Strike won’t release my funds

Strike is holding my sats hostage until I deposit more money. I’ve been buying on Strike for a few months now, no issues. Until now. A few days ago, I tried to buy $1000 worth of bitcoin on Strike. I used the linked bank account as i did the times before. However, this time I got an error message that the purchase failed. No big deal right? So I tried again with $1000. It failed again! Now I’m thinking that maybe I have a bad signal, so I move and try it again. This time I tried with $2500 (I was going to use it all for bitcoin anyway). This went through! Yay right? Later in the day, I find that all 3 purchases had gone through on the app, even though it initially showed that the first 2 purchases had failed. Now, I have @$4500 worth bitcoin. But I only ever had $2500 to spend. I somehow double spend. Twice. Now, Strike won’t release my $2500 worth of bitcoin until I deposit an additional $2000, so the can sell me $4500 worth instead of the intended $2500. I’ve been in contact with “Charles” at Strike via the in-app messaging. He’s been polite but unhelpful. The last message was simply that my funds are ”frozen” until I deposit an additional $2k. I informed him I won’t have any more money until the end of April. I spend everything I have on necessities and bitcoin. I don’t have an extra 2k. I’ve been ghosted. I asked for advice on how we should handle it and Charles ghosted me. No communication at all after my last message 2 days ago. Any advice? Has this happened to anyone before with Strike or any other platform? Strike is essentially holding someone else’s $2k bitcoin with my $2.5 bitcoin, and I have until April 20 to buy the rest. Not sure what happens to my $2.5k after that date, never got an answer from “Charles”. submitted by /u/Specialist-Extent299 [link] [comments]

Apr 4, 2025 - 12:54
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Strike is holding my sats hostage until I deposit more money.

I’ve been buying on Strike for a few months now, no issues. Until now. A few days ago, I tried to buy $1000 worth of bitcoin on Strike. I used the linked bank account as i did the times before. However, this time I got an error message that the purchase failed. No big deal right? So I tried again with $1000. It failed again! Now I’m thinking that maybe I have a bad signal, so I move and try it again. This time I tried with $2500 (I was going to use it all for bitcoin anyway). This went through! Yay right? Later in the day, I find that all 3 purchases had gone through on the app, even though it initially showed that the first 2 purchases had failed. Now, I have @$4500 worth bitcoin. But I only ever had $2500 to spend. I somehow double spend. Twice. Now, Strike won’t release my $2500 worth of bitcoin until I deposit an additional $2000, so the can sell me $4500 worth instead of the intended $2500. I’ve been in contact with “Charles” at Strike via the in-app messaging. He’s been polite but unhelpful. The last message was simply that my funds are ”frozen” until I deposit an additional $2k. I informed him I won’t have any more money until the end of April. I spend everything I have on necessities and bitcoin. I don’t have an extra 2k. I’ve been ghosted. I asked for advice on how we should handle it and Charles ghosted me. No communication at all after my last message 2 days ago. Any advice? Has this happened to anyone before with Strike or any other platform? Strike is essentially holding someone else’s $2k bitcoin with my $2.5 bitcoin, and I have until April 20 to buy the rest. Not sure what happens to my $2.5k after that date, never got an answer from “Charles”.

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