I don't believe such a law will ever come into effect. Regulation? yes, for sure. Total prohibition? No way, no government would shoot itself in its legs in such a manner, especially a country that has so many talented tech developers as India and can profit so much from the Blockchain revolution.

Bitcoin is of course a huge advance as it makes transfers of money faster, safer and cheaper, and it can easily undercut the middlemen known as NGOs, who seize a very large % of the donations by paying their boards huge salaries, paying bribes, etc. But of course there still needs to be some control at the destination to make sure your donation is used for what it was originally intended.

For places without easy access to internet several African companies have developed mobile payment systems; users only need to have a mobile phone and they can use it to easily store money or pay for goods or services. I don't know whether there is already a gateway between these systems and crypto but I think it it would be the way to go.

La verdad es que es increíble el acoso al que se somete a los ciudadanos de EEUU. Y según tengo entendido ni siquiera pueden librarse de estas restricciones si abandonan el país, tienen que renunciar completamente a su nacionalidad (u obtener otra adicional).

You are right in that Marx's ideology and what it later became are two different things. But it happens with every doctrine, there is a (utopic) theory and then there is an implementation in the real world. Any collective ideology requires some sort of coertion by the government, because the moment that someone wants to "opt out" and can't be convinced in a friendly way to stay he will need to be forced somehow or otherwise the whole idea collapses.

The current totalitarian government control in the US and Europe (which unfortunately is also quickly eroding personal freedom for the sake of "political correctness") has nothing to do with capitalism though, it's more about an ever-growing state apparatus that feeds on taxpayers and needs to suck out all of their blood to survive, which requires full control of all financial movements.

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Cash is still needed until crypto adoption becomes mainstream. If you don't want the Big Brother knowing about every single one of your moves it's the only way to go. I'm really terrified of the direction many EU countries are taking, where they plan to completely eliminate cash (such as Sweden).

In my opinion crypto maximalism (which implies libertarianism, freedom from state's control of our money) is not compatible with being a communist or even a socialist, as the implementation of these systems requires always some kind of force being applied by the state to "redistribute" wealth, but maybe someone can prove me wrong.

Once an Argentinian friend told me: "if you want to be successful in Argentina, you save in USD and you take loans in Pesos". And he was doing quite well with this simple rule. Sure, he was relatively wealthy and in a position to apply this, but also some lower-middle class people took advantage of the rampant inflation by maxxing out their credit cards (in many places they were offering 0% loans if you purchased certain stuff) buying things with a value that doesn't depreciate, paying the instalments (the last ones were a lot easier to pay) and at the end reselling the item at its original value + inflation.

I have never seen so many highly creative people (financially speaking) as in Argentina. I guess they don't have a choice and grow up with these things.

When did you build that website? 1998? I felt some weird nostalgia looking at it 

To answer this with precision I need to ask the following question: are stablecoins (with a value tied to a physical currency) to be considered fiat?

Because the main problem of crypto (price instability) is being solved with stablecoins. Of course, this brings in new issues such as the need to trust a third party to back the coins with something, but that is a different matter. The fact is that you can hodl BTC, ETH or whatever you wish and from time to time buy some stablecoins to carry around in a mobile wallet and pay for everyday stuff, without the need to have a bank account, credit/debit card or cash in hand.

We're talking about late arrivals, centralized coins with no real added value for the user, controlled by evil corporations. Sure, some people will make some tidy profits but in overall the crypto ecosystem won't give a damn.

Obviously their nature is different, but with the upcome of tokenization you don't need a lot of capital to invest in real estate. Just purchase tiny bits of properties that are rented out for a good ROI and build up a dividend portfolio. This is not a reality just yet, mainly for the lack of properties available (due to extremely complicated regulations in most jurisdictions, frequent restrictions to small investors, etc.) and the lack of liquidity for these tokens, but I'm 100% sure it will eventually happen. Real estate is by far the largest market in capitalization in the world.

Esperemos que no acabe como Cryptopia... también dicen que los fondos de clientes no se consideran activos de la empresa y que por tanto no van a formar parte de la liquidación pero de ahí a que se recupere algo va a llover mucho.

Advcash is in the section "Non-Working Crypto Debit Cards"

Currenlty the only one available worldwide is Paycent

It is a very useful and much needed resource. I saw some similar sites in the past but with mostly out-of-date information and missing the important points that you target: who can apply, where it can be used. Maybe adding some info on fees would be a plus.

Como ya te han dicho, estás comparando peras con manzanas. Los bienes raíces siempre van a tener un valor pero requieren una inversión mayor (algo que esperamos se resuelva pronto mediante la tokenización), mantenimiento, tienen poca liquidez, etc. Mientras tanto BTC es más inestable y su valor se puede ir a la luna o al infierno en muy poco tiempo y te puede acabar fastidiando bastante si te hace falta el dinero. Sin embargo, desde su nacimiento su rendimiento ha sido indudablemente superior al de los inmuebles.

Al final, como se suele decir, la clave está en la diversificación.

Menudos caraduras. Privatizando beneficios y socializando pérdidas, al estilo de los banqueros.

De todas formas hay que leerse muy bien la letra pequeñita antes de poner tus criptos en manos de un tercero porque ya no tienes el control de las claves privadas.

Any person who wants to sell his produce in a global market today needs to accept fiat payments (unfortunately). You may be able to sell a few fruits here and there with crypto but at a larger scale it just doesn't work yet. I believe what he means with "scam money" is a centralized currency that you don't control, and that any day can be easily confiscated by the emitter (not the case with crypto).

First of all, congratulations on your success. It's a great feat and that's exactly how a start-up should begin: on a shoestring, optimizing every single resource.

The ICO boom in 2017 and beginning of 2018 didn't do much good to the startup scene in general, as you mentioned lots of people without any solid plan or knowledge managed to raise millions and were either completely clueless about what to do with these funds or outright scammers who just wanted a quick money grab. This has made it much more difficult for serious projects to raise capital from the general public today as so many people got burned by ICOs and most investment is now being provided by the usual big players (VCs, angel investors, etc.).

I was an early supporter of Storj and held the tokens for a long time but I eventually stepped out after seeing many things I didn't like. I find it really awesome that you forked their code and managed to come out with a product much faster than them 

Well, the fact that the customer funds are NOT considered company assets to liquidate brings a bit of hope, but to be honest I'm expecting the worst outcome: funds long sold, hacked, keys lost forever... I've already written it off, if in a few years I get something back I'll just donate it all to a good cause