Danish banks have implemented significant restrictions on how Danish kroner (DKK) used outside Denmark can be repatriated back into Denmark.
Due to these circumstances, which are unfortunately beyond Mullvad’s control, Mullvad will no longer be able to accept DKK from its customers. We will continue to credit DKK received until the end of the month, but considering postal delays, it is best to stop sending it immediately.
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I didn’t recognize the DKK acronym and thought it was a cryptocurrency for a second.
Use Monero.
Is there an easy way to buy monero?
Convert Bitcoin on a DEX.
When I was in Denmark I was shocked how many cameras there were, everywhere. I mean not just in the city, but everywhere on the countrywide.
Also Denmark is one of those weird countries where its illegal to have your map software tell you where the speed cameras are.
In general, it feels like Denmark loves panoptic surveillance.
That is not true at all. The police has even officially recommended the use of speed trap avoidance software. We even have an entire market of it, most notably with Saphe that’s probably the world’s biggest producer of traffic alarms.
That’s a good thing. Just drive below or at the speed limit?
Edit: Lots of speeding assholes around here, it seems 🤷
It shouldn’t be illegal to share easy to find information. What next, are you going to make illegal to give someone directions to the local bar?
It’s not illegal to share the information, it’s illegal to have your nav software automatically tell you that there is a speed trap.
That’s sharing information
I’ve lived in Denmark for decades. The only cameras I see are basically surveillance cameras in stores etc and speed cameras. I see more cameras in most other countries I go to.
We have nothing compared to fx. London.
Where did you see cameras?
That’s not correct. You can even buy gadgets for this in many stores.
Sounds like you haven’t lived in Denmark for a while. Homes have cameras, beaches have cameras, forests have cameras, roads have cameras
You can’t read.
Take your DKK, buy Monero on Haveno, send to mullvad, done
https://github.com/retoaccess1/haveno-reto/actions
Why did you specifically link to the GitHub actions page?
Because it isn’t in the tags or releases section yet, but it is available as executables under the actions. So you choose the latest build and scroll all the way to the bottom and you will find the installers. You do have to be signed in though in order to download it for now.
Edit: And yet we still have almost 200 monero on the offer books after only a week of being active and being hard to download.
Danes annoying Swedes on purpose? I am shocked! Shocked I say!
Well, not that shocked.
This is part of the law to stop money laundering.
Denmark had issues in the past that pulled money out of Denmark with either cash or money transfers, and therefore banks have to document where big transfers come from.
So this is basically an unfortunate example on how this also hits innocent companies.
But Denmark had to stop it all together, because we are talking about billions being pulled from Denmark this way.
It’s also just the scale of Denmark. The US has billions pulled from the US every day and it’s not a problem but the US isn’t a small country of 6 million people.
That doesn’t make any sense.
The US just accepts that money laundering is taking place, Denmark tries to do the opposite.
The US has no many problems, and this is also one of them. Imagine what “billions a day” could fix around the country.
That doesn’t make any sense. Currency outside a nation isn’t laundering, USD is used as a trade medium around the world even when not trading with US banks or entities. Idk why you’re saying that “billions a day” is taxpayer money or something and it wouldn’t fix around the country, it’d go into the military like usual.
That doesn’t make any sense.
The US just accepts money laundering is taking place, Denmark tries to do the opposite.
The US has no many problems, and this is also one of them. Imagine what “billions a day” could fix around the country.
That doesn’t make any sense.
The US just accepts money laundering is taking place, Denmark tries to do the opposite.
The US has no many problems, and this is also one of them. Imagine what “billions a day” could fix around the country.
Denmark not being part of the eurozone despite its central location is extremely funny to me. Like some monetary San Marino.
Only Nordic countries think Denmark is central. And Norway isn’t even in the EU.
I mean, we got Finland and half the Baltics.
I think it’s important to remember that the Eurozone has two stages (ERM I and II) and they’re both important but for different reasons.
ERM I is about achieving long term economical stability, which is established according to a series of indices called convergence criteria, that are evaluated every two years on even years. A member can technically apply for the second stage if they pass only two consecutive evaluations (4 years) with all-green marks, but the members that join nowadays do so after about a decade of green evaluations.
The goal of ERM I is to make sure a member’s economy is stable to the point that switching the currency to the euro becomes moot. But it is also a win in itself (long term economical balance).
You may wonder why even bother with ERM II if every member were ERM I. Well, ERM I is what is called a common monetary policy – but ERM II is a common fiscal policy, which would mean deeper alignment and integration of all fiscal instruments across the Union.
There is no deadline that the members must meet but most EU members are legally committed to entering ERM II someday. There’s no deadline because you can’t wish economic stability true; each member will achieve it when it achieves it.
To give some examples:
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It’s not really that central, every single eurozone country is south of Denmark. Denmark is only at the periphery of the eurozone.
Well, you have Finland in the north-east, Ireland in the north-west, and every land border faces a Euro-zone country. Few other countries can claim the latter.
“Every land border”…There is only one…
Edit: and looking at a map, actually several countries have “every land border” to eurozone countries. Portugal, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg all fit that one, several with multiple land borders even. That’s 30% of the eurozone countries.
Spain has land borders with 3 non-EU countries…
Some of those probably have some tiny overseas territory for which that is not true.
overseas territories would probably be island states, so they’re unlikely to have a land border to any country at all. But sure, maybe there is some. But then the Danish/Canadian border would count too, making it untrue for Denmark as well.
Denmark does in fact have a very small land border with Canada - this happened quite recently and is pretty funny. So it’s actually 2! 😄
That true…so it doesn’t even share every land border with the eurozone! 😅
Canada is not a Euro-zone country.
And also, Ireland is south of Denmark.
They can pry my kroner from my cold dead hands!
But seriously, you’re right. What makes it even stranger is that the value of kroner is pegged at 746,038 kroner pr. 100 euro. Which, basically, is just euros with extra steps.
It’s more related to the fact that once you join the Eurozone (ERM II) there’s no way to take it back, and for some reason this resonates negatively with Danish people. AFAIK there’s been opinion polls the suggest that a referendum on the matter would (still) not pass. Also AFAIK the Danish political agenda does not lean particularly for or against it otherwise, as you said, it’s technically moot either way.
You do realize that Danish and Dutch are two entirely different people in two entirely different countries?
Ha ha, sorry, I’m having an early morning moment. I’ve kept talking about Dutch instead of Danish, I’ll fix it.
There’s a lot more to sovereign monetary policy than currency exchange rates, such as the capital controls being exercised here
I was trying to find information about this restriction. It seems it applies to cash and relates to Danish banks’ ability to implement AML controls. https://www.nationalbanken.dk/en/what-we-do/notes-and-coins/exchange-of-danish-cash-abroad