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phelix

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Quote from: giszmo on November 04, 2012, 05:57:29 PM

Quote from: Gabi on November 04, 2012, 01:10:07 PM

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Quote from: fornit on July 23, 2012, 01:17:13 PM

why would i care if people who have nothing i want and dont speak any language i speak use bitcoin or not? if iran suddenly vanished i probably wouldnt even notice.

Iran is the worlds largest producer of the spice safron, international safron prices are way higher then in iran because they cant export it easily. if you could flip iranian safron you'd be a millionaire.

Who control the spice, control the universe!

Wow. Saffron really is "the spice". Wikipedia seams to be a bit outdated with prices of USD 1,000 – 10,000 per kg while Alibaba.com quotes are much lower (while exceeding the total annual Saffron production in offers from China alone?!) but still it seams to be the most expensive spice in the world.

So while there is a monetary and an import embargo in place, how about export? Somehow in one hour of googling I couldn't find any easy to read source of whether or not ships with Saffron could freely travel and unload in foreign harbors or not. Here and there I read about an EU oil embargo but even this is super poorly documented in Wikipedia. WTH?

sounds like a business idea: smuggling saffron

giszmo

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Quote from: Gabi on November 04, 2012, 01:10:07 PM

Quote from: chedder on October 20, 2012, 04:41:51 PM

Quote from: fornit on July 23, 2012, 01:17:13 PM

why would i care if people who have nothing i want and dont speak any language i speak use bitcoin or not? if iran suddenly vanished i probably wouldnt even notice.

Iran is the worlds largest producer of the spice safron, international safron prices are way higher then in iran because they cant export it easily. if you could flip iranian safron you'd be a millionaire.

Who control the spice, control the universe!

Wow. Saffron really is "the spice". Wikipedia seams to be a bit outdated with prices of USD 1,000 – 10,000 per kg while Alibaba.com quotes are much lower (while exceeding the total annual Saffron production in offers from China alone?!) but still it seams to be the most expensive spice in the world.

So while there is a monetary and an import embargo in place, how about export? Somehow in one hour of googling I couldn't find any easy to read source of whether or not ships with Saffron could freely travel and unload in foreign harbors or not. Here and there I read about an EU oil embargo but even this is super poorly documented in Wikipedia. WTH?

Gabi

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Quote from: chedder on October 20, 2012, 04:41:51 PM

Quote from: fornit on July 23, 2012, 01:17:13 PM

why would i care if people who have nothing i want and dont speak any language i speak use bitcoin or not? if iran suddenly vanished i probably wouldnt even notice.

iran is the worlds largest producer of the spice safron, international safron prices are way higher then in iran because they cant export it easily. if you could flip iranian safron you'd be a millionaire.

Who control the spice, control the universe!

jim618

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Hi Giszmo, from the amount it is your refund for the Hindi, which was only partially done.

I have written up the details at:
http://multibit.org/bounties.html

I posted the URL on the multibit thread but forgot to post it here. Sorry.

Bounties work but they are a bit time consuming to do (as you can see from that bounties page!).
Also, the most prolific translators do not want the BTC - they just want to see the software in their mother tongue. (MBH, who did most of the Arabic, donated his share back to multibit.org. Thanks!)

There are a few translators who have not yet sent me a bitcoin address for me to send their share to but that is no big deal. The BTC is not going anywhere.

giszmo

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I just received 184.82089mɃ. Is that what's left over of my 200mɃ sent to a bounty to translate to Arab? I'm confused.

matmar10

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As I understand it, gold and silver markets are well established inside the bazaars of TIRoIR. If I were an Iranian national, I'd set up a BTC exchange and immediately convert all the Rial I receive in exchange for BTC into gold and/or silver. Alternatively, since the construction sector is still active, you could convert Rial into industrial copper stores, e.g. copper pipes, etc...

Both still have high internal demand, so you could liquidate the metal holdings if needed. Export of your gold/silver might be tricky as I believe there are rules prohibiting silver/gold export via personal carry?

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Be doostane Iraniha: salaam o inshallah omidvaram ke Iran behtar mishe! (-:

Stephen Gornick

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Bitcoin project on GitHub has been mirrored:

Quote from: teamhugs on October 17, 2012, 06:04:05 PM

Step 1: Done. Hourly pulls of website git (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.github.com.git) from github. See http://btcmirror.is/

mintymark

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People have said that its hard to download the standard client. [In Iran] [possibly elsewhere too. ]

I made a torrent file, not sure if this helps.

This is the magnet link:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:8AD4F7C839B65BEEB03B582CA843E7A704995FEC&dn=bitcoin+0+7+0&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%2Fannounce

Is this helpful ? I am not sure.

chedder

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Quote from: fornit on July 23, 2012, 01:17:13 PM

why would i care if people who have nothing i want and dont speak any language i speak use bitcoin or not? if iran suddenly vanished i probably wouldnt even notice.

iran is the worlds largest producer of the spice safron, international safron prices are way higher then in iran because they cant export it easily. if you could flip iranian safron you'd be a millionaire.

phelix

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Quote from: jim618 on October 18, 2012, 03:49:14 AM

Farsi (or Persian as it is called in the West) is a distinct language to Arabic. (they do look quite similar to Westerners I must admit - I cannot tell which is which).

