Bill Gates: "The foundation is involved in digital money but unlike Bitcoin it would not be anonymous digital money.”http://mashable.com/2014/02/10/bill-gates-ama-2/ …
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@sarahjeong he's talking about M-pesa.
@anildash Bitcoin isn’t necessarily anonymous, not sure why that’s the sticking point.
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@sarahjeong I think he just picked one attribute that's distinct between them. Pretty clearly just wanted redditor nerds to look up Mpesa. -
@anildash I think it’s interesting because Microsoft was in talks to make a deal with Digicash in 80s? 90s? and that completely fell apart -
@anildash it’s just weird to imagine what the internet would be like if the deal had gone through. -
@sarahjeong yeah, but I think this reference was much more of a piece with the recent focus of digital payment for aid, as with US AID. -
@anildash yeah, and m-pesas seem to be filling that niche well? I hear a lot of talk abt BTC being used that way, not much evidence tho. -
@sarahjeong every credible person ice talked to at NGOs and in gov has been positive about mpesa; not even remotely true of btc. -
@anildash what i suspected, good to have corroboration
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@sarahjeong i.e. a rhetorically useful way of making them seem linked/similar though they're not.Merci. Twitter en tiendra compte pour améliorer votre fil. SupprimerSupprimer
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