I doubt you will find an exchange without KYC when the company is dealing with fiat transactions. In 2019 that's something inevitable.
 
There is Kraken, you can be verified Tier 2 just by filling some personal information (no need to upload your ID card, etc). Basically, you give your full name, DOB, country of residence, address. Being verified Tier 2 you can deposit/withdraw fiat with for a total of $10,000 monthly.

I consider Bitcoin still in its early stages. Quite rude to judge it while we aren't even using it at its "full potential". And to be honest, during its first decade Bitcoin has been spreading a lot with its ecosystem.
We still need a few years before getting an accurate opinion, we all know how surprising Bitcoin can be. Let's wait for the demand and see BTC in Super Sayan

I visited their site and I think we got something wrong. It's not a "SIM card wallet", you don't insert it in a SIM card slot. In fact, on their website, it's mentioned nowhere the word SIM.

Take a look closely at this page https://vaulttel.net/features.
Scroll down a little and this how it's plugged on the phone. Also on the top of this same page you can read

Didn't we have members here who created topics to say that Switzerland is a crypto friendly country?

@OP considering what they told you is true, at least your money is still here, the regulator will be soon or later forced to act, either by letting the company operating as it did or refunds each customer himself with the remaining balance.
You're not facing an exit scam at least...

Ok for the fact that it could bring billion to the market, but am I the only one to think it could also kill the Bitcoin adoption?
I mean, this will confirm its investment status (as digital gold) and not an alternative currency. It will so never be used as a currency by the mass and will only be considered as a digital investment.

The paragraph below makes me think it's really an upgrade. What is their definition of "system conversion"  is another story But a company like BitPay would announce directly and frankly to its clients if the card stopped definitely to work. And reading their blog post, as I said look like really something that is going to stay just sometimes.

https://support.bitpay.com/hc/en-us/articles/360024353032-Changes-to-BitPay-Card-cash-withdrawals-and-advances

Hey guys

Wicotiz is a brand new company from Belgium, it started only 2-3 months ago. The funds are protected under the FCA regulation and, Barclay is "holding" the money as the escrow. Also, I think you misunderstood the terms, to get the IBAN you need to have the "Advanced Mastercard" which require the verification

I prefer to use a laptop personally. I don't use any other devices because I just hate to use a smartphone or tablet to go through the web (I do have a tablet but rarely use it). I hate small screens and low performance. Even reading the news media on a smartphone is boring. I have 2 laptops 17' and I won't go back to a 15' screen.

So, only a laptop and a browser for me

Bitcoin is sleeping. Could be a good period for the folks who said they're not ready to use BYC because it is too volatile. But the last weeks don't make me feel that a "pump is coming". We got what $500 in a month? Then, what signs do we have that show a nice spike is coming? None.
We aren't even exempt to go back to the $3,3k- $3,5k range

The authentification is biometric, so there is no problem with the phone connecting to the internet... unless someone can fork your fingers...
Also, you can use an old smartphone or tablet that you don't use anymore for example  reset the device to the manufactory settings...

The idea is a good idea for people with dual slot for the SIMs

$7k-$8k would be a good scenario for the end of the year, I don't ask for more. But look at the market currently, it lacks some good signals (whatever it is, good news, optimism,...) and it has less interest. It needs just some sparks here and there, I am sure it will be enough to "make Bitcoin great again!"

You probably never used it. You're just posting a fake link to redirect people to a wrong site. And you did it more than 1 time already.
That's not the correct link you posted, the correct Bitcoinblender onion link is in the OP.

Go out and try to find methods to scam yourself instead scamming people

Since the card hasn't totally stopped to work (people can still use the POS) It could really be what it calls "an upgrade" but it seems to be one coming from the issuer and not Bitpay. That's also why they weren't able to give an estimated time to get everything back.
If Visa kicked out the isssuer the cards wouldn't work anymore for everything.

I've been waiting for years so I can wait a little longer. It's just that I miss the good old days with 10% ups/downs, a little bit of boost will give a little excitement too. Not a lot, something about $7k-$8k, it's too long since we're crawling in the $3k-$4k range.

It should be compared with his incomes and our. $10,000 is a lot of money for the average Joe. Let' say he gets $1500 monthly and buy $150 of BTC it represents 10% of his income. If $10k represent only 0.5% of Dorsey's incomes then it's not a lot (if I can say). Joe makes a much greater saving effort than Dorsey.

He's half right, I wouldn't say it's the majority but there are sure a lot of folks who left the market. At 20k-15k-10k I have no idea but the market has been cleaned a lot. Maybe something not bad in the end since only people who believe in the cryptos uses will stay (generally speaking I mean)



+1 I find the market boring recently

Not really true. I could make a stupid mixer and make it open source, how people would be sure about the anonymity? People don't even understand the first line of it
ChipMixer isn't open source but still considered as the most solid out there https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5117328.msg50036053#msg50036053.

Bitcoin was created to be pseudo-anonymous and transparent, there is a slight difference with a full anon coin

You can track the transactions but there is no name tied to an address that's why we say "pseudo"

The only problem (if we can call this a problem it's rather a limit) is the fact that you can only target your local area. Otherwise, it won't worth for someone too far from the farm. (unless you handle the shipping fees, otherwise the price will be too much?)
The good point is the idea itself, I could give similar examples that are working great. (I don't mean a quick-rich business, that's a low ROI btw)
I can even tell you that people will be happy to come to the farm to do all the job.

I don't know how people will react to something virtual, myself when I started to read your post I thought you started to describe a video game good-for-facebook.
Maybe a better approach would be to market the idea as "Get your own land for farming and start as low as 1 buck directly from your sofa" something about.

The TLTROs were supposed to expire soon, it would have been a shock to the banks if ECB didn't postpone.

Since several years now their profitability continued to decline. EU is already on its "last reserve" and the last hope is to print more money for more debt, and twist the policy from time to time but again, this only postpones the problem.

People think the EU economy is doing fine, but under the rocks it's ugly.

It still seems to be an isolated case. I'm not sure what's the problem from their side if you didn't get a problem with the trades. Perhaps just a glitch? Even the trade status are showing "bitcoins released, trade finished"
BTW, I don't think Localbitcoins would "suspend" users account for the sake of to get bitcoins by using questionable methods that could lead the company in a justice court.