According to this blogpost, the whitelisting period is already over since more than 2 weeks.
https://blog.kyber.network/post-whitelist-announcement-21b9da4f75c3

Your only option is to buy an already whitelisted account.

Besides, you could always wait to buy until the token hits the exchanges.
 

Has any of the exchanges actually announced ETHD integration? At first glance it looks like
you just put a few exchange names in the opening post without any proof that they will
actually offer ETHD trading pairs.

I used Bitcoin on an old computer of mine using Ubuntu (16.04). Now I intend to sell the computer.
Because I had other sensitive information on this computer and also several altcoin wallets I like to format the hard
drive in order to wipe out all data before I sell the computer.

Is there an exhaustive way to delete every data in a way that it realistically can´t be restored?
Keep in mind that I run Ubuntu, so I´m not able to utilize Windows cleaner tools.

Maybe someone of you has enough Linux experience to help me out with this.

I would recommend Bitwala.

Here is a comparison where several other options (Xapo, SpectroCoin, Wirex...) are compared:
https://www.bitwala.com/best-bitcoin-debit-card/

Keep in mind, that the source could be biased, because it´s from Bitwala after all.
However, Bitwala actually seems to have the best rate when you top up your card. Especially Wirex seems
to really overcharge customers due to a bad exchange rate (this doesn´t show up in the official fees!).

Do mining pools actually process zero-fee transactions? I thought that this was a
relict from the ancient past of Bitcoin.

Depending on your country you can use several fiat payment options as well.
E.g. the most popular e-wallets like Skrill or Neteller.

However, Bitcoin deposits have obvious advantages like higher limits and
(in my experience) faster withdrawals.
Unlike other Bitcoin poker operators, Americas Cardroom will require you to verify
your account though.

You could also add the recently relaunched Betking.io (BTC, ETH, LTC) to your list.
The old version was one of the most popular dice websites.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2150057.0

I don´t think that TenX cards are already being shipped. Therefore I´m not confident that you would receive a Tenx debit
card in a reasonable timeframe (I could be wrong on this). On the other hand Cryptopay has been around for a long time
and you can probably get a debit card within a few days.

Why have you already restricted your choice to these two options? There are several other Bitcoin debit card providers.

Thank you for your detailed reply.
I tend to agree with you on all of this.

However, I have a follow-up question, which was also part of the rumors. Let´s assume you are an institutional investor based in Asia with an aim
to invest 20 million $ in the crypto markets.
Why would you buy Tether and send them to Bitfinex or one of the other exchanges that has USDT trading pairs when you can skip
Tether and simply wire your funds directly to one of the many exchanges that has working banking relationships?
Using Bank -> Tether -> Exchange seems to be a lot more dangerous due to increased counterparty risk compared to using
Bank -> Exchange.

Besides, it is interesting to see that the Tether supply (according to the official Tether homepage) never decreased - all it has ever done is go
up historically. If Tether was indeed a legit operation you would assume that sometimes people cash out their Tether and therefore
decrease the total supply of Tethers. But this never happened.

In general this is a sensible and time-tested strategy.

However, with news like this you are potentially looking to
lose 90 % or more of your current investment, because the major - if not the only - use case in the biggest market in the world
(after all China has the biggest population) suddenly vanished.

Besides, many countries could follow with similar measures. South Korea has already followed the Chinese and other
countries are looking to adopt similar policies regarding the legality of ICOs.

Wenn ich also z.B. anhand von einem Block Explorer wie blockchain.info nachweisen kann, dass meine BTC seit über einem
Jahr nicht bewegt wurden (= Haltefrist von 1 Jahr überschritten), muss ich also nicht mehr nachweisen wie und wann ich die Bitcoins
erworben habe?

Oder muss ich auch in diesem Falle mit Nachfragen seitens des Finanzamts zur Herkunft der BTC rechnen, obwohl nach heutigem Recht aufgrund
der Haltedauer keine Versteuerung notwendig ist?

You misread the number of wagered bitcoins. 22k bitcoins would be ridiculously high, Dean was talking about 22 Bitcoins (still more than 100k $ in fiat terms).

