Highly unlikely! EU wouldn't dare to ban bitcoin. They may put some strict guidelines like all mining operations must comply with Green energy norm to reduce the carbon footprint, but a blanket ban is highly unlikely to happen!

EU is a environmentally conscious continent but at the same time, economy is a challenge. So I am sure EU legislators will not take such a risky step like banning POW cryptos including bitcoin.

That's a valid question! Without internet, your bitcoins can't be used. I know there are couple of experiments done to send bitcoins over a radio network and it was successful as well, but that's not widely implemented. So it will not come to your aid.

It's interesting to see what other ways people can share with you for using bitcoin without active internet at large scale!

I am sure you wouldn't find a lot of people using centralized crypto exchanges here. I personally avoid them, especially who are operating from India. So I won't be able to tell you what's happening! But it's great tha Zebpay didn't run away like MtGox.

One thing you can do if you want faster reply from them, is to contact them in Twitter.

Zebpay twitter handle: @zebpaysupport

They are usually prompt in replying.

Well yes! Bitcoin has been specifically designed to cut off the middleman from a transaction. So here we all can leverage this power and say goodbye to banking system! Isn't it?

Well not so easy! Because it's extremely hard to use bitcoin for your daily purchases. You can definitely use it as an investment quite easily, but when it comes to use bitcoin as a currency, there's hardly any merchants available with some exceptions.

So until and unless bitcoin is treated as a currency by the merchants, you have rely on fiat.

When an asset price goes up, it usually means that demand has increased for that particular asset. Also it is pretty much self explanatory why bitcoin price is going up during a war. It means people are buying bitcoin for various reasons.

The value of Rubble has been decreased to a great extent. So it makes sense for Russians to buy bitcoin. Ukraine is not sure how their finances will work out once Russia fully takes them over, so they are buying bitcoin. These buying pressure is creating demand and increasing the price.

At last! Not sure how European governments are realizing the importance of green energy only now! The European people are usually known as environmentally educated people to the rest of the world. Just look at Norway how much they have done to contribute to the green energy.

But anyway, realizing is great even if it is late! So I sincerely hope that European governments will start working towards 100% green energy production and try to become self reliant.

It is easier said than done! It is possible in small scale and at personal level if some exchanger is willing to take rubble against bitcoin. However, at large scale, it is impossible considering the value of Rubble is constantly diminishing. So it is very very difficult to find an exchanger or a group of exchanger who will be willing to sell off their bitcoins to the Russians against Rubble.

The situation is much worse than Putin has expected. From today, Google Pay and Apple Pay has stopped their services in Russia. The process to cut off Russia from SWIFT network is ongoing. So I don't think Russian riches will be able to buy bitcoins against their Rubble. However, if we suddenly see an increase an stability in Rubble's price, that may become possible. But looking at the current scenario, it seems very very difficult.

Not just Meta! Also there are projects ending/starting with Shiba, squid game etc. These are mostly scam projects and also a majority of the projects added in pancakeswap, are scams!

Personally, I don't prefer to go beyond top 10 cryptocurrencies to invest. These are super risky and can erode your investment at any time. If you are an investor, look for value investing instead of gambling with new projects.

Russian government will face a heavy consequence for the war. EU has already announced to cut Russia off from the Swify network, crase all assets of Russian central bank that is help with ECB, ban Russia Oligarchs from carrying out businesses in EU.

Putin has gone mad and Russian common people will pay the price  a lot of foreign companies will leave Russia for good. The consequence will be severe for Russia.

It depends on a personal choice. However, from where I am seeing this war and getting the updates from various European colleagues of mine (including both Russian and Ukrainian), this is not a war of Russian people! This is a war of Putin himself to satisfy his sky-high ego. Otherwise, Russia is a country where open protest against government is a big no-no. If the enforcement agencies catch you, you won't return alive. Your entire properties will be ceased by the Russian government. Despite that harsh reality, I have seen hundreds of Russian people protested against the ongoing war. Many of them have been detained. So it is quite clear that Russian common people do not want war. So I don't see how boycotting a Russian gambling company will help here!

Again it's a personal choice! So anyone is free to do anything they want! But please know a fact for sure, that this is a war of Russian common people!

It's interesting to see that a business led by a Chinese man extended their support to Ukraine! The matter of fact is, China is just as same as Russia. People from Taiwan and Hong Kong knows that as they are being ruled by Chinese government for the benefit of the mainland China. I wonder if CZ will come out and offer a similar type of donation in future if China engages into a full-scale war with Taiwan. Also it's important to note that China is one of the closest allies of Russia. So CZ must have given enough thought before announcing this donation because it will not make China very happy and CZ may never be able to enter China if Chinese government takes this donation seriously.

