@kencode i'm from Venezuela, i have experience in the bitcoin world as a trader, but the thing is that accepting payments in crypto could get merchs into jail. look at this site http://www.bitven.com/ this is the tool we use to calculate the price of the bitcoin in our country, see the USD also? well, since 2003 it is ilegal to sell or buy USD freely, mining bitcoin is sorta illegal too, and im sure that if merchs start accepting crypto as payments, that will be punished too. The government doesn't want people to stay out of poverty, in fact the want the people to be poor to make them government dependant.
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I really don't know what to say. I think when people want help bad enough though, and the police are busy trying to hold back the looters and criminals it will get easier much faster to try new things. Their government is probably desperate for cash too, just like the citizens.
If pulling your phone out of your pocket is that dangerous though, jeez I don't know what we can do to help them. Ideas?
Maybe air-drop some flyers or something. We could even have a Steemit fundraiser to hire a helicopter pilot for a day and he dumps handfulls of little paper flyers out the window. I don't know, but I want to help these people. I have kids too man and I see their little faces on youtube and it just tears me up, we have to do something and FAST.
Airdropping cash would be pointless, but airdropping little paper flyers with a download link on it would wake a lot of people up really fast, the news would spread like wildfire and there is no way they could stop that kind of free speech.
These of course are just my personal opinions and ideas of things that could be done to save lives.
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You have something great here, but unfortunately it won't be appreciated in my country, i'm going to share your app the the Bitcoin Venezuela group on FB, it has around 7k members. Also if you could desing a cool flyer, i can translate it, upload to the group and give copies around my city, i do believe in this.
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Hmm, well I am no designer that's for sure. Here are the primary points though:
https://steemit.com/steem/@kencode/ann-blockpay-point-of-sale-system-for-all-digital-currencies
If you can get the Bitcoin community interested there, get them blogging about it, I would be happy to donate you some steem dollars for your efforts too. MUCH appreciated thank youuu!
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have to add that i've been trying to get people into bitcoin since 2014, but nothing works, people here is all about whats trending and listening to reggaeton music. Pretty ignorant when in comes to technology things, they only use their phones to take pictures and do instagram. and besides with the high crime rate, you can get killed if you take out your phone of your pocket
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Agreed with you @rnobrega, sorry to say this but the first reason of what is happening here in venezuela is the same people, a very large group of ignorants who take this goverment to the power, when i try to talk to someone something about the crypto world almost everyone that i try just look at me like i was a crazy guy. we are now paying the errors of years of bad education. i can´t get out of venezuela i have two kids and wife, we work for our own count, repairing computers, the crypto really help us in this situation but is sad to see other people with so hungry and when you try to explain how the crypto can help, they just think "this couple is crazy".
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Same in Ecuador too. Illegal for local offline transactions. :P
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What a sad state of affairs and should ring a huge alarm to all good citizens around the world. Everyone is being played and exploited and we need more and more technology and innovation that enables all good citizens to prosper and thrive, despite the powers that be.
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