Many of you guys need to travel more, or at least read more - and look at the adoption facts. You are not seeing reality clearly. The developing world is exploding with young people, almost every one of which has a phone (except in the poorest of the poor places) and even there the village shares 2 or 3 phones among the people.
Feature phones already have a +50% adoption rate in Africa.
And smart phones are becoming more ubiquitous than most imagine. Here, some exciting homework...
http://singularityhub.com/2014/03/07/cheap-devices-like-mozillas-25-smartphone-to-bring-more-of-developing-world-online/http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/08/in-3-5-years-most-africans-will-have-smartphones/http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/13/emerging-nations-catching-up-to-u-s-on-technology-adoption-especially-mobile-and-social-media-use/This is not a future thing. It has already happened. And bitcoin does not even need smart phones. Just text, as other posters have mentioned and MPesa has proved. There are many brilliant and mission driven bitcoiners working hard on this at this moment. Tools are going to explode on the market next year and the following as the first round of VC money starts to see some early results. Problems to solve? Absolutely. Doable in a couple of years, absolutely.
My god, the remittance market alone is massive and currently takes huge percentages for moving money from the poorest to the poorest. That will change fast - as soon as there is a better option.
And as Ron has pointed out repeatedly, when people really need something it drives the use adoption even faster. And these folks need bitcoin bad - in dozens of use cases.
