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Topic: Bank of the West is Shutting Down Our Account for Accepting Bitcoins (Read 8026 times)

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Can customers still make purchases using bitcoin.
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Why do you need a bank?

Go on the silk road and get a bitcoin creditcard!  

Top it up in BTC and withdraw in USD or Euro at the ATM.

Disclaimer:  I have never tried it, just noticed them while snooping around Smiley
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Update:

We are now banking at a few locations, the most notable being IAFCU which the bitcoin community strongly recommended. Thank you for all your help and support!
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I wish you and your business the best and much profit in life.

And we should continue to notify each other of hostile banks.

But with those things said, I can't for the life of me understand why so many BTC users/ companies act SURPRISED when their bank shuts them down or otherwise misbehaves when they realize your involved with BTC.

I mean, jeez, it's not like BTC is a threat to the current banking system or anything.
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Ernest Hancock on LRN.FM will be interviewing Amagi Metals owner, Stephen Macaskill, about bitcoins, the banking industry, and our current banking situation.
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Wells Fargo will not allow us to open an account with them. They said that they will not work with any business that accepts, sells, or holds bitcoins.

Even if you are a business that holds onto bitcoin...
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Is the bank black list site down? Can't connect...
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https://bitgo.com

We accept bitcoins as payment for our products. However we do not sell them or exchange them with individuals.

Did they tell you why they closed your account for accepting Bitcoin? For example, did they think you were a Money Transmitter? Or did they not give a reason other than that you were accepting BTC?
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Hello bitcoin community,

BotW is shutting down our bank account for accepting bitcoins and we need your help suggesting a new bitcoin-friendly bank!

Most of our business is not in bitcoins, however we wish to continue serving the bitcoin community and we are not happy with BotW!

For more information:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1inixa/bank_of_the_west_is_shutting_down_our_bank/

Where you only accepting bitcoins as donations? Or where you exchanging/selling/buying BTC with USD?

We accept bitcoins as payment for our products. However we do not sell them or exchange them with individuals.
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https://bitgo.com
Hello bitcoin community,

BotW is shutting down our bank account for accepting bitcoins and we need your help suggesting a new bitcoin-friendly bank!

Most of our business is not in bitcoins, however we wish to continue serving the bitcoin community and we are not happy with BotW!

For more information:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1inixa/bank_of_the_west_is_shutting_down_our_bank/

Where you only accepting bitcoins as donations? Or where you exchanging/selling/buying BTC with USD?
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Get off the grid.

Experience freedom.


Not as easy as you might think.

I agree.  And there are things that I cannot move off the grid.  Those things are taxed and tracked up the ying yang.  It is legalized theft and servitude.
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<----- I <3 this
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Not as easy as you might think.
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Hint: Start organizing your businesses in such a way that you don't require a bank account at all. Here's an example of how it might work:

http://www.reddit.com/r/BitSpend/comments/1gqjf8/an_open_letter_to_the_bitspend_team/

Are you joking?  This? \/ 
"Another way to allow Bitcoin users to shop at stores that only accept USD is to match them up with people who want to buy Bitcoins with Dollars."

Just so i get this straight:

-I sell mittens for bitcoin.
-I should provide my bitcoin customers with middlemen who will buy their bitcoins for dollars? 
-Once my customers have exchanged their bitcoins into dollars, they spend their dollars to buy my mittens?

a) How am i a bitcoin store?  I obviously want nothing to do with bitcoin, requiring my customers to turn their bitcoins into dollars before i touch their money.
b) Who in their right mind would go through such rigmarole to buy a pair of mittens?  Most would simply stop pretending they're Rube Goldberg & trade in dollars.
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Please let us know what you end up doing...
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America, the land of the free.

Bank of the West is owned by BNP Paribas so this might not just be a USA thing.
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I was just going to suggest that bitcoin stop accepting Bank Of the West. Yeah!
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Hint: Start organizing your businesses in such a way that you don't require a bank account at all. Here's an example of how it might work:

http://www.reddit.com/r/BitSpend/comments/1gqjf8/an_open_letter_to_the_bitspend_team/
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How about not being afraid of losing anything.   
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Hello bitcoin community,

BotW is shutting down our bank account for accepting bitcoins and we need your help suggesting a new bitcoin-friendly bank!

Most of our business is not in bitcoins, however we wish to continue serving the bitcoin community and we are not happy with BotW!

For more information:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1inixa/bank_of_the_west_is_shutting_down_our_bank/
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