ghworker2010

This is what is likely to be causing the recent price rises this yr. 

Lets see if it all comes crashing down after the SegWit2x fork in November. 

And may the share price go up after his visit.... yes please. As a shareholder of this stock I thank the general thai population for their FB addiction / loyalty. 

On 10/5/2017 at 3:56 PM, how241 said:

Good thread, interesting reading.

I agree, its been a good thread to read. I don't feel as bad now when Im awake at 5am and tossing and turning. It seems normal as it happens to everyone sometimes. 

Its been interesting reading other opinions and gives insight. 

On 10/2/2017 at 9:52 PM, Denim said:

Domirax anti hystamine

I could not find this on google

20 hours ago, connda said:

I was a Type-A, driven personality even after I retired, and suffered from insomnia constantly.
In the last couple of years, I've accepted my mortality, lightened up, stopped taken things so damn serious, moved my personality toward a Type-B personality, and I sleep 8 to 9 hours a night without a problem.
Libido?  When you get into your 60s the number of women who starts to look pretty hot expands exponentially.  As long as I have a pulse, I'm still a man.  I enjoy the opposite sex!  
See - you have something to look forward to!  

how did you move to type b personality?

16 minutes ago, Bundooman said:

I am 73. I keep fit, 20 minutes exercise at 4.50am, 30 minutes on the treadmill in the evenings after dinner. I do a fair amount of exercise by walking, chores such as gardening and getting around doing stuff throughout the working day.

 

If I drink one or maybe more bottles of beer in one night, or, maybe one or two Whiskey sodas, then I have a restless night and get up for a pee maybe twice. Pepsi or Coca cola keep me awake most of the night. (I assume the other sugar laden/caffeine drinks do the same). I don't drink it.

 

If I don't drink alcohol, or other drinks such as above, and drink only water, between Monday and Thursday, I sleep 7/8 hours - deep, restful sleep and don't get up to pee. I always feel good in the mornings with that routine.

 

My libido is OK, but sometimes it isn't so good. But hey, I'm knocking on. I can't have everything. I have a happy life, I am around young people a lot and they help keep me young and interested in life. My younger female partner and I are very close - been together for nine years. No obvious problems. Her family is great. I speak and understand a little Thai.

 

If everything went to ratsh-t. I would change course and do something else. You make your own happiness in this life and I hasten to add, I am not a wealthy, (moneywise), person but I am careful with money. I still have my dreams for the future, I don't worry about things, I smile a lot, deliberately refuse to get grumpy over trivial stuff which us older people tend to do towards the younger generations and if I reflect on that - overall, I have a fairly contented life.

 

I am also lucky in that I don't suffer from the heat, (quite the opposite), I thoroughly enjoy Thai food, willingly smile at all Thais, (it pays dividends), and finally, I try really hard not to criticize about the Asian way, too much. 

 

There you go. you asked, and this is my opinion. I hope it is of help to you.

I liked your reply. I try to smile at Thais as well. You remind me that I shouldn't criticize the asian lifestyle over here. Its wrong to do this

24 minutes ago, LostinSEA said:

Mate I'm exactly the same, 51 years young, 4-5 hours sleep is a good night & I lose my rag at the slightest thing...

 

Last time it happened (Kid you not, Business class cabin waiting to exit the plane) I had a long chat with myself and swore it will never happen again... 6 weeks so far so good :)

 

what happened on the plane? Please share

Im fast approaching middle age and finding that Im not sleeping very well here in Thailand. I often wake up in the wee hours and can't stop thinking about things. I can't get back to sleep.

A lot of the respected members on this forum are in their 60s and 70s and thus I would like to know how many hours per night on average do you get?

I feel my level of happiness is also slowly going down as I get older. Im getting angry all the time at little things. Is this normal when you get older. I read about a guy on this forum that has a mantra that he says to himself everytime he gets angry:  'I need to lower my expectations'.   'I need to lower my expectations'  'I need to lower my expectations'

I now say that to myself as soon as I get the shits about something.

Finally, what about your libido? From 50 onwards do you find yourself less interested? 

33 minutes ago, starky said:

Thaivisa search function not working?

meaningless comment from bored member is working. 

If OP wants to raise a thread about anything he/ she can do so. This is not North korea. 

4 hours ago, mrfaroukh said:

I do not trust Bitcoin. We hear many become millionaire with it, but this is a crazy idea somehow. Don't really know even if you will be able to sell what you buy. I think the USA will never allow something like this carry on and people use this instead of dollar. On the other hand all criminally earned money can be transfered via Bitcoin. Think of ISIS, other groups. Do you really think USA and other countries will really allow this to happen? 

"I think the use will never allow something like this to carry on....''    <deleted>. The U.S government are regulating the exchanges in the U.S now:

itbit exchange is a perfect example. 

Investment banks, e.g. Fidelity, are now linking bitcoin accounts to their funds. Do you think the U.S govt will suddenly take this away? No ways

6 hours ago, Donaldo said:

As long as there are people gullible enough to buy and those greedy enough to sit on them, waiting for Bitcoin to reach even dizzier heights, the perceived value will go up.

