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Aeneas 4 months ago
Like Primal does with shotgun KYC to zap Before talk about others look inside and see what you are doing against it..
There's a lot of noncompliance in the UK right now. Half the top apps in the UK App Store are VPNs. The boomers will comply but the tech savvy generations smell the bullshit.
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Constantin 4 months ago
Most people don't know that something is wrong or that there's an alternative.
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5u93ru53r 4 months ago
Nostr and Bitcoin came from Heaven! I feel myself incredibly safer when I discovered those technologies, eternal thanks to all the people engaged in this way... 👊🏼
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Aeneas 4 months ago
I dont buy that Odell There are ways to build clients without KYC also so why a "Freedom figther" prefered to build it with KYC whem he can do it without it? I know the answer ($$$) Now you will tell me, because normies will be easily onboard You cant criticize others and then do the exact thing they are doing. There is no good KYC and bad KYC, its all bad! And if you do any form of KYC you are complaining
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FEW_BTC 4 months ago
and most people will also get their brains chipped and drool to the grocery store to purchase toxic food with their ubi stipend. don't be most people
well pretty sure i coined the term shotgun kyc and the nuance matters, its strictly better to be upfront about it then lock users in and force it on them doesnt seem possible to ship a self custody wallet that accepts small zaps but we may move to spark or something like that when the tech matures, its a priority but dont want to rush it and have users lose funds
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kyle-moore 4 months ago
this is a good opportunity to spend less time on these slop platforms and replace that time with touching grass and reading the classic's of the western tradition
While I run LND over tor and use AlbyHub for zaps, I appreciate that custodial zaps exist while we work towards better solutions. I'm still unable to receive zaps because that requires LNURL and doesn't work with onion services, but I think we can eventually work this out and have fully anonymous, self custodial zaps
Jurisdictional permission Intranet was always their goal from the very beginning They tried and failed in the 90's to the Open Internet, they are trying again with the help of permission access thru jurisdictional stablecoins and tracking spyware View quoted note →
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xenonsky 4 months ago
no. this is a dark ages doom thought for non-browser users
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xenonsky 4 months ago
I don't want my nostr social media app to come with built-in money transmitter, NWC is tha feature.
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xenonsky 4 months ago
I will not be able to fork it but the today's version is safe to use
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nepsis 4 months ago
And a bunch of tech-illiterate boomers are at the helm. Let them try.
It's just code - NWC could have a safe way to generate a public connection string that can only make invoices, and clients could use this instead of an LNURL address
Yes, but there isn't a nice way to generate NWC connections that are safe, so no one is putting them in their nostr profiles, therefore no clients implement it. I admit that I should push harder for this, but I'm fixated on something bigger right now
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Aeneas 4 months ago
Now im seeing why you "coined" the term, usefull to have good KYC and bad KYC now.. Clients should not even try to be wallets, thats one more point of failure, much easier to build the connection bridges and let wallets do their job I understand money must come from somewhere, but with that you are selling data like big tech does, to get funding with the KYC that users that dont do what you said and comply, give to you, interesting.. If you believe your product is really the best, why use short cuts and say yes for VC money? Long term preference remeber?
The EU is building KYC into their CBDC linking it directly to the "digital identity wallets" and it comes with your own "individual carbon footprint tracker" (homing device). Think about how bad this is for just a minute. They don't need to kyc the internet, their money is gonna do it for them.
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hasky 4 months ago
What if your Client or customer is bad guy .. then what ? Whose fault is that ? The vendor who refused KYC policy or the customer ? shotgun kyc is when the info is asked after you deposit, holding funds hostage the wallet is optional, you can send and receive zaps on primal without it you can also use any other nostr app by simply copy and pastin
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₿ujuX 4 months ago
omg 😭😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭😂
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hasky 4 months ago
If sell fine French wine , I don’t Need to Know my customers, I can argue they all wine lovers . Nothing illegal there . But if man sell weed , they need to know their customer , in case the buyer is the police 😁
Most people even my friends don't care about privacy and they totally comply with control systems that are in placed. There common sense answer to #privacy- "i have nothing to hide" Sad ! #bitcoin
we are not selling kyc data we are providing users with an easy option to use zaps it is optional we ask for the minimum amount of info to avoid jail simple
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Benking 4 months ago
This is the slow but steady death of internet privacy. When governments and Big Tech join forces to enforce KYC everywhere, freedom online takes a hit. Complacency only makes it worse — time to value sovereignty before it’s too late. ⚡️🛡️
we need delay tolerant, store and forward, multi frequency, communication protocols
Even if nostr doesn’t grow substantially, I’ve made so many good connections that will prove valuable to me in the dystopian world we’re approaching.
yours could be the most conspiracy oriented, finger pointing, know it all generation ever.
