[57north-discuss] bitcoin

[tj]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:39:57PM +0000, Aidan Karley wrote:
> 
>> The current situation with academic papers is ridiculous. It seems to be
>> that firewalled paper just don't get read, no one is benefitting in this
>> scenario.
> Publishing companies benefit, most egregiously Elsevier, though there are many others only slightly less egregious.
> It probably involves a smart phone app and a qr code.
> Not going to happen. I had my phone pick-pocketed only a few months ago. Anything that requires more than phone numbers (which are duplicates of my "little black book") on my phone isn't going to happen. I appreciate "smart phones for unimportant things like Twitter and the occasional 16x16 sudoku, but anything that involves finance simply is not going to happen on my phone. 
> 
> Money is something that happens at home, or in cash. Or at the cash machine.
> 

You understand bitcoin is a digital currency?

The next option is a laptop, honestly I have no idea how this particular
machine works. Or any of the bitcoin machines.

You probably just need a qr code, but without a computer you
control(smartphones are computers too) you won't be able to verify the
transaction has worked.

- [tj]