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#asknostr Can someone please help me work out how I verify my identity with nostr? Australia’s social media identification laws come into effect in less than one hour and I am worried about getting locked out of my nostr account if I don’t verify my age in time.

Tether is the best use case for ecash currently. Since tether is custodial anyway it would be so nice if they would ditch the blockchain and run a big ecash mint.

🇦🇺🇦🇺Big moment of national pride for Australia.🇦🇺🇦🇺 There is a worldwide effort to roll out digital IDs but Australia is the country that snagged the digitalid.com domain name. Our digital ID is the best and we have the best TLD to prove it.

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Tether's "vision for a stable future" looks quite similar to my "vision of hell".

This week we have a new head of police in Australia. A lot of people have been talking about increases in crime lately and not feeling safe. Lets see what she has to say about what she is going to do to keep Aussies safe: “You’re on our radar … and we will be using all of our capabilities, partnerships and technological capabilities to protect social the cohesion of this country.” Barrett, who on Monday replaced Reece Kershaw as Australia’s top cop, said her agency was shifting gears from simple enforcement of federal laws to tackling threats fuelled by everything from far-right conspiracy theories to the online radicalisation of children as young as 13, and foreign states using encrypted apps and criminals to weaponise antisemitism and social unrest. Her first order of business is to launch national security investigation squads to work with Five Eyes partners and state police to monitor Nazi groups and other radicals, including those activated by the war in Gaza. These groups are not yet engaging in terrorist acts but are potentially breaching new hate crime laws that hand the AFP a new set of nefarious actors to target. —- … oh dear