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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by gcb0 on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:25AM (#18784270)
you still need a 3rd party to realistically convert USD into BTC.

at this point, might as well trade in casino chips.

(see gnu taller for a less cassino-like alternative to payments)

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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by arisAlexis on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:52AM (#18784412)
this third party is not linked to where you want to send them. anybody can get BTC from fiat conversion and send it wherever they want without censorship. That's what we are talking about right?
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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by gcb0 on Monday December 31, 2018 @02:36PM (#18796439)
yes, not linked to the destination of the funds, but still very much required.
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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by stale2002 on Saturday December 29, 2018 @04:40PM (#18785878)
The 3rd parties that convert your USD to BTC aren't censoring people, whereas PayPal is.

So that is a significant difference. Apparently PayPal is censoring way more people than the average crypto exchange.

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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by ddtaylor on Saturday December 29, 2018 @01:31PM (#18784977)
> you still need a 3rd party to realistically convert USD into BTC.

Can't the same be said of credit cards?

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