I have received checks in Germany in the last decade, specifically when a health insurer refunded premiums but did not have bank details on file for me.
Sorry, not a native English speaker, probably missused "not a thing". I thought it would mean "not important" or "not something people use all the time" or "irrelevant".
“Not a thing” is a confusing idiom. It specifically means never happens, ever, but the idiom is frequently used in contexts where hyperbole is expected, so a literal translation accounting for the hyperbole might be something more like “I’ve seen it once, but it’s vanishingly rare”.
Targeted at foreign diplomats, requires a special app, and mobile phones to be deposited away from their owners while shopping – has anyone decompiled the app to see what it is up to?
Why wasn't Circle using deposit networks? Did they take out private uninsured deposit insurance?
Circle's competitor Paxos is using IntraFi Network and Reich & Tang Deposit Solutions for BUSD according to their reports (https://paxos.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/BUSD-Monthly-St...) and has obtained insurance for most of their balances in excess of FDIC insurance limits.
I'm on Penang, Malaysia right now. Sort of stumbled into the digital nomad lifestyle: was living in Berlin and decided it wasn't going to be a good place to be during a pandemic, so I flew to Singapore back in March '20 and just kept going since then.
Nomad tax setups vary, there's no one-size-fits-all answer. It depends on your citizenship(s), residency/ies when you started nomading, income, location and type of employer/clients, and where you want to spend time.
I'd love to travel and work but I work for a U.S. employer and need to keep a U.S. address, which is an expensive requirement if one doesn't already own property!
> I'd love to travel and work but I work for a U.S. employer and need to keep a U.S. address, which is an expensive requirement if one doesn't already own property!
How much of a resident do you have to be in the U.S.?
Just an address you can receive mail at: https://www.postscanmail.com/. They have a ton of locations, if you want no state income tax + high CoL (for employers doing adjustments): Seattle.
Note there's some issues with using these types of addresses (specifically those designated as Commercial Mail Receiving Agencies by the USPS) with some banks and credit card issuers. Probably your employer would be fine with this.
A mail receiving service in the US is not expensive. I used Traveling Mailbox for years to maintain a Seattle address (Washington has no state income tax, so its a good state to establish residency in so you’re only paying Federal income taxes). You will need a real residential address to set that up, and banks require a real address to open an account, but you can then add a mailing address. You should set all that up before you start traveling. Once you have a mailing address in the US your employer/clients won’t know or care that it’s a service.
Mail receiving services scan your postal mail and you can see it online. You can decide to download it, trash it, or forward it to another address. They also receive packages and will forward them. Some will even deposit paper checks for you, though I found I could download check images, add my signature with a photo editing program, then deposit with my bank’s mobile app by photographing the check on my laptop screen (I had clients who paid with paper checks when I was traveling).
Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. It's impossible to tell from the thread however, whose own counterclaims definitely ring hollow. For example:
Jeff spends a lot of time repeating the baseless allegations of just 2 Crawfish residents to support his entire article. But what do the vast majority of Crawfish Rock residents actually think? Perhaps he should have asked Virginia Mann:
Doesn't explain why the allegations are baseless; let alone why Virginia Mann's views should be taken as representative of "the vast majority of Crawfish Rock residents".