No one wants war! But I am happy to see finally EU has decided to throw Russia out of the Swift network and also putting a ban on Russian Oligarchs who supplies money to Putin. 

I was really surprised to see a progressive nation like Canada had to resort to such inhumane act like bank account freeze. It was totally unexpected! However, such kind of incidents actually give more power to bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency that has value. I believe a similar thing happened during the Hong Kong protest as well during China's invasion. So yes, the protestors will be better prepared for the future.

But this is something, that will give more reasons to the government not to legalize bitcoin. So while it will increase the popularity of bitcoin among to commoners, it will also earn bad names among the government and enforcement officials because it's a very effective way to avoid government restrictions. So it is a coin with two side to it.

Start thinking beyond NFTs! Because it is something running on hype only! Otherwise the picture of an ape wouldn't have sold for millions of dollars. NFT is a hoax and bound to fail miserably. I am sure you would have a different view on NFT obviously.

But two years down the line, let's revisit this thread to see if NFT market has gone down to drain or not! NFT can't be the future! Tokenization is not a solution to everything.

Start looking for a real problem people face and try to solve that real problem. We don't actually need different tokena for different applications.

Any country or continent can ban POW algorithm if they believe in the false narrative from the environmental workers. But does that mean, it will effect bitcoin? Yes. There will be temporary impact till the time EU miners move to a crypto friendly jurisdiction.

If the ban happens in reality, there will be other countries to rope into that opportunity and possibly provide a friendly legislative framework for pow mining. It says, when a door closes, few others open up! So that will not be an end to bitcoin for sure!

Spot on! That's exactly the case! In India, it was the government who tried to fool people by posting a staggering number of GDP growth after a steady decline since last 3 years. It's same here in El-Salvador it seems. Both governments have one thing in common here, trying to prove that their decisions were right no matter whatever happens!

But on a personal note, I really want El-Salvador to succeed in their ventures because it will create a very positive impression of bitcoin around the world.

Gold is just gold! Unless suddenly someone finds few thousand tons of new gold reserve, it will continue to dominate the market as a capital reserve asset. There's no competition really! Gold is the oldest and time tested investment since ita inception. People who think bitcoin will replace gold, are living in fool's paradise.

That's why it is always better to have a diversified portfolio that includes all types of assets including cryptos. Bitcoin alone can't make your finance secure.

ICO, IDO, IMO - doesn't matter whatever comes into the market, the end goal of each method is same. The end goal here is to sell coins to the people to get funding. ICOs were a big thing back in 2017 but failed miserably due to the high rate of scams. Few people who have invested initially in ICOs, made money including me. But majority of the investors have lost money from such investments.

The market is overrunning with thousands of dead coins with no takers. I don't think we need more coins for whatsoever reasons. So even IMO is going to fail as it will introduce a new coin into the highly competitive market where we DON'T need separate coins for separate activities.

Can't agree more! But not just Russia, China is in the same league! The matter of fact is that, both countries are ruled by communist governments and both of these governments are expansionist in nature. The heat Ukraine is facing today, Taiwan and Hong Kong have been facing since decades with China. Sometimes it is hard to believe that we are standing in 21st century.

This war has a grave chance to become world war 3 if other powerful countries join hands against Russia. China will then surely come to the aid of Russia due to its own vested interest. It's a sad incident to see and heartbreaking at the same time. I have couple of Ukrainian colleagues who are currently residing in UK. They are all very worried about their families back home. The global economy has already started trembling!

You don't need to be a genius to understand that the best time to buy bitcoin is - now! We all will have to be on lookout to buy at every dip. It's a bit insensitive as well because we are buying bitcoin at discount due to an ongoing war, but this is something we must not overlook.

It's very unfortunate to see a war happening in 21st century due to the expansionist mentality of communist nations. But if you have some investable surplus, put them in bitcoin!

When it comes to El-Salvador, it makes sense to notify bitcoin as a legal tender because the population is miniscule. I am not sure how the entire thing will pan out for a large country like Mexico with a population of roughly 130 million. If in reality, bitcoin becomes a legal tender in Mexico, I am not sure if the network can handle such volume. Because such legalization will lead to high demand which will definitely drive the price up, but when it comes to handling the transaction volume, bitcoin network isn't capable enough to handle the pressure from such a huge population.

However, it is a net positive if Mexico plans to adopt a sidechain like LN and process transaction through them. If this transaction volume comes to main bitcoin network, we all will be doomed with high fees.