Oddbean

At first I was using the in app purchase to get small amounts of bitcoin as it was the only bitcoin purchase the local banks weren’t blocking (probably because it was masked via billing via Apple). Didn’t even mind losing around 33 cents on the dollar on every purchase. But the frequent purchases triggered a wallet freeze. Very surprising, I would have thought the purchase feature alone would be disabled but all zaps and send/receive functions also stopped working. That was a bit scary.

That's not good, nostr:nprofile1qqsdv8emcke7k3qqaldwv956tstu40ejg663gdsaayuuujs6pknw7jspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2uc86mqq0 do you know something about why this would happen? Also I recommend strike for buying Bitcoin, way lower fees.

Our in-app purchase feature is designed to help people get a small amount of sats for the first time so they can experience zapping on nostr. This feature isn't designed for regularly buying sats; you are much better off using a service like Strike for that. In some cases frequent in-app purchases trigger our fraud logic and freeze the wallet. We unfreeze it quickly if we determine that we are dealing with a legitimate user.

They said it was an automated system to prevent depletion of their reserves. I think an in app warning or explanation could go a long way as well. Strike and almost every other app won’t work where I am in Trinidad. Eventually found someone I can purchase from P2P and sometimes I buy USDT (more widely used in South America and the Caribbean) and exchange it for bitcoin.