Re:PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shoppi...
by BMSmnqXAE4yfe1 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @01:26PM
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Online casinos are banned because they are illegal (in some jurisdictions), not because of the fraud. Just no need to defraud anyone when your profits are that good. (as a former online casino owner).
Re:PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shoppi...
by Domenic_S on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @01:51PM
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The card declines started back in the Before Times, before they were outlawed, pre-black friday.
The fraud I mean is people funding their accounts, losing, then charging back.
This bit me with Coinbase 7-8 years ago when I was trying to buy $10k of bitcoin -- they'd only allow bank transfers, and only $100 at a time until you were "established". I gave up (and lost a lot of profit because of it).
The quasi-anonymous nature of crypto means that fraud is rampant. For better or worse payment processors and banks have decided they'll make more money banning crypto unless the whole transaction is within their ecosystem. It's not great but I get it.