Poland’s Central Bank Secretly Paid YouTubers to Slander Cryptos

Re:Poland’s Central Bank Secretly Paid YouTubers to Slander ... by viraptor on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @04:36AM (#16428155)

> Sometimes even your credit scored is lowered just for purchasing them.

Got any links about it? That's at least unexpected. One of the parties in the transaction would have to explicitly report that. I'd like to see what that credit line would look like.

The rest I'd expect, since those issues are directly related to Visa / banks protecting themselves from specific transactions. It doesn't even matter that it's specifically cryptocurrency on the other end. Just like they charge more for using credit cards for preorders at standard currency exchanges.

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Re:Poland’s Central Bank Secretly Paid YouTubers to Slander ... by pja on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @04:45AM (#16428200)

What they /probably/ mean is that VISA set a higher charge level for cryptocurrency exchanges than for other vendors.

Since the charges imposed by VISA are intimately related to the level of fraud they expect to see from a given vendor & the cryptocurrency space is stuffed to the brim with fraudsters and con artists this ought to be entirely unsurprising.

No cryptic (hah!) conspiracy theory required.

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