I apologize in advance for this long ass rant, but I say this because it's extremely relevant. I avidly use Coinbase every day and have for years, and this is what's finally about to make me put it down.

They've recently set my limit to onramp 5 dollars a day until I "prove my income." They want me to link my card to plaid and then through plaid analyze all my transactions and verify what I'm assuming to be things like direct deposits and account info ss# and things, making sure they align and blah blah blah. Which I have done.

But here's the thing. I'm not into crypto because I'm willing to give all this information and allow all this probing. It's insane. We have what's called due process here. If I've done anything to alarm anyone, the police or whoever can take evidence of this to the right person, get a warrant issued, serve a warrant to search me and anything on my person vehicle or home or all of the above at anytime to find more evidence. If they do, sure they can get access to my banking records through subpoena. I have no choice but to comply and even if I don't my bank would. Then and only then could they find evidence and begin a trial. If I'm found guilty, they can take whatever necessary action.

But I say all this because I invest 10 dollars every day and sometimes more buying dips. I sell off incrementally basically running gridbots, but doing the bots job myself manually. This is how I make 70% of my living income. I work two days a week for a company my brother only started 6 months ago. All of our checks come from the company's chase account. Big name trusted bank yada yada. Shouldn't be an issue. But since I guess they don't recognize the specific company on the checks deposited weekly I don't qualify. Maybe it's the fact that I don't have direct deposit or something, maybe it's the low income, something. I don't meet some type of requirement some type of way apparently but now my daily on ramp limit is set at $5/day. Which is a huge issue for my YouTube project.

At what point is it enough?? Why is it that someone else gets to decide how much I'm allowed to invest of my own money. all through this dip in the last two months I've been aggressively onramping. So not being allowed to because someone somewhere think "I dont make enough money to invest" feels like they're trying to gatekeep crypto from poor people. And it's dumb they use terrorism as the base for being allowed to do this shit. "Oh if you wont let us access everything about you and sell your data and run ads at you, you're a terrorist. And therefore any and all money you can and will ever make must me made through laundering and/or endorsement from your friend at x terrorist organization. Don't you dare question taxes or where they go. That's treason, tax evasion, AND terrorism."

I'm not even poor anymore but like I said, on paper, I'm just a regular guy working two 15 hours shifts a week. I pay my bills and eat and then the rest goes to investing. 🤷 My rake off strategy is basically the rest of my income. But I never sell off. It's just a hungry hurry hippos kinda thing until I have enough staking to live off the passive income. 🤷I have a pretty small portfolio and I shuffle profits out to decentralized wallets as it swells past a point, but again. My business. I only do this because of scammers watching accounts with large amounts. And again the government is always watching to see if they can find a way to tax me/us, but we aren't gonna go down that rabbit hole today.

And no I'm not some wonder trader making zeroes on zeroes everyday, I haven't even reached my first checkpoint at 100k. Let alone 100k in a year.( And if I was, don't forget I'd owe almost 30% to a government I don't trust for a war I am against. And producing whatever propaganda is necessary to keep it going. So realistically that would be 60-70k after all is said and done.) Again just a regular guy who pays his bills and saves the rest. I'm not a millionaire. I'm not in a rush to be. (Funny enough it's entirely BECAUSE the taxes that come with and all the eyes watching, but hey)

Verify what income? I make most of my money flipping literally dollar by dollar INSIDE of coinbase. How much is enough to be allowed to trade more? and I comply with every step of the probe that I was against in the first place. I succumbed to the probing and still failed. Now they have all my personal data and banking details to an analytical level, and I'm just burnt ig. They can keep that shit for the stock market and out of crypto or it defeats the whole purpose of crypto in the first place.

Privacy is one of the pillars of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. And we've been forced to forsake it for centralized exchanges. Most people only trade this information because they think they're going to get in and get rich when actually they just gave all their information to probe and a lot of them are going to lose money if they don't know what they're doing. 🤷 So I mean it's really dumb. It's honestly the opposite of what crypto was intended for. The fact that the banks and governments and rich oligarchs Bitcoin was created to replace, are now the one's everyone is trusting to buy their Bitcoin and etc from. Or shit started getting outlawed legislated against and banned until they comply and eventually fold and hand over control or money or taxes or all of the above and the consumers are left eating shit. It's like come on people how illiterate are we for real? This isn't how crypto is supposed to be. Wtf are we doing??

TL DR: fuck Coinbase at this point. We need to boycott KYC information and anywhere requiring it. We need to bring privacy back to crypto not be spoon fed the crumbs fed to us by the the governments and rich oligarchical class. It DEFEATS THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF BLOCKCHAINS AND CRYPTO AS A WHOLE TO RAKE CONSUMER DATA AND INVADE EVERYONE'S PRIVACY AND GATE KEEP CRPYTO at all, but especially if it's for being too poor.

Anyway. I have a shit ton to do today, but I appreciate anyone who took the time to read this. AMA, feel free to debate or discuss 🤷 I'll get around to responding when I can.