Coinbase last week: flagging all crypto users as high risk because of a few fraudulent projects is discriminatory banking 🦾 Coinbase this week: Criminals use VPNs so we flag all VPN users 🫠 image

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#Nostr Pro tip: Don't use Coinbase
L0la L33tz's avatar L0la L33tz
Coinbase last week: flagging all crypto users as high risk because of a few fraudulent projects is discriminatory banking 🦾 Coinbase this week: Criminals use VPNs so we flag all VPN users 🫠 image
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They dont seem to undestand their place in my digital life. I rather not use coinbase instead of not using a VPN. Well I dont use their services anyway. LoL.
imagine giving your money to a guy named "shapiro" ... not quite the dead giveaway "bankman" was but not far off either ...
Proof of work fixed this before Bitcoin and the anti-spam email tokens for such purpose were mentioned by Satoshi as the inspiration for Bitcoin
Lul
L0la L33tz's avatar L0la L33tz
Coinbase last week: flagging all crypto users as high risk because of a few fraudulent projects is discriminatory banking 🦾 Coinbase this week: Criminals use VPNs so we flag all VPN users 🫠 image
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This is standard procedure in case of so called “financial crime”. In short: we find that some bad people do some bad things with money so we will treat all people as those bad people unless proven innocent. This is for your safety. Well this is quite opposite to how how criminal law works under which people are assumed innocent until proven guilty. Now match these 2 approaches and understand that any government values money more than your life.
You must take off your shoes to enter this bank, because thieves always use shoes to rob banks! Fucking retards