Early in LWN's history our credit card acquirer decided that our transactions were "suspicious". They not only cut us off...they reached into our bank account

Early in LWN's history our credit card acquirer decided that our transactions were "suspicious". They not only cut us off...they reached into our bank account and pulled back $30,000 from there. That was a lot of money to us back then, and very nearly killed the entire operation. Ironically, the thing that saved us was that the PayPal revenue stream still worked just fine.