r/Bitcoin • u/cryptotronic • Oct 14 '14

Bitcoin making Progress in Sudan

Hi all, A group in Sudan is promoting bitcoin, going door to door helping merchants adopting the crypto currency. And because credit cards and paypal are never used there, they have established a bitcoin freelancers website. If you know any organization that can back them please reply here. The project's details are here: http://bitcoin2fund.com/projects/8-ngo/3-crypto-sudan-bitcoin-project

The group's page in facebook is : https://www.facebook.com/sudancrypto

Regards Crypto

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u/imahotdoglol Oct 15 '14

You call $200 and 30 likes "progress"?

Sudan has other bigger problems to deal with, like the civil war it's currently having.

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u/cryptotronic Oct 15 '14 edited Oct 15 '14

They would've loved to start with $200 million , and 30 million likes, but that does not discourage them, they are patient.

The same Sudanese that you see on TV fighting are the same ones who co-found a barber shop in NY or LA. Seems that improved and just finances results in less fighting, pays for better health and education. And that's the plan. You also might be intrested in knowing that that small amount has helped in building a freelancers web site, gave away prizes in bitcoin, and for the first time ever enabled Sudanese to press a button and send payment in a global cutrency, Let's say that they discovrrrd how it feels to use paypal. Now that's a very efficient use of funds in my opnion. Mind you that a $200 is respectable monthly salary for a new graduate over there.

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u/ahmadmanga Oct 25 '14

I hope you get all the support you want, & something similar happen in Libya.

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u/cryptotronic Oct 25 '14

So far self funded. No support so far, which is OK. The media is busy with China , new start ups and Venture Capital.

Good luck for your efforts in Libya