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Re: China prohibits banks providing settlement services to Bitcoin Exchange
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Omega2513
on 16/12/2013, 11:43:53 UTC
It was also reported on major news sites so who knows. I know some banks here in Canada are shutting down accounts that are used for Bitcoin

What reasons do they give when they do that? Is it legal?

Why is it legal or not?

Its their service they can terminate bank acct as they want.

It's more of a grey area when it comes to bitcoin and banks. It's possible they could consider it too high of a risk or the fact that they would lose out on transaction fees.

China banks: https://www.google.ca/search?q=bitcoin+china+banks&rlz=1C1CHFX_enCA551CA551&oq=bitcoin+china+banks&aqs=chrome..69i57l2j69i65l3j69i60.4227j0j1&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8

Canada banks: https://www.google.ca/search?q=bitcoin+china+banks&rlz=1C1CHFX_enCA551CA551&oq=bitcoin+china+banks&aqs=chrome..69i57l2j69i65l3j69i60.4227j0j1&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8#es_sm=122&espv=210&q=bitcoin+canada+banks

No i'm not talking about bitcoins

I'm answering the question about legality of terminating bank accts. Ofcourse its legal. Its their service, they have the right to terminate it if they want.

Heck they can terminate your bank account if you're rude to them.


Not quite. There has to be a legal reason to the termination. For bitcoins, with all the bad press of Silk Road and everything else, the banks could have it fall under illegal or misuse of the account and funds. Like how they freeze the accounts for criminals.