How can we make a coin/hardware that will go the poor, in the third world

[blastbob]

.. and it creates a crypto currency that we all can buy in on and make it prosper?

Some brainfarts:
-- USB/Other device with ( insert special hardware chip here ) inbuilt simcard for edge usage. AirDrop/Handouts in part of the world where its needed.
-- Need official pools where these these will auto connect to.
-- Need to work with any latency 100-1000ms
-- Need a organization that makes sure everything is done as right as possible.

Of cause in Africa one warlord will take them all anyway..

I got some of my brainfarts from this thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=196281.0

[aa]

Of cause in Africa one warlord will take them all anyway..

So what's the point of this thread?

[blastbob]

See if anyone cares

[GSnak]

Places that require airdrops usually don't have internet access.

[phorensic]

You realize that in these parts of the world electricity is an extremely rare commodity?  It would be foolish, if not potentially deadly to waste their precious electricity on something like cryptocurrency mining.

[blastbob]

You realize that in these parts of the world electricity is an extremely rare commodity?  It would be foolish, if not potentially deadly to waste their precious electricity on something like cryptocurrency mining.

Sun powered RaspberryPI is an option

GPRS/Edge is actually in Africa, but i dont have a coverage map on it here.

[Endgame]

You could make a charity coin similar to devcoin, where 90% of each mined block goes to recognised charities such as oxfam/red cross.

[psybits]

I've been thinking of a similar thing.

I have no idea how to do it but you can make it so that it can only be mined on mobile phones, tablets etc. But not on dedicated mining rigs.

This way anyone with a mobile phone can mine, contribute to the network, and make coins

Most of these nations have very high mobile phone usage compared to computer use.

I am not sure how to do this in a technical way - maybe limit the Kh/s from any one IP address?

[237]

Somewhere in an African desert blastbob trys to explain how to troubleshoot a RaspberryPI
to a poor guy that just ran for his life from some wild animals while trying to find water for
his village.

Please let me in on the stuff you are smoking

[psybits]

Somewhere in an African desert blastbob trys to explain how to troubleshoot a RaspberryPI
to a poor guy that just ran for his life from some wild animals while trying to find water for
his village.

Please let me in on the stuff you are smoking

Obviously the digital divide exists and many people in the world are still not online.

However. there are people in all countries who are, and a coin that could be efficiently mined by them could change the world.

[aa]

Somewhere in an African desert blastbob trys to explain how to troubleshoot a RaspberryPI
to a poor guy that just ran for his life from some wild animals while trying to find water for
his village.

Please let me in on the stuff you are smoking

Obviously the digital divide exists and many people in the world are still not online.

However. there are people in all countries who are, and a coin that could be efficiently mined by them could change the world.

No.

[237]

Somewhere in an African desert blastbob trys to explain how to troubleshoot a RaspberryPI
to a poor guy that just ran for his life from some wild animals while trying to find water for
his village.

Please let me in on the stuff you are smoking

Obviously the digital divide exists and many people in the world are still not online.

However. there are people in all countries who are, and a coin that could be efficiently mined by them could change the world.

No.

I like the train of thought and the clear listing of your arguments in that post

[skyangel]

You realize that in these parts of the world electricity is an extremely rare commodity?  It would be foolish, if not potentially deadly to waste their precious electricity on something like cryptocurrency mining.

Sun powered RaspberryPI is an option

GPRS/Edge is actually in Africa, but i dont have a coverage map on it here.

Cell phones are everywhere in Africa. People really underestimate Africa. There are more cell phones in Africa than in the US:

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/africa-has-more-mobile-phone-users-than-the-us-or-eu/9053

[aa]

You realize that in these parts of the world electricity is an extremely rare commodity?  It would be foolish, if not potentially deadly to waste their precious electricity on something like cryptocurrency mining.

Sun powered RaspberryPI is an option

GPRS/Edge is actually in Africa, but i dont have a coverage map on it here.

Cell phones are everywhere in Africa. People really underestimate Africa. There are more cell phones in Africa than in the US:

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/africa-has-more-mobile-phone-users-than-the-us-or-eu/9053

Wow! Who'd have thought that a place with about one billion inhabitants would have more subscribers than a place with ~300 million (or ~700 million for Europe)!

