Statement

We regret to inform you that the day we never wanted to come has finally arrived: @lnp2pBot has come to an end.

As we announced a few days ago, @lnp2pBot has been under attack since day one. We have absorbed the losses we suffered for the simple reason that we wanted to continue providing our loyal users with the service they deserve. However, events have escalated, and although we have spent months working to improve the bot’s security, we simply do not have the resources required to fight an army of script kiddies armed with AI models.

For all these reasons, we have made the difficult and painful decision to indefinitely suspend all @lnp2pBot activity, effective immediately.

Once again, the losses are ours to bear. We will contact the few users who still have pending payments in order to resolve those individual cases. Not a single user will suffer any financial loss.

The bot was born as our legitimate form of defense against authoritarian governments that seek to force users to hand over all kinds of personal information under the excuse that it is for their own good. Many times, we thought they would be the ones who would eventually manage to shut the bot down. Ironically, it was not an authoritarian government that succeeded, but most likely some of our own users.

Thank you for everything!