Roman Storm's retrial is getting almost no attention so I want to make sure that we are all on the same page as to what this means. If his conviction on unlicensed money transmission stands, and the charges on conspiracy to commit money laundering and sanctions evasion are won, it will end non-custodial no-KYC wallets in the US.

dw war on crypto is over fam

“Sanctions are not about security, they’re about silencing those who bear witness.” Francesca Albanese is back on the OFAC list after a US appeals court reinstated the sanctions against her for documenting Israeli war crimes. Sign the petition for the EU to push back: https://petition.qomon.org/0b54a0b8-demand-justice-defend-the-defenders/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdKD1KDVrI0

GM GN 🌞 🌝

you can use a different caching service and add your own relays as well

I dont understand the question. As you say, "you can use a different client to see a censored user’s notes." That is the entire point. I do think that good alternatives to primal are very important, but again, imo what they're doing is far from stupid from a liability perspective and changes nothing about whether you can still access the content.

You did not ask me a question. You defended a person getting doxxed. If you are going to frame critique on your position as a FUCK YOU then I'm not sure what you want to have a discussion for.

actually a smart choice by primal actually if you ask me. changes nothing about the protocol.

Really important point made here: relay operators should be prepared for getting take-down orders. The more nostr matures, the worse this is going to get. The point of nostr is not that you can ignore these takedown orders while fooling yourself into thinking that you somehow operate outside of the law because you run a nostr relay (or worse, put the people contacting you into actual danger while probably violating even more laws as you're at it). Nostr does not prevent you from getting these orders or complying with them, unless you want to make yourself liable. What Nostr *does* do is decentralize the content, so that it shouldn't matter if Will takes something down or Primal takes something down, bc other relays will still host the content. If the only solution we see to dealing with these issues is being a child about it – instead of, idk, further decentralizing nostr hosting/broadcasting and treating it as a real problem we all need to deal with – we're in for a wild ride.

I will email who i want you fucking loser lmfao

Shadowbanning has been insane on X the last few weeks Can someone do something about Nostr adoption so I can finally delete this shit app

My money has once again been frozen by an exchange. As always, I try to explain that I am a journalist and make my money through donations. I send them my donations page – and of course that's not enough. "Please show us receipts of when you purchased the bitcoin," they say. Because the concept of using bitcoin as money simply does not exist in the mind of a compliance bro. Its not illegal to receive anonymous donations – in theory. In practice, the bank will freeze your accounts until you KYC every donation you receive. This is the problem with AML: You can obey the law as it is written, and the bank will still penalize you without any chance at due process. All this, of course, while Jeffrey Epstein and friends move hundreds of millions through the banks for human trafficking. 1$ left in the bank account. Let's see how long this process takes this time.

I dont think the ministry of silly zaps are aware of the problem they are creating for nostr. No serious developer that knows anything about bitcoin is going to implement this proposal. Instead of focusing on making zaps easier for everyone, normies will be even more confused as to why zap this way and not another way. This makes getting into zapping even harder: just like when SW and WW were constantly battling over who is better, people just stayed away from coinjoins all together bc they didnt know who was right. Lose lose lose situation.