Since you claim that its not about the money at all, why even opening thread complaining about not being able to join any campaign?


Just to check if I understood you correctly, you never wore 1xbit signature, you just applied and for that you got negative feedback?

We already have (at least) 2 threads about the subject: Central African Republic; the first African country to adopt bitcoin as a legal in Bitcoin Discussion board and Bitcoin Legal Tender in Central African Republic in Economics section so I am not so sure that we need another one. My advice to you is to lock this topic ( bottom left corner) and if you want to discuss CAR adopting Bitcoin do it in one of those two topics.

You might wanna read about Central African Republic a little bit more and you will understand that it ain't that simple.

The way he wrote it was like he immediately got negative feedback after he applied for 1xbit signature campaign, but this is a completely different thing. He was given more than 2 weeks time to remove that sig and if that wasn't enough, then even 2 months probably wouldn't be enough for him.

From what I noticed it acts as any other regular Binance card (no issuing/maintenance fees, currency converted into your local one) and only thing that is different is those airdropped $75 per month for 3 months. I often criticize Binance (for a good reason), but kudos for that move.


I think its more about chance for some good PR (like in Binance case) than an actual philanthropy but no matter the reason, help is what counts in the end.

To be honest, I see neither of those too negative, but more or less realistic. CAR has an enormous amount of problems, starting from their poor infrastructure (you will have issues paying with bitcoin in the country where ~90% of the people don't have electricity and Internet access), ongoing civil war to the fact that they are one of the poorest countries in the world where many people can't even afford food on the regular basis and if you are on a very tight budget even a slight change in bitcoin price might affect you greatly.

So yeah, I am extremely skeptical when it comes to CAR and their capability to implement bitcoin payment. Hell, their government doesn't even control their own country and is in power only due foreign mercenaries that are protecting them from the rebels. Its very easy to pass a law, but its a completely different thing to successfully implement it.

Did you wear 1xbit signature for some time before you got tagged, or you were tagged immediately after applying for signature campaign? I am asking because I remember DT members contacting people after they got tagged and usually deleting the feedback if signature was removed immediately. Also, you are not a new member so how come you ignored negative trust on their bounty manager as I am sure he had plenty of those?

Let's be honest here, if people were not getting tagged for promoting scammers like 1xbit I am sure that many wouldn't have any issues joining their campaign but are not doing so only because of the fear of negative tag.

Naravno da te kolonizatorske zemlje imaju svoje "zasluge" za stanje u tim zemljama ali nisu to radili sami nego najcesce uz pomoc lako potkupljivog domaceg stanovnista, i na to sam ciljao kad sam rekao da ne treba samo kriviti druge nego treba gledati i na "sebe". Tako se i kod nas voli kriviti zli zapad za sva sranja na ovim prostorima u zadnjih sto i nesto godina a sami smo sebi najveci neprijatelji.  


Pa naravno da hoce, ali bezveze su mi ovi genericni komentari na forumu tipa "great news" a ekipa nema pojma u kojem je stanju drzava koja uvodi Bitcoin te da li to ima ikakvog smisla ili je samo najobicniji populizam kao u slucaju CAR.


Budem ti poslao PM u svezi glede te organizacije.


Upravo o tome govorim kad sam rekao da mi tu razinu bijede jednostavno nismo uopce imali prilike vidjeti u Europi i ne mozemo je pojmiti. Nagledao sam se tih dokumentaraca o najsiromasnijim zemljama Afrike i to je jednostavno za ne povjerovati kako ti jadni ljudi tamo zive u 21. stoljecu. I da napomenem da  i ta ultra siromasna i nerazvijena Uganda ima skoro 3x veci GDP per capita od Srednjoafricke Republike, cisto da stavimo stvari u perspektivu.


To ja svima govorim, da mi koji smo rodjeni u Europi imamo nevjerojatnu srecu jer zivimo bolje nego bar 80% ljudi na svijetu.

Everything is explained in the reference link of those negative feedback that you got.


Before you open thread in reputation section, you should reply to those accusations in Known Alts of any-one - A User Generated List Mk IV (2022 Q2 but considering the provided evidence (shared address with few other accounts that joined the same bounty) chances of removing both of those negative feedbacks are slim to none.

