Selling some knowledge.... But how?
That's what consultants are doing, and I've done it many times, in other fields from what we're talking here, though. I could write a guide about how and where to invest in real estate in Europe. I've already started that project actually. It's currently on hold, because of other priorities, but I hope to complete it this summer. Anyone interested? But how do you invest in real estate in Europe without a citizenship of a country? Use a corporation or a trust from that country. For more info, visit http://www.liveandinvestoverseas.com/ and https://internationalliving.com/.  A corporation? A trust? That cost thousands to set up, and hundreds each year to keep it going. It's much cheaper to buy as an individual. You need a passport, but most people have one, me included. I hate to say it, but a passport is a must-have in this world. You can't travel without one. Fortunately, if having one means you're a citizen, you're not required to act like one, and that's what I do. However, there are people set up in many countries who will do it for you for a much smaller fee. Ever heard of the Panama Papers? I suggest you find a picture of the Mossack Fonseca building in Panama. My little finger tells me that lawyers who have their offices in a great building like they have command very high fees. Regarding stateless people, there are unfortunately millions of them in the world, and I'm very happy not to be one of them. BTC is totally useless to them, just like a microwave oven. I'm sure they've never heard of it. |
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Do you work for the CIA or the taxman?
I don't like to be tracked, and I don't know anyone in the BTC world who enjoys it. Sorry but I don't need nor want anything else than a BTC client. And I also have online wallets with no transactions between them so that no one can find out how much I have. That's nice.
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You shall not think of countries. There are places where BTC is popular, and others where it's not, but both places can be within the same borders, and that's normal. BTC acceptance was never supposed to grow everywhere at the same speed.
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Selling some knowledge.... But how?
That's what consultants are doing, and I've done it many times, in other fields from what we're talking here, though. I could write a guide about how and where to invest in real estate in Europe. I've already started that project actually. It's currently on hold, because of other priorities, but I hope to complete it this summer. Anyone interested? But how do you invest in real estate in Europe without a citizenship of a country? Use a corporation or a trust from that country. For more info, visit http://www.liveandinvestoverseas.com/ and https://internationalliving.com/. A corporation? A trust? That cost thousands to set up, and hundreds each year to keep it going. It's much cheaper to buy as an individual. You need a passport, but most people have one, me included. I hate to say it, but a passport is a must-have in this world. You can't travel without one. Fortunately, if having one means you're a citizen, you're not required to act like one, and that's what I do. |
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Why do you want an offshore company? What will be the business of this new company? Where will it operate? With who?
Without knowing your plans, nobody can give you the correct answers to your question.
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Nobody needs a bank to keep his wallet, but we could imagine banks moving into the exchange business. Many banks are already selling foreign currencies, or gold, so they could sell BTC as well with little effort.
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How can they afford to travel to Rio? Isn't Brazil concerned that they will overstay their visa?
How good are they? Top sportsmen need to practice everyday. Is crossing a country on foot appropriate training?
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Blogs are the way a lot of people get a business going,take that 4 hour work week guy and his books. He used his blog as a launching pad and never looked back. Its pretty similar if you have a whole wack of tricks to navigate on the cheap through Europe.
Think of all the kids wanting to do Europe as their first vacation trip,they would definitely be looking into those concepts.
Well, sorry, I don't know much tricks about to travel on a budget, and I doubt any youngster would be interested in what I know. Selling some knowledge.... But how?
That's what consultants are doing, and I've done it many times, in other fields from what we're talking here, though. I could write a guide about how and where to invest in real estate in Europe. I've already started that project actually. It's currently on hold, because of other priorities, but I hope to complete it this summer. Anyone interested? |
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It's only a proposal, and it's not that different from what many websites are already doing.
When you register on facebook or linkedin, you are supposed to use your real ID. Same thing if you shop online. I guess what makes some politicians worry most is the travel websites where some companies offer the writing of fake comments as a service. You choose an hotel in Italy because you've read great comments about it, but they've all been written by Indians who have never left India. So it should not be compulsory, but there are many things where trust is important, hence the need for some control.
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I've one article about it and I'm not sure I understand what's going on. If I got it right, Bifinex was fined because it didn't actually send its customers the BTC they've just got from its service, and kept it on a wallet it controlled. But there was no theft. The customers were still able to access their BTC via the Bitfinex interface?
Please, anyone correct me if I'm wrong.
Basically correct. To make it legal in the US the coins should have been sent to a separate entity, a custodian or prime broker who will hold them on behalf of the customer, instead being held under the control of Bitfinex. OK, thanks. So it's a very big fine considering no customer had suffered a loss or a theft. It's a big warning to the others, and maybe a reason not to do business in the US. |
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Very surprised to hear about this. The Louvre is just one street from the river so it should be organized and well protected, prepared at least, against flooding risks.
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You should start a blog countryfree,I would be interested to see the issues you struggle with day to day.
