I guess the question really is- what are you trying to accomplish? A while back I was trying to get Bitcoin up and running on Sugar (didn't get it working, but I'm not very experienced anyway).
If the Somali Pirate thing was still going on that would have been a good way to inject bitcoin into a part of africa. Good being relative of course.
South AFrica for example has very high smartphone penetration as do many other african countries. Internet access in many countries is very cheap, as are the chinese smartphones that people access it on. Rather then approach it as an AID project, I think you would have much more success approaching it like any other country. Some of the largest and most expensive cities in the world are in Africa. I think your project would be more of a success if you avoided the 'poor african' idea entirely and treated it like an emerging market. Africa in many ways is the next Brazil. China is already incredibly heavily invested in Africa with many africans actually speaking Chinese in markets where the chinese are building heavy ties. If you look into Angola you could be forgiven for thinking that Africa might become a Chinese colony.
If the Somali Pirate thing was still going on that would have been a good way to inject bitcoin into a part of africa. Good being relative of course.
South AFrica for example has very high smartphone penetration as do many other african countries. Internet access in many countries is very cheap, as are the chinese smartphones that people access it on. Rather then approach it as an AID project, I think you would have much more success approaching it like any other country. Some of the largest and most expensive cities in the world are in Africa. I think your project would be more of a success if you avoided the 'poor african' idea entirely and treated it like an emerging market. Africa in many ways is the next Brazil. China is already incredibly heavily invested in Africa with many africans actually speaking Chinese in markets where the chinese are building heavy ties. If you look into Angola you could be forgiven for thinking that Africa might become a Chinese colony.
Thanks for your suggestions! I value them from you. I am working on FPGAs that can run on solar power, so they would be very affordable and portable and not very expensive to set up in a sunny country. This project can be different though, because it is not for my profit.
I think the idea should remain that 10,000 people running CPU miners at 2kh or so for a day could buy a few bottles of water for some Africans in need. Haven't you received a free "handout" before when you were out of money or sick? Believe me, if this project was creating a culture of dependency in an African country, we would be A) incredibly successful B) in need of augmenting our project ambitions.
This sounds like a really good idea, however may take a lot of work and a lot of dedicated members.
But, I think people are more than willing to help out, I like the look of this.
Keep us informed.
But, I think people are more than willing to help out, I like the look of this.
Keep us informed.
Thank you! Do you know how to implement a CPU browser miner? Do you know anyone who can? That is the current task.
Of course promotion, donation of time or pocket change, and front end dev are always welcome
