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A similar strategy shown by LaCaixa, a bank in Spain, but here they even call you and block your attempts to use exchanges:

https://stacker.news/items/487654

hh 1y ago

Not just La Caixa. BBVA as well. Probably being a cartel, the others too. The two I'm mentioning not just block SEPA transfers to exchanges, they won't even allow card payments to exchanges.

Wise, which used to be my solution to that problem, no longer allows SEPA transfers either, but at least they do card payments.

To me it's very obvious that they're doing this just as a warm-up for them to start to offer their own paper BTC scams (which they will misrepresent as "safe products").

Very soon the only real option to buy real BTC will be Bisq, which I love but has a lot of associated inconvenient points.

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Javier 1y ago

Yep, they are trying to do with BTC what they did with Gold a hundred years ago.

Let people fall for the scam of believing that a paper representing a promise is the same or even better than the real thing, and then use the real thing you really control to slave them.

But this time it is not going to work, because they can only have a fraction of Bitcoin and they can't stop us to self custody. Plus we are well informed.

hh 1y ago

What I can't understand is how these piece of shit banks can simply refuse to do a perfectly legal transaction. Binance, for example, is operating legally in the EU. There is no legal basis to block any sort of transaction to or from them. How the fuck are these people allowed to do this, with complete impunity?