Phoenix has received is absolutely wrong. Americans need to focus that anger where it belongs, with themselves for choosing the government they have.
The Internet was way more fun before http, when there was only telnet, ftp and gopher that you accessed it with a VT220 DEC terminal.
To be fair though, this is a fight the Americans have to do themselves. It's not up to foreign companies to resist and face prison to fight against laws the American people have voted for, and continue to vote for.
It's entirely up to the American people to change their government themselves, and very cowardly of them to demand foreign companies fight a fight they're not willing to fight themselves.
If Americans aren't going to stand up for themselves, wtf should anyone else?
All these people abusing Phoenix, calling them cowards, why aren't they abusing their government? Is it because their government will do to them what they are doing to children protesting at universities if they dare complain?
Me, I'm not the calling for other people to risk jail time. Why call me a tough keyboard warrior, that doesn't even make sense? Kinda sucks as an insult.
Why don't you do what you're demanding other people do? It's a simple question?
I guess it's because you're to much of a coward to risk jail time yourself.
The ACINQ software is open source, why don't you host a version of Phoenix wallet yourself?
Then, you can pay for the lawyers and beg for help from the Bitcoin legal defense fund, Opensats etc.
Don't ask other people to risk jail time if you're not willing to either. Instead of demanding other people place themselves at risk of arrest, why don't you put up, or shut up.
You wouldn't cave on day one? Yeah, right. Talks pretty cheap. So is hosting your own ACINQ node. You can have that up and running in just a couple of hours. Hell, I'll even set it up for you for free, provided you record the day the FBI kicks down your door and arrests you for daring to do what you're demanding other people so.
The removal of lightning wallets from play store is a risk for American users that use LNURL-AUTH.
For the other 7.7 billion people on the planet, enjoy your LNURL-AUTH.
Glad I don't live in the 'Land of the Free'.
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That's exactly the sort of thing an undercover FBI agent would say to throw people off. 😉
Anyone that's not American.
I could spin up a Cashu mint and all I have to do is geo-block Americans and the US government won't give a shit. It's what companies like Wallet of Satochi do. And billions of people all over the planet could use it. Just, not you Yanks
The rest of the people on the planet don't care that that the USA is a repressive regime that forbids its peasants and serfs from anonymously using Bitcoin. Like...HaHa 🤣.
Perhaps you Americans should change your government if you actually want the freedoms you pretend you have. Although, there's that old saying that you always get the government that you deserve.
A friendly reminder from Flowers by Irene that USD is the only currency that criminals should ever use. They can legally launder their criminal profits through a multitude of Banks which all pay the appropriate bribes to US politicians so they can operate with impunity.
Remember, if you're a criminal drug cartel or sex trafficking ring using USD, Uncle Sam has your back.