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Got into crypto purely out of a nerdy interest, namely the mining of them. Started when cpu mining still worked, and the very early days of gpu mining. Must been 2010 or something like that. Just the kick of getting it all set up, was rather challenging in those early days, and have a computer actively generating money just churning away on numbers!. Never made much out of it, living in Europe back then electricity was too expensive to make it really worthwhile. So sold most of to cover expenses. A few years ago I did find on an old backup drive a word file with the recovery phrase for a wallet, actually was able to reinstall the app and restore the wallet an found a few tens of mBTC in it. At the time probably a leftover from a rounded of sale and left there as virtually worthless at that time when I was mining. Found out it BTC was worth over 40k$, so sold them mBTC for about 2000€. Now I don't hold any crypto, to close to gambling for me, just as any US stock at the moment under Taco Trump 🤣🤣 Had fun with it, never really considered it as something really moneymaking (was obviously dead wrong there 😁 )

Cool, missed it, good reporting!

Thai version as received directly from the CAAT:

For those of you who fly drones "off the books" in Thailand, be aware there is a general flying ban at the moment due to the Cambodia issues. This is already a little while, as I have been traveling just found out now. Those who fly "legally" will have received a Thai language mail on the e-mail adres used when registering with the UASportal from the CAAT. Myself I also seperatly have received a warning from my drone insurance (FEIC). So flying around now is going to stick out a bit, and fines can be steep, including risck of jailtime!

Can see it in the app. At the bottom you have a tab called "Cards" after you get a menu. One of the items is called limits....

Net worth should always generate disposable income! If you own a 100 million Baht home and you have absolutely no disposable cash, you live above your worth. Renting it out at a very conservatieve 2,5% should generate 200,000Baht/ month income. Or sell and do something smart with the 100 million.

Don't get mixed up by median and average net worth! Quite a substantive amount of Thais worth waay more then the average Farang retiree... So compared to the median net worth, farangs would do well, compared to the average net worth, most farangs are probably considered piss poor 😄

Just to add... There are not that many reasons to specifically buy abroad, but there sure are some! Most importantly, for me anyway, as a French native speaker, is the keyboard. Most English speaking persons are anyway used to QWERTY (which is the base for the Thai keyboards), for us it's AZERTY. Quite a few differences making switching between the two absolutely not intuitive! Add to that we have quite a few very commonly used accented letters (éèçà), PITA on a QWERTY. Guess its the same for Germans (QWERTZ) and Scandinavians! Them silly stickers don't do it for me, especially on backlit keyboard! Shipping I won't risk, I'd just plan it with a family visit and put it in my carry-on luggage (like I guess a major percentage of today's travellers carry a laptop)! Unless you'd take 3, on the very slim chance of being checked t the Bangkok airport, unlikely they would make an issue out of it.

If you can, make online reservation: https://www.immigration.go.th/#serviceonline

I got one just last week at Chaeng Wattana: FYI, am here in the first 90 days of a non immigrant O based on marriage. Needed paperwork: - passport copies (id page and last entry stamp) - copy of e-visa - TM30 receipt - Lease contract - Copy of the housebook of the owner, important page was where the address was, and has to match perfectly with the adress used on the tm30 report. -filled out application form

Indeed it is! Face scan works perfect for changing the transfer limit after which a facescan is needed, to maximum 50000 Baht. But you cannot get the daily limit higher then 50000 Baht, so you are never able to do a transfer for which a facescan is required!

When you get that banner you have been put on the new limits. Even with facial scan that cannot be increased, so total of max. 50000Baht daily through your app (transfers etc) and 20000 daily with atm card.

They are also limiting the "terminal" transactions, so called "spending" limit, whereas the "withdrawal" limit is for cash withdrawal at atm's. Both at 20,000 Baht at Kasikorn for those who have been hit with the "farang" limits. For those emergencies I have an Amex Platinum (current 25k€ limit) with lots of insurances included (up to 3 million $ equivalent medical), but once I move more permanent over here I likely will have to stop that as it is tied to my current European income and insurance coverage only valid for trips less then 90 days...

Please check in your app if you get the red notice "you can increase the limit up to 50000 Baht" when you enter an amount greater then 50,000

I think it is stated many times here, with screenshot proving facial scan and the works are in order. There are 3 groups: 1) limits as usual (in which group you obviously are) 2) people going in for an update, might be to do the facial scan first time, might be an update because of new passport, ... Then walk out suddenly hit with lower limits, unable to change them. 3) people who up to a few days ago had the same high limits and able to change them (using facial scan to confirm changes), suddenly noticing the limits have been greatly reduced and not being able anymore to change them back to the old levels, with for example the app clearly stating that the maximum daily limit can be increased to maximum 50,000 Baht. Highlighted in red font in the app! Plenty people from group 2 and 3 have visited their branch and called Kasikorn's K-center (with and without assistance from branch staff), and across the board got the same answer, big apologies but those are the new limits as imposed by the Bank of Thailand. Just because you happen to be in group 1 does not give you the right to ridicule people in group 2 and 3 as scaremongerers. It is not only here on this forum, plenty others on reddit etc as well.