HI,

we are currently running 10 server in different locations (different provider in different countries) to keep the subchain network up and running. Every NMG and CSG is able to do it's part on it's own and is randomly chosen in the single send process. so when one is down another takes it's part. We especially took care to always have redundant service to keep it alive in case of hardware failure or attack.

regards
shahim

Link dorhin?
Ich sehe keine CC oder über sehe diese

Gruß

Cryptocard

‘The anon card is ALMOST there. Cut us some slack on that one, if you follow our service you probably noticed that we keep our promises. ETA is a week or two.’

The idea behind the anon card is simple: ‘You send BTC, you get fiat to your card and can withdraw it at an ATM. We want to make the transfers instant. Maybe at the beginning it will take around several hours, but in some time when a user sends his coins he will be getting money to his card immediately.’

This is a very exciting project, and a critical part of the SuperNET/anon ecosystem. Card payment processing profits will go towards dividends for the Coinomat asset. ‘We plan to launch a merchant API right after the card is launched. There will be a separate project; the plug-in has already been coded.’

Users will be able to order cards from Coinomat.com, although the ability may also be integrated in the SuperNET GUI. ‘I think we will reduce the fees as much as possible for SuperNET users. They are bound to one account in a bank, and each card is not tied to its own account. So you don't have a new bank account if you have this card. The card will cost $40.’

Crypto to Visa/Master fees are reduced.
It costs $5 + 3% for all the cryptos now. Transfer takes two business days. The limits are increased up to $10,000 weekly.

Anonyme Kreditkarten sind unmöglich. Diese sind lt. VISA und MasterCard AGBs verboten, als wie zusätzlich auch von der EU und dem deutschen Gesetzgeber.

Diese Debit-Karten die an der Tankstelle verkauft werden und ua. via Cash Voucher aufgeladen werden, sind auch nur mit persönlicher Registratur vorher ladbar. (Registrant muss zd. Schufa-Mitglied sein.)
Bis 100 E Gesamtaufladung / Jahr reicht Online-Registrierung + Verify-SMS (und natürlich Schufa) aus. Für alle Geschäfte/Vorgänge die über 100 E liegen, muss die Karte dann erst via Post Ident (analog reguläres Girokonto oder Kreditkarte bei Geschäftsbank) freigeschalten werden.

Es gibt keine anonymen Kreditkarten mit DE IBAN. Kann es auch gar nicht geben, weil sich jeder Bank- und Finanzkunde immer verifizieren muss in DE. (Man darf ja auch z.B nicht mal mehr anonym überweisen via Papierträger am Schalter & Bargeld.) Deutschen Banken tricksen auch nicht mehr rum, weil die sonst sehr hohe Strafen zahlen, wenn die BAFIN so etwas bemerkt (zB. aufgrund einer Warnung des BKAs).

Die Optionen die man nun noch hätte sind halt alle eher rechtlich grau/fragwürdig. Ausserdem auch sehr vom Einsatzgebiet der Karte abhängig.

Kommt halt auf euer Budget, Paranoia, Ernsthaftigkeit, Verwendungszweck, Transaktionsvolumen. etc. an.

 

My opinion remained the same: It's infeasible to create a full autonomous entity, the creator has to predict all possible situations or create an AI.

As some of you guessed I didn't really send £1000 worth of bitcoin to Namibia but what I wanted to do was discuss and highlight the difficulties of using the currency in places where it would be most beneficial.
I am married into a Namibian family. My wife likes to send funds to her parents in Namibia every couple of months. She has been doing this for the last 9 years.

Currently they use one of her bankcards and she has given them her PIN. She uses a UK bank account specifically for the purpose.
So, when she decides she wants to send money she transfers money from regular account to the account her parents have a card for and just does a regular bank transfer. This works fine however she probably shouldn't have given her card and PIN to someone else.

Most people are not in a position to do this.

Prior to doing it this way or if their are some issues with the account she would use Western Union.

I showed her how simple is is to send btc if you have Mycelium installed on your phone. But we were discussing what you would do with it.

At this point LocalBitcoins is proberbly out of the question, The nearest big town is a two hour drive away. Travel to Cape Town involves a flight.
PayPal.. I don't know. I had a bad experience with it related to bitcoin previously.

I guess bitcoin just isn't ready for these communities yet.

And he will be able to get one of these credit cards will he.
He doesn't have a proper address,  just a Po box.
Also, he doesn't, Have a Pc, just a phone so can't scan documents unless he goes to an Internet Cafe.
I doubt he even has a passport.

OK, So I just sent £1000 of Bitcoin to a friend who is in Northern Namibia (just above South Africa).

He received the funds via an app on his phone - Mycelium..

The problem is we have no idea what to do now. Ideally he needs to transfer the btc to his local currency (NAD) or spend the bitcoin locally but noone there accepts bitcoin. How can we convert this money to something he can actually spend?

Thanks in advance.

The app uses bittrex api keys, the withdraw permission is not required, so there is no way it could steal your funds - even if it wanted to.
The trust you have to have in this app is a lot less than you need for any other entity you leave your funds at, like any exchange, any ICO operation, any escrow, any gambling site, any..... and so on.

Wrong input/wrong output is probably aimed at orders and trading history shown by the app? Well, you can easily verify that this is not the case by simply using an API key with only "Read info" permission.

Regarding malware and exploits, how is this any different from any other app you install from the app store?

I don't know what you mean by "pegged".

To a first approximation, if the dollar lost 90% of its value tomorrow, the US would not become significantly poorer.  Everybody woudl still own the same homes and cars and tamagochis, the same bridges and roads would still be there,  barbers and doctors would still serve as many patients as before.  By hypothesis, all prices would go up 10 times, and thus all salaries and fees would have to do the same.  (In the countries with hyperinflation, most people manageto survive somehow).

Such a massive devaluation would have plenty of secondary bad effects, for sure.  There would be all sorts of financial disasters due to contracts with fixed payments in the future, dollars held by or owed to foreign parties, etc.. People would need to carry and use a lot more banknotes when paying in cash.  The devaluation presumably would be due to massive emission of new currency by the government, which would result in wealth being taken from citizens, as a form of global tax on money holdings and unindexed credits.  It is these secondary effects that make high inflation and hyperinflation so bad.

But it is precisely because of the possibility of inflation, money printing, and wild excursions in currency exchange rates that one should ignore the money when evaluating a nation's wealth, and focus only on actual things and services.

Of course, central banks and economists who are interested in the money itself, rather than real wealth, will have a different approach.

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