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Probably because of about one third of the Liberian population and less than half of the ppl in Uganda are literate. There are not too much computers as well. In addition if you want to train useful programmers that's not something you can get done in a few weeks, and when ppl struggling to get enough money to keep themselves afloat, they need every hand in the family on the workplaces instead of in schools.
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Their system is a fail coz their leaders are slowly killing their citizens.
even treacherous defectors cannot deny most koreans support their socialist system as it does its best to provide for their every need http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/30/217186480/defectors-think-most-north-koreans-approve-of-kim-jong-un"Experts put Kim Jong-un's popularity down to efforts improve everyday citizens' lives, with an emphasis on economic growth, light industries and farming in a country where most are believed to be short of food, Yonhap says. There are no opinion polls in the closed communist state, where — outwardly at least — the leader enjoys full and boisterous support. Though not directly comparable, the perceived approval rating outshines those of Western leaders. A recent McClatchy poll suggested only 41% of Americans back President Barack Obama's performance, while UK Prime Minister David Cameron scored 38% in a recent YouGov poll."
The Wall Street Journal, quoting the poll, says more than 81 percent of the defectors said people were getting three meals a day, up from 75 percent of the previous batch surveyed.
Perhaps that approval rate isn't entirely unbiased. You know back in the '50s in Hungary everybody loved Comrade Rakosi (he was a Stalinist dictator) and the communist party won some elections by 102% of the votes, but all of this changed sharply as soon as the new management disbanded the AVH (State Protection Authority) after the revolution in 1956  . |
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With Google at our fingertips a specialized Bitcoin search engine is unneeded.
So much hate in the world. Why dont we support each other? Support everything bitcoin. I think nobody hates your idea, but most of us don't see why it's better than using Google or the site search here in BTT . Anyway it could be useful for newcomers. |
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1) no. Bitcoins can be used for anything. You could try to create an altcoin for a specific purpose, but as soon as it is freely tradeable it can be used for anything.
2) no. How would the wallet decide whether a payment is for a specific purpose?
3) don't understand the question (and it's pretty much unrelated to bitcoin). NFC tags can be used to transmit any kind of information, but their association with some object is only as strong as they are affixed to that object.
Would you please remove the meaningless "poll" from this thread? I suppose you created it inadvertandly.
Onkel Paul
If he can write a wallet what checks the recipient address against a database of specific purpose wallets and denies the transaction if the target isn't one of those "known good" addresses then this stuff is doable. |
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Yep! I can confirm that (as SGK wrote) you can register a domain without any real identification, therefore you are free to use any fake information.
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People are talking about the government seizing bitcoin but wouldn't that be hard to do if the person who as doing illiegal things with them had a secure wallet? Would the government force them to put in a password to decrypt it or something of the sort?
If someone can get a couple of more years behind bars for not cooperating with the police, then I guess most of them do not need to much force to persuade. (Except long term investors .) |
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100% decentralized exchange possible is if someone were to create a software that is running on many different nodes. In other words, each user's computer is hosting the exchange similar to the old days where each user's computer is hosting the bitcoin server.
All future coins created must be compatible with that exchange's software. This way the coins are not control by someone.
I think that's a great idea because eventually it will become a win-win situation for all because you don't have to trust anybody that could potentially run off with the coins and at the same time, those running the nodes will be motivated to maintain the network by earning a portion of the exchange amount. Supernet doing this, but only for a limited number of cryptos at this moment. |
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It's fashionable and most bitcoin holders are "solvent", I guess.
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I don't think that any govt would buy cryptos (maybe police or secret services if necessary). Cryptos are dust if you compare it to the amount of money govts playing with.
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takes a pilot to teach a pilot. don't know if they have an actual aircraft, tho.
But who has taught the initial pilot then? Instructor+flying simulator and experience on the real one. Most mercenary pilots are former members of regular armies. E.g in Mali many of the pilots are Ukrainian mercenaries, in the Eritrean–Ethiopian War Russian mercenaries flown the planes on both sides (!), but you can find South Africans as well all across Africa. |
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Such a decentralized army would extract all of your BTC and money first (at gunpoint) then they would move to the next city to carry on with them. Maybe they would side your enemy if that pays better. In the medieval Europe such things wasn't uncommon. Actually this is how the Swiss and later the Landsknecht mercenary industry started. But I think a crowd funded army would be good for carving out some useful parts of failed third world states, or plundering others and establish a true bitcoin economy under the management of a CEO appointed by the shareholders . |
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After the fiasco in Iraq I'm not surprised. They spent shitloads of taxpayers money on training and equipping the Iraqi army and then on the first occasion a fistful of furry, camel fuckin' tribesman kicked their expensively trained asses...
Just goes to show you technology and weaponry means nothing if your troops aren't clever and brave enough to operate it, meanwhile the Kurds are holding their own against ISIS with nothing but soviet era weaponry. Well, most of those blokes doesn't seems to be very dedicated indeed. |
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Condolences to the families of the victims.
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9% of Americans and all people are complete idiots, honestly I am not worried about 10% of any people not understanding something. I bet 9% of people are still puzzled by email or cd's.
I don't think that they would be idiots. Bitcoin just needs time to take off. We are still just a fistful of geeks and speculators . |
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Who cares about Russia or Ukraine? They can go suck on their precious Putincoin for all I care.
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As long as China keeps Bitcoin afloat, we should be aite!
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Wait... Putincoin? Is it a Altcoins? Or it's a normal big coin? Anyway, that's a big one  Regular big ass silver coins commemorating annexation of Crimea: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27117241Wow! I wanna mine some of those coins . |
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Can I sue the Swedish tax authority for abusing my basic human rights ? |
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Nothing. This kind of stuff happening all the time. Some more or less incompetent blokes opening an exchange with some more or less doggy trading engine and then they get hacked, nothing new.
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After the fiasco in Iraq I'm not surprised. They spent shitloads of taxpayers money on training and equipping the Iraqi army and then on the first occasion a fistful of furry, camel fuckin' tribesman kicked their expensively trained asses...
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Let's hope we will see an exponential growth.
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And for this, the “blockchain” offers a very elegant solution. The scalability issue is not solved yet. "Elegant" doesn't seem to suit there. Indeed, but according to figure 4 they are thinking about a distributed cloud based solution. So I guess that will be some sort of semi-decentralized network with trusted nodes and lightweight clients. |
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