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fiatjaf _@fiatjaf.com 0 years ago
I had bought domains on Namecheap in the past and paid with Lightning using their Bitpay integration. They also have a BTCPayServer but I never used that because it didn't support Lightning. Today I went there to pay and Bitpay required me to do full KYC just to pay a small Lightning invoice.

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Kingbee 0 years ago
I'm getting really tired of kyc
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vnprc vnprc@trianglebitdevs.org 0 years ago
Apparently the same thing happened to Newegg. The statists have conceded the SoV narrative. Shutting down bitcoin payments is the new battleground. note1sm28ps70w8p9rg8mw9vydjk26mlqvvlcfh5pr350s4algkfm77kseq48lm
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fiatjaf _@fiatjaf.com 0 years ago
Fixing your link:
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It’s a real shame the US outlawed this starting next year. Bigger shame the Bitcoin community isn’t constantly beating the drum, too….making it illegal to pay with bitcoin (via a payment processor) without KYC is nuts! View quoted note →
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fiatjaf _@fiatjaf.com 0 years ago
Then I went to pay using BTCPay and saw they supported payjoin, so I installed @FRANCIS - BULLBITCOIN.COM's BullBitcoin wallet because I wanted to be part of the payjoin club, but when I tried to pay using payjoin there was an HTTP error somewhere somehow and I ended up paying normal. The payment appeared as confirmed immediately on the BTCPayServer screen, but Namecheap took many minutes, perhaps a block confirmation?, to actually top-up my balance, it was confusing.
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398ja eric@imani.casa 0 years ago
Yes, I've stopped using bitcoin to pay for my contactlenses for the same reason, Bitpay KYC. No thanks!
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