It's not free though, is it? It's one of the many paid debit card/IBAN services out there but for whoever actually resides in Europe there are better free alternatives.

I watched a video today: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WWY7A221hwA

China is leapfrogging credit cards to jump directly into the adoption of mobile payments. An oligopoly is in place and as the adoption of the tech rises fast, it's not set to change. Now the Communist government is seeking to control such payments even more and the biggest payment companies are likely to cooperate. Perhaps one day people there would appreciate decentralization but for now the majority of the Chinese seem really careless about p2p tech and payments.

New government in China? The Communist party has been the head of the faucet elections there for a long long time and there is no way that would change. Perhaps intraparty struggles could bring forth some regulators that would be more loose but they wouldn't stop the Chinese government from seeking to control everything.

Signalling is nothing more than an indication of potential support too so I would say that it it irrelevant too in general. Signalling doesn't act as an obligation, just as way for miners to broadcast preference but no indication that they would deliver on the promise.

"China's Ethereum" will soon fall short in delivering anything beyond speculation and keep falling from there on. The fact that China has banned ICOs is really detrimental in the potential NEO has for further development so I don't think it will get far when it has to compete with bigger and more successful oegs like ethereum.

There's no FUD. What spilled the beans is the FACT that the white paper was plagiarized. The fact that there is no copyright in china doesn't mean that creators of an ICO are in any way excused to plagiarize a WHITEPAPER. Provided that whitepapers are meant to showcase the technology an upcoming service envisions to create in the future, it's especially deplorable to steal from other concept designs. This is truly indicative of having no product. I think the the speculation that the plagiarization accusation sparked is very much justified.

Mistertango is a bank account that can be funded via BTC as well. Full identification is required but it's really worthwhile. They also send the physical card for free, and it's very convenient to use for purchases in European shops. This is a service I can recommend.

Waves lost the battle in the ICO outbreak. I don't think it will be making a comback as Ethereum keeps rising. Waves is easier for asset creation user-wise but there are more feature rich alternatives like NXT which was pre-existing and now the new Ignis in the Ardor platform. I think that from now on, it'd only be downhill for Waves.

Gdax and Bitstampp have decent charts on their websites. For a single website covering most exchanges I would suggest cryptowat.ch. It's so good that an exchange bough it (Kraken). Also support technical indicators if you're after that but I don't think it'd e much usefull to someone that has just started training. It just delivers very reliable up to date prices and is very good at it. 

It's a topic some bitcoin supporters rather not discuss but I think that there is no denying in the fact that money laundering can be attributed to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. While someone might argue that other cryptos that not in the center of the spotlight in the same way that BTC is as well as being more anonymous would be better for such purposes, but BTC still acts as a gateway in and out of crypto, being the most accepted cryptocurrency for FIAT pairs.

While blockchain transactions may only be pseudonymous (not anonymous but not associated with personal ID either), such transactions are really convenient for grey market or illegal transaction that are involving parties with online activity.

If we're talking about a cold wallet, then yes! You better not store the private keys of the wallet you're using to store the majority of your funds in a computer that accesses the net constantly. There are plainly too many vulnerabilities that come and go with software so it is not secure to store keys in such a way. For small amounts in a hot wallet I think that it would be OK for altcoins but not much more.

Generate a wallet with offline software and store funds there, noting the address's key to keep off the net. Only import in a wallet when you need to withdraw.

You know, the fact that people create new accounts to come and post in the one post from someone that cared enough to look into why 999dice.com scams people by deceiving them into believing that their betting is fair is beyond me. You won't change anyone's opinion with your lies and referral link... 

Mining power is needed to support the mining of a block that will split off of the main chain I order due to different consensus. Forking bircoin has been a trend recently after Bitcoin cash set the base with it's now tested code. Many are now forking the code of the fork. Forkception. 

This card is/was endorsed by livecoin. I have not used it myself so I can't speak about it being useful but the page still seems up, o don't know of the card was affected by the my choice closure though.

In that regard, My choice sent out emails for refunds. How has that been going for people?

It would highly depend on other prerequisites. For example, what form of non-physical money would come after the cancellation of physical? The economy to support such change would need to guarantee that even the poorest could afford the gateway to electronic payments because otherwise payments would become less direct for them even than owning a bank account.

Yes, it's a good banking service and great card too. It's just more convenient to deposit money there via SEPA, because they have a flat deposit fee for bitcoins and it's quite high with today's prices.

I try to reason with such people slightly but never try to offend their opinions. It's better not to try bring preachy. People can have strong opinions and there is no need to sound offensive. Better let them be convinced ad Bitcoin comes everywhere while they were still in denial.

I don't think that banks would ever go away, at least not throughout our lifetimes. A big portion of the current system is based on banks, most of finance is done through banking, plus m2 and m3 wouldn't exist without banking. Capitalism as we know it is based on banking. The removal of the gold standard brought growth to developed countries and banking played a central role in that. Some things won't easily turn back. I think that our generation will just see crypto co-existing with conventional banking.

This has been the discussion about banning bitcoin all over the world in my memory. There's no ncentive for a developed country to do so because transactions would still happen without the government being able to intervene, plus the country would lose out on taxes and business development.

If Korean regulators put out laws that give cryptocurrency users ways to legalize their earnings through taxation and clear avenues for crypto enterprises to bloom through a supportive legal landscape then it would be beneficial for the economy.

For all we know you could be the creators of those website yourself, trying to promote them and help them with SEO results. Why would you post from a newly created account anyway?