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DennisP on Jan 20, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bitcoin 2.0 explained

Cellphones are very common in third-world countries. If a currency works on a cheap smartphone, most of the world's poor will be able to use it before long.

notprathap on Jan 21, 2014 [–]

I come from a third world country. We are far from adopting digital currencies, let alone understand it.

DennisP on Jan 22, 2014 | [–]

At the moment, so is everybody else. Even in the U.S. it's still a pretty small crowd of early adopters. Most people I talk to have never heard of it.

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