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Thank you for your service! Been enjoying it since yesterday and it’s fucking awesome
Humble ⚡️
UK next?
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jack mallers
Announcing Strike Europe
Today, we're launching Strike Europe, expanding our full suite of products to all eligible European customers
Buy #bitcoin, free on-chain withdrawals, a full-featured Lightning wallet and more. Get the best of #Bitcoin with Strike.
We also have our Strike Business, Strike Private, Strike OTC, and Strike API products available for Europe as well.
When EU?!? Now 🫡
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Wow congrats
Already signed up. 💥 Go push lightning use in the EU
Wen Mexico, Jack?
Wen Spain?? We are also Europe, still.
usually i feel lucky that switzerland is not part of the EU. not so today.
Honestly, I am very surprised it’s not yet available in the UK… I would expect Germany to be the last country on Earth to approve something like this. I am sure it’s simply because our government has not realized yet what Strike actually is.
Fantastic stuff. Congrats jack & team! 🔥👏
Congrats!! Huge milestone.
Can't verify 😅 (my ID is ok!)
Top many people are registering?
Loving this, been waiting for years and finaly its here
I would also assume this means that Primal's wallet is available in these new locations too.
jack mallers
Announcing Strike Europe
Today, we're launching Strike Europe, expanding our full suite of products to all eligible European customers
Buy #bitcoin, free on-chain withdrawals, a full-featured Lightning wallet and more. Get the best of #Bitcoin with Strike.
We also have our Strike Business, Strike Private, Strike OTC, and Strike API products available for Europe as well.
When EU?!? Now 🫡
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The FCA is notoriously strict on Bitcoin. They still ban investors from buying Bitcoin ETFs too. Literally they're worse than the SEC!
(I know the ETFs are a controversial subject but I still want my pension to go into BTC and an ETF is the only way it'll happen.)
And the app doesn't let me retry 😂
I've been temporary ban 🥹
To celebrate the
@npub1ex7m...vyt9 launch in good old Europe, I decided to switch my #Nostr #lightning address to my brand new sexy strike address: urlaub@strike.me
Feel free to zap me harder! #zapathon
Come on
@jack mallers - Strike me in 🇪🇺, if you can 🤙
Quelqu'un a pu créer un compte sur Strike? Je ne passe pas la vérification de la CNI (ancienne version)
PS : à trop essayer on prend un ban d'un moment (à définir 😅)
jack mallers
Announcing Strike Europe
Today, we're launching Strike Europe, expanding our full suite of products to all eligible European customers
Buy #bitcoin, free on-chain withdrawals, a full-featured Lightning wallet and more. Get the best of #Bitcoin with Strike.
We also have our Strike Business, Strike Private, Strike OTC, and Strike API products available for Europe as well.
When EU?!? Now 🫡
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jack mallers
Announcing Strike Europe
Today, we're launching Strike Europe, expanding our full suite of products to all eligible European customers
Buy #bitcoin, free on-chain withdrawals, a full-featured Lightning wallet and more. Get the best of #Bitcoin with Strike.
We also have our Strike Business, Strike Private, Strike OTC, and Strike API products available for Europe as well.
When EU?!? Now 🫡
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Expanding KYC hell.
jack mallers
Announcing Strike Europe
Today, we're launching Strike Europe, expanding our full suite of products to all eligible European customers
Buy #bitcoin, free on-chain withdrawals, a full-featured Lightning wallet and more. Get the best of #Bitcoin with Strike.
We also have our Strike Business, Strike Private, Strike OTC, and Strike API products available for Europe as well.
When EU?!? Now 🫡
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Already downloaded and will test it in few minutes :) how Do you make free onchain transaction at that fees ?
You would get a lightning invoice from the guy that wants EUR cash. The btc seller will receive euros in his strike account (I just tested this). The robosats order is released and the BTC buyer get gets BTC over lightning.
Can anybody tell why should I switch from revolut?
My use case is: buy kyc tether > my erc20 wallet > sideshift to liquid tether > swap to lbtc (mainly dca) > boltz to my lightning node > boltz to cold wallet when fees are reasonable.
This way they only know that I bought tether, so no gain (taxes).
🙏🏻🫂 Happy that it works!
But just think about this: The guy sells bitcoin to then receive bitcoin that immediately get swapped into EUR 😂
There is no easy way to convert fiat to (usd?) cashu yet. Strike onboarding and linking your legacy bank is straightforward, even for noobs
If you're trying to go KYC free why not just use Hodl hodl or Bisq or robosats 😉
Bring it to the UK Jack. I would use it!
