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Barclays ban Binance deposits

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  • Type_45
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    lozzy1965 said:
    Type_45 said:
    lozzy1965 said:
    Type_45 said:

    I completely agree with you.  The mistake you've made is to use this forum to discuss the subject.  It's the wrong crowd.


    I hold some crytpo (a few grand).  But it's clear to me that the powers-that-be don't like it.  I've been of the opinion for some time that it will be snuffed out in favour of Central Bank Digital Currencies.


    Anyone who can't see the way the world is headed right now clearly has issues.  The direction of travel is that we are being more controlled and will have less freedoms going forward.  And it is technology which is enabling this process.  


    And if you think being stopped from buying crypto via Barclays is a liberty, think of it as just a taster of what is to come.
    Type_45 said:
    IanManc said:

    I doubt Barclays will miss you.

    Not the first time I've noted that you've crossed the line and been unnecessarily rude.  And to a new member, too.

    Ha ha, not the first time you have peddled your conspiracy theories either :)

    I agree with the unnecessary rudeness though!

    The trouble is, when people with a minority opinion think they are the ones who have the world sussed.  That's when problems start!

    You can comment on my statement that "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" now...
    Funnily enough, I've just this minute read the headline:  "EU to exempt Private Jets from fuel tax".

    But you still can't join the dots, can you...


    Exempt from a new jet fuel tax, and it's a draft proposal.

    Oh I see it now!  God I have been so blind!!!
    What's a daft proposal?
  • GeordieGeorge
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    Mje2020 said:

    I have never heard of a bank blocking payments to a specific company. Does anybody have examples of this happening before?
    Yes, it happens all the time. Western banks will not make payments to companies who have sanctions against them, for example, or who are known to be fraudulent.

    As others have said, now that banks keep being on the hook for things they had nothing to do with they are far more careful.

    If you want to deal with banks who are less concerned about the risk then a Russian or Somali one would probably let you do whatever you want.
  • GeordieGeorge
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    Type_45 said:
    lozzy1965 said:
    Type_45 said:

    I completely agree with you.  The mistake you've made is to use this forum to discuss the subject.  It's the wrong crowd.


    I hold some crytpo (a few grand).  But it's clear to me that the powers-that-be don't like it.  I've been of the opinion for some time that it will be snuffed out in favour of Central Bank Digital Currencies.


    Anyone who can't see the way the world is headed right now clearly has issues.  The direction of travel is that we are being more controlled and will have less freedoms going forward.  And it is technology which is enabling this process.  


    And if you think being stopped from buying crypto via Barclays is a liberty, think of it as just a taster of what is to come.
    Type_45 said:
    IanManc said:

    I doubt Barclays will miss you.

    Not the first time I've noted that you've crossed the line and been unnecessarily rude.  And to a new member, too.

    Ha ha, not the first time you have peddled your conspiracy theories either :)

    I agree with the unnecessary rudeness though!

    The trouble is, when people with a minority opinion think they are the ones who have the world sussed.  That's when problems start!

    You can comment on my statement that "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" now...
    Funnily enough, I've just this minute read the headline:  "EU to exempt Private Jets from fuel tax".

    But you still can't join the dots, can you...


    The problem is that many dots aren’t joined, and so anyone joining them is just drawing what they see in their head.

    Conspiracy theorists do at least normally have the sense to never come out and say what they are seeing, or predicting, so they never can be wrong.

    In this case, what is it that you think is coming over the horizon, and what do you think fuel tax on jets has to do with it?
  • Scottex99
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    Mje2020 said:

    I have never heard of a bank blocking payments to a specific company. Does anybody have examples of this happening before?
    Yes, it happens all the time. Western banks will not make payments to companies who have sanctions against them, for example, or who are known to be fraudulent.

    As others have said, now that banks keep being on the hook for things they had nothing to do with they are far more careful.

    If you want to deal with banks who are less concerned about the risk then a Russian or Somali one would probably let you do whatever you want.
    Plenty of regulated crypto friendly banks in the UK/EU, we send Ms through some of ours every day.

    On the point of the OP, it's our money, we should be able to send it wherever we want assuming we shoulder the responsibility of losing it. But Barclays are a business too and can set their own rules so i'm not 100% against the decision either.
  • GeordieGeorge
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    Scottex99 said:
    Mje2020 said:

    I have never heard of a bank blocking payments to a specific company. Does anybody have examples of this happening before?
    Yes, it happens all the time. Western banks will not make payments to companies who have sanctions against them, for example, or who are known to be fraudulent.

    As others have said, now that banks keep being on the hook for things they had nothing to do with they are far more careful.

    If you want to deal with banks who are less concerned about the risk then a Russian or Somali one would probably let you do whatever you want.
    Plenty of regulated crypto friendly banks in the UK/EU, we send Ms through some of ours every day.

