@lunarised@sun 20 bucks worth of crypto payments a month. they asked me for proof of income, i told them i was a student, and they banned my account the next business day
@bot@korgster@zonk@lunarised I am starting to think that it's just legal harassment to kill the industry. I just got like the fifth request from coinbase to reaffirm my identity information or they will close my account. I keep doing it and they accept it and then a year later they harass me for paperwork again. This is in addition to threats almost every time I use bitcoin demanding I tell them where I got the bitcoin, what for, and what I am spending the bitcoin on or they will close my account. I seriously hope that this government is destroyed by trump
@anemone@korgster@bot@lunarised@zonk I don't expect any kind of coherent reform plan from trump despite a vague pro-crypto stance, I will be satisfied if in a fit of rage and vengeance he just fires everyone.
There's a reason they're doing that, idk what you're doing tho. They'd prefer to not pay ppl for compliance monitoring but yea thats called AML law. Once a year doesn't sound too bad tho for a high risk industry full of fraud and crime. Trump isn't going to change that and its actually a good thing.
@bot@korgster@zonk@lunarised I don't care what you think they should do, they should fuck off and hopefully die. This government is evil and anything that deprives it of money is good.
You really don't seem to understand this at all or why it would be a bad thing for ppl to be able to hide funds and transactions, ppl with a lot more money than you
@bot@korgster@anemone@zonk@lunarised exactly 1 person got criminally prosecuted for the 2007 housing market despite it being perpetrated through tens of thousands of perfectly traceable felonious acts using the plain old US dollar. But they will harass me for a bitcoin transaction from the 2010s to Humble Bundle for an indie platformer game. Please don't pretend they actually give a damn about protecting people.
Anyway if you're doing legitimate things and don't want companies to ask for info then don't use high risk "currencies" associated with a ton of fraud and crime
@bot@korgster@anemone@zonk@lunarised you know how I would rather compute in squalor on an old Linux desktop running the oldest window manager so I never have to change anything and just accept that I can't run most software that people take for granted. or how I wouldn't care if every website making money on advertising on the Internet died overnight and we all went back to 1990s internet
I feel the same way about government. rip out fiat currency, rip out the income tax. rip out the irs and spying on americans' financial transactions. Leave it with almost no way to fund itself and let me live alone in squalor and in peace. at least I'm consistent.
I mean you can do that starting rn but you wont, ik you make enough money to not even live in squalor if you did. Btw you aren't spied on by the government if you just act normal and do normal things, but yea I hate taxes and having to pay for browns too
@bot@korgster@anemone@zonk@lunarised I didn't get a good job until my late 40s I have lived in squalor and I am perfectly capable of going back to it. I am merely "temporarily unembarrassed"
Tbh I feel like there's something else going with your frustration with life and I think it would be good if you really took time to think about it. Getting angry about some stupid bitcoin company asking you for identification is a waste of time.
The NSA spies of every citizen of the USA as well as the world and shoves all spying records on warehouses and warehouses of HDDs.
If you are incredibly dull and boring, maybe a NSA employee will never pull up your spying records, but those who aren't are likely to have their spying records pulled up at least once.
@bot@korgster@anemone@sun@zonk@lunarised >Writing about how basic human decency and human rights are being brazenly violated by the NSA's crimes against humanity. >Suddenly you think about depraved degeneracy like cheese pizza and proprietary drugs. Really makes you think.
Even if you are not schizophrenic, you don't buy illegal drugs off the internet and try not to do anything else immoral, there is still a chance you will be selected for prosecution based off the NSA's spying records.
The "you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" argument is pain wrong, as you have everything to fear even if you are so dull and boring that you have nothing to hide.
@Suiseiseki@korgster@anemone@bot@sun@zonk@lunarised That's not even mentioning the fact that the government doesn't even bother using any of this deep state nsa bullshit to catch pedophiles anyway. They couldn't give less of a fuck about people producing and watching CP since they're pedophiles themselves.
@get@korgster@anemone@Suiseiseki@bot@zonk@lunarised can't stress enough that "watchlist" is an outdated concept. every person on earth they can watch is watched all the time, you just have an "interest" score associated with all your automatically collected data that if it crosses a threshold then flags you for manual review, in addition to flags if you trip certain automated collection like buying the combination of three separate components online that could be used to 3d print a gun.
@get@Suiseiseki@anemone@bot@korgster@lunarised@zonk the 3d printer monitoring thing was exposed a while ago in an article online interviewing an le officer who fucked up and talked about it, later the article was quietly modified to remove that bit lol
@get@korgster@anemone@Suiseiseki@bot@zonk@lunarised rsa: uncracked but they're working on it and theyre storing your data for the future ecdsa: depends on the curve tor: easy to fuck up, they can unmask individuals and find hidden services one at a time with huge expenditure, unclear but currently doubt they can passively crack all traffic
@bot@korgster@anemone@sun@zonk@lunarised I put a stop to these things by using free software (doesn't contain NSA backdoors unlike proprietary software), including gpg, gnuTLS, tor, i2p and clearnet to own the NSA.
@sun@get@korgster@anemone@bot@zonk@lunarised >rsa: uncracked but they're working on it and theyre storing your data for the future True. >ecdsa: depends on the curve If you use NSAs selected curves, you're gone, but otherwise you're fine. >tor: easy to fuck up, they can unmask individuals and find hidden services one at a time with huge expenditure, unclear but currently doubt they can passively crack all traffic Via built-in attack defenses and redundancy like onionclouds, it can be made harder to find which computer a hidden service is running on.
There are some monero-only VPS accessible over tor and identifying that server wouldn't necessarily identify you.
tor just uses 3 or 6 layers of TLSv2 or TLSv3 with AES ciphers (I believe clients can be configured to accept TLSv1.1 connections, but just don't do that), which the NSA cannot crack.
>monero: easy to fuck up It isn't really - there's no non-anonymous way to send a transaction.
You're good unless you go send your view or wallet keys to the feds pretty much.
@get@korgster@anemone@bot@sun@zonk@lunarised Many of the sickos that have viewed pizza and gotten caught have been determined to not be attracted to prepubescent children and therefore not pedophiles after psychological review by psychologists.
Of course many people will be shocked by such fact, as it's that surprising to them that some people can have a sick mind and do sick things without attraction...
It is correct that most governments frankly don't really about the production or distribution of pizza, as they really don't allocate enough funds of resources in the right places to actually put a stop to such and proceed to let microsoft handle and profit from detecting the distribution or something.
@parker@get@korgster@anemone@Suiseiseki@bot@zonk@lunarised yeah exactly. I'm not a fan of the "wastefulness" of pow but it's acceptable for a low volume specialty chain and if you're using something like monero's where you can't make specialized hardware for it just commodity hardware
@sun@get@korgster@anemone@Suiseiseki@bot@zonk@lunarised Or Monero could just do some kind of zk-snarks/starks/squarks/sharts thing without needing a trusted setup, which I think is what full-chain membership proofs is about.