permissionless and self-custodial payment channels a la DeFi is the only choice some of us have for native emergent markets of services, ideas and trading.

— Majority of fintech enterprises are geoblocking my country,

generalist solopreneur + conceptual artist 🌞 /gokhan /philosophy /openfinance

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— Access to non-tokenized stocks, equity and RWA require stupid amounts of bureaucracy and payment for accredition,

— As an artist it's almost impossible to enter networks governed by some trad agencies and galleries who have been renting crypto, too (web3, nfts),

— CEXes like Coinbase, Uphold (Brave points) delete my KYC'd account since they do not comply with the local like Binance and others do,

— On- & off-ramps are not legal in my local,

— Billed p2p crypto-payments are illegal,