"We're helping!!!" squarks bank, whilst hoping you'll forget their criminal manipulation, fraud and deliberate deceit.
According to the London Evening Standard, one of the worlds biggest economic mafia cartels, the venerable Lloyds Banking Group has decided that you cannot be trusted with your own money, so it's decided to ban credit card transactions where cryptocurrency purchases are involved.
This is, obviously, because Bitcoin and it's smaller cousins the altcoins are evil incarnate, and ordinary people need help to stop buying demonic digital money, and should instead focus on good old fashioned quantatively eased, junk-bonds issued by helpful private bankers as instruments of eternal debt and slavery that can never be repaid.
Like taking away a heroin addicts "skag" and replacing it with a tincture of St Johns Wart and Olbas oil, the lovely nice smiley people at the bank are doing us all a great service by preventing their customers from being suckered by having the freedom to spend their money exactly how they wish.
It's worth noting of course that the London Evening Standard who broke the story today are headed by one George Osbourne, the former Bullingdon boy Chancellor of the Exchequer, who presided over one of the biggest public money grabs ever.
Since he has taken over at the newspaper (and I do use the term NEWS loosely, in the same way as Adolf Eichmann might talk about facts), almost every story this nasty little rag has published relating to (mainly) Bitcoin has proselytized that cryptocurrencies are the spawn of Satan, and we should all just go out and get a nice bank loan instead, amortizing our future with lovely central bank issued inflationary shit-bonds to ensure our grandchildren are guaranteed to spend their entire lives in perpetual servitude and debt-slavery. Super!
"Santimonious, Deceitful and Duplicitous set of cunts"
It's also worth pointing out the sheer hypocrisy of this action by a bank who in the last few years have been found rigging and manipulating the markets, ripping off customers, stealing billions from the British taxpayer (without their consent I might add), investing vast amounts into the Arms trade, corporate tax evasion and supporting dictators and regimes with dubious human rights records. Lovely folk with exceptional morals!
In short, they have a record of integrity on a par with Attila the Hun, and therefore should absolutely be trusted to make decisions about how you choose to conduct your business.
Imagine for a moment that you knew someone who could make money magically appear out of thin air, imaginary money which they loaned to people at whopping great amounts of interest, who got caught for being a bunch of financial criminals who repeatedly did dodgy underhand things, and then went cap in hand to the government for 20 Billion quid of taxpayers money because they'd managed to squander and thieve it all. Wouldn't that be EXACTLY the sort of person you'd trust to run your investments for you, and give them power of attorney over what you could and couldn't spend your money on? Hmmm. Now let me think.....
Basically everyone, listen up.... When a company with such a magnificent record of positivity, incorruptability and honesty says that it's looking after your financial wellbeing by stopping you buying cryptocurrencies, we should all pay attention.
Crypto is evil. Fiat is best. Repeat 100 times, and then go back to work, there is nothing to see here....
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Link to article by the London Evening Standard: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bitcoin-purchases-using-credit-cards-banned-by-lloyds-bank-a3757761.html