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I fucking hate dealing with banks.

Most days if you ask me why I work on Bitcoin, I'll probably say something about eliminating the temptation for the state to print money, with all of its disastrous effects.

But every time I have to deal with a bank and must grovel to use my own fucking money, I feel the urge to hoist the black flag and start slitting throats. On days like today my work writing about Bitcoin technology is fueled entirely by rage and spite.

waxwing 10mo ago

You may be impressed by the forceful *tone* of harding's post here. But I think the most important point is the slightly-less appreciated, nowadays, fact that Bitcoin is not just 'finite supply', but 'bypass a corrupt power system, fuck the banks'. Bitcoin 'grew out of' the era of Wikileaks, operation chokepoint, and of course '08 crisis up to '14 Cyprus confiscation event.

And if you struggle to resonate with this 'anti bank' position, despite how blatant it was with e.g. the Canadian trucker event, then I suggest you need to shake yourself up a bit and do *something* unusual for once, because the level of "normie" you have to be to not experience problems with banks is slowly reaching inhuman levels.

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David A. Harding 10mo ago

You would not believe how normie this situation is. My wife and I are buying a home and the escrow company required the final deposit to be made by wire transfer. However, I use the same local bank as the escrow company and they don't allow internal wires.

Working around that situation has required multiple emails, multiple calls, an in person bank visit, and both my wife and I to sign a specially prepared document. Everyone has been really nice but also acting like they're doing me a favor. I've managed not to shout at any of the clerks who had nothing to do with failing to anticipate this obvious edge case, but I had to vent somewhere.

waxwing 10mo ago

Yeah I hear stories like this more and more nowadays. Though that particular one may take the cake as the most absurd one yet. Kafka would probably tear up the page after writing it, as too unrealistic.

So presumably you have to wire the money out, then wire it back in...

David A. Harding 10mo ago

After much hand wringing and signing of forms, I was allowed to "withdraw" it as cash (no cash was actually touched) and made a cash "deposit" into the escrow account. Honestly scares me to be performing ad hoc rituals with a big chunk of our savings.