> if you want to have a profitable business you have to KYC i do not think this is true, we have invested in multiple profitable businesses that are no kyc as i said above, our goal at primal is to move away from the custodial model, the tech is not there yet, if you have an actual option let us know otherwise you are the fucking larp
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Borg 4 months ago
The exception is not the rule. If it was so easy to be profitable without kyc primal wouldn’t do it. Yes, the option is not to kyc. Basically every other client is able to function well without kyc. Demonstrably you don’t believe KYC is in fact the illicit activity; otherwise, you would not have put your name behind multiple businesses that do KYC. We play the hand we are dealt, not criticizing that aspect, but spare us the slogans and mantras
we do not make money off the kyc wallet, it loses us money > every other client is able to function well without kyc this is clearly not true, new users constantly have issues setting up zaps and saying users have the option to not use the primal wallet is not a technicality, user choice is the foundation of freedom on the internet
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PewPew 4 months ago
They already are 😂 you just haven’t noticed yet. You’re saying it’s going to get worse.
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Noisy signal 4 months ago
Reading classics of western tradition is what got us in to this crap in the first place. Chinese history - long term struggle to resilient, vibrant trade dominance, might be a better option. Trump has lost - and China knows it. We know it. That's why we're here on this slop platform . It is obvious you haven't been following what the developers are working on, right here in Primal. Check out Bitchat and Whitenoise - two apps for privacy and Bitchat especially for communication when the internet is down. And yes the grass is still green.
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Shaun 4 months ago
Cool to discover this week that even in my very tiny town, there is actually a group of Bitcoiners and people who see the world a bit more like me
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Clippycoiner 4 months ago
That's when we make a decentralized meshnet protocol that gives humans internet WITHOUT needing an ISP.
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Clippycoiner 4 months ago
Be your own ISP. First, Bitcoin was invented so that one could be their own bank. Next, NOSTR was invented so that one could be their own platform. Finally, there needs to be a decentralized network of meshnet "internet boxes" that connect with eachother to make an unstoppable internet; so that you could also be your own ISP.
Nostr is the only alternative. There's a website called pubkey which is like a copy of nostr. But unfortunately it's invite only and lacks the decrentalisation that nostr has.
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Kimico 4 months ago
"Organization is our missing link.". Yes, Muricans, never give up your weapons. Organization, we can all do it, weapons can't, and in 5 years (+ Covid) "my state" has wrongfully harmed me, more than once.
Trying to defend primal when primal are doing something that's inherently bad.. Expected better from you @ODELL Primal is trying to be the legacy social media of nostr. Primal is seriously everything that's wrong with twitter Facebook etc.
Have any of the clients made a statement about not complying with the new internet censorship law ? I know primal will comply. I've already downloaded amethyst from outside the Google Play store. I'll be deleting primal. But I'm interested if anyone has said anything because the client I want to use is the one that does not comply
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Clippycoiner 4 months ago
NOSTR and Bitcoin will only become stronger and more antifragile as both of those are tested and as the legacy system continue to corrupt.
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hasky 4 months ago
i need an espresso .
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Ava 4 months ago
Already have
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luke 4 months ago
D O N O T C O M P L Y (I will probably do, on my personal 2007 accounts - long live nostr!)
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RockoCocko 4 months ago
I'm Australian and I whole heartedly agree with this message, unfortunately.
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Jose Sammut 4 months ago
As long as the existing community and infrastructure is maintained, I'm happy to be here.
primal links intentionally have the raw nevent with relay hints in them so apps should be able to parse them correctly even when this mistake is made
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Jose Sammut 4 months ago
I don't mind, it just looks nicer, that's all.
We need to follow closely on what happens in the UK and other countries where they try out the new, stricter controls. If enough people acquiesce, then they will roll out the same controls in more territories. I hope enough people still remember what happened with the vaccine passports in 2021-2022 and refuse to comply with this.
Companies are the primary ones who are vanguarding anti-freedom initiatives and engaging in active panopticon surveillance. ---It's not even at the behest of governments; It's primarily driven by companies themselves.
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Casey R 4 months ago
That's like me saying "The sky is blue". Yeah, no shit.
That's almost all governments and states. The West is becoming more controlling and surveilling than China, however. Full "KYC" initiatives across finance and now the internet seem to be the Western model now as none of this is yet implemented in China.
I say this is what we see today. As long as there is developers who code for nonKYC, there is hope. And every person that feels extorted due to KYC will eventually seek alternative. We have to be loud enough so they might hear us, when they like to switch.
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governments and big tech are going to kyc most of the internet most people will comply
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