Yes but the BTC purchase is not registered in strike, you just spend some cash deposited from your bank. Like sending fiat from your bank account for a p2p btc purchase.
some EU is not part or the EU either 😂
NOOOIIICE!
well, for robosats you need revolut as well (or something else instant). sepa is slow. instant sepa is usually not an option for me. and with the ridiculous transaction limits you can't even buy like a 1m sats (when btc is up) 🤷♂️
I know you're working on it. The three countries I'm most looking forward to are Canada, the UK and Japan.
You‘re right, I think this is the trick!
Do you think it would also work if the buyer if the buyer was in the EU and the seller in the US, or vice versa?
I mean yes you need some sort of bank account that can do SEPA if you're in Europe to trade on any of those platforms. SEPA instant has always been very fast for me (I mostly use it on Hodl Hodl) and I've had no issues buying large amounts, not sure why you get limited to 1m sats.
But what you seem to be looking for is KYC free BTC, P2P trading is your best bet, since then youre just sending $$ to a person and not a particular platform. They dont even know that you bought "tether".
The thing is a new legislation which technically requires the receiver to "verify" where the money came from. Happened to me that the transaction was held until I proofed the funds (which obv resulted in a failed trade, because we all know how fast these things are).
Not all banks support instant sepa...
🚀 Let’s go Strike team!!!
I use all the options. Even
@npub1mftv...rkl3
For larger amounts I trust the liquid federation more then any bank. It happened many times to me that some wire payment was held by any side of the transaction. Even for weeks. Or returned (with all the fees involved).
This is probably the best place to ask. Is Strike full KYC service?
I was asking that question to Jack, what happen if I send a LN ‘EUR invoice’ to a USD strike user and they pay it. I will probably ‘receive it as EUR’, they could pay the ln invoice from both their Bitcoin stack or use the Cash tab in Strike, then it would be deducted from their USD account (using btc/usd exchange rate)
Yes. You must give email, name address and photo of id or driver license.
already became a customer, let's see
Just in time for me wanting to avoid the EU as much as possible. When Switzerland?
Congrats!
Should work in theory
Hmmmm seems pretty far from self custody btc ethos. It makes sense though..this is the only way to operate at this scale I guess. It's a huge business. It connects to bank accounts for fiat onramp transactions I guess.
and proof of address
the idea is i presume to deposit fiat from bank, and pay it out on your self-custodial lightning wallet as bitcoin.
but dont do this. buy peer-to-peer anonymously as satoshi intended in the spirit of cryptoanarchy.
I see! Sounds great if true. That means I just have to have enough EUR in my Cash tab to cover the „USD LN invoice“ of whoever wants to receive USD from me.
I started installing and then all the #kyc info popped up and needed to clarify the options. Thanks.
There is place for this sort of services for sure but it is not Satoshi's way that is 100% true.
For each their own.
ONWARDS!✊
okay so up until the point of swapping through sideshift it's trackable. sideshift however knows where it is sending liquid tether, and then if you're swapping it to l-btc, you're probably using sideswap, who also knows the input and output and they know it's "buying bitcoin" event. liquid to lightning to onchain - thats the part where its obvious it's bitcoin and not stablecoin.
your problem might be that they could potentially track your swaps through sideshift and sideswap, to learn you are buying bitcoin and not holding tether usd.
might be unprobable, but there's a chance. better to abandon kyc altogether.
I wish I could.
But good point. AFAIK these swaps should be fungible. Am I mistaken?
i dont play this kyc fiat game, but please explain the following:
if someone pays my lightning invoice that originated from cash account, did *i BUY bitcoin* ?
if i pay someone lightning invoice from my CASH account, did *i sell bitcoin* ?
i wont participate and find out what tax man thinks, but im curious on your interpretation, thanks
And doesn't disclose amounts?
Unfortunately I’ll pass for now, as the first question is KYC. I understand it’s not your fault, but…
Unfortunately..,
[suggestion]
look at vexl.it app, it's p2p marketplace, that uses hash of your mobile number and hashes of numbers from contact list, to find buy/sell offers from people you know/ people from your contacts know.
everything is encrypted and private, until you choose to reveal identity in 1:1 chat.
satoshi labs, company behind 1st hardware wallet Trezor works on that. #p2pFTW
[are these swaps fungible?]
well it depends how far does the tax man want to look.
sideshift collects ip address, crypto addresses, times etc.. (so use good vpn that you pay for in monero or lightning (mullvad, ivpn, no shit like nordvpn)
they respond to law enforcement requests. so if tax man writes them email asking where they sent liquid bitcoin that was swapped from usdt erc20, they will tell on you.
if i had to bring some solution, i can say that if someone used exch.cx which is on belize and doesn't collect shit, and you can request deletion of a swap after its done, you could swap USDT on eth, to XMR , which renders any transactions beyond untraceable, and then you could swap this through them again to lightning.
or directly usdt eth to lightning. just be cautious and i cant recommend anything to you nor anyone, i can just point out what exists. be safe
Diacone Frost
I use all the options. Even
@npub1mftv...rkl3
For larger amounts I trust the liquid federation more then any bank. It happened many times to me that some wire payment was held by any side of the transaction. Even for weeks. Or returned (with all the fees involved).
