Fostering innovation in Sierra Leone

[googlemaster1]

Someone needs to contact this kid and get the bitcoin train choo-chooing in his neighborhood.

http://sftimes.co/?id=115&src=share_fb_new_115

What do you guys think?

[franky1]

watch the video again, they get electricity 1 day a month and rely on batteries for FM radio..

laptops last maybe 8 hours... and phones last maybe 5 days... after that they have to wait till next month to trade bitcoin.. so useless in this scenario

[Broseph Stalin]

Makes me think... what is really needed tech wise to act as a spendable bitcoin wallet?
If you have a hardware wallet that hardly ever needs to be recharged (solar powered?) and is highly portable + paper wallets.. no need for constant electricity.

[franky1]

Makes me think... what is really needed tech wise to act as a spendable bitcoin wallet?
If you have a hardware wallet that hardly ever needs to be recharged (solar powered?) and is highly portable + paper wallets.. no need for constant electricity.

mobile phone or raspberry PI both have a low power requirement. id say a cheap android phone as a rPI needs constant power to rn, where as an android can last days on just a few hours charge.. but then we start getting to the requirement of internet access/cell towers.

if the kid needed to make his own FM radio.. i guess his village wont have internet

[Broseph Stalin]

if the kid needed to make his own FM radio.. i guess his village wont have internet

yeah, they would at the very least need cell phone service.. bitcoin can be traded (and is being traded, in Africa) via SMS. A paper wallet only economy could possibly be kickstarted by foreigners... but that doesn't seem very likely or efficient.