Da su ih velike zemlje iskoristavale i da to i dalje rade je sigurno i neporecivo, ali ja generalno nisam ljubitelj tih opravdanja da su zle bogate zemlje za sve krive. Treba uvijek krenuti od sebe, najlakse je krivnju prebaciti na drugoga.


Istina, zemlje koje imaju veliki postotak unbanked ljudi pogodne za sirenje kriptovaluta stoji, ali ipak zemlje moraju imati minimalne tehnicke uvjete da se to implementira. Srednjoafricka republika nisu Filipini/Indonezija ili neka slicna siromasnija zemlja sa solidnim infrastukturom nego su na totalno drugoj razini po svim mogucim parametrima, pocevsi od stope pismenosti od ~35%, jako skupim internetom s obzirom na njihov standard a da ne spominjemo da su jedna od najsiromasnijih zemalja svijeta, a sama vlast predsjednika je toliko tanka da bi pao istog trena da ga ne stiti ruska verzija Blackwatera, tzv Wagner Grupa.

Osim svih tih logistickih problema, ima jos jedan koji je ogroman kad su u pitanju jako siromasne zemlje: volatilnost bitcoina. Mi se kao iskusni hodleri uopce na to ne obaziremo, ali situacija se drasticno mijenja kad si na jakom ogranicenom budgetu a bitcoin moze bez problema otici 5-10% dolje. To bi bio problem za prosjecnu siromasnu hrvatsku obitelj koja jedva spaja kraj sa krajem, a kad je u pitanju Srednjoafricka Republika taj problem bi bio visestruko izrazeniji jer ti ljudi muku muce kako da se prehrane i cak i mali pad vrijednosti bitcoina bi za njih znacio da taj dan/par dana nece imati sta za jesti.

I don't wanna be a party pooper here but it would be good to check some facts about Central African Republic before writing stuff like "this is great thing etc".

The thing is, CAR is so poor that it's not even a 3rd world country but more of a 4th world country and it really baffles me that people think bitcoin with somehow magically help them when they don't have most basic infrastructure built in order to implement something like this.

On top of having only small percentage of people having access to electricity, they also have one of the most expensive Internet in the world. Combine those two things and then add bitcoin volatility which is not an insignificant thing when you can't even afford food on the regular basis and it will make you realize that chances of people using bitcoin in everyday life are slim to none.


While those two countries have loads of problems, situation there is nowhere near as bad as in CAR and its not comparable at all.

Binance claim that funds are "safu", but we have no proof of that, one may only hope that's true. We've seen so many exchanges (even the top ones) turning to shit so just because Binance is at the top at the moment it doesn't mean that one day things won't go south and then the fun will start.


I wonder what would happen if everyone tried to withdrew their bitcoin at the same time, would they have enough bitcoin on their hands to do that? I am not so sure.

Just made a little meme for this occasion

Nije to plitko razmisljanje, nego puno ljudi kod nas uopce nije svjesno razine siromastva koja vlada u drzavama kao sto je Srednjoafricka Republika, to je totalno neusporedivo sa bilo cime kod nas u Europi te sam zato jako skeptican kad takve zemlje uvode bitcoin. Nisu sposobni osigurati svojim stanovnicima najosnovnije potrebe za zivot, a netko ocekuje da ce biti sposobni implementirati nesto kao sto je bitcoin? I jos dodaj na to gradjanski rat koji traje vec 10 godina i ne nazire mu se kraj.

Njihova vlada bi trebala posloziti prioritete, ali jebiga uvodjenje bitcoina je jednostavan i lak nacin za doci na naslovnice, barem na kratko. Po meni je to cisti populizam i nista vise. To ti je otprilike kao da Plenki najavi svemirski program.


Nigerija (koja je takodjer jako siromasna zemlja) je po standardu za Srednjoafricku Republiku ono sto je za nas Svicarska. A uostalom, ima ih preko 200 milijuna pa i ne cudi sto ih ima dosta na forumu i da opcenito imaju dobre brojke kad je bitcoin u pitanju.


