Bitcoin White Paper - Now available in 40 Languages - page 2.

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Quote from: Flexystar on January 31, 2022, 03:34:58 AM

What do you think about this?

Does it really matters if Bitcoin Whitepaper is available in different languages ?

Excuse my ignorance, but does anyone know if it was translated into Portuguese?

in any case this is a very good thing, because many people will be able to read it without difficulty. I hope this doesn't generate noise with faketoshi either, the guy loves attention and confusion

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Quote from: Flexystar on January 31, 2022, 03:34:58 AM

What do you think about this?

Does it really matters if Bitcoin Whitepaper is available in different languages ?

It definitely matters in terms of spreading awareness about bitcoin because people from all over the world can read a legendary document in their native language and understand the main reason bitcoin was invented, its key purpose, what problems it is meant to solve. However, I don't think that translations into other languages are going to make bitcoin easier to understand in terms of how it works and what internal technical processes of bitcoin are. Most of the terminology that is used in bitcoin requires additional, and sometimes even more technically complex, explanation when translated into languages other than English. For example, I read Mastering Bitcoin twice both in English and in my native language, but I ended up learning more from the original version because I have seldom seen such terminology used in my language. When expressed in English, the usage of technical terms feels and sounds very natural, but very weird when translators try to interpret different technicalities revolving around bitcoin.

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Yes, it matters. So much.

First, the English language is understood only by a minority in the world. The largest portion of the world's population does not understand English. So there is a need to translate Bitcoin's whitepaper to as many languages as possible.

Second, the document brings so much to the world, why would others be deprived of it? Although it doesn't really matter to a lot of people who are still living in ways far from the reach of technologies, still it preaches a lot of what the financial system should be like. And time will come technology will reach them. It is better to have already formed a rough idea of how a monetary system should be.

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While this is great, imo we should be focusing more on easier-to-digest information as it's highly more likely for the new people to read them. The majority simply just won't be interested in reading a science paper. Probably something like this[1] page; though it's definitely going to need some updating on the "fast" and "cheap" part.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page

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Quote from: Flexystar on January 31, 2022, 03:34:58 AM

sadly that nation is against the crypto currency.

Why is it that always third world under developed countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, etc. are always against bitcoin?

That is what I also want to know. Perhaps they believe that the funds of their people are better off spent domestically and help stimulate the economy rather than bring it somewhere else, e.g. cryptocurrency. That's just my guess.

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Seeing the whitepaper translated into my local language is helpful. I might have been here in the forum for years and read the whitepaper a couple of times, but there are some things that I don't fully understand no matter how much I read it back. How much more for those people who are challenged in reading and understanding English? If we want more people to be exposed to bitcoin, we must try and speak to them in a language they do understand.

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Quote from: Flexystar on January 31, 2022, 03:34:58 AM

sadly that nation is against the crypto currency.

Why is it that always third world under developed countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, etc. are always against bitcoin?

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This is an important move, and I liked how you put it, it helps people learn the "principles behind bitcoin" in their own language.
But I think an even more important move is to dedicate a lot of efforts into translating bitcoin clients. For example Bitcoin Core and Electrum should be translated to more languages, protocols like BIP39 should add more word-lists, ... to help people use bitcoin in their own language.

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Quote from: Flexystar on January 31, 2022, 03:34:58 AM

Does it really matters if Bitcoin Whitepaper is available in different languages ?

It does. Not everybody understands English that good and having the white paper in his own language could get one actually read it.

This being said, one year ago there were still automated and bad translations too here and there, since some prefer to have their name visible there than a job properly done.
Hence it would be nice that the local communities would actually read the white paper in their own language even if they've already read it in English, to also see (tell) whether improvements in the translation are necessary.

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This is awesome, with more languages being available, that means that more people will easily understand the white paper especially the ones that has a small amount of English speaking population, this is probably the biggest help that they can get. The only problem that I see with this is that some parts of the white paper would get lost in translation as there might be no direct translation for it or the translation might be far fetch from the real meaning.

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Good to share that recently bitcoin white paper which was originally published by Satoshi Nakomoto; continues to be translated in different languages throughout the world.

I think this is effort of developers or different nations to publish the bitcoin through this paper and let everyone understand the principle behind the Bitcoins working.

Recently, Nepali language have been used to translate the paper however sadly that nation is against the crypto currency. Amid this scenario, Dahal the translator and crypto enthusiast from the state expects that Nepal will accept the transactions soon after conditions are right.

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The Bitcoin whitepaper published by anonymous author Satoshi Nakamoto continues to be available in different languages as community members strive to spread the document’s contents to the masses.
As of January 30, 2022, the whitepaper had been translated into 40 languages with Nepali becoming the latest addition. The translation uploaded on the Bitcoin.org website was done by two cryptocurrency enthusiasts Krishna Dahal and Bibek Koirala.

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