Ryan Sean Adams (rsa.eth)
@rsa.eth
I'll add my debanking story. I was debanked by Bank of America in 2019 for sending transactions to coinbase and operating a Cosmos staking as a service company - just a dear john letter, no explanation. Shortly after my 2 person staking company was sent a letter of veiled threats by the SEC with accompanying demands for discovery documents including every email, invoice, contract, and detailed legal explanation for everything i was doing. The legal reply cost mega $$$ - i shut down the staking business after realizing i couldn't fight the U.S. gov alone then got 10x pilled on DeFi and started Bankless. If you tell normies the bank shut down you down and you got a letter from the SEC they assume you're a criminal so you don't tell people. That's the insidious part - they try to isolate you. I’m not saying my debanking story is the most tragic thing ever woe is me. I'm doing fine. What I'm saying is this shouldn't happen in America.
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Dean Pierce 👨💻🌎🌍
@deanpierce.eth
In 2011 I started btcnow.net, which I'm pretty sure was the first website ever that let people just buy bitcoins and they'd get sent automatically a few seconds later. Zero eyes on profitability or business viability, I ran it as a hobby just purely to get bitcoins in the the hands of as many people as possible, and definitely succeed in that goal. The amount of bank and payment processor fuckery I experienced between 2011 and 2014 when I shut down convinced me that legacy finance would need some massive disruption, and it would take more than just me to do it. Very proud of what the community has accomplished since then.
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Dean Pierce 👨💻🌎🌍
@deanpierce.eth
The site is dead now, but the meagar wiki entry that someone set up once lives on. en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Btcnow
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