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Local / India / Re: How can bitcoin penetrate rural India?
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on: January 08, 2014, 05:47:10 PM
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Today, these farmers have bank account with a debit card and everyone holds a mobile phone (a basic one).
1. Can something be worked out of this or do you thing the additional device (be it a simple android device) is essential .
@benson Most of them do not engage in on-line banking, they use banks to get paid, ATMs to withdraw and Paper cash to spend. And Banking regulations don't seem to affect farmers much. I think the idea of a "community center" will lead to something similar to a co-operative bank.
Well for a more permanent solution would be a low power ARM power compute may be a pi, it would cost the co-operative less than Rs 5,000/ . it would be safer that way, or alternatively an android device would give the cooperative mobility while doing sales. a device connected to a network is essential, for doing transaction. for storing BTC they dont need to be on the network. I for one cant see any other way of doing this .
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Local / India / Re: How can bitcoin penetrate rural India?
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on: January 08, 2014, 05:13:22 PM
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Today I met with a head of a Organic farming co-operative initiative in Tamil Nadu and was trying to see how bitcoins can fit into the picture.
I was focused on two things 1. To encourage distribution of bitcoins 2. To encourage people transact with bitcoins
So I asked them if they could issue a very small portion of the profit (say 0.5%) as bitcoins? They were willing to experiment.
As I was discussing how money can easily be transferred across wallets. The fundamental question was 1. Most of the people in villages do not have access to internet or smart phones. So how are these people going to hold or transact in bitcoins?
So are bitcoins only for literates with a understanding of technology and who hold sophisticated gadgets ?
Well the question about technology is a big one. the bitcoin network requires transaction to be verified, making offline transaction using paper wallets not viable. even if these private key wallets are issued by a Certifying Agency, forgery becomes a problem. the short answer is that the farmer will require a device with an internet connection. not a sophisticated gadget but a simple android device or an atom/arm computer. a co-operative can use this as their main source of transaction, as this does not come down to an individual farmer. But rather the wholesale of goods to the market or individual buyers through delivery or pickups.
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Local / India / Re: List of Bitcoin Based businesses (India)
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on: January 08, 2014, 05:05:00 PM
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further digging gives this as their address (080) 26616548 No.223, 2nd Floor, Near Davangere Benne Dosa Hotel, 4th Main, 3rd Cross, Chamarajpet, Bangalore - 560018 this as their blog http://igotinc.blogspot.in/From various job posting on the internet it looks like a data entry company. but all communication ends on March of 2013. after that it goes dark and then this site is updated on December 2013.
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Local / India / Re: List of Bitcoin Based businesses (India)
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on: January 08, 2014, 04:15:22 PM
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Just found this https://www.igot.com/They have INR listed as well. Quite interesting if anyone here knows about it or tried it. The site has no address to contact, has no telephone support. Even in help, if try to search, it doesn't allow any thing to enter & refreshes page. very fishy site. I agree 1 the site, does not have any reference in the forum, there is no announcement made, have to keep an eye on this and recommend it not be used for now.
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Local / India / Re: Bad start for Bitcoin Alliance of India or just Confusion?
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on: January 08, 2014, 04:00:58 AM
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http://www.naavi.org/wp/?p=2213P.S: Naavi is not a member of Bitcoin Alliance as has been wrongly reported by The Hindu in one of the recent reports. http://www.bitcoinalliance.in/?page_id=6Individual Membership: Vikram Nikkam (Bangalore) Sathvik V (Bangalore) Rajath V (Bangalore) Harish B V (Bangalore) Amith Nirgunarthy (Bangalore) Vijayashankar Na (Bangalore) Nathasha Ambrose (Bangalore) Anand Rajendran (Coimbatore) Vishal G (Mumbai) Anonymous-01 (Bangalore) Hmmm, probably a typo or mistake. Or maybe Naavi joined after the 5th. Vijayashankar Na at January 8, 2014 8:56 am wrote: I have requested the website to remove my name. I was not wrong after all. Second fake testimonial. These boys make a load of typos. LOL !!! this is just wrong. or may be there is another guy with the same name
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Local / India / Re: Bitcoin in TV series ALMOST HUMAN
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on: January 07, 2014, 10:58:26 PM
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none of you going to say what a crap job the writer did on the research of bitcoins there was only ever 21 mil bitcoins right now each one is worth £450 and is only going to go up but by the price of today all them non rich people had 4,999 BTC thats £2249550 to pay for the inplants every 30 days @subvolatil they never indicate the amount to = $ in fact they say they are bitcoins and there are 4,999 bitcoins on there
i was talking about the Simpsons episode.
