They are not hiding behind pseudonyms and attend meetups regularly, stuff like RingCt was peer revieewed by legder journal...
And yes i call zcash skechy too, creating a currency with a trusted setup and stuffing 10% off all mining rewards in your pockets its an outright scam.
What a load of crap article, Instantsend bullshit can per se not work, it takes time in a consensus network to reach consensus, except u are losing some kind of offchain network like Lightning/Raiden.
The inbuilt coinmixer is also a hilarious joke, jeez.....
Uber is really bad in SouthEast Asia, Grab is by far the most used here, especially in Singapore, Thailand and co.
Uber is also useless in China...
Grab just offers so much more from motorcycle rides, delivery service, payment etc...
In germany and other european countries Uber is also completly useless, they have to use local law abiding apps like MyTaxi.
So no, Uber does not have a solid worldwide presence i would say, Singapore, Germany and other are clearly what u call first world...
Volkswagen Wolfburg has a very big IT devision, VW financials Braunschweig too... Audi and Porsche also do a lot of IT stuff... they work together with the local univeristies on self driving cars etc.
I was doing self driving car stuff 10 years back at tu braunschweig with VW.... I never been in a big german company where they outsourced IT work to india and co.
I did, i can only encourage you to try it. I dropped out of University even because of my self employment. I would never look back and change that. There's not much bureaucracy as a Kleinunternehmer (small business owner), depends on the niche you work in tho but for IT stuff and even importig/exporting electronics i never had big issues.
I am part owner of a US startup now, we have to deal with as much bureaucracy there...The big thing that makes the US different is that it's way easier to get capital, but there are as many weird laws which differ from county to county..
Yes, there are 2 old concepts which are used by most countries.
1) Jus sanguinis (latin for blood ties or right of blood), this means u get citizenship if one of your parents is a citizen of country X.
2) Jus soli (latin for right of the soil), which means u get citizenship by the territory you are born on.
Both countries the USA and Germany nowadays have a mix of those, Germany had 1. back in the day and then introduced 2. over time, also special foreigner laws like getting a permant residency permit quiet eaily after you have been there for 8 years.
SEA especially Thailand has still only 1. so it's quiet impossible to get permant residencies till today - but fear not, you can bribe urself in paying money and its called the thai elite card -.-
You lack reading comprehension, i said in the tech hubs immigrants are welcome more than in other parts especially rural areas.
So yes, of course SV and NYC are more open to immigration then the countryside, same as in germany.
Compared to SEA both countries (DE and USA) are super welcoming, here in Thailand as a foreigner it's damn hard, i cannot even own a business as a majority owner. Nor can i buy land, it's also next to impossible to ever get a permant residency. Other SEA countries are the same, its pretty discouraging.
The country has been mostly rebuild by germans itself with a lot of financial aid of course. The 60s immigration wave was caused by the west german Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle), due to the eastern german wall it was not possible for east germans and other eastern europeans to migrate to western germany. Thus they invited turkish citizens as a lot of manufacturing jobs in the automobile industry and co. needed workers.
A lot of israelis come to Berlin btw. and vice versa - there's a whole kind of exchange from .il and .de tech workers, not too ure why but i think both sides find the other side interesting.
A lot of people in Berlin i know are tech guys from tel aviv.
They use an OTC broker like genesis or cumberland (DWR).
Can easily sell up to 100 mio and receive it in cash the next day.