...and now they make you verify the wallet you want to send the Bitcoin you purchased to.
Fuck all of them. Fuckers. Fuck this shit. So fucking mad. Assholes. Fucking spyware bullshit.
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Stop buying Bitcoin on scam platforms
This is the one I started out on, years ago. I went back to it because the other ones started doing stuff like this. Okay, now it also does this. Now, I need to find a new one. Again.
Yeah. People keep telling me to use this, but it's yet-another piece of software I have to self-host, to use Bitcoin. It's an entire pile of software and servers, growing up to the heavens like a bean stalk, at this point.
The self-custody burden was originally just to have one on-chain wallet, but now I feel like I need a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, just to zap someone.
I'm just so fed up and I manage and test a gigantic, complex, cloud server, for a living. I have no idea how anyone halfway normal can deal with this constant chaos and stress.
Sorry. I guess I'm just ranting, at this point.
I'm glad you're posting this information. As I've been studying the space, it's been a constant churn of "here's how to do it", where yesterday's method is "how you should never do it".
I just assumed that I must be over-complicating things, but now it seems like I have not been.
It's been like that, non-stop, for going on five years, now.
I feel your pain... 🫂🫂💖😯😳🫂💖🤔
On-chain
App version, no need to run your own server or your own instance of the web UI.
What KYC service is this
Bitcoin.de
They're apparently shitcoining, now, too. Used to just be Bitcoin, hence the name. Whole website looks different.
*.de... There's the problem 🇪🇺
Yup.
Although, I also wonder if this isn't meant to slow down people withdrawing their Bitcoin. I bought it, the seller gave it to them, and now I am fretting over the withdrawal process, when I used to get the money off within 5 minutes of the purchase and then figure out what to do with it, after that.
Same problem in US
Almost. Travel rule was birthed in Europe though, by the friends of Relai.
Fair point.
Its the wallet address verification that gets me.
Meant to keep your Bitcoin on an exchange, and to track it if not.
Also means you have to always use the same address or you have to verify multiple addresses.
And I do so hate that the laptop I was running my Lightning node on died. And then I got another laptop and wanted to run it on there and see if there's some way to resurrect the wallet, but I'm glad I didn't as I appear to have a virus and the whole thing needs to be reset because the network card and the touchpad suddenly turned off, and it's like where's my fucking money and my nerves are just totally shot omg I so hate computers.
And all my pitiful little lump of money is in Bitcoin and I keep accidentally losing part of it, or killing the servers, or missing the right recovery keys and every time a phone or laptop dies I lose access to my fucking money and have to buy equipment and dig it out of electronic purgatory and hope I can access it because I sometimes can't because I am too fucking stupid to use Bitcoin, which means, statistically, 99% of humans are too fucking stupid to use Bitcoin and this is why everyone is like, please pay me in dollars.
Coldcard / Sparrow / Electrum / airgap / safe
Have you heard the good news about our Lord and Savior, cold storage?
I'm trying to move Bitcoin I just bought into cold storage. That's what started the rant.
If you refer to wallet of satoshi: Use a VPN and set your Location outside of EU
LOL Just realized that this would be picked up by @jb55's fuck filter. Effective.