Thanks in part to Argentina's volatile financial markets, bitcoins are helping people there cut out the banks and government entirely in their financial transactions:
That afternoon, a plump 48-year-old musician was one of several customers to drop by the rented room. A German customer had paid the musician in Bitcoin for some freelance compositions, and the musician needed to turn them into dollars. Castiglione [the bitcoin moneychanger] joked about the corruption of Argentine politics as he peeled off five $100 bills, which he was trading for a little more than 1.5 Bitcoins, and gave them to his client. The musician did not hand over anything in return; before showing up, he had transferred the Bitcoins — in essence, digital tokens that exist only as entries in a digital ledger — from his Bitcoin address to Castiglione’s. Had the German client instead sent euros to a bank in Argentina, the musician would have been required to fill out a form to receive payment and, as a result of the country’s currency controls, sacrificed roughly 30 percent of his earnings to change his euros into pesos. Bitcoin makes it easier to move money the other way too. The day before, the owner of a small manufacturing company bought $20,000 worth of Bitcoin from Castiglione in order to get his money to the United States, where he needed to pay a vendor, a transaction far easier and less expensive than moving funds through Argentine banks.
Do any Solentils manage their transactions in bitcoin? What are your experiences?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday May 02 2015, @12:25AM
Think artistically, dude. It's seriously deep. The point is that the user was trying to share the essence, quite elegantly in this limited medium, of just how annoying the process really was. They did it literally with their word choice and symbolically with the wall of monospace text and repetition of words representing not only the amount and appearance of data but also the tedium.
Nerds have a well-deserved reputation of being oblivious to those kinds of personal expressions. Thanks for being a champion of the status-quo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 02 2015, @12:32AM
Just because it has artistic intention does not make it a positive contribution.
If I poke you in the eye and say "hey man, you just got to groove with it!" that doesn't make it acceptable.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday May 02 2015, @12:53AM
You just poked me in the eye with your bellicose and censorist rhetoric.
MODS! MODS! Ban that guy! He's being a dick! I'm gonna withdraw my subscription and leave if you don't ban that guy! Somebody said something online that was offensive to ME! MODS!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 02 2015, @12:56AM
You are perfectly within your rights to believe that.
The fact that you can't differentiate between form and content says everything necessary about your argument.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday May 02 2015, @01:11AM
The only thing that says about me is that I'm not a web developer. And you win, I lose at being a web developer. Congratulations!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 02 2015, @01:33AM
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(Score: 2) by black6host on Saturday May 02 2015, @02:28AM
The difference here is that the OP was addressing the topic at hand. You are not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 02 2015, @02:47AM
It appears that artistic quality is in the eye of the beholder.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 02 2015, @02:55AM
Presentation is content.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 02 2015, @04:20AM
No it isn't. Presentation is done using CSS. Content is within the semantic HTML markup.