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Local / India / Re: Unocoin is back
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on: January 07, 2014, 10:43:56 PM
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Is there any investigation on the people who had sent in their KYC previously? Is this a honeypot for officials?
Would be good to protect customers as well with some of these doubts cleared before reopening.
This exchange can do a better job. www.bitquick.in
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Local / India / Re: Bad start for Bitcoin Alliance of India or just Confusion?
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on: January 07, 2014, 09:51:48 PM
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http://www.naavi.org/wp/?p=2213P.S: Naavi is not a member of Bitcoin Alliance as has been wrongly reported by The Hindu in one of the recent reports. http://www.bitcoinalliance.in/?page_id=6Individual Membership: Vikram Nikkam (Bangalore) Sathvik V (Bangalore) Rajath V (Bangalore) Harish B V (Bangalore) Amith Nirgunarthy (Bangalore) Vijayashankar Na (Bangalore) Nathasha Ambrose (Bangalore) Anand Rajendran (Coimbatore) Vishal G (Mumbai) Anonymous-01 (Bangalore) Hmmm, probably a typo or mistake. Or maybe Naavi joined after the 5th. Well they dont represent the bicoin community any ways, They dont want to be part of community discussions, they have never contributed any thing to the community and half of them are not even entrepreneurs. The coinmonk and unocoin have never done business with any of the bitcoin community, they have only opened a company and a website, that accounts to nothing at all. Their business practice are questionable and frankly speaking this is a classic dick move to fanning the press to get publicity and con the general public. this quote makes me think alot, seems awfully timed Typical Indian way of dealing with competition. First they got their rival arrested. And now they are officially launching their service.
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Local / India / Re: Bitcoin Phishing Scam - BEWARE
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on: January 07, 2014, 09:27:19 PM
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nice . Can i get a copy of that txt if you still have it would love to see what it is does. maybe they left some thing to connect to them.
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Local / India / Re: Unocoin is back
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on: January 07, 2014, 03:49:17 PM
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Forgot to mention what these guys did earlier ; Has Coinmonk kicked off their site?
yeah, check out http://unocoin.com/I tried to register, but no mail was sent to me. Looks like coin monk is Falsely advertising Benson Samuel name to make a buck. What a bunch of scam artist. Would not trust them . Lemme talk to em first.. I just had to do this. Regardless if they were just doing a trial. Putting up a testimonial without that person actually a being able to signup for that service. Its cold. Way to cold.
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Local / India / Re: Unocoin is back
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on: January 07, 2014, 03:20:52 PM
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and by the way stop using sock puppet accounts i can see you have been flooding the forums with your crap . even on reddit is the same words.
Either be a part of the community or stay the hell out . this type of unethical crap wont work.
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Local / India / Re: Unocoin is back
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on: January 07, 2014, 03:16:58 PM
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Well still would not use that service. Those guys just dont know what business ethics are.
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Local / India / Re: List of Bitcoin Based businesses (India)
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on: January 07, 2014, 05:03:20 AM
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Any one know any new businesses starting up in india? Coinsecure will be providing free chat and phone support across India for anyone who wants to know about Bitcoin. Trying to launch it this week. I would suggest adding a bit of cryptoparty and cypherpunk's too I think CIS does the Cryptoparties in India Any one can do it . even you can do it, during your bitcoin meetups. Hum... that gives me an idea... a bitcoin/cryptoparty meetup.
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Local / India / Re: List of Bitcoin Based businesses (India)
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on: January 07, 2014, 04:47:23 AM
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Any one know any new businesses starting up in india? Coinsecure will be providing free chat and phone support across India for anyone who wants to know about Bitcoin. Trying to launch it this week. I would suggest adding a bit of cryptoparty and cypherpunk's too
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Local / India / Re: Delhi Starts a Meetuo Group
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on: January 06, 2014, 08:47:26 PM
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Any possibility to keep this on the following weekend? That is 30-31? I'd be interested in attending.
We have regular IRC meetups that happen almost weekly you can attend those on the IRC.
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