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Cryptocurrency: Diaries of a 'Bitcoin Babe': Cryptocurrency guru claims 91 banks refuse to work with her
by grarpamp 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

Officially Registered Small-Biz Independent Traders Canceled Debanked Harassed Investigated Oppressed and Run Out of Biz by Big Banksters https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9968723/Diaries-Bitcoin-Babe-Crypt… Diaries of a 'Bitcoin Babe': Cryptocurrency guru claims 91 banks refuse to work with her and she's on a TERRORISM watchlist – all because of her trading business Michaela Juric, 28, built a bitcoin trading empire from her Sydney home She said the business had 'saved her life' after suffering depression Speaking at a Senate inquiry on Wednesday she said 91 banks have shunned her By Brett Lackey For Daily Mail Australia Published: 07:01 EDT, 8 September 2021 | Updated: 07:01 EDT, 8 September 2021 A business whiz who 'wanted to be her own boss' and built a digital currency empire from her bedroom claims 91 banks stopped dealing with her, she was put on a terrorism watchlist, and was 'bullied' by Australia's financial watchdog. Michaela Juric from Western Sydney launched her 'Bitcoin Babe' peer to peer trading platform in 2014 and quickly became the number one local bitcoin broker in Australia and New Zealand. However, the 28-year-old said the massive backlash from the financial industry has significantly impacted her and put her business under threat. Michaela Juric (pictured) runs Bitcoin Babe and said she has been blacklisted from more than 90 banks because she makes money from digital currency +5 Michaela Juric (pictured) runs Bitcoin Babe and said she has been blacklisted from more than 90 banks because she makes money from digital currency 'I've been very grateful for my seven years in the crypto community and all that I've learned, and the people that I've met,' Ms Juric told the Australia as a Technology and Financial Centre Senate inquiry on Wednesday. 'But at the end of the day, the irreversible damage to my livelihood has been done,' Ms Juric said. The inquiry lead by Senator Andrew Bragg is looking at the practice of 'de-banking' in which financial institutions allegedly ban a digital currency business. Ms Juric received bank ban number 91 a day before she was due to speak at the inquiry - leaving her with few options to deal with traditional banks still essential to run her business. 'There's been instances where de-banking has caused me to be denied from being able to get utilities or phone and internet services, which I think is very concerning.' Ms Juric said. She claimed some of her customers were also de-banked, or told by their banks her Bitcoin Babe business was a scam. 'I've had family members who have been debanked as well, and that's not because they've had anything to do with bitcoin, it's just a matter of guilt by association, whether it be the same last name or same address,' Ms Juric said. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Perfect for Zoom! The $65 'no makeup makeup' buy that beauty... Best friends who spent just $1,500 on launching exfoliating... The banks claim they do this because there is no regulatory framework safeguarding cryptocurrency transactions - which the inquiry hopes to address. The transactions of digital currencies, they claim, could be used for money laundering or terrorist financing. 'I've had banks go as far as report me as being like a terrorist on some databases, and that's what stopped me from being able to get some of these services.' Michaela Juric launched her business in 2014 +5 The 28-year-old said the company had helped her out of depression +5 Ms Juric (pictured) said she had suffered depression in her early 20s and building her company had given her direction and helped her recover Ms Juric previously told bitcoin.com.au she became interested in digital currencies because she liked the idea of being her own boss and was suffering depression and a lack of direction in her early 20s. 'When I found this way to work for myself and not have to answer to anyone, I was really attracted me to it.' 'With bitcoin and crypto, it's always changing – whether it be the price or the rules or the regulations or the people. It's evolving. It's never a dull moment. I think that's why I love it so much.' She said building her business had literally 'saved her life'. Aus Merchant - another cryptocurrency trading platform - was also represented at the inquiry on Wednesday and said they had been de-banked by four institutions in the last year. Managing Director Mitchell Travers claimed banks use the policy to shut down competitive businesses. Senator Andrew Bragg (pictured) is heading up the Senate inquiry into cryptocurrency +5 Senator Andrew Bragg (pictured) is heading up the Senate inquiry into cryptocurrency Ms Juric agreed and said she registered her business with AUSTRAC, the country's financial intelligence and anti-money laundering watchdog, but this made no difference to her getting shunned by the banks. She added even AUSTRAC had threatened her. 'The way that I was approached was quite aggressive. It originally came about as 'we want to review your compliance manual, and if we find things wrong with it will shut down your business', and there were all sorts of threats of legal action,' she said. 'I think there's definitely some bullying tactics going on, at least from the small business perspective as opposed to the large ones, I believe.' The 28-year-old said Australia's financial intelligence watchdog AUSTRAC had threatened her despite her company being legitimate +5 The 28-year-old said Australia's financial intelligence watchdog AUSTRAC had threatened her despite her company being legitimate Commonwealth Bank gave a submission to the inquiry in which they said de-banking was part of due diligence. 'In circumstances where a customer's source of funds and source of wealth is unable to be determined, or their account activity is not in accordance with known business activities, the group takes appropriate steps to mitigate and manage its ML/TF risk,' CBA said. Senator Bragg will deliver the inquiry's report on October 31. He said on Wednesday 'innovation' from young entrepreneurs shouldn't be shut down and wants to see more regulation around cryptocurrency to legitimise the industry. Diaries of a 'Bitcoin Babe': Cryptocurrency guru claims 91 banks refuse to work with her.

