Oddbean new post about login | logout I know I said Id try not to shit to hard on custodians but they make it so easy.
This is what happens if you try to score a few sats using a VPN. And if I turn off my VPN it will block me anyway because of my geographic location. https://image.nostr.build/94fb1c25ab661933bb1cfaecaf2330a6f83ff252055317966a5213037819629f.jpg
Fuuuuuuck that shit.
there's literally antithetical to damn near every reason I got into bitcoin and why I enjoy nostr. The freedom. That legacy bullshit of geo-restricions is so counter productive and reeks of complience bro shit that im embeerased to have ever used the damned platform when I started running a nostream realy. Fuck.
I'll try to withdraw in a few days over a VPN and see what happens from the ZBD app.
ZBD works over my VPN (for now) but third-party apps like Sarutobi don’t.
Hmm that's not a ZBD created game though. It's a third party dev using the ZBD API I believe. Maybe ask the developer about that specific issue?
I won’t because I already know what their answer will be.
I'll email the dev.
Sure, here’s what you can say: My friend is trying to earn sats for playing Sarutobi, but your partnership with ZBD is preventing him from doing this. He lives in a region that ZBD doesn’t serve, so he has to trick their server into letting him login by using a VPN to mask his location to connect his gamer tag. Your app won’t let him use a VPN to collect sats. Please allow him sidestep ZBD’s compliance rules, because he’s just a humble freedom-loving pleb. Thank you.
