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Title: An untouched market for bitcoins: India. Post by: The Fool on February 27, 2013, 02:10:06 PM http://hi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Bitcoin&title=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7%3A%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%9C
The Indian people don't even have a Wikipedia article on bitcoins and they are second-most populous country on the planet. Does anyone here speak Hindi? How do we bring bitcoin to these people? Why aren't Indians interested in bitcoin yet? Edit: I noticed we have a sub-forum for India but it's all in English! Not a sign of native interest! Title: Re: An untouched market for bitcoins: India. Post by: dogisland on February 27, 2013, 02:38:21 PM There are a couple of market makers on Bitcoinary for the rupee.
https://www.bitcoinary.com/en/INR Title: Re: An untouched market for bitcoins: India. Post by: matthewh3 on February 27, 2013, 10:54:39 PM The amount of remittances sent from the UK to India is in the £BILLIONS and I bet they pay heavily in fees. This is a major opportunity for bitcoin. Lets just hope these cheap HTML5 FireFox phones take off there :)
Title: Re: An untouched market for bitcoins: India. Post by: Vernon715 on February 28, 2013, 03:02:40 AM Imagine if 1% of remmittances were sent w/btc ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: An untouched market for bitcoins: India. Post by: notig on February 28, 2013, 03:10:01 AM I want to see ubuntu support bitcoin then they can integrate it into their mobile payment systems. Imagine how cool that would be.
Title: Re: An untouched market for bitcoins: India. Post by: matthewh3 on February 28, 2013, 03:39:13 AM I want to see ubuntu support bitcoin then they can integrate it into their mobile payment systems. Imagine how cool that would be. Yeah I could see Ubuntu adopting bitcoin possibly and you know what I could also see (instead) it being used on the PS4 (as the PS4 is x86 and they can't use Microsoft software and with Steam's push towards Linux I could see Sony following somehow) but Ubuntu phones are going to be very high end phones if there to dual function as a full PC. The FireFox phone is being made cheap and is relying on HTML5 web based apps rather than a app store. The FireFox is being market at emerging markets while I bet the Ubuntu phone will be market at the high end of the western market. Deffo want a Ubuntu phone tho tho I do prefer to use Xubuntu and/or Lubuntu. Tried LMDE the other day and chose the Xfce version to save resources yet it was painfully slow compared to Xubuntu (on this DN2800 Atom). Title: Re: An untouched market for bitcoins: India. Post by: knight22 on February 28, 2013, 03:51:17 AM An exchange is on the way in Inda https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=122014.0
That should give them a huge kickoff when put in place. Title: Re: An untouched market for bitcoins: India. Post by: kangasbros on February 28, 2013, 08:25:03 AM Localbitcoins has plenty of BTC traders listed in India https://localbitcoins.com/country/IN
And there are some indian bitcoin evangelistas and startups. Title: Re: An untouched market for bitcoins: India. Post by: Akka on February 28, 2013, 08:27:11 AM About 4 weeks ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOCBjDM6ZiQ
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