10 sats \ 4 replies \ @notgeld 18 Sep 2023 \ on: Bank freezes my account for four months over bitcoin P2P trade bitcoin
I did a podcast with p2p trader from Australia just recently and the issues are all the same.
Unfortunately the pod is in Russian.
Any lessons learned from that?
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Plenty. Everything is kinda known, but I talked with him specifically from the standpoint of threat modeling so it turned out to be quite a systemic overview. Hard to tell in one sentence. Practically for Bitcoin traders in the so-called Western world official license is useless, it turns into self-reporting and eventual additional problems, exchanges aren't partners but almost adversarial actors, buyers as well may be scammers or scammer-driven muppets (like very old person with dementia who buys btc for nigerian persona) quite frequently.
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was it a Russian bank or Australian? Asking for a friend™️
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He is an officially registered sole trader in Australia and all his banned accounts in Australian banks.
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