Topic: Reach out for the white spots! - page 3. (Read 9446 times)

Sorry, yes that was from a different article:
 - http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/10/how-does-a-currency-drop-60-in-8-days-just-ask-iran/263159/

[Update: And in greater detail here:
 - http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-03/guest-post-hyperinflation-has-arrived-iran ]


Jim, perhaps set up a Bitcoin address so that donations targeted to this feature can be sent?  Also, you might have multiple contributors of translations, how would a bounty be allocated?  (e.g., the bounty split proportionate to all all translations performed on Crowdin between now and a certain date (e.g., Nov 30th).  Or should there be one person that agrees to do all the remaining translations to receive the bounty?  )

Though there are several hundred phrases remaining, I can't see this being too big a job for one person fluent in the language who would knock these out after being incented with a decent bounty.

BTW, I pledge 1 BTC towards the Persian translation bounty as well.

[Update: The Multibit thread:
 - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1241474 ]

Sourceforge is forced to do that by the dictatorship, we are not free 

Thanks for the pledge giszmo.

To help get a Farsi speaker, I have tweeted from the MultiBitOrg twitter account about it:
https://twitter.com/MultiBitOrg/status/253427704618160128

Where is this chart from? The linked article has no charts.

fornit aside, this is a great thread...watching this one

I pledge 1 BTC towards a farsi translation of multibit.

(I think many other resources of bitcoin should be translated first but jim stepped up asking for it, so I support this now.)

22% done now.

 - http://translate.multibit.org

Is there anything someone who does not read/write Farsi can do to help hurry this up?  (e.g., donate towards a bounty?)

How Does a Currency Drop 60% in 8 Days? Just Ask Iran
 - http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/02/162165257/currency-in-crisis-collapse-of-irans-rial-continues

The demographics of Iran seem to make it a fertile ground for adoption of Bitcoin: lots of young people, many un/under-employed college educated people, relative oppression of the young by the state...I ran a proxy server for computers in Iran after the last election debacle a few years back, hoping to be a small part of helping them take their own freedom from the govt.

Because of this thread I have added Farsi/ Persian to the list of target languages for MultiBit but it is (currently) just 6% done. Anyone who would like to contribute to translating it, please have a look at the
MultiBit translation site.

There is no Persian version of the Bitcoin wiki yet.  Anyone can champion that effort though.

For some of the apps and sites, all that is needed are string translations and support will be added.  Some of these that have active efforts to expand translations include Bitstamp, and BitcoinNordic (exchanges), Bitcoin.org and MultiBit (clients), Bitcoin Spinner, Paytunia (online and mobile wallets) and SatoshiDICE.com (merchants).  There are more, these are just examples.

There is an Iranian digital currency exchange:

 - https://karsha.biz/?do=contact

Also, BitcoinNordic.com now accepts CashU cards, which is used in much of the Middle East.  It looks like years ago they had locations where the cards could be purchased in Iran, but not anymore.  Just thought I'ld mention it though in case it is relevant.


Bitcoin is suited well for use by tourists and for business travel.  Suggesting that bitcoins can be used to exchange locally for IRRs gives the traveler the ability to not have to carry much cash while traveling there.    Also, at internet cafes and other places where gamers and techies are found, sometime online and in-game transactions will allow purchases using a voucher method and then Bitcoin available for withdrawals (e.g., Second Life Lindens on VirWoX).

There are no doubt thousands of opportunities missed daily because Bitcoin are not widely known or available yet.  All it takes though are for a few developments to get things started and then progress can build from there.  For instance, I once handed over a fraction of a bitcoin using a paper bitcoin created by BitAddress:
 - http://www.BitAddress.org
The coin from that paper then was sent via coinapult through e-mail to someone else, then through InstaWallet to another party before finally being spent on a game of chance. At least four people then learned how bitcoin can be used and one later invested in a small amount after reading up further.

But it takes a catalyst, and people like us -- who can see the potential, and effect change to move bitcoin forward, are it.

[Update: A Farsi translation for Mutibit has been released:
 https://twitter.com/MultiBitOrg/status/227708399750610945 ]

Years ago, I used to scoff at statements like the above, but over the past couple years, I've been starting to lean the other way, seeing us (US) through other's eyes.

~Bruno~

lol, impressive refutation guys. hitting the ignore button after 2-3 posts counts as a immunisation strategy in my book. or maybe i am just the most effective troll in recorded internet history...
i have no tv btw 

Why would I have to spend time reading idiotic statements on this forum? Oh, wait - I don't. There is the "ignore" button available.

Judging from most of the above post, I would say brainwashed instead of disinformed.

I met developers and entrepreneurs in Iran. Iran actually has huge quantities of oil for sale among many other products.

Oh, yes, we forgot to put English on their school plans. Right. That's what we did wrong. (sorry I have to ignore you and you are the first troll that gets this honor on this forum. The others I at least manage to not feed.)

it would be great to bring bitcoin to iran!
but it has to be a person from iran to translate a how-to-use-bitcoins site cause nobody else knows how t is possible in iran.
i dont see Iran as an enemy, we're just disinformed by evil mainstream-media.

unlike the countries you mentioned there is absolutely no shared market with iran. 300.000 more american or european bitcoin users would be great news for all companies already supporting bitcoin and will very likely bring more developers and other entrepreneurs. plus thats a goal that might actually be achievable. getting 300.000 iranians to use bitcoin on the other hand might be next to impossible and leave us with 300.000 we are barely able to trade or communicate with.

i didnt make the trade embargo nor did i forget to put english on the school plans in iran. and i dont support any of that either. but i acknowledge their existence and the effects they will have on bitcoin adoption in iran and similar countries. i think you are the ignorant here, because you refuse to acknowledge a reality you dont like. which is that bringing bitcoin to iran is a very likely futile effort at this point.

Exactly as much as if a few hundred thousand Americans, Germans, Chileans or Italians suddenly used bitcoin. Opposed to you I actually do have friends in Iran and I do care if they can interact with the rest of the world or not. Their government discusses ultimately cutting the internet and makes them jump through hoops to get in touch with the rest of the world and ignorant fornits that don't care, make it possible that not only weapons and "dangerous" high tech can't be sent to Iran but also bitcoin and firefox. Congratulations.

then tell me what exactly changes for you personally when a few hundred thousand iranians suddenly use bitcoin?

Because if they use BTCs, their value grow