[blastbob]

Mobile phone with "chip" and battery would solve alot of things

[psybits]

You realize that in these parts of the world electricity is an extremely rare commodity?  It would be foolish, if not potentially deadly to waste their precious electricity on something like cryptocurrency mining.

Sun powered RaspberryPI is an option

GPRS/Edge is actually in Africa, but i dont have a coverage map on it here.

Cell phones are everywhere in Africa. People really underestimate Africa. There are more cell phones in Africa than in the US:

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/africa-has-more-mobile-phone-users-than-the-us-or-eu/9053

Wow! Who'd have thought that a place with about one billion inhabitants would have more subscribers than a place with ~300 million (or ~700 million for Europe)!

So let's not bother improving the world then? I just ignored aa instead - ahh that is much better  

[markm]

It should not really be all that hard, it would just take a lot of bitcoins.

You could continue to spawn new coins that you and a few forum-buddies mine half the coins or more of at one or more blocks per second until enough minutes or even a few hours have gone by so that the reward halvings (or quarterings, or decimations etc) have set in, dump the coins for bitcoins, and use the bitcoins to buy dollar bills to airdrop into famine/drought regions, for example.

It really only takes the will to do it and the means to obtain the bitcoins to pay for it.

-MarkM-

[skyangel]

You realize that in these parts of the world electricity is an extremely rare commodity?  It would be foolish, if not potentially deadly to waste their precious electricity on something like cryptocurrency mining.

Sun powered RaspberryPI is an option

GPRS/Edge is actually in Africa, but i dont have a coverage map on it here.

Cell phones are everywhere in Africa. People really underestimate Africa. There are more cell phones in Africa than in the US:

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/africa-has-more-mobile-phone-users-than-the-us-or-eu/9053

Wow! Who'd have thought that a place with about one billion inhabitants would have more subscribers than a place with ~300 million (or ~700 million for Europe)!

It is surprising if you have the preconception that everybody in Africa lives in mud huts without electricity.

[mrvegad]

I was thinking about this to, calling it Charity Coin. Have 50% going to a charity pool and 50% going to miners. I was thinking about limiting the hash rate so even people with laptops can mine and contribute.  Also have a set limit of coins that can be mined per year to help keep the price high and the coins could be used like ohter coins to buy stuff/trade online. Different servers could be setup for different charities. Just my. 02¢

[aa]

You realize that in these parts of the world electricity is an extremely rare commodity?  It would be foolish, if not potentially deadly to waste their precious electricity on something like cryptocurrency mining.

Sun powered RaspberryPI is an option

GPRS/Edge is actually in Africa, but i dont have a coverage map on it here.

Cell phones are everywhere in Africa. People really underestimate Africa. There are more cell phones in Africa than in the US:

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/africa-has-more-mobile-phone-users-than-the-us-or-eu/9053

Wow! Who'd have thought that a place with about one billion inhabitants would have more subscribers than a place with ~300 million (or ~700 million for Europe)!

So let's not bother improving the world then? Fuck off. I just ignored aa instead - ahh that is much better  

Can we please end the charity scam in Africa?
 With an exploding population nearing 1.4 billion and now the second largest pool of mobile phone users on the planet AND a rising obesity rate, can we finally admit the whole "Africa is dying" claim is mostly fraudulent?

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/africa/south-africa/121119/african-health-obesity-malnutrition

http://interesting-africa-facts.com/Africa-People/Overpopulation-in-Africa.html

Several studies have shown that a majority of the charity donations extorted from western nations with pictures of starving kids in dirty hovels are going to support fat cats in charity organizations, bribe local government officials and fund local war lords. In some cases less than 10% of all donations make it to the people being "helped."

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE65L0SK20100622

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12065113

http://www.judiciaryreport.com/madonna_and_kabbalah_close_their_corrupt_charity_due_to_criminal_investigation.htm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/23/global-health-fund-fraud_n_812801.html

http://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/charities/article/220756--charity-scams-bust-public-trust

http://www.fundraising.co.uk/news/2011/07/27/charity-commission-warns-possible-scams-around-east-africa-crisis-appeal

Posted by Hates Idiots

You are one of the idiots that the guy who made this post hates. Source is a comment in the link about mobile phones that was posted above: http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/africa-has-more-mobile-phone-users-than-the-us-or-eu/9053