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BravoCoon Barbed Wire Telephone Lines Brought Isolated Homesteaders Together

In the days before Facebook, simply picking up the phone could well result in fun conversations with our neighbors. Fun times were had by all.

BravoCoon NOTICE OF ACCOUNT CLOSURE (locked out of Coinbase)

There is one term that is guaranteed to get you closed.

In legalese it is called "structuring" - where people do multiple transfers of under $10k each in order to try to avoid the banks reporting them. It is a federal crime. People go to jail for that.

Coinbase wants no part of that. They already are fighting the IRS about turning over records.

(And the truth is that banks now report nearly everything; certainly anything more than $3000 so people that do this can be easily caught. And they DO sometimes go to jail.)

Example: https://thebitcoin.pub/t/coinbase-closed-my-account-for-unkn...

If you haven't done that then it is probably just a glitch. Try their support. They have no legal right to keep your money without a warrant.

Meanwhile, they are also having technical problems.

Here is what is happening to them: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@steembusiness/coinbase-hit-10-m...

"Coinbase Hits 10 Million Users - Struggles To Keep Up"

BravoCoon Critical Vulnerability Found in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine

The short-term fix is to add an exclusion to encompass all of C: drive. That way even if a website drops an infected temp file it will not get scanned.