The moment those rigging the system and those smart enough to cash in it's (value) will evaporate in a whiff.

There's no one 'rigging the system'. Its de-centralised. No one has control except the owners of Bitcoin- millions of us

On 8/29/2017 at 6:13 PM, alanferdi said:

Thailand Thailand....Lovely Open country with beautiful landscape and people who do have a heart.

What got me off my rocker was the fact that you were constantly nagged.....Its normal to retire and live a normal lifestyle. But NO...Not in Thailand.

1. You have to go through these 90 day checks...they want to see if you are alive. It has got easier with this govt. but still a hazzle. Why cant they make a digital system and have retirees an ID like in Hong Kong?

2, Then you need to keep 800.000 blocked in a bank and produce receipt of it each year when you go to renew your pension visa.

3.  The constant hackling and having to play games with the immigration officials that seem to make up things as they go along.

 a. No working - Painting your own house or doing some manual work around your own house could put you into position to pay a fine from 50.000Baht. What nonsense is this. A retiree should be able to do the things he loves to do around his own house. Its his property and his money and bloodywell his hobby so what the cracker is this.....Retirement benefits for Thai employment.

b. There are jobs that only Thais can do

c. Farang is always farang and always in the wrong. The legal system does not protect. its only there to make the process a maze to both its own citizen and the rest of the world.

After spending money and making sure of the loops. It seemed to get out of hand and I thought it best to leave the country.

I am presently in Sri Lanka. It costs me 10.000Rs for a Residential visa or Retirement visa. Which is  100$. I can choose my own home, work in it and also be treated as a local. I do not have to jump loops in a circus as in Thailand. And besides most people do speak English and its easy to get about and do the things that I love doing as a retiree.

Happy I left Thailand nothing to loose!!!!

 

Im sorry but painting ones own house is NOT a risk. What are you talking about? This is B.S right?

3 hours ago, jumbo said:

I dont agree with that very broad statement... there are local (some bi lingual) schools even government provided that are  better than the often overpriced international schools and often the international schools give a lesser smooth link towards Thai universities of which some are excellent as well..

 

I agree and if your child is top of the class intellectually then there's a better chance of getting into one of the medical degree's via the 'quota' system thats available at some of the govt schools. 

On 9/12/2017 at 0:17 PM, jumbo said:

Ayutthaya, hands down. Has all you are looking for and still beach and big city around the corner. Interesting places, goood schools and universities around the corner. easy access to anywhere and the river for relaxing moments...

 

how long does it take to get to a nice beach from Ayutthaya city?

With all the tension occurring at the moment in the region, what do you think are the chances of military conflict?? My gut feeling is that there will be war in that region sometime this year. 

Putin seems to think that the U.S and NK are on the brink of war....

http://www.smh.com.au/world/north-korea-and-united-states-on-brink-of-war-warns-vladimir-putin-20170901-gy9dnl.html

I can't see Trump backing down from conflict if NK steps over the line, e.g. if they hit Guam. 

Are there any implications for Thailand if NK detonates a nuclear war head on Guam or South Korea?

There's an old thai couple who own 2 vicious dogs and they live 2 doors up from us. 1 month ago we were sitting on the pubic bench opposite our house with our toddler; and they came running up attacking my dog right in front of use. The next day we went and politely spoke to the lady and gave her 2 chains. We asked if she could chain them up prior to opening her front gate. It worked for about a week and then things returned to normal with the dogs running out on the street everyday- mostly down to our front gate.

This morning I accidentally left the gate open a bit after taking my dog for a walk. 30min later the 2 dogs were inside my yard attacking my fury friend. The wife ran out there with a stick and got them out and the old lady was complacent at her gate doing <deleted> all. 

Ive had enough and want to take the police to the front gate this afternoon. They need a warning. I don't want to have to worry about my toddler or my dog being attacked inside my front yard. If I have to I will pay an attorney to write a letter of warning. 

Does anyone know what are our rights here? What is the law regarding this issue? I will go up to the station with the wife and let her deal with them but what is the go there. Are we going to have to make a donation for 2 of them to come with us to the woman's house?

Needless to say, majority of Thai people are absolutely clueless and hopeless when it comes to dogs. I'm not saying anything new here. This is amazing thailand. 

Personally I would never use a Thai exchange. I would only use a U.S based one for sure. 

I've been doing a lot of research and investigation in the last week or so. I was clueless like OP at that time but now more knowledgeable. 

In principle it's considered safer not to keep money in the exchanges.

Bitcoin works with addresses. You send and receive money from/to addresses. For an address to be yours, you have to have the private key for that bitcoin address.

When you open an account with an exchange, what happens is they manage the address for you. This means they hold the private key, not you. So when you buy/sell cryptocurrency on an exchange, everything you buy goes into a Bitcoin address controlled by the exchange. On some occasions, there's a fine print or policy or something like that that can screw you out of your money. For example, what if you get banned from Kraken for whatever reason? What happens to your money then? It's a gray area. These things do happen.

The normal way people get around this is to trade on the exchanges, and then withdraw the cryptocurrency balance to a wallet that you control.