    On the point of the OP, it's our money, we should be able to send it wherever we want assuming we shoulder the responsibility of losing it. But Barclays are a business too and can set their own rules so i'm not 100% against the decision either.
    I suspect that more and more banks will follow, encouraged to do so by the regulator. Cryptocurrencies are just too opaque for money laundering checks to work well enough.
  • lozzy1965
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    Scottex99 said:
    Mje2020 said:

    I have never heard of a bank blocking payments to a specific company. Does anybody have examples of this happening before?
    Yes, it happens all the time. Western banks will not make payments to companies who have sanctions against them, for example, or who are known to be fraudulent.

    As others have said, now that banks keep being on the hook for things they had nothing to do with they are far more careful.

    If you want to deal with banks who are less concerned about the risk then a Russian or Somali one would probably let you do whatever you want.
    Plenty of regulated crypto friendly banks in the UK/EU, we send Ms through some of ours every day.

    On the point of the OP, it's our money, we should be able to send it wherever we want assuming we shoulder the responsibility of losing it. But Barclays are a business too and can set their own rules so i'm not 100% against the decision either.
    Not if we are sending it to a terrorist organisation or some other criminal organisation we shouldn't.
  • Scottex99
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    There's a few compliance firms that you can use to run checks on wallets and various other blockchain analysis things. Elliptic and Coinfirm being a couple. 

    Also if you're on/off ramping between crypto and fiat you can do the usual KYC/AML checks that you would for any other business.

    Still high risk but good fees in it for the banks that feel like they can build infrastructure and regulation around the coins 
  • Type_45
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    Type_45 said:
    lozzy1965 said:
    Type_45 said:

    I completely agree with you.  The mistake you've made is to use this forum to discuss the subject.  It's the wrong crowd.


    I hold some crytpo (a few grand).  But it's clear to me that the powers-that-be don't like it.  I've been of the opinion for some time that it will be snuffed out in favour of Central Bank Digital Currencies.


    Anyone who can't see the way the world is headed right now clearly has issues.  The direction of travel is that we are being more controlled and will have less freedoms going forward.  And it is technology which is enabling this process.  


    And if you think being stopped from buying crypto via Barclays is a liberty, think of it as just a taster of what is to come.
    Type_45 said:
    IanManc said:

    I doubt Barclays will miss you.

    Not the first time I've noted that you've crossed the line and been unnecessarily rude.  And to a new member, too.

    Ha ha, not the first time you have peddled your conspiracy theories either :)

    I agree with the unnecessary rudeness though!

    The trouble is, when people with a minority opinion think they are the ones who have the world sussed.  That's when problems start!

    You can comment on my statement that "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" now...
    Funnily enough, I've just this minute read the headline:  "EU to exempt Private Jets from fuel tax".

    But you still can't join the dots, can you...


    The problem is that many dots aren’t joined, and so anyone joining them is just drawing what they see in their head.

    Conspiracy theorists do at least normally have the sense to never come out and say what they are seeing, or predicting, so they never can be wrong.

    In this case, what is it that you think is coming over the horizon, and what do you think fuel tax on jets has to do with it?

    What is happening is a massive power and money grab by the people who rule the world.  ie, the tech giants, big pharma, numerous billionaires, supra-national organisations (IMF, UN, EU etc) and the national governments (who in reality are puppets who only last a few years).

    And whilst all of the above are richer and/or more powerful now by orders of magnitude than they were before Covid, you'll notice that ordinary people are poorer, less free and suffering.  

    But you probably don't see it that way because you get your information from the media organisations which the people getting richer own.  

    If you can't see you are being played then you brainwashing and propaganda has worked on you.


    Do you think it's a coincidence that Google became a pharmaceutical company in 2019...  and were at the time funding the Covid researchers working in Wuhan who allowed the virus to escape...  and who's profits then rose 162% during lockdowns....   and all the while they are in complete control of what people see when they "google" for what's going on?


    If you can't see that you are being played, and that this is all about power and money, and that the billions of ordinary people are nothing more than a commodity for the 1% then I really can't help you.
  • Type_45
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    Regarding the fuel tax exemption for private jets:  see the G7 meeting in Cornwall when the world leaders were openly flouting the Covid rules they tell us to obey.

    The rules (and taxes) do not apply to the elites.  And they don't even care to conceal it anymore, which is the frightening part.
  • eskbanker
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    Type_45 said:
    What is happening is a massive power and money grab by the people who rule the world.  ie, the tech giants, big pharma, numerous billionaires, supra-national organisations (IMF, UN, EU etc) and the national governments (who in reality are puppets who only last a few years).

    And whilst all of the above are richer and/or more powerful now by orders of magnitude than they were before Covid [...]
    Orders (plural) of magnitude means at least a multiple of a hundred, so exactly which have added multiple zeroes to their wealth in the last year and a half?  Or if you're retreating to power rather than wealth, how exactly are you quantifying that?
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