Of course they did, because cryptos are a dire threat to their hegemony. Visa introduced changes to charge more for purchasing cryptos with their cards. Some banks block cards that are used for purchasing cryptos. Sometimes even your credit scored is lowered just for purchasing them.
The banking cartels have a vested interest in discouraging the public from taking any interest in cryptocurrencies at all, and they're only getting started. They will bring out the big guns soon, an you'll seeplain as day that the only thing they're interested in is they're bottom line, which is dependent on them controlling all your finances and taking a cut of every transaction you make.
Cryptos are a way to circumvent their control, and it's like cutting off their oxygen supply, if they become too popular the big banks and credit card companies will wither and die.
> Sometimes even your credit scored is lowered just for purchasing them.
Got any links about it? That's at least unexpected. One of the parties in the transaction would have to explicitly report that. I'd like to see what that credit line would look like.
The rest I'd expect, since those issues are directly related to Visa / banks protecting themselves from specific transactions. It doesn't even matter that it's specifically cryptocurrency on the other end. Just like they charge more for using credit cards for preorders at standard currency exchanges.
What they /probably/ mean is that VISA set a higher charge level for cryptocurrency exchanges than for other vendors.
Since the charges imposed by VISA are intimately related to the level of fraud they expect to see from a given vendor & the cryptocurrency space is stuffed to the brim with fraudsters and con artists this ought to be entirely unsurprising.
The banking cartels have a vested interest in discouraging the public from taking any interest in cryptocurrencies at all, and they're only getting started. They will bring out the big guns soon, an you'll seeplain as day that the only thing they're interested in is they're bottom line, which is dependent on them controlling all your finances and taking a cut of every transaction you make.
Cryptos are a way to circumvent their control, and it's like cutting off their oxygen supply, if they become too popular the big banks and credit card companies will wither and die.