For example, before Christianization around 1030 years ago Russia had it's own form of socialism and democracy.
Then it was subverted and invaded.
Marxists-leninists (so called) of course didn't enjoy the fact of Socialism existing before feudalism - which didn't fit into theory.
Now there's a myth "they were savages, half-beasts before Cyrill and Methodius,
couldn't write". While in fact Novgorod had letters exchanged between lowest ranks of society. But the myth is profitable
to both marxists and "traditionalists".
History is written by invaders.

These links are old. Quite a number of cards from those lists don't work anymore. For example CryptoPay will start working in Russia. Europe, then the rest will be later steps.

Background: in January 2018 VISA (and later MasterCard too) told WaveCrest corporation to shut down their cards (the reasons are not important). Most of the "Bitcoin debit card" services were relying on cards issued by WaveCrest and they've got a hard blow. Most of them are still not back on business.

Most of the cards still in business after this happened usually have unreasonably high fees or they're mostly for US.
A notable comeback is Wirex, they are back after WaveCrest episode, they do have even Virtual Cards too, but I think that they work now only in Europe. Some do have complains against them, but overall they are not so bad, I am using their card, but some precautions would not hurt.

Russia is the second power by the number of nuclear warheads. But all of them are in such condition that a large part of them do not fly. Lol! Russia is a collapsed Empire that can not accept this. Erdogan wants to do the same with Turkey. I find it funny when rogue States oppose themselves to country number one.

So what? Are they gonna go to war with the US? I just read an article about Russia saying the similar thing. The funny thing was though that they had quotes from Russia saying the same thing earlier this year and every year for the past 5 years or so. I don't think this quote from one minister is actually going to mean anything. What are they doing to do about it?

Whitepapers are to lure investors. Don't get me wrong, but many whitepapers are just full of bullshit and have very little value/ juice = technical descriptions, detailed info on devs plans.
This trend started few years ago, when people started saying that no whitepaper = scam.
Today I would say it may be exactly opposite.
Recently I was looking on Steem (Steemit.com) history and they started with no wallpaper of all, hell, they haven't even post description of their project.

In my country, banks give an average of 15-18, and even 21-23 percent per annum, for depositing money. This, in principle, a good income, even given the small inflation. This, after all, is stable and guaranteed profit. If the bank is a state bank, profits are guaranteed by state assets, and if the bank is commercial, then there is a guaranteed deposit fund from which money is returned to depositors if the commercial bank goes bankrupt. True, the guaranteed amount of payments is about 8-12 thousand dollars. However, vseravno, a guarantee of return is.
If you have invested your money in the crypto currency, you are fully responsible for their safety and assume all the risks of their loss. And there are a lot of such risks. And their own mistakes, and hackers, and just the riskiness of crypto-currency investments. Here you can make good money, and you can lose everything.

Almost every exchange tied the altcoins to BTC, if their not tied to ETH. That's why if BTC goes down, all crypto tokens will go down too in terms of USD price as it was tied to BTC. It's like the Law of Relativity or it's like how a specific market/country crashes when their currency crashes in value too in FORex. It's like a common occurrence in the market. Wether it be stocks or the crypto market.

But will anybody want to perform that many transactions on a coin that basically has no acceptance and is not being used for payments anywhere. What are they hoping for with those hundreds of thousands transactions? That there will be so many new projects to create the demand? I've read somewhere recently that the interest in ICOs is going down. There even was a graph showing how much money did ICOs gather in the last couple months and it was getting lower every month since the beginning of the year.

For me I can see that altcoins and bitcoin is not connected, "sometimes" why? it is because some altcoins stands independent because they have different investors who choose to hold, sell and trade which like to call marketing contro.

Yes it is a fact that sometimes when bitcoin goes down the specific altcoin goes down as well but that can be changed due to investors who seek to buy the specific altcoin they want.

To understand it, sometimes altcoin is independent and not it is because of the people who hold and buy altcoin.

In short they move because of the people who manipulates the market of the cryptocurrency.

My dream of crypto is that I want to get lots of coin and I hope the bitcoin will be raised to $ 20,000 as 2017 took place. I dreamed of a supermarket that would allow the payment by bitcoin when I went shopping at the supermarket.

I'm not credible with this project. You should once again carefully study all the information about the project and the team, understand what their strategy is, you can even imagine yourself in their place and imagine yourself a part of this project, then you can see its benefits and shortcomings. I definitely will not participate in it.

This anti-ETH sentiment is caused by competitors like EOS and Cardano who market themselves as Ethereum killers. Last year everyone loved ETH and criticism was very rare, but now that competitors have launched their networks, the FUD bombardment has begun. I personally wouldn't be 100% bearish on ETH, I think in some very long run it will lose to BTC, if Bitcoin will get smart contracts, sidechains and other features, simply because Bitcoin is more decentralized and secure, but in the shorter perspective ETH at least has some proven track record of developers doing their job, while its competitors are still very young.

Thanks for sharing this. This part in particular is a little bit worrying to me. We know a lot of people have jumped into crypto doing little or no research, and that contributed to all that volatility in such a short time.

I myself am into Ethereum but am starting to have a few doubts after seeing this. A speculative price cannot hold up against an actual price if there is nothing fundamental backing the asset, and that might be the case for ETH if this scaling problem is in fact an issue. However, this is just one side of it like you said and more research is needed.