And why Gold isn't good in this current era? When we were in the 1500 BC we were in a new era and gold was still used.
It's not because the technology improved that it makes gold outdated. Actually, I would say gold is stronger than bitcoin (i take BTC as an example since we talk about technology)
Why central banks are massively buying gold so? I strongly believe central banks are smarter than me.

@fillippone
Have you invested in the diamond field?

bullshit
Your post doesn't make any sense
Where is the demand for crypto banks? Do you even know someone who doesn't know what is crypto but is looking for a crypto bank? If the crypto industry doesn't progress the demand won't increase. And currently, the industry is stagnating since months.
And with the regulations maybe the crypto bank field will never be born

Thanks

OMG at the prices
How the citizens can buy something with such prices. Near the same as in my country. I was expecting prices similar to Estonia

@1Referee

I know that the problem in Italy is like a scheduled bomb. They try over and over again to delay the inevitable. But when it will explode the problem will be much bigger and will not only impact Europe, it also has the potential to disrupt the global economy. Simply because Europe does not have enough money to help Italy like Greece. It was easy for Greece but for Italy, it is a completely different story.

I know that this day will come, I hope people here will then call me expert since they call everyone expert once you did a right prediction 

@stompix
Any website listing real estate for sale? I just wanna see the prices to buy an apartment or house.

So reading the posts, if I summarize:
- Citizens aren't really using Bitcoin other than people who invest and scammer with MLM. What do you think is the percentage of bitcoiners who are really using BTC as it's supposed to be? Is there a real demand for BTC?
- Your government is ok with cryptos as long the business is legit.

My question is:
If you have enough capital to start with, what kind of business would you start in your country? Of course, I mean something profitable and not necessarily something big.

@mocacinno

Since @XaeroQT is using Wordpress, wouldn't be easier for him to just install a WP plugin?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bitcoin/

Without the skills and the time he could accept crypto payments without using a payment processor.

I opened a thread a few months back with a study on the Exchanges's security. They're far to be "safe" they have a lot of things to do to protect its users. Some aren't even protected for basics points.
People are learning the lesson (often too late) we keep repeating over and over again. An exchange isn't the right place to store your coins, store the minimum

Yeah me too I still have some old coins and banknotes. I have even bought some with BTC from a member here

Take a look at this picture http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GNFRWTtPVNA/TrbvBA4jpCI/AAAAAAAAAZo/AGDBtqikPvw/s1600/euros_produit_courant.jpg
I couldn't find one similar in English but the last column with the percentage is enough. That's the difference we are paying since we moved to EUR. (i.e. 1 salad +200%, milk+50%) I don't see what is good with it. I could be ok to pay a milk bottle even €10 (x10) IF they increase the wages/salaries x10 too

Another example I can give is about a farmer. He is forced to sell his milk let's say €0.30/L while it costs him €0.40/L Isn't it crazy?

The thing about companies moving back to the supposed rich EU countries is because they got an advantage regarding their taxes. Some countries are trying to attract companies to get them back by offering, for example, a 20% discount during 2 years on their taxes, or another type of incentive. Then what happened, once they raped the discount they again move from the country...

It was looking good at the beginning, no borders, same currency, etc but most, if not all, old countries aren't better economically, politically...
When Greece was in crisis, Europe helped the country with millions, but who's paying? The whole of Europe and its citizens. Do they have enough finance to help a country? No. Well the debt increase so.

@deisik

There was a news a year ago or 2 about Putin supporting/endorsing/liking (call it as you want) Etherum. I remember he invited Vitalik to Russia for (I don't remember why)
Now in 2019, they turn it into a "he is a big advocate". In 2025 they will maybe say Putin is the co-founder 

Edit: That was the news I was talking about https://cointelegraph.com/news/suddenly-vladimir-putin-meets-vitalik-buterin-endorses-ethereum

@BitHodler
I didn't follow Venezuela and its crypto so I can say I know nothing about it. Does it have a fixed value?
From a speculative side it could be something good for BTC, other than that yeah I agree with you, better to have any govt. out of the game

Not bad! I would re-organize the top menu to make it more SEO friendly and perhaps change the widget bar to make it more efficient. But overall you're good to go.
The only thing I disliked is
You can't be independent and not sponsored if you accept PR and sponsored article.

