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isn't bitcoin unsafe. I've read someone can break into anybody's bank account and drain it. Leaves no trails. You lose, they get rich.Comment
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Bitcoin transactions are almost entirely safe. Someone cannot just take bitcoins with a fake request to your wallet, you have to actually send them bitcoin.Originally posted by George Pill View Post
The only way you can be robbed is the same way they can get into your bank account. Malware, phishing and other methods to gain access to your wallet account. Just like at the bank were transfers and such are very secure. Hackers actually have to guess the password for your bank account or bitcoin wallet. So if you have a bitcoin wallet then you should secure it with a password and a 2 factor authentication, then it would be virtually impossible for anyone to drain your account.
I use bitcoin sometimes and have a wallet at Paxful they are very trusted.
It is actually harder for your Bitcoin wallet company to steal your bitcoin than it is for a bank to steal your money.
imagine you had bitcoin in 2017-2018, people made a fortune.Comment
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The best solution is to have a hardware wallet.
Never let to much coins in a online platform. Nothing is 100% secured if you count on somebody else to secure your money.
The most famous ones:
- https://www.ledger.com/
- https://trezor.io/
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Then you can lose it. There is probably less chance of getting hacked in your virtual wallet than actually losing your physical wallet.Originally posted by bernipes View Post
This is why i leave most of my money in the bank when visiting Thailand and I keep very little in my wallet.
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Yes, you can loose it, but when you activate your key, it give you couple of words (20 usually).Originally posted by Crag Rockheart View Post
With theses words you can restore you wallet on an other key. So just just have to buy an other one and it's done.
If somebody find you key, they can't use it anyway thanks to your password and a hardware encryption
i fully recommand to never let to much money on an online wallet. Even the biggest ons can be hackedComment
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That just looks like Isan inside Bangkok. If you go out to the country those that are not rich live in ramshackle housing and perhaps find alternate means of making money. Just because they live this way doesn't mean they are hungry or lonely or without family. They could easily move to the country and live the same life.Originally posted by George Pill View Post
It is probably more exciting in Bangkok or family is there. Slums like this in the west have starving people with no hope and often alone. Thailand is still very communal and every Thai often seems like family to each other, which helps everyone. The religious aspect of the country also helps.
Bangkok has always been the type of place where you can just go set up your tent on the edge of town and generations later have a house and property. This doesn't really happen anymore in our western world. In Geography this is called a 'peripheral squatter zone', which is a key feature of third world cities around the world.
So these inner city type slums also exist on the edges of town and often these people are relocated there to remove these slums to make way for commercial ventures.
They set up on the sides of railway tracks because that land is always unoccupied.
I suspect that these people are squatters and may technically own the land that their ramshackle structures sit on, even in Bangkok.
People seem to be able to just live on the street or anywhere they want in Thailand without being considered a vagrant.
Section 1382. Where a person has, for an uninterrupted period of ten years in case of an immovable peacefully and openly possessed a property belonging to another, with the intention to be its owner, he acquires the ownership of it.
This is one of the features of Thailand that you do not really need to do anything to survive. You can always find somewhere to eat or sleep.
The fact it almost never gets cold helps too. Perhaps value of life is lower, but the cost of life is also lower.
This is one reason it is so fun to go there and meet the ladyboys because they are often in it for fun and not just money.
There is far less capitalistic pressure and less reason to work your ass off. The Western world has a lopsided balance of work and fun, we work too much for a small amount of fun. The pressure here is always to make money because if you don't you will struggle to survive and may just not make it.
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This says this house near Buriram cost $16,000 USD to build.
That looks pretty similar to my house.
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https://www.pattayamail.com/featured...-season-328774
Pattaya is a damned mess. Nobody plans anything intelligently.Comment
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It's pretty hard to manage torrential downpours that happen for months on end. Bangkok used to be like Venice and have water in place of streets.
Thousands of years of building canals and water management with dams and now Bangkok is mostly dry but fills up quickly with big rains.
Instead of trying to manage the water so much, they try to live with it by making buildings out of concrete and waterproofing as much as possible.
New homes in flood plains have no basements and can actually float if necessary.
Towns with beaches have extra problems when there is lots of rain. Everywhere in Thailand gets flooded like this every year, so it is not unusual to anyone.
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It seems to often happen in October almost every year in Pattaya. However, I'd rather have been in Pattaya than in the extreme southeast of France and Italy where the storm Alex destroyed several valleys.Originally posted by George Pill View Post
Here is a video of the storm in Nice. funnel clouds are very rare at this latitude.
Here is a "before and after" video in the valleys north and northeast of the city of Nice :
The press article by Radio Canada : https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle...-italie-france
Italian videos and press articles :
https://www.3bmeteo.com/giornale-met...vizzera-394966
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