I'm sorry to hear if that's the case in the Netherlands. It definitely isn't the case for every European country. Germany and Austria for example has many companies dealing in crypto, partially well connected to the classical Banking system (eg. the publicy traded Bitcoin Group in Germany), partially well connected to other established infrastructure from the old guard (eg. BitPanda cooperating with the Austrian postal service). Ledger in France and SatoshiLabs in the Czech Republic seem to be flourishing, but to be fair they don't have to deal with finance directly.
Worrying developments in the Netherlands regardless and hopefully not the shape of things to come.
On the contrary, they allow a few well established players to continue with often exclusive deals with certain banks. This make our market less competitive and stifles real growth. It's small business that is being denied, we can't afford the legal teams some of the big players have.
Like I said, we're like the canary in the coal mine, the level of suppression hasn't hurt the big players, it's killing the small ones though.
Thank you both for your comments, I hope we can get more in the community interested in standing up for their rights.
Bitcoin.de [1], Coinfinity [2] and SatoshiLabs [3][4] have less than 30 employees each. That's far from being "big players". Established, yes, but due to being early birds in the market, not due to their size and raw market capital. Ledger with its more than 100 employes [5] is quite sizeable and BitPanda with its more than 70 employees is nothing to scoff at either [6], but still, you don't have to be
to make it in this market.