Gates Foundation: "Mobile banking will help the poor transform their lives"

[thejaytiesto]

For a bitcoin noob, right now its a lot like when email was in it's infancy. You couldnt just make a sample@whatever.com email address. You had a string of numbers. As people developed the architecture, it got easier to use and spread like wild fire. The same will happen to bitcoin. The foundation will remain the same, but it will become more and more user friendly. Bill Gates is saying "the foundation is great, but right now it has a few hurdles to overcome before it's mainstream".

[Rw13enlib88]

Free VideoCalls would help that country's people?

You can make free video calls with Mozilla Firefox.

Back to banking, mobile banking can change your life if you were unbanked, but mobile banking will also bring credit. Good for the banks, not always good for the people. BTC is cleaner.

Are you talking about the Hello thing?
How safe is that? is it centralized somehow or pure p2p? i havent tested it yet. If it's pure p2p videocall it sounds great.

I'm talking videocalls in the wallet

[grendel25]

Just sounds like a bunch of info that we already know.  Still though, good to see it's moving forward.

[polynesia]

For a bitcoin noob, right now its a lot like when email was in it's infancy. You couldnt just make a sample@whatever.com email address. You had a string of numbers. As people developed the architecture, it got easier to use and spread like wild fire. The same will happen to bitcoin. The foundation will remain the same, but it will become more and more user friendly. Bill Gates is saying "the foundation is great, but right now it has a few hurdles to overcome before it's mainstream".

While everybody uses email these days, very few people use hotmail or early email service providers.
I hope Bitcoin doesn't meet the same fate.