Topic: What was your feeling about KYC verification? Share your honest review. (Read 494 times)

When exchanges started to request KYC I always thought it was some kind of joke or April's fool, so this time was no different for me.

Had I not immediately realised it was April's 1st I would have started withdrawing all of my posts

Well, my first thought was its April fools joke. But at the same time I supposed maybe it's the same story like with merit system, we were just informed about new rules. So I was 50/50 and only when I followed verification and saw all of those questions I've got that it's just a joke.

First, I was shocked because when I logged in I was presented with a format that must be filled with very personal data. But, when I saw the notification thread about the KYC, I understood that maybe KYC was just a surprise from April this year. But, if the data is really enabled for future development, I also don't feel this is a problem, provided that the data can be kept secure so that it is not utilized by irresponsible parties.

Honestly, I didn't believed even for a second. In previous years I didn't realized instantly that was jokes, because I just forgot about April 1st. This year there was discussion in Meta about possible April 1st pranks, so it was difficult to forget about that day. In the morning of April 1st, first thing what I did - I went to Meta to check prank of this year. When I saw words KYC, I immediately remembered famous theymos words about KYC and hell. So, this time theymos didn't fooled me
For most of users here KYC on forum looks ridiculous. But actually, I know one forum in my country which requires KYC verification if you want to enter marketplace and buy/sell stuff there. And everyone accept KYC as normal and needed thing. Offcourse, this forum isn't about crypto where privacy is valued so much.

Everything was fine for me without the name of romantic person option. I had a great preparation to face all the fake news which i was expecting from my family and friends but unfortunately all my preparation was nothing against Admins KYC submission joke.

I honestly was surprised at first because I don't remember that the date was April 1. When I first saw it, I think it's nice in a way that theymos said that it's for prevention of scams etc, which is a great idea but I doubt it would work. Then when I clicked it, I remembered when I see "list your crimes" something like that and I knew that it was a joke. It's funny and a lot of people have taken it seriously and not reading it closely. No attention to details.

I was in Medical for my internship. Suddenly My one friend called me via mobile and say did you look that bitcointalk asking kyc? Then I was shocked because I did not think yet can bitcointalk ask kyc. After talking with my friend, open my phone browser for visiting bitcointalk. And see really there is a red line box for submitting kyc form. After finishing my duty go to my room/mess and quickly visit bitcointalk without doing any other work. I also visit first the meta thread by thinking there is announce can see on meta. Again shocked when seeing a topic by thymos named ' kyc is required"   Try to read all comment mainly some people with green trust and find out about April fool.

Laugh so hard went i see the gender option, to many a weird option on that's case. I really like the gender of "Attack Helicopter". My expression just like a normal thing, the first thing i to do its to check a Meta Thread then to collect some information about it and i found a KYC Thread so many people using a free image, because of that i know that's was April Fool

When I clicked on the link to verify, and see the form, I known that it is a joke.
Honestly, I known it was April Fool before looking at the KYC form, but the form actually made me laugh a lot.
It looks very funny and it is hilarious if someone got trapped with the KYC form.

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Looking back that what happened in 2018, with nearly a dozen of indicators like: Karma, Politeness, Generosity, and so on (I don't remember them all) I almost believed that it is a new ranking system.
Especially, one of those fake indicators is Karma, that I saw on other platforms.

Seeing that KYC form doesn't made me feel anything violent that day, actually it wasn't funny or exciting at all. I haven't touched it as well. I already knew that it was a prank 

What made my April fool complete is when I saw people having fun posting images in Meta with a "Verified" text in their profile. That's the time I felt excited and been willing to have one too. Sadly, I'm not expecting that my title will be that bad. But it's not totally bad at all. I also thought that it will be permanent but it wasn't. 

Actually, I was shocked when I saw the red text when I first browse the forum that day so I eventually get my glasses to read the text and I started laughing when I saw the KYC thing.
Well, theymos never fail us of his april fools gag. I even started believing the souvenir thread since that was posted on march 31, but unfortunately, yeah, april fools.

I was kinda disappointed I tried hard to make something fun out of the KYC-form, hoping it would be used somewhere later on. But it wasn't, so too bad.

Kudos to theymos though for thinking this through, and protecting naive users against themselves

I know account hacking is a big problem here, but I think 2FA is going a bit overboard unless it's optional.  Staking an address ought to be sufficient for account recovery if need be IMO.  All of the security features on Binance, which I've been using more of lately, have soured me on all of the steps necessary just to do simple things.  2FA is active by default, and I think I'm going to disable it.

What was my feeling about the KYC thing on bitcointalk?  Well, I've been here a few years so I was expecting an April fools day joke.  Plus I've read Theymos's quote about implementing KYC only when hell freezes over and thus knew that was part of the joke. 

Depending on what kind of information was required, I probably would dox myself in order to remain a member here.  But there's no way any discussion forum anywhere on the internet needs to have anyone's personal data.  To my understanding, financial institutions are the only entities that need KYC protocols, and they probably wouldn't even bother with them if they weren't legally required to.  It's to prevent financial fraud and other criminal activity, and obviously bitcointalk would have no need for that data unless it was going to sell it to spammers, advertisers, and whatnot, and Theymos isn't going to do that (I hope).

I started laughing as soon as I saw it. I've been around for years so I know that Theymos comes up with something good every year.

I thought it was very much FUN.... only miner point, I saw all those cool verified titles .....

BUT F*** MY forum status



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hope their is no silence truth in there

I was guessing that Bitcoin Forum will give some BTC after KYC lol 

My felling seeing the topic was that social media and websites like Facebook has made some people do not care enough about privacy. If you ask, people would give all their information. And mostly of time for free.

And it made me remember the topic from Mike asking for people to giving their real name. So this way Bitcoin would not looking as a project to help criminals. It was a stupid topic. Although I do not have real problem giving my real name, you shouldn't be seeing as a criminal if you want to just preserve your identity and RL.

As the great philosopher George Constanza, once say, the world's should not collide.

Really!! you joined the wrong forum then.

I was awaiting for the first of April and was expecting that Theymos will try to fool us. What amazed me is the number of members hwo submitted their real pictures!

I'm expecting that one so I think I'm just watching normal people to react on that.

Its funny to see those users who are fall on this trick and someone are too obvious and feel the guilt which they can't control their emotion. Some are making their own thread about the objection on the current April fools, I guess they really have to protect their identity or else they will be into big trouble.

If you have already known about Theymos instance on KYC, I guess this is worst joke Theymos can think of. Specially user created so many April fool's topic here even if Theymos has posted any new implementation on that day, it will be taken as joke .
Anyway that red lines were distracting while using the forum so I just submitted it.