Quote from: figmentofmyass on November 30, 2018, 01:21:53 AM

Quote from: BuyBuyBitcoin on November 30, 2018, 12:00:39 AM

Is this a case for bitcoins value (removing the cost of banks criminal activities) or something that will be washed away like all of the other scandals banks have had this decade?

these scandals always get buried under the rug and forgotten within a few days. it's definitely a case for bitcoins value---we all know on some level that banks are parasitical and criminal. but it's difficult for that case to be made to the public when the narrative about bitcoin's own ties to criminal activity are so prevalent.

for example, the american authorities have just designated the bitcoin addresses of two iranian men as sanctioned. a friend mentioned the story to me because he knows i use bitcoin. he tried to claim this was evidence that only criminals use bitcoin. this is still probably a fairly common view.

The best part of the 2 iranian BTC addresses banned by the US government, if anything, prove the point of how Bitcoin is decentralized, censorship resistant money. There's trolls sending money on these addresses, risking huge penalties, all for the sake of making the point of Bitcoin being unstoppable.

Every time some jackass claims "bitcoin is centralized in china" or some crap, you just have to point them to these addresses and it refutes any points of centralization.

As far as Deutsche Bank, I don't get how this firm hasn't filled bankruptcy already. I've been hearing about how screwed up they were but it keeps coming back. See this:

https://news.goldcore.com/ie/gold-blog/deutsche-bank-insolvent/