After JP Morgan’s Termination, Kanye West Reps A “Satoshi Nakamoto” Hat
The rapper’s debanking is the result of a string of contentious remarks that landed him in social media exclusionary lists.
After being fired by the biggest bank in the United States, the legendary artist Kanye West may gravitate toward Bitcoin.
Multiple recent photographs depict the rapper wearing a cap with the name of Bitcoin’s pseudonymous founder, Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Sunday, Twitter user Quinten Francois uploaded one of the photographs on social media. The image depicts West wearing a green jacket, rain boots, and the Satoshi hat, while holding a phone to his face.
Ye West (Kanye) wearing a Satoshi Nakamoto hat after being kicked out of his bank account by JPMorgan. #Bitcoinpic.twitter.com/oj2XTiQ1bC
On Monday, the Daily Mail published a photograph that was apparently shot the day before when the rapper was on a solo stroll in Beverly Hills. As he exited a car, he was wearing the same hat and boots.
JP Morgan terminated relations with the rapper in response to a series of contentious social media statements for which Twitter has already blacklisted him. However, according to The Guardian, the bank’s decision to deactivate his account (and that of his apparel line, Yeezy) occurred prior to the rapper’s remarks.
The accounts of West will stay open until November 21, allowing him enough time to move them.
After being debanked, West criticised JP Morgan on a podcast for their treatment of him.
“I put $140 million into JP Morgan and they treated me like sh*t,” he said. “So if JP Morgan Chase is treating me like that, how are they treating the rest of y’all?”
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In 2020, West promoted Bitcoin on the Joe Rogan podcast. “The bitcoin guys have a perspective on what the true liberation of America and humanity will be,” he said at the time.
Satoshi Nakamoto designed Bitcoin to eliminate the necessity for middlemen such as banks in the transfer of funds. By extension, this has earned Bitcoin a reputation as a censorship-resistant currency, since only users with control over their private keys may transfer Bitcoins.
After the authorities closed bank accounts affiliated with the campaign in February, the freedom convoy demonstrators circumvented limits on their GoFundMe fundraising by using Bitcoin.
West just reached an agreement to acquire Parler, a social media platform devoted to preserving free expression that also includes an NFT marketplace. Elon Musk, a Dogecoin enthusiast, has decided to purchase Twitter in an effort to make it more focused on free expression.
