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18 minutes ago, Paradice lost said:
Thanks very much for your suggestion regarding using bitcoin. My big problem with that is that I receive several junk mail a day telling me to deal in bitcoin but, obviously, most or all of this junk mail is from scammer and I stay well clear. My problem with following your advice is that I know virtually nothing about how to buy and sell bitcoin and even your mention of Kraken, Bitstamp and SEPA are foreign language to me. I'm aware that bitcoin can be a very volatile investment and I have no idea of the costs and pitfalls. Is there any chance that you can you point me in any direction where to get a crash course and knowledge on this trade without spending my few remaining day or years in doing it.
Yeah there are scams out there for investing and getting rich quick with Bitcoin, but that’s not what you’re doing. You’re using it for its original purpose... intercountry trustless transfers. You won’t be actually holding bitcoin for much more than minutes or hours at the longest. You won’t even have to manage the bitcoin as all you’ll be doing is transferring it between exchanges (or if you decide the Localbitcoin route, keeping it on Localbitcoins and just receiving from 1 person and sending to another on site).
Some starter guides from the sites I mentioned:
https://www.kraken.com/#route-beginner
https://localbitcoins.com/guides/
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Just saying again Bitcoin. You can have your cash in hand in the U.K. or wherever in about an hour. So easy to buy bitcoin now in TH.... so easy to sell in Europe or U.S.
2 easy methods:
- Signup on Bitkub to buy with Thai baht. Easy bank transfer
- Signup through a myriad of Exchanges in Europe to sell,... Kraken, Bitstamp, etc. Then a fast SEPA or whatever you Europeans use bank transfer to home bank acct.
or Do it all through peer to peer exchange on Localbitcoins. Only transfer with people will solid reputation scores.
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This is the perfect case for Bitcoin. Signup at Localbitcoins.com or Bitkub.com and buy bitcoin via easy Thai bank transfer.
Sell bitcoins in your country via Localbitcoins and get cash via transfer or sign up for some exchange and sell. Voila.
Once signed up and verified on L.B.C. you could literally do both trades and have cash in hand within an hour or so.
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30 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:
There is nothing on the map that shows any greater capacity or bandwidth available exclusively to internet to/from a mobile phone. It shows the opposite, all ISP's connect to the dozen gateways and then off to the broader international internet. So far as the map is concerned cellular providers are just another ISP, nothing to say they route their traffic any differently or have a greater international bandwidth.
The only difference is the last couple of kilometres which is done wirelesly, slower and more expensive than a cable.
No matter how much bandwidth an ISP rents/allocates, the data cannot travel faster than the handset to tower speed, and for most that is under 10mbps.
10 mbps to the handset but broadband to Los Angeles will probably be only allocated 1-3 mbps. Maybe they get 50 mbps to the local CO, doesn’t mean they get that out of TH.
Indisputable verifiable FACT: I regularly get more bandwidth internationally on DTAC 4G than my broadband provider. Part of that has to do with tons of customers abandoning DTAC thus providing much better contention ratios. DuckDuckGo it dude: contention ratios.
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26 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:
There is nothing on the map that shows any greater capacity or bandwidth available exclusively to internet to/from a mobile phone. It shows the opposite, all ISP's connect to the dozen gateways and then off to the broader international internet. So far as the map is concerned cellular providers are just another ISP, nothing to say they route their traffic any differently or have a greater international bandwidth.
The only difference is the last couple of kilometres which is done wirelesly, slower and more expensive than a cable.
No matter how much bandwidth an ISP rents/allocates, the data cannot travel faster than the handset to tower speed, and for most that is under 10mbps.
Dude... look at the map. DTAC has its own gateway and it’s own routes. AIS has its own gateway (AWN) and its own routes. TRUE has its own gateway and it’s own routes.
Each route has different costs. Lower cost users are put on lower cost more congested routes. It’s not all equal. Look up the difference between TCP and UDP.
Look up contention ratios for broadband.
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2 hours ago, Peterw42 said:
They are all sharing the same internet backbone, Once you get to the cell tower, its the same internet, the cellular base station plugs into the same internet infrastructure. The cable from bangkok to chaing mai would have the same shared traffic on it. There are only a couple of cables that leave thailand and all the internet traffic is on those cables. There is no seperate connections for cellular traffic
The Thai average real world speed for 4G internet is 10Mbps, a cabled in connection is 50-100 Mbps. That is faster and unlimited data.
Really bad and false information here. There are about a dozen international gateways in TH with over 40 different routes to various providers. See the map here:A physical cable isn’t as important as how much bandwidth is rented/purchased on that physical cable.
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On 2/15/2020 at 6:07 AM, Peterw42 said:
Internet via a sim card will always be slower or less data than a cabled in service. If your internet cuts off 10 times a day, that is a fault,
Get your existing service repaired.
This is false. Especially in the case of international access. Thai ISPs often route “home” users over the cheapest and most congested routes available and allow huge contention issues (putting 100 users on same line). I often get much better *real world* performance via mobile than broadband.
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Veracrypt is best used for creating an encrypted container to put files on your HD or flash drive or such.
For encrypting on cloud storage such as Google Drive or M$ OneDrive, use Cryptomator. This encrypts file by file and better manageable for cloud storage.
