Coinbase1 May 2021 13:53
Hello all you clever people, back in January I did the usual jumping though hoops in order to get a Coinbase account, photos of passport/driving licence, birth certificate, colour of underpants etc, unbelievable, was eventually accepted. Great. I set up a transfer account with Barclays to fund my future purchases of Ethereum and/or Bitcoin...excitedly I begin, or at least that was the plan...Barclays immediately block this transfer 'no way sir will we allow you to fund this filthy habit of yours' or words to that effect, damn i thought, so I used the credit card option to fund my account with my HSBC credit card, computer says 'no', your card does not support 3D Secure...I telephone HSBC and a girl who sounded about 12 patronisingly/hurriedly said 'we do not support cryptocurrency purchases' and made it sound like I was potential mafia insider! Can anyone tell me how they purchase their own cryptocurreny please, no wonder Britain is in the dark ages, I am losing the will here. Do British banks honestly think we are all going to lose our shirts and so out of sheer altruism/concern they are protecting us or are they themselves secretly hoovering up Bitcoin in order to control the future?