As always, he moves the cup so flashily for so long that you forget that you never saw him put the ball under it in the first place. If you take it as read that Binance (the largest threat to his business interests) really are evil, then of course destroying any bank willing to serve them is perfectly justified.

I also love the impersonal gloss over the actions of all the bank employees, as though all the Operation Choke Point crimes were carried out by machines directed by the politicians and regulators, and not humans making the choice to be Quislings. Look at the quote from Zuckerberg where he expresses regret for the poor choices he and his company made, and note the conspicuous absence of anyone doing the same from the banking/finance industry.

Those of us who've been paying attention are not hearing about debanking for the first time now, we've been banging this drum for years. In a country with the US' asset forfeiture laws, denial of banking service is de facto denial of the human right to own property. The current situation in the US is shameful, and while part of that shame should fall on the politicians and regulators, much of it rightly falls on the banks themselves. (Nor is it that an alternative is impractical. The UK made it legally obligatory for banks to offer "basic bank accounts" to everyone in 2016, and the sky has not fallen).

I have no love for the crypto people, but they're fighting for the right thing here (whether they're doing so out of good motives or bad) and I hope they succeed.