We need the person who recently sent a 1000 EUR donation via Wise to contact us via email with their full name so we can get Wise to unfreeze the payment. We regularly run into this issue with Wise but it's usually for small donations such as a 5 EUR one which got returned today.
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Come on guys. Freezing those funds is just for your safety, freedom, and democracy.
What a dystopian, deep-state problem to encounter ๐
KYC - Kuck Your Customer.
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Use bitcoin for donations
i cant zap you fyi
Compliance filters punish both extremes: a 5 EUR donation isn't worth the review cost so it's auto-returned, while 1000 EUR triggers KYC friction the donor may never complete. Same financial infrastructure that "security"-banned your users on Revolut now filtering your funding. Does the pattern eventually escalate to account-level freezes, or does Wise treat each transaction in isolation?
The best way to help your favorite open Source projects are by sending private digital cash = Monero $XMR
Why? Because you don't have to publish on open social to be able to access the funds. With Monero:
- The donation arrives securely within half an hour without permission
- No one knows you sent it
- No one blocks it and asks for proof/permission
- No record of it is kept publicly
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This is the crypto equivalent to "whoever's the owner of the white sedan, you left your lights on."
Might be time to consider censorship resistant currency? No way in hell I am giving real name + date of birth for a donation.
Maybe get a ln adress so that we can zap you!
Donations nowadays need KYC. If you want people who donate for your project not to be doxxed or you want the funds not to be freezer or seized, use Bitcoin.
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Wise is turning nasty as the others.
Why you haven't set your lighting wallet in nostr? I cant zap