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SHA-1 Shambles: Collison, and the PGP WoT, GPG
by grarpamp 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

SHA-1 is a Shambles: First Chosen-Prefix Collision on SHA-1 and Application to the PGP Web of Trust Leurent, G and Peyrin, T (2020) https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/014.pdf Unix, Win, Mac https://www.gnupg.org/download/index.html Simple https://github.com/filosottile/age Email https://www.thunderbird.net/

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ban professor turd
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

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Mongo just giant pussy in game of life
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

Not to mention the obvious problems with letting government agents bid > on things like when various unwanted foreign leaders would be > assassinated. > Over on Dave Farber's IP list, it's been pointed out that there is a pre-existing, live, real-money market in futures on these types of events. Go over to www.tradesports.com, and click on 'Current Events' under 'Trading Catagories' on the left. Drill down and you'll find things like 'WMDs will be found in Iraq on or before Sept 31', the value of which has dropped from 80 to 25 over the last few months. Peter Trei https://www.mail-archive.com/cypherpunks@minder.net/msg51821.html

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Interception - now we have the ball
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

"...various people freaked about the implications. (And they only got as far as it being "an incentive to commit terrorism", without getting to "a funding method for terrorism" or to "Assassination Politics".) Not to mention the obvious problems with letting government agents bid on things like when various unwanted foreign leaders would be assassinated. Gee, maybe SEAL Team 6 can do an office bid, using anonymous cutouts of course, on when SEALs will go ashore at Bandar Abbas to liquidate the Iranian prime minister? Or maybe a CIA wet work guy can make a few extra bucks in the dead pool by correctly predicting the death of the next Vince Foster? Besides being problematic in its own right, it also leaks information, a kind of covert covert channel, ironically. If the bids are truly untraceable (fat chance--the password scheme looked like a trival, breakable Gen 1 security system) then those with knowledge of operations can make money by using their knowledge, all untraceably. This was obvious long before Jim Bell became infamous. Check out writings by some of us dating back to 1988. Once again, government sets itself up as being outside the law. If I were to even make a snide remark about the assassination of You Know Who, I'd get a visit from the SS. Fucking proof that D.C. needs to be obliterated in an act of freedom fighting. Gets rid of a passal of welfare addicts, too. --Tim May

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Mongo just prawn in game of life
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

"... he should have seen the shitstorm which would materialize as soon as this actually reached the public radar screen. Now that's gone public and been deep-sixed less than 24 hours later, it will likely be the end of this particular thing. An official, above-board version is likely to be ipso facto illegal for the same reason office baseball pools are illegal: illegal gambling. If the Pentagon can run a betting pool for its employees on when some event will happen, office workers can bet on the outcome of the World Series, and anyone can bet on the numbers revealed by the Mob. --Tim May https://www.mail-archive.com/cypherpunks@minder.net/msg51840.html

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I have a hunch
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

Markets on Augur Turbo continue to resolve within 4 hours of game ending, giving bettors and LPs a quick turnaround time for their capital. And if that wasn't enough, Turbo now also has crypto price markets for ETH, BTC, DOGE, REP, MATIC, and LINK. Try now: https://augur.net/app

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Bids on Wolfwitz's assassination
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

Bids on Wolfwitz's assassination https://marc.info/?t=105949954900004&r=1&w=1

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Bitcoin Babe crypto Quisling says banks treat her like terrorist
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

Bitcoin Babe crypto exchange chief says banks treat her like terrorist https://protos.com/bitcoin-babe-crypto-exchange-chief-says-banks-treat-her-… " When cypherpunks are treated like terrorists we will have done our job " Old crypto-anarchist proverb

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Batshit-crazy, John Young, now suspect in pipe-bomb investigation
by professor rat 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/09/1035402389/the-fbi-releases-new-video-of-the…

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