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posted by martyb on Saturday January 12 2019, @07:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the It's-not-easy-being-white-supremacists dept.

Over at the CCN, Gab is having trouble even getting its bitcoin on.

The declaration by free speech social network Gab that the firm was still allowed on Square’s bitcoin-friendly Cash App after being banned on other platforms may have been premature.

This emerged after the social media platform that is occasionally referred to as “alt-right Twitter,” over its popularity with extremist right-wingers, disclosed that the personal Square Cash account of the firm’s founder and CEO, Andrew Torba, had been deactivated.

Things like this are just bad for business.

Earlier this month as CCN reported, Gab had posted a tweet that gave the impression that Square’s Cash App — which allows users to buy and sell bitcoin — had reactivated Gab’s access. According to Breaker magazine, Square might have unknowingly reactivated an account belonging to Gab but will continue to “pro-actively delete any new accounts that it learned were connected with Gab.”

[...] Besides Square, other platforms that have banned Gab in the recent past include cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, online payment processing firm Stripe, bitcoin payment service provider BitPay and online payments system PayPal.

Currently, bitcoin, as well as money orders and checks sent to its post office address, are the only ways for Gab to process payments for its premium service, GabPro. On January 8, Gab announced that it had integrated with open-source crypto payment processor BTCPay Server.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:05PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:05PM (#785550)

    So cancer cells are no more prosperous than a person is prosperous because they are mortally obese.

    So I guess you missed the part where I said that americans were fat, ugly, and in poor health...

    Americans are exactly like cancer. They multiply indiscriminately, spread/impose/force their culture/values to the entire world, monopolise all the resources of the planet for their own needs while letting the rest of the world deal with their rejects and polution, basically sucking the planet dry and slowly killing it, just like a cancer slowly drains and exhausts his host body to the death. Unfortunately, americans no longer have a monopoly on this behavior. It's been spreading for some time now to other "developping" nations, and in fact, to the entire human race in general.

    I suspect people with other expertise can debunk your other claims.

    This tells me all I need to know about you. I speak badly of americans, therefore I must be "debunked", regardless if my arguments have merrit or not.
    You have a primitive, tribal mind. Unfortunately, that's the case of the vast majority of people on Earth.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:30PM (#785564)

    Originally, in your analogy cancer cells appeared to be "the best". Now they are simultaneously "fat, ugly, and in poor health":

    the cancer cells in his body are the most prosperous, fastest growing, well fed and oxygenated cells of all. Would you then say that becoming cancerous is the most succesful strategy for human cells, and that cancer "works" ? I think not.

    The analogy doesn't work, fix it or get over it.

    Unfortunately, americans no longer have a monopoly on this behavior. It's been spreading for some time now to other "developping" nations, and in fact, to the entire human race in general.

    Where are you getting your history from? You must have been exposed to something completely different to me if you think this behavior is new and "spreading", rather than being typical.

    This tells me all I need to know about you. I speak badly of americans, therefore I must be "debunked", regardless if my arguments have merrit or not.

    Not regardless. I regarded the couple of your arguments I had expertise in poorly. and then extrapolated to the others. It is just a heuristic, you could have responded with sources instead of saying I have "primitive mind"...

  • (Score: 1) by EEMac on Saturday January 12 2019, @06:13PM

    by EEMac (6423) on Saturday January 12 2019, @06:13PM (#785610)

    Americans are exactly like cancer. They multiply indiscriminately

    Fertility rate 1.7 [npr.org], below the 2.0 needed to sustain population. I'd say "try again", but really, don't bother.