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يتهم مؤسسو العملات المشفرة إدارة بايدن باستخدام النظام المصرفي الأمريكي كسلاح لسحق صناعة العملات المشفرة. وتتركز الادعاءات، المفصلة في مناقشة ساخنة حول X، على اتهامات بأن البنوك تعرضت لضغوط لقطع العلاقات مع شركات بلوكتشين.
بدأت العاصفة النارية عندما سأل إيلون ماسك متابعيه من فئة X: "هل تعلمون أن 30 من مؤسسي التكنولوجيا تعرضوا للإفلاس سرًا؟"
عملية Chokepoint 2.0: معركة العملات المشفرة ضد الرقابة المالية
قفز تايلر Wink ليفوس، المؤسس المشارك لشركة جيميني، بإجابة صريحة: "نعم. لقد تم الاستغناء عني لأنني أعمل في مجال العملات المشفرة، كما حدث مع جيميني. ربما يكون الرقم أكبر بكثير من 30. وهذا فقط في محفظة a16z وحدها. كما قاموا باغتيال العديد من البنوك لأنها تتعامل مع شركات العملات المشفرة. سلوك غير قانوني على الإطلاق، شرير”.
هل تعلم أن 30 من مؤسسي التكنولوجيا تعرضوا للإفلاس سرًا؟ https://t.co/gmnCir43XD
— إيلون ماسك (@elonmusk) 27 نوفمبر 2024
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, backed Tyler. “Can confirm this is true,” he said. “It was one of the most unethical and un-American things that happened in the Biden administration. My guess? We’ll find Elizabeth Warren’s fingerprints all over it. Biden himself was probably unaware.”
Brian added that Coinbase is gathering documents through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
“Hopefully, the full story emerges of who was involved and whether they broke any laws. [Senator Elizabeth] Warren and [SEC Chair Gary] Gensler tried to unlawfully kill our entire industry. This was a major factor in the Democrats losing the election.”
– Brian Armstrong
Crypto leaders say these actions mirror the tactics of Operation Chokepoint, an Obama-era initiative designed to cut off financial services to industries deemed “high risk.”
Launched in 2013, the original program targeted payday lenders, firearms dealers, and certain telemarketers. While its stated goal was to combat fraud, critics argued that it unlawfully targeted legitimate businesses.
Operation Chokepoint officially ended in 2017 under the Trump administration. However, crypto insiders claim that it returned in 2021, mere weeks after Biden took office. This time, the focus wasn’t on payday loans or guns, it was on crypto.
Marc Andreessen, the venture capitalist, appeared on Joe Rogan’s show to shed light on what he calls “Operation Chokepoint 2.0.” According to Marc, at least 30 tech founders were targeted and debanked for political reasons. “I was one of them,” he said. “This is about control, not compliance.”
Gab, a social media platform, became a high-profile target. Its founder Andrew Torba described a relentless cycle of account closures, saying, “Without a bank account, you can’t store cash, run payroll, or pay bills. That’s the point—choke businesses until they die.”
He opened accounts at big banks, credit unions, and even explicitly Christian institutions, but all of them shut him out within weeks. “The reason was always the same: ‘Our terms say we can do this anytime, for any reason, or no reason at all.’ Behind the scenes, the federal government was pressuring them. I was told off the record that banks were being intimidated with threats of audits and regulatory scrutiny.”
More names speak out
The crypto community’s outrage doesn’t stop there. Caitlin Long, CEO of Custodia Bank, confirmed her own struggles with debanking. “Yes—debanked repeatedly, in my company’s case,” she wrote. Long is fighting back with a pending lawsuit against the Federal Reserve.
Oral arguments are scheduled for January 21, the day after Inauguration Day. Prominent crypto lawyer John Deaton called Long’s case “arguably the most important fight against unelected bureaucrats and the deep state protecting the banking system’s status quo,” and told Elon to look into it.
The accusations don’t stop with individual firms. Brian Roemmele, a payment processing veteran, described systemic attacks on the industry. Roemmele has worked in merchant processing since the 1980s and said that during the original Operation Chokepoint, thousands of legal businesses were wiped out overnight.
“It wasn’t just high-risk industries. It impacted all businesses and raised the cost of doing business by 10x.”
– Brian Roemmele
Roemmele claims the Biden-era reboot is even worse. “This time, it’s more vengeful. Operation Chokepoint 2.0 destroyed trust in the financial system and dismantled dreams. The government is using banks as tools of state corruption.”
Political fallout and industry backlash
Tyler accused the administration of “assassinating” banks that worked with blockchain companies. “They destroyed the financial institutions that dared to support us.”
Brian pointed to the political consequences, saying:
“This was a major factor in the Democrats losing the election. The party should realize Warren is a liability and distance themselves if they want any hope of rebuilding.”
Marc Andreessen went further, accusing the government of using financial levers for political control. “This is about crushing innovation and keeping people in line. The consequences go beyond crypto. This is about freedom.”
Brian and others are demanding transparency. Coinbase’s FOIA requests aim to reveal who was involved in targeting crypto firms. “We need accountability,” Brian said. “If laws were broken, we need to know.”
Crypto leaders are calling for reform, demanding an end to what they see as financial censorship. Marc summed up the sentiment on Joe Rogan’s show: “This type of behavior must stop. The government shouldn’t be using the banking system as a political weapon.”
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