| ▲ | igsomething 6 hours ago |
| Then people from a sanctioned countries are blocked from open source, or worse, you have to explain to the bank and/or the government why you sent 20USD to someone in Venezuela. |
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| ▲ | rglullis 6 hours ago | parent [-] |
| And here we have another specimen of "things which crypto are actually useful" spotted in the wild! |
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| ▲ | LtWorf 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think the intersection of the set of people able and interested in contributing and those who are willing to figure out cryptocurrencies is the empty set. | | |
| ▲ | rglullis 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I quick visit to https://gitcoin.co/campaigns will show you that you are wrong. Hundreds of projects funded by even more people. Mind you: that's on one of the most convulated ways there is to get involved, because it involves a bunch of smart contract operations and on-chain voting. If we are talking about crypto only as a payment network, things are even simpler. | | |
| ▲ | LtWorf 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's cheating if the projects using it are cryptocurrency related :) A generic python library used by generic people who have no interest in this field is something else. | | |
| ▲ | rglullis 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Coinbase reports more than 100+ user accounts worldwide. Kraken has ~10M. Also, we are talking about people who are tech-savvy enough to be interested in participating in a FOSS project. Opening an account at an exchange is not rocket science. | | |
| ▲ | LtWorf 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | No, getting the money out of an exchange if you are in a country USA doesn't like is rocket science. Which was the whole point of using crypto rather than money. | | |
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