@TheVampireFishQueen @ahnlak @neil it'll certainly be an interesting time.

@justine cwm with polybar and alacritty with tmux :)

@ahnlak @neil yeah... that was slightly my fault.

I mean, it was always going to happen but I formally queried it as a compliance measure during the webinars and they agreed it would count as compliance.

Of course, censorship has been the plan all along.

It's baked into the act.

@neil @ahnlak good point.

'risk' rather than demonstrated history of harm though IIRC.

They could literally pick URLs out of a hat.

@neil wait wait, so if I commit fraud or lie on the Internet it's all "malcomms this" and "fraud by misrepresentation that" but if a kid does it I still get fined?

Those Scooby Doo villains might have had a point...

@ahnlak @neil and let's not forget that OFCOM stated very clearly that they 'intended' to come after small sites.

How much of that is bluster and how much of it is the fact that smaller sites can't fight back is yet to be seen.

@mattb @neil permissionless finance is the core purpose AIUI.

You generate a private key and boom, a bank account.

No need for KYC, no need for a mailing address your account can't be closed by the bank for whatever weird reason, you can accept payments from third parties without needing something like Stripe etc.

Now granted, at the end of all of this you've just got some magic beans unless you can spend them elsewhere.

@mattb @pikesley @neil Monero is untraceable (so far) which is why it has been pulled from all the KYC compliant exchanges.

@neil I mailed my bank some gold pressed latinum and they didn't credit my account!!1

Cryptocurrency is amazing for certain purposes.

Use by normal people for normal things is still not one of them.