Good luck with your site and don't forget you will need to consistently publish articles

BBVA Compass, Simple and USAA were ok with activities related to cryptos but that was last year and in a year a lot of things can change in the banking industry as you know. (I am not a citizen in the US so take it with a grain of salt of course)

Just for curiosity, did you have a problem to continue working with the offshore?

Finally, Bitwala did it.

I am planning to make my Bitwala account one of my main bank accounts since there is the DGS guarantee. However, I have just 2 questions.
- Recurring payments are operational?
- The DGS doesn't cover the cryptos right?

And the third
I can't open 2 accounts (1 personal + 1 business) right? Any plan in the future for businesses accounts

If I remember well there is something with Neteller. Something like you can deposit bitcoins but can't spend it via the card or bank transfer.
Making the feature a simple wallet to store/spend your bitcoins which I doubt the OP is looking for.  Maybe the thing changed since, in this case, I would be happy to see someone confirming it

Generally speaking, old countries don't benefit anymore, it's the opposite. The countries that benefit to be in Europe are the ones with a weak economy (or the poor to be more direct) since they get help from EU (not only financially)
Prices increased a lot since, with $5 you can not even buy a piece of fish, of course, the wages didn't follow. Companies started to move to other places. Some of them were offered free money to stay in a country, they accepted to stay but after receiving the money they're gone. I can give a lot of examples like this.
No country is singing the same song and the European laws are now more important than the local laws. Otherwise, the country pays a fine to Europe. Most countries are afraid of the EU laws so they obey like a puppy.

@Hydrogen Where were you these days? 

With zerohedge, there are things to take and leave. Certainly, Russia has diversified its assets with other currencies and also gold, but as for Bitcoin, I would love to see that. Yep, we will notice a good increase during a month
There are several countries adopting this same strategy to be able to be independent of the dollar and therefore on the USA and its policy. China has done the same in the Sino-American conflict, as Iran too, or where it is on the way. Basically, this is a good method (perhaps not with BTC) but it would be nice if more countries did the same.

Gold doesn't need a new use case, it doesn't need to prove anything more. It showed us its strength long before we were born. Its price won't decrease no matter if we have not a new industry consuming it. Check back the gold history.
You contradict yourself, your first say jewelry is important and then useless. Which one should we take?

I am confident the market has been manipulated otherwise the crash couldn't be so big and so long. In my opinion, it has not been done by creating a bunch of shit coins. Who knows if the FED is trying to blame someone else to hide its own manipulations. It looks more plausible that the FED manipulated the market than a wave of shitcoins

Oui ca existe. Ca porte un nom mais je sais plus comment ca s'appel. En gros c'est un papier des impots qui dit qu'on t'as dis que fallait declarer comme ci ou comme ca.
Apres au moment venu, si tu as suivis leur indications mais que tu te retrouves en erreur (tu as mal declaré), c'est de leur faute et tu es couvert par ce papier., et donc tu ne serais pas pénalisé.

Pour l'URASSF elle avait raison mais tu as peut etre mal expliqué.
Tu fais pas de gros volume de trading et de gains, une declaration BNC est suffisante vu que c'est pas une activité principale. La personne a du croire que tu speculais avec des sommes a 4-5 chiffres et que tu en fais ton revenu principal.


Quand tu lui as parlé des plateformes de crypto trading, elle aurait pu se dire que c'est quasi la meme chose qu'une plateforme de trading genre etoro.

I am so lucky! I moved everything last week after waiting near 2 months waiting for a "wallet maintenance"...
Now it's sad for Cryptopia and the affected users it's not the first and surely not the last but let see how they will handle the problem.