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Cambodia banning = just a reason to ask for higher under the table “fees” from “enforcement” officials. ????
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16 hours ago, oldhippy said:
How does a ban on ONLINE gambling make thousands of jobs disappear?
How it typically works with the Chinese online casinos: they have a live dealer (typically attractive female) on video feed. It’s quite something to see behind the scenes....literally a warehouse sized room with just rows and rows of dealers on camera.
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And yet it’s this thread that shows up in the newsletter instead of the one in the business forum. Cool.
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If you keep passport / visa images on your phone to show to police if potentially stopped.... keep in mind you’ll be handing over your unlocked and unencrypted phone willingly to the police.
Just something to keep in mind depending on what else is kept on your phone.
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A lot of you guys are quoting “unlimited data” but the speed gets capped at a certain level of gigabytes consumed.... making it virtually unusable for anything except messaging and light browsing.
What you want is unlimited data with no quota speed caps.
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You can turn it around however you want, and what you want or not want to convince yourself about has no relevans. What has relevans is that according to Thai law and regulations you can not even carry a bag of garbage out of your Thai wife´s restaurant without a work permit. Simply explained. No workpermit = No work! Disregarding what you do when you stay inside Thailand.
This isn't really quite correct. Doing online freelancing doesn't apparently violate Thai laws as confirmed by immigration a few years ago when they raided a co-working space. Full story: https://asiancorrespondent.com/2014/10/thailand-immigration-officials-raid-chiang-mai-co-working-space/
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Uhm you just told us every move you made and asked for our opinions on social media. Why did you do that?
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Btw, not to seem like a tin-foil hatter or anything.... but the connections here on Thaivisa don't use any kind of encryption. It'd be fairly trivial to match usernames and what people are posting back to their internet connection / ISP account.... and thus your address.... etc.
Just something to consider in your future postings.
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FYI you are giving up free pics of your face to Microsoft to use however they want with that app. Read the terms.
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I pay for a vpn service...the one I use has pops all over the world. I often use the one in SG because of the speed and distance to TH.
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Typically I get a much faster connection to Singapore. So if you use a VPN and connect to a Singapore pop...you can "cheat" their international bandwidth capping.
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Apple Pay. HealthKit. Homekit. Carkit, Researchkit. Yeah droid had Google Wallet but it sucks and no one really uses it. Maybe Droid does rush stuff out quickly. But it generally sucks and no one uses it. Apple takes the time to implement well.
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What I like about Android is the choices I bought the Z3 because I take many photos and the dedicated shutter button is great. My phone needs to be locked by a 6 digit pin as per my company policy to have corporate email. Pushing and holding the shutter button unlocks the camera and I can snap away many great photos without having to unlock the phone. Plus the battery lasts forever so no need to charge it all day.
Uhm, you can set the iPhone so you can use the camera without unlocking. The volume down button snaps a pic (acts as shutter) as well as volume button on headphones.
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TBH I'm not an Apple person but I was really hoping they would set the bar again by bring out an amazing smart watch. OFC hoping the competition would copy it into Android format. Where Apple lead the world into smart phones and tablets I don't see it in their watch. It looks like a cheap 80's digital watch I'm sure it will sell like hotcakes to i-peeps anyways as many Apple people just want to belong. The Moto and LG phones look so much better what a disappointment from Apple.
"I'm sure it will sell like hotcakes to i-peeps anyways as many Apple people just want to belong."
Why do bitter haters feel the need to make character judgements about people who prefer Apple products? Does it make you feel better about yourself? Is the envy eating you up that much? Because I find great enjoyment out of a product, you feel the need to make a character judgement about me?
They've sold hundreds of millions of iPhones to people that love using them.....but to the haters is just hundreds of millions of blind sheep. THEY are so much smarter...THEY are so much better cause THEY don't follow the hype. Uh huh....it's all just hype?
NOT.
We enjoy the products and tools Apple makes, because they work for us. Worry about finding something that works for you and makes you happy without hating on people who prefer something different.
BTW...Remember when all the people were touting the superiority of their Nokias and Blackberries to the iPhone? Uh huhh....kinda like the watch today. "My watch is so much better...it doesn't need to be charged...yadda yadda"
Mmmmm hmmmmmmm.
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If you use free proxy servers you should be aware of the significant risks. Depending how they are setup, they can log everywhere you go, and every key you press.....including all your login credentials and passwords (while you are using it). They can be set-up to literally break encryption (if you don't check certs, which no one ever really does).
Additionally free proxies have been a haven for getting malware and adware on Windows PCs. (It's quite easy if you're a windows user). It's not always the people running the free proxies, but the proxies themselves can be hacked to deliver malware to users.
Be aware...using them does carry a fairly significant amount of risk.
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BTW, one quick note on DuckDuckgo. If you add !g to your search, you'll search on Google. If you add !sp you'll search on Startpage. So I have Duckduckgo set as my default on the Browser (Safari) and on iPhone, and then just use the ! codes depending.
Totally Free VPNs ??
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99% of “free” VPNs are actually just ad networks or data harvesters in disguise. Some are just outright criminals and scams looking to harvest your passwords and accounts.
If you’re on a free VPN and ever get a browser warning about a mismatched certificate.... watch out! The VPN is inserting itself in your pathway to the site, breaking site encryption and will be able to see everything you do on that site including entering any password.