List of Bitcoin Hostile (and friendly) Banks - page 11.

seventoes

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The new-ish online-only bank Simple are Bitcoin friendly! I asked the other day and their response was:

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Hi,

We won't close your account because of a transfer from Coinbase. I didn't even know until recently that people were having that problem at other banks! So weird. Anyway, you're safe making that transfer into Simple.

Have a good night!

-Caitlin

The response specifically only mentions Coinbase while I asked about Bitcoin and exchanges in general, but based on their attitude towards everything else I'd say they're completely bitcoin-friendly.

bitpop

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okay, I have changed the format of the list a little bit as well. Instead of having two lists, one for good banks and one for bad, i've now made it so that its just one big list sorted by country.

johnyj

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Beyond Imagination

OP should correct the original post, Swedish SEB bank just informed me to not use my account to do bitcoin related transactions

bitpop

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lol

joesmoe2012

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Ching-Chang;Ding-Dong

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okay, I have changed the format of the list a little bit as well. Instead of having two lists, one for good banks and one for bad, i've now made it so that its just one big list sorted by country.

what?

NABiT

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Slightly inaccurate title as “The account belongs to a payment service provider called PacNet Services Ltd, which Bit121 works with. Barclays therefore does not have a direct relationship with the bitcoin exchange” but:

Barclays Bank Takes GBP Deposits For New UK Bitcoin Exchange Bit121
http://www.coindesk.com/barclays-bank-uk-bitcoin-exchange-bit121/

jeppe

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this is nice to know !! thanks for sharing

joesmoe2012

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Ching-Chang;Ding-Dong

Quote from: Desensitizer on December 10, 2013, 03:16:51 AM

Does anyone know the status of Virginia Commerce Bank in the united states? I am going to be starting to wire transfer money to bitstamp or btc-e soon and I was wondering if anyone had a clue as to how they might react. If noone does I will end up calling them and add them to the list.

Should be fine if you'r just sending a wire. THis list for banks that aren't friendly to bitcoin businesses, not individual stuff.

i would -not- call your bank prior to wiring to tell them its for bitcoins.

Desensitizer

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Does anyone know the status of Virginia Commerce Bank in the united states? I am going to be starting to wire transfer money to bitstamp or btc-e soon and I was wondering if anyone had a clue as to how they might react. If noone does I will end up calling them and add them to the list.

joesmoe2012

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Ching-Chang;Ding-Dong

Quote from: bnjmnkent on December 09, 2013, 04:17:15 PM

Quote from: Isokivi on December 05, 2013, 11:29:58 AM

I'll just leave this here:

You do not use the funds to purchase or exchange for crypto.

You do use the funds to send them to an exchange, where you trade.

Big difference. OKPay just wants to stay out of trouble.

Which is actually a good thing. Maybe now that they aren't working with US people and they are proactively telling people not to exchange crypto-currency without alicense, maybe they'll be around a while.

bnjmnkent

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Quote from: Isokivi on December 05, 2013, 11:29:58 AM

I'll just leave this here:

You do not use the funds to purchase or exchange for crypto.

You do use the funds to send them to an exchange, where you trade.

Big difference. OKPay just wants to stay out of trouble.

bobsmoke

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Someone reporting issues with Barclays in UK - in the same thread there is someone who is claiming not having issues...
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1sgcm6/my_bank_has_frozen_my_account_because_i_sent/

bitpop

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Bank of America disabled my wire transfers after I sent money to a couple exchanges

bobsmoke

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Quote from: Isokivi on December 08, 2013, 01:48:27 PM

cp from reddit : "I've just been told by my bank, The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, that they won't allow me to transfer money to bitstamp.net so I can start buying bitcoins and other alts. I think that this is diabolical behaviour and I'm going to close my commonwealth bank account over this. What I would like to know is, what is the most convenient way to buy bitcoins from Australia?"

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1sdmrq/commonwealth_bank_of_australia_blocking/

This is not good news!

Isokivi

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cp from reddit : "I've just been told by my bank, The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, that they won't allow me to transfer money to bitstamp.net so I can start buying bitcoins and other alts. I think that this is diabolical behaviour and I'm going to close my commonwealth bank account over this. What I would like to know is, what is the most convenient way to buy bitcoins from Australia?"

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1sdmrq/commonwealth_bank_of_australia_blocking/

zimmah

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it's funny how OKpay decided to ban bitcoin, while bitcoin was pretty much the only reason anyone would ever even use OKpay n the first place.

xmrk2

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Quote from: Isokivi on December 05, 2013, 11:29:58 AM

I'll just leave this here:

I just checked, and this check box only appears for GBP. So perhaps some British-only regulation?

darkmule

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Quote from: Isokivi on December 05, 2013, 11:29:58 AM

I'll just leave this here:

Especially if you do substantial biz with an entity like this, and you see a message like this, and you can actually do it without substantial inconvenience, I advise you immediately cancel any account you have with them, and if you are in IT anywhere and have choice of vendor, dump them from there, too, and let them know that shit is exactly why you're doing it. (Of course, for the latter, make sure you actually do have the final choice on that matter and you won't wind up in trouble yourself).

A penalty or a boycott is not effective unless the company in question knows why they're losing business.

joesmoe2012

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Ching-Chang;Ding-Dong

I've updated the list once again.

Thanks for all the updates everyone.

When i have a little time i'll try to make the list a bit more readable as well.

Isokivi

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I'll just leave this here:

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