[dane-pgp]

Perhaps a better threat scenario would have been "victim of banks confiscating their deposits", which is a much more realistic risk for people in the EU:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cyprus-bank-account-tax-put...

(Also, the grandparent post perhaps should have given some context to the statement "Lightning made scaling possible", such as the fact that Bitcoin originally supported 32 MB blocks of transactions, before being "temporarily" limited to 1 MB. Alternative blockchains have managed without this artificial restriction, and without relying on complicated second-layer "solutions" like Lightning.)

[Daishiman]

The probability of a bank run is null when compared to the probability of a BTC provider tanking/getting hacked/actually being a fraudulent criminal scheme.

[petre]

Banks in Cyprus got recapitalized with some amount of Russian money during the 2011-2013 Eurozone crisis, or at least that's the commonly known narrative. It was basically a convenience crackdown on a fiscal paradise within the EU. If you read the last line of the article you have linked it says:

European leaders wanted to limit the size of the rescue loans — which are backed by European taxpayers — to €10 billion. Leaders were also reluctant to bail out Russian depositors whose funds may be the result of tax evasion, crime or money laundering.

Additionally, there are sanctions in place since the 2014 Crimean crisis.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/01/10/cyprus-no-longer-m...