If you check the video, there's something wrong as the faces of the people against the 1st amendment are blurred. I would have liked to see clear pictures of those people with a mention in big block letters: I'm against freedom of speech, freedom of press and freedom of religion. I thought Yale students were smarter. I'm afraid America is doomed.

Are they going to build a wall with armed guards all around Syria to prevent goods or people getting out? If they don't do that, I'm afraid this will be only words. Nothing will change in the real world as the IS guys have learned how to smuggle things, especially to Turkey.

I can't think of a single example where all the governments of the world have agreed to the same idea. Drugs? Certainly not. Sex? In some places having sex with a 10 year old girl is a crime, in some others you can marry her. Owning a gun? It's forbidden in several European countries, but it's a constitutional right in the US.

BTC may be illegal in a few countries, but frankly nobody cares much as to make the ban truly effective would mean to cut off the Internet.

Excess reserves?

Banks do not have enough reserves! Haven't you heard about fractional reserve? When banks give a loan, they are creating money out of hot air. The reserves they're keeping are barely a few percents of the money they're lending. That's why so many people like BTC, because it was designed without the possibility of fractional reserve, or wild money creation.

I don't understand what's your plan. You sure may go to an African country, but government officials will not want to meet you. You're a foreigner, and unless you want to invest a vast sum in the country, all government's doors will be closed. You may have good intentions, but Africans have already suffered a lot from white guys telling them how they should manage their country. In several places, you will not be welcomed.

Some people with a limited knowledge (and understanding) of history see muslims as victims of colonialism, American imperialism or more globally, the almighty white man who wants to rule the world. I guess they should learn more, but they don't want to.

Wrong title!
 
What the big banks are creating is not a BTC alternative, nor is it against BTC at all. BTC is a cryptocurrency with an open public ledger. The big banks are creating a large distributed record book, but it won't be public (it's only for big banks), and it won't be associated with a cryptocurrency.

I like it. The big banks are doing their thing, and they don't mess around with BTC.

BTC isn't related to Earth or the Universe. BTC is the global currency of men. If manhood were to disappear, which is definitely a possibility, BTC would disappear as well.

Besides, the US dollar, the Euro, the Chinese or Indian currency all have more than half a billion users. BTC's way behind.

I don't have a smartphone, and I won't ever get one. Sorry, but I don't to be traced by the CIA and big tech firms. Then I don't need one. I once read a magazine about the 500 must-have apps and there wasn't a single one I found useful. I own a small tablet, though, wi-fi only, and I'm using it anonymously. I've never used it to check my mail.

Obviously in BTCrelated media. You can advertise on this board, just like on coindesk.com or cointelegraph.com. Forget faucets, they're for losers. Better try to advertise on the biggest media names for credibility. More than that, BTC is known to anyone working in finance, so you can advertise on all financial media.

You can open a bank account in Switzerland or in London, without much hassle, you'll just need to show your passport, and give them an address where they will send you your card and access codes to your account. Most likely, they will ask you to keep a minimum balance of at least 10,000 €.

Forget everything you read about opening a bank account as a non-resident without physically visiting the bank. There are lawyers who can open a bank account for you in Singapore without you leaving Europe, but they charge 1,500 € for the service, so it's cheaper to travel there.

In the good old days, in Switzerland or Austria, it was possible to open a bank account without even showing your passport, but those days are long gone...

To help motivate women, I wish a moderator could close and DELETE this discussion. It's frightening to read what some people here think of women. I'd be a woman reading this topic, this would make me run away next time I hear a guy talking about BTC, as he probably looks down on women.

Ths Swiss love their Swiss Franc and they will keep it forever. They're very tolerant towards the use of other currencies though, and most shops in Geneva accept Euros. Some of them are also BTC-friendly. I remember there was a BTC ATM in Geneva a while ago, it's gone now, but the Swiww have always been at the forefront of financial innovation.


I'm not talking about value, I'm talking about image. I think BTC should stay totally international, without any link to any territory anywhere, but cyberspace.

Horrible news!

I wish BTC to remain independent from all countries. It's a cryptocurrency not linked to any territory. Happily, the news are wrong since the country mentioned above doesn't exist in any history book. It only exists in the mind of 4 people from the same family, and the UN have never heard of them.

Not Asia, Americans living in Asia!

Poor article, it's trying to scare people but the reality is far from what it described. It's a long process, and nobody will see his/her passport seized without prior notice. The new regulation the article is talking about isn't even law, yet.

Come to think of it, does anyone knows there's something worse in Russia? Russians can't even travel abroad if they have a debt.

This is normal. When you begin to have quite a lot of money, you start to think about how to diversify to protect your wealth. It's only logical, the same thing goes in any country, but it's quite new in China, since recently, it was very difficult to move any money out of China. It has become easier but obviously, the government doesn't like it, and it wants to make it difficult again.

I'm not surprised. Mauritania too is officially an islamic republic, and there's also a muslim majority in Senegal. Some people, stupid people, see that religion as some sort of empowerment because it doesn't come from white men, say former colonial countries.

Sex tourism is, and has always been, mostly for men. I don't think it's gonna change.

This is the best advertisement Donald Trump could ever get! Really. A country which is one the least democratic in the world should not be allowed to comment on democracy in other countries. In Saudi Arabia, a muslim saying he renounces his religion is sentenced to death, and they want to give lessons?

Oh, yes, drug money, but that's only the very top of the iceberg. I guess most undeclared income will now come from drug money and prostitution, but only a few years ago, that was the opposite. Most undeclared income was coming from legal businesses.