Financial regulations about holding, sending and receiving other people's money are a terrible pain in the ass.
If this is going to be a problem, I would expect Bank of Australia aka "Wallet of Satoshi" to run into these problems first.
Then, I would expect SN would probably just change how zaps here are done to connect to a self hosted instance of ln bits or something.
I agree that there are much bigger fish out there for the regulator sharks to prey on. Hence why I'm not worried about stacker.news being hunted down anytime soon.
About your work around: that definitely would fix things legally, but (1) implementing that change wouldn't be all that easy for @k00b and (2) it would hurt the user experience a lot. I would assume the majority of people around here wouldn't go through the work required to do that. Even I would find it a pain in the ass to be unable to post something on stacker.news because my cat chewed on my node's power cable.
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Hmm sounds like you should learn to code and script out all of your ux issues then share the code with the community
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Is Wallet of Satoshi based in Aussie?
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"3. Refunds a) AUD Refunds Refunds of overpayments in AUD will be made in AUD to your nominated Australian bank account."
"What happens if you want to complain? If you have any concerns about whether we have complied with the Privacy Act, the Australian Privacy Principles, or this Privacy Policy, please write to us by email at support@walletofsatoshi.com or by post to Level 54, 111 Eagle Street, Brisbane 4000.
We will try to respond with a decision within 30 days of you making the complaint.
If your complaint is not resolved, you may refer your complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner who can be contacted by phone at 1300 363 992, by email at enquiries@oaic.gov.au, by post at GPO Box 5218, Sydney NSW 2001 or you can go to www.oaic.gov.au."
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