Had this thought yesterday when I switched to Apple Music and wondered why they don't bundle their services... could even offer regular handset updates.
Bitcoin is the world's first way to send money to anybody else, anywhere in the world, almost instantaneously, without asking permission from anybody, and without trusting any intermediary.
That's huge. Bitcoin is to money what the internet was to communications.
But I do trust intermediaries. Intermediaries are fine. And I think it's appropriate that large international transactions should be scrutinised by authorities.
I just went through the same process – had some coins from the ICO a couple of years ago.
If you head to https://launch.stellar.org/#/login you can log in. I got a message prompting me to contact Support, which I've done and now awaiting a reply.
I've read somewhere that some official reason is that they were then an "unfair competition" to the other content producers in the UK, including to the "local" BBC, which is "not the same" as BBC worldwide that is "for profit," but I don't have any link ready, and I don't see it mentioned in the HN discussion that sensecall links here.
Had this thought yesterday when I switched to Apple Music and wondered why they don't bundle their services... could even offer regular handset updates.