Bitcoin India

Why has Bitcoin so far gotten zero traction in India?

Forum user minorman on BitcoinTalk.org describes in a post a number of attributes that would indicate Bitcoin should be starting to gain a little interest in India but to-date, so little progress has been made.

minorman writes in support of the open question:

• India has more programmers/computer people than the rest of the world combined.
• People in India love tangible assets (gold/silver)
• The Rupee is crashing and the gold price has just hit an all time high in Rupees.
• 108 people in India have no bank account or otherwise access to financial services.
• Millions of Indians live outside India and send money to/from relatives in India.
• Unlike China, India has no “great firewall”.

The forum board has a restriction the limits new users to a specific newbie forum as an approach to limit posting of duplicate questions and to bring trolling to manage levels on the other boards once a new user “graduates” (or gets whitelisted) out of the newbie forum.  This is an unfortunate hurdle that the moderators felt needed to be put in place but the equivalent of “forum vandilism” that had been occurring had made the boards unusable for everyone without this restriction.

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