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Would you be interested in sharing your views on certain Bitcoin related topics as part of my documentary research?
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many views, many idea's but im not much of a public face. (bad voice and ugly) so ill stick to text comments and suggestions.
the UK population seem a little smarter then the US counterparts. where for instance the "we use coins" video states that bitcoins are virtually fee free, instant, blah blah. are not actually fully true statements to make.
the main view of bitcoin in the UK is that with "faster payment" scheme UK banks offer, bitcoin does not give much benefit for wire transmitting to other UK residents or Euro residents. unlike bitcoin requiring 10 minute minimal confirm time, i have wire transferred many thousands of pounds to other UK banks in under 30 seconds.
the other view is that if i wanted to send £500 from lands-end to john o'groats. finding someone in lands end to convert £ to
BTC incur's an above market value fee due to the guy on local-bitcoins.com or #bitcoin-otc-uk wanting to make a couple % profit. and the same again at the other end. also sending the coin itself may incur a transaction fee. thus turning £500 into a £490 on just 1% profit at each end (but in reality and experience is more like 2%-5% (£470 receipt))
as for mining, electricity costs being double that of the US, this makes the UK priced out of profit mining anything. especially if you begin looking at the cheaper deals the US get on GPU equipment compared to the UK retail/2nd hand ebay market.
i have not talked about the whole banking/FSA/Tax as a negative thing, because, chats from talking to all of these departments has show me in actual fact bitcoin is not a negative thing to worry about.
now thats the short and sweet of the negatives.. my views on the positives and the ways bitcoin can benefit the country is a much longer story. but i will just title the idea's below for now
credit unions
teentrepreneurs (teenage entrepreneurs)
sending money abroad
contracts and loans
store of wealth
holiday travel money
retail
manufacturing
and much more