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This could be the partner that dropped them. Article on how a Paxum, a payment processor, stopped working with TradeHill because of the risk: http://www.betabeat.com/2012/02/13/banking-partners-force-pa...

Here is a quote from Ruth Blair, a Paxum representative: “We had been in discussions with our banking partners, Mastercard and our auditors for the last couple of weeks, and on Friday our banking partners ended the discussions with us and stated that it was too much of a potential risk to continue doing business with Bitcoin and Bitcoin Exchangers and instructed us to close all Bitcoin-related accounts,” Ms. Blair wrote on Friday in the forum for adult site webmasters, GoFuckYourself. “We had no choice but to follow those instructions and therefore, all Bitcoin associations were severed on Friday.”



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