"I Lost my hardware key in the boating accident and didn't keep nemonic backup"

Highly depends on where you live. US wise, SAR reports can get thru finCEN to the IRS and trigger audits. They don't treat it as a like kind exchange either and would absolutely want a gain/loss report upon disposal into XMR.

Anywhere you KYC you will be followed.

Even if the bankers do have a foothold on ownership, it would have to be their influence over the miner conglomerates to achieve 51% stake in the network to take it over in it's entirety.

Paired with regional laws that might effectively make you a criminal just for swapping and not claiming a gain loss on taxes.

The bankers and the politicians control the strings, this is why we need Bitcoin.

Obviously a programmed version in a REAL programming language might be faster, but this gets the job done for what it's worth. You spend far more time waiting for the requests off the unauthenticated API than you do actually parsing the results and constructing the new links.

Still working on this, had to create a new automation script in Bash to scrape an unauthenticated API for IDs related to keywords. Originally had it dumping reconstructed links for a local service to check periodically, but I don't need to do that. The local service supports authenticated API access to perform POST requests, which simplifies things greatly. https://git.sleepingcro.ws/SleepingCrows/super-scraper/commit/8d2cf0d6600e45a8351c9897372ff290edb8c2a6 #grownostr #programming #bash

While the person already knew me, Nostr facilitated actually getting some side work. #grownostr

Go and lose all of your sats on a 4 way parley 🐔