CoinJournal, a fellow bitcoin publication, saw its banking services come to an abrupt end after its banking provider Barclays terminated its business account.

CCN spoke to a representative of Manchester-based CoinJournal who was understandably none-too-pleased about the disruption. Elaborating on the need for a fiat-based banking solution, the representative stated:

The account is used predominantly for taking payments via advertisers in dollars and exchanging these for Bitcoin and paying our staff and overheads using Bitcoin.

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Holy crap ya. That is absolutely ridiculous and I'm sure it's based on AML/KYC regulations (because that's what these always seem to be about). It's so annoying that these areas are so highly regulated when bitcoins can't be. So when you mix the two it's such a mess!

Yep, and Circle (and it's various executive staff) are amongst the most dubious companies in the Bitcoin space. They closed ranks with other thinly veiled banking mouthpieces like Xapo and Coinbase to attack Bitcoin by "helping" it; all backed both the hard fork coup attempts so far, announced by the "good-cop" of the corporate presstitutes, The Guardian. Back to back scum, essentially.