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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @02:01AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @02:01AM (#785743)

    Yep. I'm horrified by the fact that a majority of americans chose freely, willingly, and knowingly a well-established compulsive liar, narcissist, psychopath, con-man, sexual predator and child molester as their freaking president, and I'm the one who's lost his mind.

    If that says a lot of really bad things about me, I can't imagine what it must say about you Trump voters. Is that what you're all about ? Is that the message that you're trying to send to rest of the world ?

    "Here in America, land of the free, home of the brave, try to be the most disgusting, abominable, horrible, mysoginistic, xenophobic, sociopathic, miserable sack of pus you can possibly be, and we'll reward you by electing you president ! Murica Yeah !"

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @02:32AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @02:32AM (#785760)

    How many of those allegations can you prove, and how many are "game of telephone" style repetition of bullshit you've been fed by your filter bubble based on a willfully and maliciously misinterpreted Access Hollywood tape from the 1990s? Stop being a fucking idiot sheep. I don't like Trump and didn't vote for Trump and I even voted straight-ticket Democrat in this last election because the Republicans had way too much control, but none of that was because of the appeal to emotion bullshit you just tried to pull. If anything, I wanted to vote for him just to spite dumb shit people who say dumb shit things like what I just read. You are the sort of sheep that hears someone is a -ist of some sort and blindly repeats it. Provide supporting citations for every single claim you just made or fuck off with your appeals to emotion, straw men, and red herrings. Furthermore, it's notable that you ignored most of what I wrote and only targeted Trump. Trump is all you can think about, eh? It seems Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real thing after all.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @02:28PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @02:28PM (#785900)

      Blah blah blah. You're so pathetic.

      I wanted to vote for him just to spite dumb shit people who say dumb shit things like what I just read.

      That's so mature of you. Ready to put in danger your future, your children's future, your country, your planet, just for the odd chance of pissing off some liberals. Captain Ahab at its finest.

      You are the sort of sheep that hears someone is a -ist of some sort and blindly repeats it.

      Oh shut up kid. Because that's obviously what you are, if not in age, clearly in mental age. I'm not repeating everything I heard someone else say, I've actually lived on Earth for more than five decades. And if you had too, you'd know full well what kind of trash Trump is, because you'd continuously heard about his antics throughout those years. The way he treats women around him, the way he treated the Miss Teen America pagent candidates, the fact that he doesn't pay his bills and drove numerous small businesses to bankrupcy because of that, the fact that he accumulated more than 1300 civil lawsuits in his carreer, the Trump University scam, etc, etc. I could go on and on, but I'm not going to do your research for you, pathetic lazy fuck.

      As for your other points, it doesn't matter what real powers he has in the governement. What matters is that he's the democratically chosen president of the United States, that by electing him, americans declared to the world: "This is the man we want to speak on our behalf and to represent the american people to the rest of the world". In other words: "We want the world to think the american people are a bunch of classless, unsophisticated, uneducated, dishonest, lying, pussy-grabbing buffoons".

      As for "citations", I'll leave you with this one:

      "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone, and I still wouldn't lose any voters".

      Yeah, even the orange clown himself thinks his suppoters are just a bunch of stupid morons, and he told them to their faces. And they still voted for him, proving him right.