Thank you for all the suggestions 🙏
interesting, then i'm one of the very first european users I guess? Signing up more than an hour before your post here.
well for stablecoins, you also have options to hold them on some eth l2 like Arbitrum or Polygon - cheap and fast txs.
there's also option to live inside cosmos ecosystem, cosmos hub, osmosis or other chains inside it. liquidity pools provide cheap swaps.
but try to not link any identity to those addresses on eth/cosmos, as they are completely transparent
if any tax man and/or officers from governments are reading these posts, please bear in mind that im not and its not even in my intention to explain how to do illegal things.
i very much respect the law and i think taxes are very good and everyone should pay them. every good citizen should tax every money event that they do and pay even more taxes than they are required to so that we can have roads and stuff.
i would never encourage anyone to do stuff that go against the law. thanks
I really don't trust these chains. I used to use avalanche for loans on aave but I'm over it. Now i just use things very close to btc timechain. actually avoiding everything else if I can.
sure, one of the ways to live in this digital world.
Si, los tramites legales para operar tienen que ser para salir corriendo. Españazuela es así.
Congrats!
Amazing news! Bravo!👏
He said UK should be a week or two after EU, at cheatcode
Waiting patiently.
Spain is not EU anymore? When did we leave?
Yeah. For normies I think it's a nice thing to start on bitcoin, bc you can receive and send bitcoin and switch to fiat.
Yes have to use the receive by LN invoice on the Cash tab. It seems to add some metadata to tell Strike to convert the btc to EUR when received... If you use the strike LN address you'll just get Bitcoin...
Interestingly the EUR LN invoice expires after 1 minute! It makes sense because of exchange rate fluctuations.
🫡👍🏽
Ser, Italy is in Europe, no? 🤔
wen UpperCase?
Strike makes it possible to live 99% off zaps.
Shelter = Air B&B gift cards
Food = Woolworth / Uber Eats gift
internet = E sim
I'm confused around the fee structure. Your website mentions a max of 0.99% (
https://strike.me/faq/what-are-the-bitcoin-trading-fees-on-strike/), however your app says 1.29%, as seen in the screenshot. So which one is it?
🙌🙌🙌
the EU must be reformed.
why you clap for KYC gigi?
Why should she? Full KYC. They take over whenever they seem fit. #nokyc
Serious question.
Why is Strike allowed to expand and continue, while Samourai gets shut down?
jack mallers
Announcing Strike Europe
Today, we're launching Strike Europe, expanding our full suite of products to all eligible European customers
Buy #bitcoin, free on-chain withdrawals, a full-featured Lightning wallet and more. Get the best of #Bitcoin with Strike.
We also have our Strike Business, Strike Private, Strike OTC, and Strike API products available for Europe as well.
When EU?!? Now 🫡
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Tried it already it’s really great!
A #Strike megérkezett Európába, s ezzel együtt Magyarországra is. A fejlődés megállíthatatlan.
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Nice!!!!!!!!!
Yo0o this is nice
@jack mallers !
Has Strike some plans on becoming a traditional bank which serves IBAN numbers to client? If so, I can ditch my current bank and manage all my funds within one system which would be fully interoperable with fiat and btc systems..
I wanted to ask the same.
This would be so usefull as we can receive wage and pay rent and utilities with it.
Always have been.
Jack, from the map you showed Italy and Spain are not included. Is it confirmed? Any particular reason?
congrats homie!!
Si vede che la mafietta delle banche italiane sta provando a resistere
Wen UK
My bank in the Netherlands is scared for you. They block my account because I deposit some of my own!!! money in Strike Europe. I hope you give the whole world the opportunity to have Strike app.
@jack mallersWhen the UK?
when swiss?
very nice, are there any feed to be paid for buying bitcoins?
Have tried twice now with different IDs 😢
Thank you, it’s awesome!
☝🏻
When Turkey?
Is it officially confirmed that Italy is banned?
I do not know… I bet only Strike knows it…
@jack mallers awesome ... any chance Strike will be in Thailand soon ?
Sadly not in the UK 😢
will be soon
I love Strike. I wish you had gotten the Coinbase contract for their connection to the Lightning Network. Then I wouldn't be waiting three days for a simple send of 1000 sats to my strke wallet.
🤣
I told Coinbase to not be cowards and build it themselves. Be part of the network. Disappointed that have any contract
Has Brian EVER listened to anything? How long did it take for them to decide to give their customers access to hard fork splits?
Oh well, lessons learned.
their focus isn’t Bitcoin. hasn’t been for a while
Savage 😂😂
