Because of unhelpful Indian laws relating to Cryptocurrency, I'm thinking of obtaining an Estonian eResidency, and starting the ICO/ Blockchain Company virtually in Estonia.  Has anyone here used this Estonian eResidency route before?

Also, will my ICO/Blockchain Company be recognised as an European (Estonian) Startup? I'm asking this because there are several incubators/ accelerators that are open to European Startups exclusively.

This is a phase in the eventual global Cryptocurrency total acceptance regime wherein the central bankers are reacting reflexly, knee-jerk, to protect their turf. It'll take some time for the global Cryptocurrency inevitability to sink into their mindset. Meanwhile, the people living at their mercies suffer and get left behind while others elsewhere progress far ahead.
 

Have you tried AngelList at angel.co? I personally haven't received great results, but you can try your luck on that platform, since it can link you with lots of Angels and VCs. It's a very well organised platform based on funding, so you'll find it much easier than Linkedin, especially w.r.t. the spam/ads problem you faced over there.

You could create a profile on Linkedin. There are several Angelsl Investors and Venture Capitalists on that network.

All that you say is very correct and inspiring; but the important thing is: how do we factor in the play of the market makers? For they are the ones who ultimately decide/ rig the prevailing BTC/ altcoin price. HODLERs going on a consumption boom spending their BTC will only move the market a wee bit, even when a lot of people get involved.  The brutal fact of the matter is that HODLERs do not matter, either which way; what matters is the attitude of the whales and the market makers.

Y'all folks, stop talking through your nose; pics, or it didn't happen ....  

LinkedIn is a thoroughly professional place, to advance your career and business.

Instagram is for visual delight. Good luck trying to make friends there. Although, if your posts are a delight, you can attract a huge following, and then make money as an influencer!

Facebook is the original social network, that you can also use as a basic dating app. But, generally, it contains all your offline contacts, so it's a way of keeping in touch with them. Also, some people do manage to make money on Facebook. God knows how!

You forgot Twitter. Or, is that TXT meant to refer to Twitter?!

Obviously, one person can't! But when I wrote this, I remembered a panel discussion on CNBC I'd heard some time back, in which one of the panelists mentioned that when his grandmother was a five year old girl, their family needed to urgently escape a war zone, leaving all their possessions behind. They had gold bars fashioned into chain links, which they wrapped around their bodies and underneath their clothes. In their new place of refuge, they sold that gold for seed capital to start a new business.

Today, one can simply convert into Cryptocurrency and retrieve anyplace in the world. But, seriously, how many of those Syrian refugees used Bitcoin?! Most were just clothes on their backs, and maybe a few valuables that may well have been robbed from them on their escape journey.

Actually, one advantage of physical gold, (and other valuables such as diamonds), is that they can be easily ferried around if one has to flee in an emergency. All throughout history, and even in the twentieth century, there were innumerable instances when this was required for survival. Of course, with Cryptocurrency, this process should become even more simple. Only, we haven't had that kind of distress affecting the holders of Cryptocurrency yet, (fingers crossed), in this century; so there's no way to be sure.

The US Dollar has a physical nation, Bitcoin has none. That physical nation has a physical police force and army that can do anything to anybody at anyplace for the sake of that US dollar. Bitcoin has ..... hackers?!

The amount of data sent across a messaging app is so huge, it will rapidly degrade the speed of any fully decentralised Blockchain. The users will instantaneously delete such a laggy app. You could try sharding, semi-centralised blockchain, like the permissioned hyperledger of IBM, but that poses other questions.

Basically, a messaging app is a trivial device, used extensively. It has no use cases that justify a high-end modality like a blockchain. If its users want encryption, they have Telegram.

Singapore, Malta; Zug (Switzerland) if you are flush with funds. Else, get a Canadian PR visa.

But, you can do all the Blockchain dev work in India on the cheap, including the Bounty campaign, and the Social Media Management; and use Singapore etc as the base for launching the company and ICO, especially if you manage to get private investors on board before-hand.

Moolyacoin did this, but they already had a working product online for months before their ICO, and their entire team and ICO Management had solid credentials.

Perspective is important when we assess such claims. In the larger world out there, any number of innocuous sounding activities, like using cars or planes for transportation, pose such a deadly menace of pollution that the current Bitcoin environmental problem, even at its' maximal exaggeration, looks minimal, if not infinitesimal.

The better perspective would be to assess this environmental impact in comparison with other crypto. But, would it be fair to use such a parameter of comparison in isolation, ignoring all the other parameters that make Bitcoin the sterling choice of discerning folk?!

Bitcoin's USP is its' First Mover Advantage, coupled with its' decentralised nature, and the idealism behind its' invention.

No other coin can ever match that advantage of idealism, or the fact that Bitcoin was the first. The newcomers can at best offer "better" and certainly faster blockchain solutions; but will that counter the raw emotive appeal of Bitcoin's idealistic foundations!

Is that even legit (globally)?  Can someone please explain?

Going through the content of that link has been an instructive learning experience for me, about the way monetisation has skewed the evolution of social media.

Also, does it make any sense for Facebook (and Instagram, and Twitter, et al) to claim two billion users when a significant proportion of these are in all likelihood 'farming' accounts like the ones posted on that link!

Aside from the monetary incentives, the idealism behind Bitcoin promises freedom from the tyranny of centralised government surveillance, and bad decision making.  In this context, it's important to note that the 2007 global financial meltdown, and the subsequent hand-outs to the big bankers, was the immediate impetus to the release of Bitcoin.

I have heard of Swachhcoin and moolyacoin, and liked their Whitepapers. You can search on Google for more info about them.

I have recently come across Swachhcoin, and moolyacoin; two ICOs based in India, and with their team comprised entirely of Indians, except the advisors and investors of course. You can search Google for their websites and WhitePapers, but I'm personally impressed by both of them, and particularly so by the moolyacoin Whitepaper.

As to how it's possible for them to operate out of India, given the current restrictive Indian scenario, it would be best to ask them that question.

Not just China, every major country is paying attention to the possibilities of Blockchain. It's like 'Internet 1993' replaying at a screen near you; and you don't want to miss out on all the goodies on offer.

That said, they make a sharp distinction between blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Putin has already stated that Cryptocurrency is incompatible with the concept of a national, fiat currency. That's the road the rest of them will be following, especially the 'hard state', nationalism-minded ones.