Quote from: Inedible on February 22, 2017, 09:30:59 PM

Quote from: Payment21 on February 22, 2017, 06:45:35 PM

Yesterday I made a request to the community here to share banks they think are friendly to bitcoin.

Many were of the opinion that it isnt easy to find a bank you can describe as bitcoin friendly. At best what you would find are banks that are willing to do business with Bitcoins enterprises and users or those that don't really care as to what customers do with their business accounts as long as it isnt explicitly against the law.

Nevertheless, so far the following are the banks we have in the list of bitcoin friendly banks.
You are welcome to grow it here.
Thanks
*Fidor in Germany
*Bawag PSK in Austria
*Liberty bank in Georgia, Caucasus
*Chase in USA
*Mistertango in Europe
*TD Bank

May I ask how these have been confirmed?

My understandig is that they keep your bank account in local fiat or in EUR, USD etc. and they don't care if you send money to bitcoin exchange or to bitcoin wallet (in fiat, and wallet keeper does the exchange). They don't have bitcoin as a currency in the bank's system (there's no bank that has bitcoin account), but they don't care about the movements on your bank account, so they are bitcoin friendly. The bank can be bitcoin friendly, if you set up a company that works in the bitcoin business (and not in everyday business like bakery, shop, pharmacy, etc...) and they don't ask about the source of the money credited to the account (anyway, that's the job of the tax authority...)
I've heard about banks that close accounts if the owner sends money to bitcoin exchange, those are the bitcoin unfriendly banks.