RE: All my money got confiscated! [Why we need decentralization]
Incredible! I can imagine how you must feel now, and you're pretty right: it's the very best motivation for us to keep promoting the new world. Banks freeze our money for no reason, social media giants sell our data without our permission...
Life behaves in waves, so I guess we're moving fast towards a completely new era, where blind confidence in centralized institutions will be replaced by autonomy and self-dependence.
Imagine, I have still no answer from my bank until today. They've blocked my account for almost two weeks now, and I have no idea why. They got all the information they asked for, but then didn't fulfill their part of the agreement which would've been unblocking my account. I moved to a new bank now, and once my money is safe I'll publish a nice article about my old bank :-)
Let's keep spreading the word!
"Ánimo" for you as Spanish people would say now.
The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: there is a person somewhere in those organisations who decided to block our accounts. This is not something that a bot or a program does. This gets approved by an actual person.
They could send a letter first and ask for more info.
They could warn us.
They could make sure we have other money sources and will be able to cover for our basic needs the moment they cut us off.
I mean, that's what we deserve, as human beings, right? We're not criminals. If we were, and they could prove that, OK. But we're not.
So they didn't do any of the above.
They simply convicted us without any proof and any concern about the impact it will have on us.
My only consolation is that this person will lose their job thanks to the blockchain. Very soon. :)