is bitcoin the reason for world hunger?

[lemfuture]

yes pizzza too expensive

[BruceFenton]

The stupid.  It burns.

Great example of why a voting system and selective membership is useful in a forum.

[bitsmichel]

some ppl say with the whole electricity bill of the whole miners you could end the world hunger.

/discus

hahahahaha you should apply for comedian 

Great example of why a voting system and selective membership is useful in a forum.

I agree with you on this point

[FeedbackLoop]

Only women's empowerment via education, power to choose and access to birth control can end World hunger.

Actually having access to "banking" via Bitcoin could make a huge difference in empowering women.

 

[blatchcorn]

Is bitcoin the real reason for the internet?

[Bibop]

Not real in any chance.
the world is the reason for world hunger

people will find the reason to spend their money for any use before they donate it for a cause like world hunger

[ipnone5only]

If we stop all the corruption we will end the world hunger 10 times

[Phinnaeus Gage]

yes pizzza too expensive

Do you realize the resources that go into making the millions of pizzas each and every day?

Abolish Pizza: Save the Planet.

[Buffer Overflow]

yes pizzza too expensive

Do you realize the resources that go into making the millions of pizzas each and every day?

Abolish Pizza: Save the Planet.

The resources used for global food production/transportation must be immense.

Ban food production, so we can solve global hunger!

[Light]

That is absurd. World hunger has existed long before Bitcoin was introduced. It's really a problem with human nature - outside your small group of friends/family no one cares about anyone else. Hence why the need to help others?

[Beliathon]

I find that hard to believe. In any case there is a lot more starvation in our future.  Every hour of the day there are more people than the hour before. I hope we don't overshoot K in my lifetime.

I got some bad news. We overshot K long before you were born. Earth's true carrying capacity is approx. 2 billion human beings.

We are in a population bubble supported solely by the temporary use of fossil fuels, of which we are running out.




Last 200 years:



One possible future:



A more likely possible future.

In case you missed it:

Waste is the reason for world hunger. The waste of greed; the waste of capitalism.

[greenlion]

There is no real reason to believe that Greer's theory necessarily represents an accurate picture of how technological civilization works. It hypothesizes modes of social organization that have never even existed, and has a very dubious view of "scarcity" as some kind of objectively fixed property of resources. The divisions into stages of progress are wildly arbitrary, as though discovering more efficient utilization of resources is not always happening to some degree or other. My personal impression of these kind of theories is that they're just repackaging the same tired Malthusian bullshit story into more and more sophisticated presentations.

[Swordsoffreedom]

No since World hunger is an issue that predates Bitcoin

Rather Bitcoin may be the solution to world hunger by creating a usable payments system in a country rife in civil war
With difficulties for poor people to store money and use traditional banking as in their accounts are eaten by fees
Simple low cost solutions that can be used on mobile phones to make micro transactions possible is most certainly a solution to world hunger and one of the potential benefits of Bitcoin and its related technologies.

[Ron~Popeil]

Due to new technologies we have more recoverable oil in the world than ever before. The same thing happens with other technologies as well. This is why we have thrived as a species. This peak oil garbage is recycled from the 1970's playbook.   

[WindMaster]

Due to new technologies we have more recoverable oil in the world than ever before.

Is that recoverable oil also cheaper to obtain than it has ever been before?  Is there a distinction between "recoverable" and "economically feasible to recover"?  Have oil prices been continuously falling as these new technologies expose more oil to potential recovery?  Why are oil prices rising anyway, is there a supply and demand component at play?

This peak oil garbage is recycled from the 1970's playbook.  

What were the costs of recovering oil in the 1970's relative to today?

[Elwar]

some ppl say

I have found that "some people say" are almost always wrong.

[bitsmichel]

some ppl say

I have found that "some people say" are almost always wrong.

"I was to lazy to do background research but trust me on my words"

[turvarya]

World hunger isn't even a financial problem.  You could throw money at it for years and not solve it - as they have.  Its a problem of infrastructure and politics.  I recall a story that in the 1980 Ethiopian famine there were silos full of grain in one part of the country, while the west raised money to airdrop grain brought from outside, impoverishing those farmers that had good land.  

+1
I was looking for that answer, so I don't have to explain it myself.

[sana8410]

some ppl say with the whole electricity bill of the whole miners you could end the world hunger.

/discus

While bitcoins bring something new towards our currency system, it is also beneficial to the protection and conservation of trees and forests. Having trees and a sustained environment can aid end world hunger. Online website such as Fast-growing-trees.com gives numerous options for the tree of your choice. Fast growing trees and plants such as Apple trees among others, could eventually serve its multiple purposes for animals and humans alike, even going as far as helping reduce global warming.

[David1978]

Why do you ask this?! both started in the same year, surely it couldn't cause it.