Keep in mind that as long as the coin is not listed, all your gains are "monopoly money".
There are scam accusations in this direction already. Everybody is told to be gaining, but all you did was to give up personal info (the phone app can get quite some info) and received .. promises.
Some even fear that in order to cash in people will have to fill KYC info, which can be even more problematic.
Search and read more....

19 - NeuroticFish

Thanks for the raffle and HAPPY BIRTHDAY Hhampuz !

The users come and go. Especially the scammers, sooner or later they become history.
However, a good post has to stand out, no matter who has written it.

I guess that we don't agree on this and from what I see on current poll result 1/3 of the people answering do agree with you. More than I would have expected.
I don't want to be mean, but I believe that these people misunderstood (at least partly) what merit is for.

This sounds very wrong imho.
Merit is for worthy posts, not for users.
OK, one can be nice towards an user now an then an help him out. But that's an exception. The rule should be to merit posts. That's why I've merited even users that are not here anymore or users which have negative trust: because even such users can be capable of good posts.

And this being said, .. why would I check the history then?! Nope, I don't check it for deciding if I should reward the post or not.

This thread is from January... 2019. The 30 + 30 days have passed long ago. More than a year ago. So ... yep, it's "already" down 

Subscriptions are tricky, some may end up paying it in the following months or years too automatically from their card. I don't know if it's the case, but this kind of problem makes people avoid this kind of deals.
This being said, you may consider checking services that offer Visa/Mastercard debit/prepaid cards you can top up with crypto. AdvCash may have virtual cards too.

And what is, in your logic, the size of a Bitcoin, I wonder?
Monero is a good coin and has a smart team. Mindless shilling is not on their agenda. What you do is not helping Monero, instead it's bad advertising.
Read more and please stop this kind of posting.

I had the (good or bad?) luck to get Wirex card rejected at about same rate.
The forex rates are by far a bigger issue for me.
And the banking... is not the only thing. Now and then someone has to re-send identity and/or address papers, they don't get processed as good as expected and meanwhile the card cannot be topped up.

Congratulations @GOLD_official for ranking up!

I don't like PayPal. I use them only when I have no other choice. So I don't care about them.

Mastercard... well, crypto cards startups already issued cards (indirectly) under Visa or Mastercard brands. Now allowing them issue the cards directly could make the services more secure against Wavecrest type problems, but that won't help that much. Wirex is still quite expensive, especially for those in countries where the currency is not GBP/EUR/USD and their support used to be sometimes awful. Mastercard allowing them issue their cards directly will probably not solve most of the existing problems, the startups still need to get more.. mature.

Wasn't that increased in 2017 to 2 weeks (from 72h) to help people avoid losing funds?
Or am I mixing up something?
Can anybody confirm?

Also it would be interesting to know if OP is the one who made the wallet and where he keeps the backup of the private keys if any.
At the first glance I could assume (but I could also be wrong) that somebody else also has access to the private keys of that wallet and as soon as any funds get there the other person moves them away to his own wallet.

Well, one of the first news after the twitter hack was that Genimi will track the funds and will not allow withdrawal if their exchange is used. Of course that such news will make the hackers turn to Monero.

This is quite a praise for Monero capabilities, but it's also bad news since this kind of actions could make some more exchanges (which are usually eager to comply with authorities' rules) delist Monero.

But since it's such a huge amount I am confident the ransom will not be paid.

b9 NeuroticFish

Thank you for this amazing raffle.

In his case are not really mistakes, they're verified ways to attract attention on himself.
This kind of attention helped him earn quite a lot of money from small projects seeking advertising.
Don't underestimate this guy, he's an experienced salesman.

Well, the article is of a great quality compared to the badly written and badly translated spam we have here in great quantities.
Which, on a sadly sarcastic note means that AI posting here instead of those guys would increase the quality of posts.
Unfortunately this also means that it'll be harder to find out which poster is genuine human and which is an AI posting high quality, well written... made up trash.

I can't tell exactly, but after some weeks I said I waited enough and asked the support wtf they do.
I was lucky enough and found a bright support member who actually helped me.

In my case the bill statement had - on different pages - different postcode for my address. Since Murphy clearly works there, they've took the wrong one as good. No biggie, it's the neighbour postcode
However, I was advised to change my profile postcode to that one and shortly the problem got fixed.

So I advise you ask the support what's the problem. This operation should take, afaik, maximum 24h.

I don't know if the hackers would have been seeing it, but it doesn't matter, the newspapers did 
Nicely done advertising. I however wonder how comes nobody refunded this guy; after all he did spend 11$ on his ad (most on tx fee).

This is completely useless. One can just make a website with the address and post the URL on twitter (or one can even make a service for that job).
So all they'll stop is the small giveaways. For now.

I wish they would think a bit before jumping into such "fixes".

At some point this year they've asked for a new proof of address from me too.
And after getting that they were happy again.
So I think that you may be worrying for nothing.