You can always check the current number at the top of the dice page:
https://betking.io/dice

As of now the turnover is:
more than 9 LTC (this seems low)
more than 149 ETH
more than 175 BTC

Will there be any specials for certain milestones? E.g. a price for the user, who places the 10 millionth bet?

I think the more relevant question is how much influence he actually has as a mining pool operator. Even if he is in favor of something that
doesn´t mean that the users of the mining pool and the hashrate provided by them support the same thing. If Chun would do something that contradicts the
interest of the users of F2Pool, they could easily switch their hashrate to some of the other pools.
This would obviously hurt F2Pool, unless Chun is owning a huge percentage of F2Pool´s hashrate personally.

What is your opinion on the whole Tether / Bitfinex rumours?

In the last 3 days, 70 million $ worth of USDT has been issued:
http://omnichest.info/lookupadd.aspx?address=3MbYQMMmSkC3AgWkj9FMo5LsPTW1zBTwXL

If this money is not backed by real money (as the rumours suggest) this could have devastating effects for
the whole crypto market. Is there some merit to these rumours in your opinion or is this some
elaborate FUD?

Additionally, I´m really surprised that Ethereum is still above 290 $. ICOs are basically the whole
value proposition of ETH as of now and the China and South Korea News should have plummeted
the ETH exchange rate much more.

I think that along with your Cayman Islands bank account you would receive a few credit cards that can be used to literally withdraw
your funds anywhere in the world. There is no need to repatriate the money when you can simply access your funds in that way.

I concede that buying real estate or other comparable items would be a giant hassle, if you can´t prove that your
funds have been properly taxed.

How did you calculate this number?

Regarding Tether:
Another suspicious element of the whole Tether story is available right at the Tether website.

https://wallet.tether.to/transparency

The numbers match the amount that is displayed in the omnichest link provided in the opening post.
However, if Tether was actually working as they advertise, the amount would have to fluctuate, because
sometimes a Tether user/investor would want to exchange his USDT into real USD.
Therefore the total supply of Tethers should actually experience a drop from time to time.

Interestingly, there never was a single drop in the Tether supply and instead the total amount of
issued Tethers increased to a staggering 364 million $.

The fact that the issued amount of Tethers never declined, is a huge red flag!
This would essentially imply that no investor or user has actually ever exchanged their USDT, which
is completely unbelievable.

You should use a Bitcoin wallet that allows you to use a custom fee. Paying a 7 pound fee was not necessary when the mempool contained
more than 50000 unconfirmed transactions. Right now the mempool contains not even 8000 unconfirmed transactions, therefore it is even
less necessary to attach a large fee. The only exception to this suggestion is, if you really need your transaction in the next mined block or if you combine
more than a few inputs in your transaction.

Why would they have any interest in doing this? As far as I know, BTC-E was shut down by US agencies, because of the heavy involvement
of the exchange in money laundering (e.g. of ransomware proceeds) and other criminal activities.
However, Bitfinex doesn´t seem to be involved in this and therefore I think that the USA are not even investigating them.
Bitfinex may have lost their banking partners due to the USA and their regulations, but I really don´t see an exchange shutdown.

Bitfinex operates out ot Hong Kong and accordingly I´d expect the local authorities to lead the crack down. If I remember correctly,
Mtgox was also closed by the local Japanese authorities and not by US agencies.

I have come across this statement in various threads now. However, I have been unable to find
a reliable source that confirms that this meeting will actually take place.

If you followed the recent China news regarding the legality of ICOs you know that there
are at least 7 entities that are responsible for the regulation of investments like this in China.
Which of the 7 entities (maybe there are even more) is meeting with the team behind NEO?

Why would any of these regulatory bodies even meet with the team behind NEO at all?

Until I see a reliable source that confirms this meeting, I will consider this a baseless rumour.

https://fairlay.com/market/who-will-be-elected-german-chancellor-in-2017-1/

Zero liquidity for a re-election of Angela Merkel? This is looking like a boring election, if not even a single
satoshi of liquidity is available if you want to bet on her re-election 

Furthermore, I wanted to ask why the resolution date is the 17th of September, when the election
takes place on the 24th of September. Is it possible to postpone the resolution date? I expect that
a bunch of bets would come in in the last days, which isn´t really possible if the resolution date is
a week before the election.