There is a small bounty on the Arabic MultiBit translation work - it is 30% done at the moment.
Arabic has a huge number of speakers - 300 or 400 million - and includes the rainbow arc of the south Mediterranean coast so it would be useful to have it available.

I am no expert, but apparently Arabic is a family of about 15 distinct-but-similar languages. There is a 'Standard Modern Arabic' which everyone understands so that would be what you would want a translation into.

I would recommend everybody to learn English (with my mother tongue being German) - but until that happens I guess translations really are important.

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Farsi (or Persian as it is called in the West) is a distinct language to Arabic. (they do look quite similar to Westerners I must admit - I cannot tell which is which).

There is a small bounty on the Arabic MultiBit translation work - it is 30% done at the moment.
Arabic has a huge number of speakers - 300 or 400 million - and includes the rainbow arc of the south Mediterranean coast so it would be useful to have it available.

I am no expert, but apparently Arabic is a family of about 15 distinct-but-similar languages. There is a 'Standard Modern Arabic' which everyone understands so that would be what you would want a translation into.

phelix

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Quote from: jim618 on October 11, 2012, 09:44:32 AM

The Farsi translation is now in the MultiBit release at:

multibit.org

this is awesome. this needs to hit ~~arabic~~ Iranian blogs...

jim618

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The Farsi translation is now in the MultiBit release at:

multibit.org

Ashkanian

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Quote from: Stephen Gornick on October 09, 2012, 03:01:41 PM

Quote from: jim618 on October 09, 2012, 02:58:49 PM

Now that there is a 100% Farsi translation of MultiBit

Jon Matonis just wrote on how the Bitcoin.org client software (binaries and source), which uses SourceForge, is unavailable to those from Iran:
- http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/10/09/as-inflation-rages-in-iran-bitcoin-software-not-available/

MutliBit differs in that it uses GitHub for distributing the software but that it is not software from the U.S.. Is access to MultiBit on GitHub also restricted for those from Iran?

yes this is true some time government block some site like facebook,youtube, ... but some time US and the main site block their service for Iranian I don't know why they do this because as Obama said(link) it doesn't related to sanction but anyway they do this and now for this some how blocking from this side and that side many people use VPN , PROXY , TOR and many other things to access to the WORLD WIDE WEB Grin

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Quote from: goodlord666 on October 08, 2012, 06:46:16 PM

I understand there's some US export embargo on a number of countries for cryptographic software. Are we talking about that?

Bitcoin isn't a US software product. It just utilizes some cryptography made in US.

No. I'm just talking generally not us sanction I'm just saying that because of media a lot of people in a lot of countries think that we're some kind of terrorist ...
I know that bitcoin is not US software so maybe we translate it after this one but now we want to give information to our people so they realize what is bitcoin & how great is this Wink

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Quote from: jim618 on October 09, 2012, 02:58:49 PM

Now that there is a 100% Farsi translation of MultiBit

Jon Matonis just wrote on how the Bitcoin.org client software (binaries and source), which uses SourceForge, is unavailable to those from Iran:
- http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/10/09/as-inflation-rages-in-iran-bitcoin-software-not-available/

MutliBit differs in that it uses GitHub for distributing the software but that it is not software from the U.S.. Is access to MultiBit on GitHub also restricted for those from Iran?

jim618

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Now that there is a 100% Farsi translation of MultiBit I have improved the right-to-left layout.
It is not perfect but I think it is now usable.
Screenshot in Farsi:

I plan to get this released this week.

jim618

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I have paid out the bounty for the Farsi translation of MultiBit.

I have put the details here:
http://multibit.org/bounties.html

(As all the bounty information is on the blockchain and the translation details are all available at translate.multibit.org I think it is ok to put all the details in the public domain).

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Quote from: goodlord666 on October 08, 2012, 06:46:16 PM

Bitcoin isn't a US software product. It just utilizes some cryptography made in US.

MultiBit/bitcoinj uses the crypto software called BouncyCastle, which is Australian.

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Quote from: dree12 on October 08, 2012, 07:10:55 PM

Quote from: goodlord666 on October 08, 2012, 06:46:16 PM

I understand there's some US export embargo on a number of countries for cryptographic software. Are we talking about that?

Bitcoin isn't a US software product. It just utilizes some cryptography made in US.

The US has full embargo with Iran, so nothing (bar some very specific exceptions) can be exported to there directly.

Ok, so technically browsing a website always is "downloading" some index.html. So if downloading the bitcoin.exe is illegal, why isn't downloading the index.html or downloading the somethingWentWrong.html illegal?
Can please somebody rename bitcoin.exe to ~~bitcoin.exe.html~~index.html!

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