Da, i preko 70 % ljudi zivi ispod granice siromastva, (u njihovom slucaju znaci da toliki postotak stanovnistva zivi sa manje od $1.9 dnevno) te imaju najnizi ocekivani zivotni vijek od svih africkih zemalja (samo 52 godine, za usporedbu kod nas je 78). Kao sto rekoh, kod nas se ta razina siromastva i bijede ne moze pojmiti tako da je naivno misliti da ce oni sada pohrliti koristiti bitcoin kad nemaju sredjene ni najosnovnije zivotne potrebe te se bore za golo prezivljavanje.

Mislim, super je to vijest na prvu, ali kad malo zagrebes ispod povrsine i razmislis o svim mogucim problemima koje ce jedna od nasiromasnijih zemalja na svijetu svakako imati, skuzis da ce to najvjerojatnije ostati mrtvo slovo na papiru.

Few days ago (April 26th) Binance launched Refugee Crypto Card for all Ukrainian Binance users that had to leave their country and are currently in one of the EEA countries (27 EU countries + Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway).

+1, I know chances are very slim but I like to think that was behind Satoshi Nakamoto pseudonym.

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Regarding the bitcoin heroes, three names immediately come to my mind; first one is Hal Finney who for me is embodiment of everything (I think) Satoshi is, 2nd  is Andreas Antonopoulos for his efforts in spreading the word about bitcoin and last but not least Laszlo Hanyecz, who is the reason I make bitcoin themed pizza every year to commemorate his famous transaction.

Binance maybe won't steal your money in the classic sense of the word, they may impose some bullshit reason why they decided to lock your funds and there will be nothing you can do about it. Selective scamming is still a thing.


While it may protect you from external attacks on your account specifically, that can't help you if Binance get hacked or if CZ decides to perform exit scam.

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Might as well sum it up with the meme  

To samo govori koliko su te banana drzave nebitne u svjetskim okvirima. Pa u jednoj Srednjoafrickoj Republici vecina ljudi nema pristup struji i Internetu pa mozes misliti kakav ce interes biti za bitcoinom te da li ce drzava uopce biti sposobna implementirati tako nesto. Salvador je ipak bolji od njih ali i to je u biti vukojebina sa visokom stopom kriminala.

Ne treba ocekivati neke bitni utjecaj na cijenu dok god neka od razvijenih zemalja ne uvede bitcoin kao sredstvo placanja, ali to se nece bas tako skoro dogoditi. U biti mi se najvise svidja ovaj Panamski model po kojem bitcoin nije sluzbeno sredstvo placanja nego je jedna od opcija tako da trgovci nisu prisiljeni primati bitcoin ako ne zele.

I haven't really noticed so much negativity in the media coverage (then again I read only couple of articles on the subject) but the fact that Central African Republic is one of the poorest countries in the world, with only ~11% people having access to the internet and the civil war that's been going on for 10 years now might be what makes people being skeptic about all this and i must say that I agree with them and I am skeptic about their capability to implement this.

They really have much bigger issues at their hand and it's not something that can be solved by bitcoin becoming legal tender, not even close and while El Salvador is not developed country, it's still in much better situation than CAR.

Surpass how exactly, you have to be more specific. Is it by price, mcap, or maybe utility? My answer is no all three things.



Just wait for the proper bear market to come and you will see how that profit disappears (I hope that you already took some) because if bitcoin drops additional ~50%, you can be sure that all those alts will go down 90+%. We've seen it before and will happen again.

I've only seen similar situations during peak of the bull market in the late 2017, I remember sometimes waiting for half an hour in queue. Situation in 2019/2020 was completely different and 9/10 times there was nowhere there, neither before or after me and of course, with always enough money inside. Situation might have been the same during this bull run wiwth  people waiting in queues and ATM running out of money but I haven't visited that BATM for almost two years now.


Yeah I guess. He practically lost me as a client too and now I am using BATM only as a sort of last resort. Why would I pay 6% fee when there are better options to sell bigger amounts, and all that without KYC.

Check my previous post and you will find more countries including the Asian ones, the one OP shared was only the top 10. Regarding the China missing on the least, reason is simple: Google is banned in China.


As a matter of fact, Central African Republic is the 2nd on the full list with the 94 score meaning bitcoin term was almost as popular as in El Salvador. The reason why it's missing on the list in the first post is because Google excludes countries with low search volume and as you pointed out that only 11% of the population has access to the Internet no wonder that their search volume is low.