Let's count the ways:
1. They sell "gift cards" that can't be transferred to somebody who hasn't installed their app.
False. There is a web wallet.
2. Their app asks for an unbelievable number of unnecessary permissions from your phone.
It is because the app allows you to send video messages, according to the creator on reddit.
3. They only let you use it on a mobile phone registered to a US cellular network (aka
stingray compatible).
I can't confirm this or find anything contrary to it
4. Visit the website with private browsing enabled and the site blocks you out with a message saying "This app does not support private browsing. Please turn it off and try again." (this is their website, not their app). And that's just private browsing -- forget about anything like Tor.
False, just tried it now and logged in as well in private.
5. They insist on friending you on the facebooks or googling you or tweetering at you before you can use their service.
Perhaps this was true at one point, but isn't the case anymore. Sounds dumb if it were true!
6. FINCEN just made a big stink about gift cards (which are
convertible virtual currencies and therefore unambiguously subject to FIN-2013-G001) being exchanged without a "paper trail",
putting a bunch of giftcard-for-bitcoin businesses, (many of which were bitpay customers), out of business.
Those giftcard-for-bitcoin businesses had many other illegalities about them. Most of them were simply reselling purchased cards and not using APIs to generate them. Others had other exchanges. Cite examples though.
And BOOM this company nobody's heard of before, with a product that is a solution-looking-for-a-problem (who wants gift cards that are worthless without a smartphone? what's wrong with QR codes?) flies out of Jen Calvery's ass.
Isn't the case anymore, can use a web interface. So what's your new argument?
It's not a conspiracy, since that requires actual deception or secrecy. Instead, you're simply being herded.
If everything you're saying were true, they could still be herding a bunch of false accounts... oh no, they're going to follow a facebook account? Laff...
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