A wallet is basically software that lets you manage your private key, to access a bitcoin address (and send/receive coins with that address).

However Bitcoin Cash is still new created after the fork 1st Aug. The wallets don't seem very mature. Also, because Bitcoin Cash is a fork of Bitcoin, there is no error message if you try to send Bitcoin Cash to a Bitcoin (not Bitcoin Cash) address - in that situation, you simply lose what you sent!

In addition, there are currently some issues if you install a Bitcoin (Bitcoin Core) wallet and a Bitcoin Cash wallet on the same machine.

Ive read so many dodgy stories about exchanges and wallets. Heres an interesting one about Jaxx wallet:

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/users-report-losing-400000-due-to-jaxx-wallet-vulnerability/

I can't believe that a CTO would say: '' Please please please, if you do not feel comfortable with our security model do not use our products. We’re are creating for the masses a multi-platform, multi-coin interface for the blockchain ecosystem where users are in full control of their digital lives.''

_____________

Its like he is saying its not his problem. Completely rogue if you ask me. 

Ive also read not to use a 'cloud' wallet at all as theres too much risk of hacking. 

I hope that helps OP

No one has answered the question yet.... Where can one buy the new Bitcoin Cash instrument created by the fork on 1st August. Or is everyone as clueless about this as me?

On 8/3/2017 at 7:55 AM, chingching said:

I hope you take no offense, because no offense is meant, but if you need to ask that question,  then perhaps you should not be investing in crypto currencies.  Currently btc-cash ( ticker BTH (for the most part))  is traded on many major exchanges, bittrex, kraken, bitfinex.   You can see a list of markets at https://coinmarketcap.com/ ( general information )  

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/   coin specific info

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/#markets  markets

currently in alphabetical order:
BTER
Bitcoin Indonesia
Bitfinex
Bittrex
CoinExchange
Coinfloor
Cryptopia
HitBTC
Kraken
Liqui
Novaexchange
Quoine
Stocks.Exchange
The Rock Trading
ViaBTC
YoBit
 

Your reply is somewhat patronizing and borderline vague. After reading your answer I thought that you actually don't know much about it yourself but your good at copying and pasting links. The reason for this thread is bc I read somewhere that the new Bitcoin cash (created by the fork) can only be traded on the futures markets. 

To make the question more specific can you provide me with a website where I can buy Bitcoin cash (i.e. an exchange). Obviously coinbase will not provide this functionality on their systems until the 1st Jan next year. 

I would be grateful if you can provide me with the information I require. Im a non U.S citizen and thus don't have access to the above I think. 

4 hours ago, psyvolt said:

Hyperbole much...

 

Sunday rates were only cut for a select few industries (which I still don't agree with, but it wasnt a cut across the boards)

Energy costs are not the highest in the world, far from it, and neither are fuel costs. Where did you get this rubbish from???

Food prices are high, but again not anywhere near the highest in the world and comparing it to two areas are silly, but then again - you also fail to mentiom Australians have one of the highest weekly wage earnings.

Good that the gov finally put the GC spit issue to bed. Dragged on far too long.

Unemployment rampant- compared to what? It's actually low (5%). So again, your whinge has no basis. Which also goes for your drug rant. 

Your whole post is nothing more then alikely baseless pathetic rant.

Come on... The energy prices are absolutely expensive and unregulated. It was in the news a few weeks ago about another 20% price rise. 

14 minutes ago, Rancid said:

Mind you if you want to cash in on the housing bubble while there is still time may not be a bad idea to do so now.

 

I recently sold my house at a ridiculous price and downsized to a nice waterfront townhouse with very low body corporate. Cashed me up nicely and I even prefer the new place.

 

The only thing you can be sure of is that future governments see expats as a small unimportant voting block so will happily go after them.

The last sentence is exactly right. But its extremely unfair to treat ozzies like this who have been paying taxes all their life. 

5 minutes ago, carlyai said:

Why can't the expat become a resident again before they se'll the house?
I'm pretty sure they can't stop a nonresident from becoming a resident again.

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Yes this is a valid point. Maybe don't sell it in the next 12 months but hold it until after you return. In which case its still 100% taxable (under the existing post 8 May 2012 AU property CGT rules) but pro-rata recognition of prior residency SEEMS to be permitted but I cannot yet confirm this. The document isnt in the public domain (yet) and I want to see the full copy. The 2019 rule could also take it away !!)

5 minutes ago, carlyai said:

I don't know much about these things, but wouldn't they be trying to stop say Chinese investors buying up Australian properties, and then after a time selling them?
These people are only investing and driving up the house prices, then selling for big profits.


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maybe, but the average joe blow living in Thailand will be hit by this harsh new revenue raising tax law:

The proposed law is far worse than I envisoned. Its a "drop dead tax" and needs careful consideration..

1. At the TIME OF SALE if the vendor is a non-resident for tax purposes they would be incapable of access to:
a. The main residence exemption for past property use
b. The main residence eabsence rule allowing up to 6 yaers of exemption and
c. The general 50% CGT concession. eg at present a valuation at 8 May 2012 is allowed to partially protect loss of grandfathered gains