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No, but once I saw the crowd gathering when it turned out an American tourist had run out of money before paying his bill on a night out. There were about 4 of them, this was in Bangkok. It was in Soi Cowboy and part of a group of bars, I was sitting in the outside bar area at the time, as was the tourist who must have been in his mid 50's. I asked the guy what the problem was and how short he was on his bill - he'd spent about a couple of thousand in this place and was short 100 Baht and they were waiting to pounce on him. I just gave him the 100 Baht and wished him good luck, he paid his bill and was on his way. The gathered 'bouncers' then dispersed - I found this treatment quite despicable and avoid any places run by wannabe 'expat gangsters' these days.

The most used currency for crime worldwide is and always has been the USD. Bitcoin doesn't touch it. Yes, I've been here a while and am well versed in how things work. Paypal Thailand had one use for me which you may not have considered, when using it with the Thai address you don't have to pay the 20% VAT if you're ordering something from the UK/EU. This is the only reason I ever used it and I used it pretty often.

The exact same thing happened 4 years ago.

I seem to recall a similar Thai only scenario just a year or two ago, it was the same excuse back then as well - Thai ID card number only.

Interesting, I also blame him. The FBI will also blame him, as will the courts

I can quite literally feel the hate. Well done paypal for preventing me from having a few thousand Baht available online for easy use. I'm sure this change will do absolutely zero to 'save the world' from the usual excuses of money laundering and preventing terrorism and make many thousands of people hate the company even more than they already do. I never had this kind of problem with Bitcoin. It just works and doesn't care who you are or where you are.

President DeSantis next.

I'm pretty sure most people have no idea what a halvening is including those who continue deride Bitcoin. The problem is not Bitcoin, it's the 1000's of scammers who got in on the act to create all sorts of what I'm going to deem securities. There are so many of them and nearly every single one of them are pure drivel. You can make good profit from trading pure drivel though.

There's a dip, fund the accounts and get ready to buy.

Who cares what this guy thinks?

I really doubt that Saylor will ever be liquidated. Time will tell.

I'm sure he will be buying all the way down, plenty of money where that came from. Fortune favours the patient. We've been here before and will be here again, I bought my first Bitcoin when it was about $12 - been quite a rough ride since then and 'it's died' many times ....????

A simple old style car alarm with a movement sensor would do the job I think. What's all this nonsense about AI? I see little evidence of actual intelligence never mind artificial intelligence.

Indeed, if he's clever he would have then moved on to another country and be living under the radar using some assumed identity. There's almost a zero chance that he's clever due to the predicament that he's in. They will likely revoke his passport and Thailand will kick him out the second they locate him, there will be no need to extradite in that case, he may be on overstay in which case it's immediate or his visa will be revoked and he will be on his way back to the UK before he knows where he is. They don't bother with extradition in a lot of cases. Thailand is one of the worst places someone should flee to while wanted for anything but maybe he came here due to the incredibly porous borders, you never know.

I doubt that because visas are a completely separate issue and it really is tit for tat when it comes to things like this, so if they made it much harder for visas to be issued there would be reciprocation. This land thing is law now so if they change it foreign offices around the world will take note. Had they done nothing at all then nothing would happen. Action = reaction, that kind of thing. Suddenly the wealthy landed Thais would find it very hard to get any kind of visa - that would be directly putting pressure on people in Thailand who know who to complain to.

Sounds like a lease but full details are not given in the proposal. In essence they appear to be offering something that looks like a purchase as a long term rental where you pay the whole lot up front. A fake sale if you will. How long would it last for if it's not permanent and what happens to the land at the end of the term? I'm going to presume that ownership returns to the original seller because the foreigner can't own the glorious land on which the accomodation sits. Where I come from we call that a rental, likely a very long term rental where you pay decades worth of rent up front - but still a rental all the same and likely without any kind of the services you would expect from a rental. In other words, they're proposing something that would rip us off.

I did mine last year, 100% online, uses your passport picture, it arrived at my chosen UK address in less than a week.

Might help if you can post either the form itself, a link to it or a screenshot of the parts of the form concerned.

For sure, also a very, very large number of people wouldn't bother coming. Who really wants the hassle of applying for a visa to go on holiday - nobody. People go the route of least resistance, if Thailand required visa applications then peole would simply go elsewhere and there's plenty of other places. Also it wouldn't have kept any of these people the report is about out of the country.

Gonna be gridlock, even more than normal.

Within 1 year of course. ????

He hates us all.

Slippery slope. Starts off slowly but rapidly accelarates as things move on. Think of downhill skiing.

Yes, he did. Not one left in the whole country was his lie.

Well we can't have any competition for the big boys can we. I wonder if they're breaking any ASEAN type regulations here?