Bitcoin Available at 10,000 Indomaret Stores in Indonesia

Re:Bitcoin Available at 10,000 Indomaret Stores in Indonesia by jarek on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @12:42PM (#8263887)

> Is the rate of lack of use of bank accounts ever likely to be public knowledge? There's zero incentive on the banks' side to publicise that kind of information.

Public authorities can estimate this (FDIC in the U.S. has done so) and general trends should be evident (if half of previously unbanked Indians get bank accounts we won't need banks to tell us).

But fair - just the rate of Bitcoin wallet creation then? Maybe compare to global/country population growth.

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Re:Bitcoin Available at 10,000 Indomaret Stores in Indonesia by Andrew_Quentin on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @02:20PM (#8264455)

Bitcoin wallet creation went from 1 million to 5 million since last year and it keeps increasing.

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Re:Bitcoin Available at 10,000 Indomaret Stores in Indonesia by jarek on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @03:02PM (#8264667)

Thanks! For comparison, Indonesia's population has grown by around 2-3 million people per year over the last two decades; India's by around 17 million people per year; and the world's rate as a whole is about 70 million per year.

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Re:Bitcoin Available at 10,000 Indomaret Stores in Indonesia by Andrew_Quentin on Thursday September 04, 2014 @05:04PM (#8270631)

Those are absolute numbers. From 1 million to 5 million is a 500% increase. I doubt any nation has seen anywhere close to a 500% increase in their population numbers.

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