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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.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 13 2019, @01:53AM (9 children)
It seems that you need some lessons.
I'm not in love with all of the evils that the US has ever committed. I am embarrassed at some of the stuff we've done. But, despite all of our worst evils, pretty much everyone in the world wants to come to America. Maybe we're not quite so evil as you paint us to be?
You appear to hate the US. Many of my fellow Americans are completely ignorant of any wrongdoing that the US has ever committed. How about you just admit that despite all of our wrongs, we've got some things right? Americans are neither demonic, nor saintly. We do right, and we do wrong - pretty much like any other country or government in the world.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @02:17AM (8 children)
Judging by your signature, you seem perfectly entitled to paint with the same brush an entire segment of the population of your country. And yet you critisize me for doing something similar.
This is actually what I hate the most about americans: Not so much the horrors that their governements and corporations have commited throughout history, but the fact that most americans seem completely ignorant of it all, just like you said. This infuriates me to no end.
I would expect such levels of ignorance from some god-forsaken shithole country, not from a country like the U.S. Education accessible to everyone is one of the fundamental pillars of civilization, and an absolute necessity for a free and healthy democracy.
But when a con-man like Trump (and not a very good one at that) is able to con his way to the oval office, and with relative ease, something is horribly, horribly wrong with the level of education of the average voter.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 13 2019, @02:43AM (7 children)
Yes, I am entitled. I am American. I need apologize to no one for being an asshole. Not only was my entitlement passed on to me by virtue of being born an American, but I served my country, thus earning my entitlements. Thanks for noticing all of that.
I have expressed my utter contempt for American style "left" repeatedly here. Anyone who is the least bit familiar with my views knows that I am contemptuous of both of our political parties, but that I despise the "left" far more than I despise the "right".
As for Trump - if the left had nominated a real human being, then the left probably would have beaten Trump. Unfortunately, all that they offered was Clinton.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @10:25AM (4 children)
A particularly ignorant and stupid asshole, entitle by the fact that he is >>, meaning Polack, not really an American at all, but spawn of anchor babies dropped by Babuskas in order to dilute the pure white (WASP) American blood! Bloody Catholic Slavs! With their stupid ideas and voting for anyone with a D in front of their name in Chicago. No need to apologize, Runaway the American Asshole, you just need to shut up, because you are not entitled to an audience. Especially since you are terribly ignorant, and old, and rural, and stupid, and thus have nothing to contribute to the conversation. So, squeal like a pig, Runaway! You sure have purty lips!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 13 2019, @10:38AM (3 children)
Why do you attempt to be anonymous? It doesn't work. Seriously, make an effort here. Try to understand how and why your posts are so very distinctive, and then swap things up a little now and then. Unless, of course, senility is setting in, and you are incapable of a little analysis.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @06:52PM
Why is who trying to be anonymous, Runaway! Have you been reduced to trolling yourself, just so you will have someone to talk to? Seems legit!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @08:44PM (1 child)
There are at least two socialist-tending ACs in this discussion. You seem frustrated, perhaps because your attempts to fit the history of the last few centuries into a simplistic mytho-macho narrative is insufficient.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @08:30AM
Runaway, part of the "We made America Suck, Again" Generation. You have my condolences, Runaway. Better luck in your next life, when your karma catches up with you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @03:26PM (1 child)
You should never have to apologize for being an american. However, everyone should have to apologize for being an asshole. In fact, everyone should try his damnest not to be an asshole in the first place.
My God, has it come to this ? Was all the progress that civilization brought be trown out and forgetten ? Should parents stop trying to raise their children and let them become foul-mouthed, ill-bred, ignorant assholes ?
Should we give up on democracy, education, science, art, justice, peaceful coexistence, and revert back to tyranny, ignorance, superstition, barbarism, savagery, slavery, war and bloodshed ? Cause from what I hear and read here and from many other sources, it's starting to look more and more as if that's what a non-negligeable segment of the human population wants.
Those who bitch about school have never known a world ruled by ignorance and superstition. Those who bitch about vaccines have never witnessed the damages caused by smallpox and polio. Those who bitch about justice have never been woken up in the middle of the night by thugs weilding badges and seen one of their loved ones being taken away kicking and screaming, without reason or explanation, never to be seen again. Those who bitch about democracy have never lived the horrors of tyranny, bloodshed, and war.
I fear we live in a time when humanity will be willingly and joyfully running towards the chasm that civilization has spent countless centuries pulling it out of. And I fear I will see that happen within my lifetime.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 13 2019, @04:29PM
Awwww, you're not triggered, are you?
Tell us, how do you conflate my words for all of these calamities that you are making up?