ChainlinkGod on twitter told us to use a VPN to get rewards and said he did it himself, but i found this in the TOS? Now I'm going to get sued by Chainlink and lose all my staked LINK. How the fuck can this be legal, isn't he a paid employee of chainlink labs? I was just following his advice.

>>60645187 (OP)
I can't even undo it or give it back. Should I e-mail chainlink and ask them what to do? I would much rather have my LINK than the SXT. This is really unfair because ChainlinkGod is an advocate and he's usually right about stuff

>>60645192
literally nobody is going to bother to try to figure out if you're using a VPN

>>60645187 (OP)
It's not illegal to circumvent, only to get caught in a direct violation.
>It's not illegal if there is no evidence and nobody ever catches a prosecution for it.
Right?

>>60645187 (OP)
The ToS is to protect chainlink not you, fucking retard.

>>60645198
>>60645202
They have logs of my IP connected to my wallet and they wouldn't put this in their TOS for shits and giggles. They specifically called out VPNs. I'm going to keep the SXT reward in a siloed off wallet for now so I can be prepared to give it back when I get sued and show I didn't even use the rewards when I realized it was illegal.

Imagine gambling with your progeny's future wealth (LINK) for an airdrop of a literal shitcoin (SXT).
Couldn't be me kek

>>60645187 (OP)
americans are not allowed to own tokens.

it said this in the original whitepaper in 2017...

yall are fcuked

>>60645187 (OP)
i know it's ridiculous but i'm not going to use a VPN because of this 0.0001% chance they kick me out of the staking pool or whatever. the SXT shitcoin just isn't worth it to me.

>>60645225
>they have logs
No they don't

>>60645214
It literally says "Use of a vpn may subject YOU to legal liability. If they find out you used a VPN, CL has the right to strict any users access to interface or program. Learn to read before commenting.

Just not gonna use a VPN for a $1000 airdrop it's not worth the risk.

>>60645274
why are you lying? straight from their privacy policy

>>60645192
when was pork rines ever right about anything?

>>60645285
Yes because "may subject US to liability" would make no sense in a TOS policy from a legal perspective. It just allows them to say they made a reasonable effort to comply with the law in the court, which is also the purpose of the IP filter. By the way, it would have been trivial for them to ALSO ban IPs from known major vpn services, but they didn't, which is how we know they don't actually care.

>>60645303
Sorry i must be missing something. Where does it say they're logging your wallet info associated with your IP as in your original claim?

>>60645364
> Look into 1 users IP address (For some reason)
> Find that he claimed his rewards from Japan
> Assume he is an american and that he used a VPN (For some reason)
> Unable to prove that

Oh no

Im not even gonna bother claiming it, the chump change is literally not worth me having to deal with filing taxes for crypto since I haven't bought or sold anything this year.
The shitcoin has a 10B supply, it's just another vc scam that gets inflated to 0

>>60645198
AI definitely will and Sergey reserves the right to abuse that power in the future.

>>60645743
these chumps think sergey won't kick em out of the pool in the future xD when link is $1000+, pool space is gonna be primo real estate. any excuse to boot you will be used

>>60645187 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-OjQUY2_nI

this is you OP

>>60645364
>just trust us bro, use that VPN and violate our TOS
>what could possibly go wrong, it's not like we've ever deceived you before
>staking v1.0? never heard of her

>>60646596
>deceived
That's quite an exaggeration

But >>60645910 is correct, which is why I only claimed my rewards for half of my staked wallets

>>60645285
Who exactly do you think is coming after you? Lmao idiot. Do you pee sitting down too?

>>60647078
Look, I'm a LINK maxi, and even I don't trust them not to use this against us forever into the future. It's just not worth the risk unless you have multiple wallets you can claim from

>>60647078
I unironically pee sitting down. Feels good.

>>60645187 (OP)
>fell for LPL
>fell for Bancor
>fell for Celsius
>fell for stake.link
>fell for lady luck
>fell for chainlinkgods donate to link marine lost his linkies in a boating accident
all shilled by chainlinkgod. when will you incel fucks learn

>>60647306
BRING IT. BRING IT. BRING IT. BRING IT.
BRING IT. BRING IT. BRING IT. BRING IT.
PUT YO HANDS ON ME

>>60647306

In a year or two whatever bullshit laws make it illegal for Americans to claim airdrops and shit like that will be gone and this will be nothing. Not claiming the rewards is not only stupid but also giving in to unjust laws.

This is purely out of idle furio8, I have no plans of doing this. If you're a US citizen, and went abroad to claim your rewards, what's the legal situation there? I'm genuinely interested in how that would work. Not in a practical sense, but going by the letter of the law. Is that illegal?

>>60647461
>furio8
Curiosity. I'm drunk and phone posting lol.

>>60647461
>going by the letter of the law. Is that illegal?
yes, the law applies to US citizens, not people in the US. its purely tax related

>>60645662
It’s not but that’s ok , you’re retarded.

>>60645251
Damn, you better let Coinbase know.

You really thought they would let you make it? Anyone who used a VPN is fucked, you will be banned from the pool. Remember, you were not meant to hold this. Imagine throwing away your spot in a generational global oil rig for a couple hundred bucks worth of shitcoin slop.

>>60647460
that's the thing, there is literally no law stating that it is "illegal for Americans to claim airdrops", nor is there any law insinuating such, and for all Chainlink goes on about how great it is to build in the US right now, they still do this.

>>60647103
Nice ID

I know I know.. you want me to claim rewards..

but I'm just not gonna claim rewards is all.

>>60645187 (OP)
>was risking $40k of link and my spot in the community stake pool for a few grand worth the risk?
no

>>60645192
Trade it all for XRP as fast as you can

>>60647921
This

>>60645225
Those rewards are taxable

I didn’t want to risk it so I just bought an equivalent amount of sxt that I think I would have got (not sure since I didn’t connect with a vpn) in case sxt moons. So far I’m down on it because I bought at launch, but I’m fine holding it to 0 if need be

>>60645187 (OP)
>Now I'm going to get sued by Chainlink and lose all my staked LINK.


you actually have some recourse though because multiple employees of Chainlink urged you to circumvent the rules, implying they were not legitimate. I have those public posts saved in case you need them

>>60645251
>americans are not allowed to own tokens

This is incorrect. Americans were not allowed to participate in the ICO, but buying coins on exchanges afterwards was fine


>>60647078
>Who exactly do you think is coming after you?

It's highly unlikely OP would be sued by anyone, but the TOS circumvention could be problematic in the future if any of staking/build incentives require KYC. In that scenario, Chainlink could deny him access in order for them to remain compliant.