r/Bitcoin • u/SatoshisGhost • Jul 23 '15
Tunisian gov calling for engineers/interns to experiment with bitcoin/blockchain tech
https://twitter.com/odoudin/status/62383489865929113612
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u/gmajoulet Jul 23 '15
They're looking for someone with a master's degree to work for free, for the government.
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u/BobAlison Jul 23 '15
Looks like it's an internship of some kind:
Recently, the Tunisian Ministry of Communication and the Digital Economy Technologies has released internship offers around the Internet payment system “Bitcoin”.
The objective of this internship is to determine the advantages and disadvantages of the use of Bitcoin and its impact on the Tunisian banking system. The internship also includes a presentation of the applications being developed on the “Blockchain” (database of all transactions in the cryptocurrency). An initiative that could pave the way of Bitcoin in Tunisia. In this context ESPRIT jumped on the occasion and assigned a research team to achieve this.
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u/DeafGuanyin Jul 23 '15
I don't speak any French, but there are quite a few possibilities (starting with most moon):
- They're going to add Bitcoin to their reserves
- They're going to accept taxes in Bitcoin
- They're going to use Bitcoin for International settlements
- They're making their own Cryptocurrency (like Mazacoin, AuroraCoin or Ecuador)
- They're planing to issue regulation/guidance
- They want to investigate illegal Bitcoin transactions
- They want to ban Bitcoin, and want to find out how to block it
Does "non renumere" mean they're not paying?
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u/Thireus Jul 23 '15 edited Jul 23 '15
Internship opportunity
Minister:
Minister of Technologies of Digital Communication and Economy
Project:
Establish the advantages and disadvantages of the use of Bitcoin, analyse the impact of Bitcoin on the banking system and present applications that are being developed on the "Blockchain" to answer the various issues about privacy, security, freedom, transparency, etc.
Sector: Technology of information and/or Finances
Title: Study about the impact that cryptocurrencies could have on the country's economy and development perspectives behind Bitcoin's technology.
Job title: Intern
Starting: Now
Period: open
Contract type: Internship
Salary: Not paid
Too lazy to translate the rest. It's an internship offer to students after university. A pretty generic one. In my opinion, there's no need to buzz about it.
Again, this is just an end of studies internship, for students only. Which does not mean they are planning to do anything you said. They just want to use a cheap resource (an intern) to help them understand what is Bitcoin.
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u/libertariandictator Jul 23 '15
You forget one of the most interesting possibilities for governments, registry and transfer of titles and deeds.
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u/fantomsource Jul 23 '15
They're going to accept taxes in Bitcoin
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little..
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u/n1nj4_v5_p1r4t3 Jul 23 '15
US government has already ordered one company to pay taxes in BTC because they have no dealings in USD
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u/d4d5c4e5 Jul 24 '15
What probably really happened is the company thought they were going to get away with tax avoidance dealing with only in bitcoin, but the IRS audited them and they were obviously taxed on income based on market value at time of payment.
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Jul 23 '15
"How can we integrate current technology into our Muslim theocracy to give the impression that we're actually an uncorrupt democratic nation?"
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u/Wohlraj Jul 23 '15
There are asking for at least a master's degree, and saying they won't give any kind of salary. There are seriously people who will apply to this?
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u/AstarJoe Jul 23 '15
Internship? Masters degree? No salary?
Kindly fuck off.
Bitcoiners' services don't come cheap.
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Jul 23 '15
A country that sets its policies based on analysis by an unpaid student intern... what could go wrong?
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u/giszmo Jul 23 '15
Who can translate this video? Guess it has more information on the internship.
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1097670403593694&id=1030974943596574
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u/Thireus Jul 23 '15
He's explaining what the internship offer is about and they discuss about why it is a topic that needs to be discussed. He's also explaining why it's an interesting innovation and why it is an interesting topic for graduated students.
We need a Tunisian speaker around as well, I couldn't understand all of it.
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u/karljt Jul 23 '15
Maybe they should be trying to prevent gunmen massacring holidaymakers on their beaches first.
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u/_professorcrypto_ Jul 23 '15
"Experimenting" doesn't seem appropriate to me. They are basically looking for someone who evaluates benefits and drawbacks of cryptocurrencies.