Unironically as a Nigerian Bitcoin has been a god send. I was and am completely skeptical about crypto given that I believe 99.9% are basically complete scams. However, the idea of a censorship resistant layer of money transfer with no intermediary has worked wonders when our government was restricting access to our own money in our bank accounts. Will Bitcoin be that in the future? Who knows, but the demand is there for sure if you live in a society like this.
Can't Nigerians open bank accounts in a foreign country? Why did you need cryptocurrency to achieve your goals?
I can only imagine it's easier to pay for life's essentials with a debit-card issued by a UK or Dubai bank in Nigeria (or cash withdrawn from an ATM using the same card) than it is to pay for those same things with Bitcoin there.
> I still say for the poor level of diversification within & around asset classes that I don’t see a lot of shining examples of how to achieve success.
Wouldn't you expect a poor level of diversification in a stock portfolio based on corruption? They aren't dollar cost averaging and diversifying. They're doing the exact opposite to maximize the trade.
Kinda, I guess for a sophisticated “corruption portfolio” I would expect to see suspiciously timed trading but maybe more coherent core holdings. Just because you have inside info doesn’t mean you have a time machine, you still have to protect against unknowns.
I'd love to talk to companies that are looking for a Sr. Engineer that has spent the last 6 years writing ruby on rails code. Currently work in a healthy work environment that focuses on code quality, having tests, and practicing agile principles to build software that works for our customers. I'd like to work in a customer focused environment.
Depending on the complexity of the ecosystem and the experience of the developer 2 weeks to 1 month might not be enough time. You'd also want to be worried about the code slinger that just starts throwing code at a problem and looks like a rockstar in the first couple months, but by month 6 has ground to a halt because they can't change the code they wrote a few months ago.
I've cycled through winters with wind chill in the -15F range and up to a half foot of snow on the ground. So, it is more than doable to do in both those cities.
I don't see why it couldn't be done by almost anyone given that they live close enough to work. Anything less than 10 miles is doable assuming you have a good route.
Maybe proper bike infrastructure could increase the number of bicycle-commuters from ten percent to thirty percent. Think of all the space you could have for your car if there were twenty percent fewer cars in front of you.
