Banks continue to freeze the accounts due to their binding to bitcoinIt would seem that already in 2016 – a year of steady ascent of bitcoin, its recognition around the world, in some countries, and at the state level, the problems with its adoption should arise. However, as practice shows, banks freeze accounts of owners without adequate explanation is not the first time.
A couple of years ago, banks have frozen the accounts of the cryptocurrency community in Poland. In the fall of 2015 accounts, more than ten of the Australian stock exchanges were closed by the banks without adequate explanation, and in October 2016 in Britain, Barclays Bank without explanation and preliminary comments froze the accounts of the online magazine Coinjournal, which is dedicated to the cryptocurrency. On the same Bank, complaints were received in the transaction associated with cryptocurrency. In the spring of 2016, the Bank entered into a contract with Circle. The application was started, to perform a transaction, converting sterling into the cryptocurrency.
Read More:
http://www.prurgent.com/2016-11-10/pressrelease418390.htm