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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, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 13 2019, @02:46AM (4 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 13 2019, @02:46AM (#785766) Journal

    It must be noted that Islam is incompatible with any form of government which is not Islamic.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @05:47PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @05:47PM (#785941)

    You mean political Islam. The same could be said of political Christianity. Look at Israel for an example of another Yahweh religion as a political power. This is why the Founders of the USA ultimately decided on the necessity of the First Amendment and Jefferson's separation of church and state.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 13 2019, @05:59PM (2 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 13 2019, @05:59PM (#785946) Journal

      I take it, then, that you live in Rome. That is about the only Christian government that I'm aware of. Salt Lake City? Tell us more about your home.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @06:17PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @06:17PM (#785955)

        *snort* lol!

        Do you even history bro?

        • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 13 2019, @07:02PM

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 13 2019, @07:02PM (#785971) Journal

          No, it would be politically incorrect to tell or even to listen to his story. It's her story now.