my software consulting business got debanked in 2018 by Chase, either for a single inbound wire from BitPay, or because my name was listed in some whitepapers - those are the 2 possible reasons i have isolated, the bank wouldn't tell me anything about what happened, they just said there was a flag on my account they weren't allowed to discuss with me

as an indy consultant, i don't make many transactions, so i didn't even notice at first. i found all this out 3 months later, when i arrived home from a trip to japan - and found a check for my $45k account balance in my mailbox, outside, unprotected downtown in a high crime area, dated months prior.

Got you all beat because I'm poor lol. Hits different when it's your last $100 and you're hungry, homeless, etc.

I got debanked in 2020 while in the hospital with covid (real bad), don't know why (I was doing some crypto stuff mutual aid / activism at the time), and just straight up ended up living in my car (until that gave up too). It was literally the Ampleforth drop that got me indoors again and on the road back to health/sanity.

For well-off people, getting debanked is a massive inconvenience. For the poor and vulnerable, it's outright economic violence.

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