Its funny last night I did a search for living off the grid,from time to time I romanticize trying it.
Lot more people doing this then I was expecting and always presumed people ended up in Asia or South America to extend their money flow but seems to be a lot of people doing it just outside of towns.
Have a cabin on a lake and I often think about getting away for a winter even though it would be damned cold,just to refocus on whats important.
I don't struggle! I've thought many times about selling some knowledge I have that few people possess, but it certainly won't be a blog where everything would be free to read. |
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Create your own ads in-house and feed custom images and jump links hosted on the sites you run for your visitors.
Yup. This will be the solution - instead of using intermediary advertising networks that are easily blocked, just create your own ads. The development of ad-blockers will just remove the middlemen. Have you ever tried to sell advertising space? It's far from easy, and you cannot create, nor host, the ads, the clients create their own ads and they want it hosted on a website not related to the editor, but on a platform they can trust. You don't need to sell advertising space to do it, but you can if you want to. I don't do that yet though. I display the visitor custom affiliate program ad images and links if they are running an ad blocker or if they have active scripting turned off. I select from certain ads at random that are contextual to the content of the page, with checks to make sure no ad is repeated on the same page load. There are also some generic backup ads in case the content is niche and I have few ads fitting the tagged content, but that happens less frequently as you build onto your application and database. I have no idea what you're talking about. What is that "visitor custom affiliate program ad images and links"? I don't get to choose the ads which appear on my websites, it's Google which does that, contextually. I've said all that I am willing to say on this issue. Part of my business is consulting and this specific issue is a revenue generator for me. If you're interested in purchasing consulting and/or development time from me, shoot me pm and we can discuss terms. If not, I wish all you the best. No, I'm not interested. I've been using adsense since 2003, and I'm pretty well aware of what's doable, or not doable, with it. I know google has launched a system on this issue a few months ago, but friends who have tried it told me it didn't work. |
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Thanks a lot. I understand and I'm not surprised. Most poor countries impose controls on foreign currencies and BTC looks like one to many eyes. Then we're talking about a very large sum. Equivalent to $100K in cash to an American, probably more than what an dentist earns in one year in Egypt. To police forces and the taxman, such a sum is obviously suspicious. |
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This isn't the main issue. The block size is limiting the number of transactions per day, and that's the real problem: Bitcoin cannot go mainstream. The blockchain has grown by about 3 GB last month, but nobody cares. With larger blocks, the growth could be ten times that, picking up one GB a day, but this should not be a problem.
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It's difficult to imagine a stateless society, but there are plenty of stateless people. Guys like me who have left their native country, with no plan to go back, and no desire to become a citizen in any other place. BTC is made for us.
I see you say this and I always wonder what the plan is for old age? Not bashing the life style just curious how that will work out in the long run. You just need to save money for retirement. That's what most people do except in communist countries. I guess I'll travel a bit less, but I'm addicted to it. I get bored when I'm staying more than a month in the same place. But you would be smart to save your money in the form of fertile land that has its own source of good water. Other than a few thousand in cash, cash savings are ridiculous. I do. Well, without a free source of good water. Sadly, it's getting rarer and rarer to find clean water, and it most countries, it's also getting illegal to pump your own water. I know a few people who do but they hide, and they don't drink it. |
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Create your own ads in-house and feed custom images and jump links hosted on the sites you run for your visitors.
Yup. This will be the solution - instead of using intermediary advertising networks that are easily blocked, just create your own ads. The development of ad-blockers will just remove the middlemen. Have you ever tried to sell advertising space? It's far from easy, and you cannot create, nor host, the ads, the clients create their own ads and they want it hosted on a website not related to the editor, but on a platform they can trust. You don't need to sell advertising space to do it, but you can if you want to. I don't do that yet though. I display the visitor custom affiliate program ad images and links if they are running an ad blocker or if they have active scripting turned off. I select from certain ads at random that are contextual to the content of the page, with checks to make sure no ad is repeated on the same page load. There are also some generic backup ads in case the content is niche and I have few ads fitting the tagged content, but that happens less frequently as you build onto your application and database. I have no idea what you're talking about. What is that "visitor custom affiliate program ad images and links"? I don't get to choose the ads which appear on my websites, it's Google which does that, contextually. |
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withdrawing the USD to my bank account (a procedure that takes 7 business days +2 business days to arrive to my account)
What??? What country do you live in? Or do you live in the XIX century? If this is true, you need to change bank. I haven't seen a bank transfer taking more than 2 business days since 2003. |
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I don't trust facebook at all.
Has anyone a link to an article from a respected news source? Any language would be accepted.
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I've one article about it and I'm not sure I understand what's going on. If I got it right, Bifinex was fined because it didn't actually send its customers the BTC they've just got from its service, and kept it on a wallet it controlled. But there was no theft. The customers were still able to access their BTC via the Bitfinex interface?
Please, anyone correct me if I'm wrong.
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