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Certified Translator, stuck in Venezuela, looking for remote freelance work
- ryanchoi 8y agoI know people have concerns with altcoin longevity/soundness/security but in a situation where every cent matters maybe an additional crypto to accept would be NANO? Though it seems to be less bartered locally. I read this a few days ago https://www.reddit.com/r/nanocurrency/comments/8wfl2r/venezuelan_user_i_bought_102_kg_of_food_today/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nanocurrency/comments/8wfl2r/venezu... edit: Oh never mind, moments after I posted this i realized that with altcoins you could end up even less crypto worth vs BTC than you'd save on tx cost. :)
- semi-nontechncl 8y agoHave you considered accepting Nano instead of BTC? Nano is perfect for this since there are zero transaction fees. Also, transactions are instant with Nano. A lot of people in the Nano subreddit are trying to get Venezuelans to start accepting and using Nano. You should definitely post in the Nano subreddit if you start accepting payments via Nano. More info at Nano.org and reddit.com/r/nanocurrency
- armini 8y agoBuild a profile on Peertal & happy to send you LTC payments on the platform for translating our website. https://youtu.be/tkyH3JRxndc https://youtu.be/tkyH3JRxndc
- ebikelaw 8y agoWhy not just dollars?
- sidko 8y agoHow would you send him/her dollars?
- Hernanaracena 8y agoVenezuelans cannot accept USD without a bank account. You can use paypal but its hard to exchange from paypal USD to the venezuelan currency (Bolivares)
- vkou 8y agoHow, and why is it easier to exchange BTC for Bolivars, then Paypal dollars for Bolivars?
- vivafrance 8y agoYou don’t exchange them. You transact in bitcoin.
- make3 8y agocan't imagine it's easy to exchange bitcoins to bolivars, though I may be wrong if course
- orev 8y agoWhy not exchange bitcoins for stuff, like an actual currency and not just a method of transfer?
- tdb7893 8y agoAre the transaction fees still ridiculous and is it any faster? I thought it's generally too expensive or slow for most normal transactions
- vivafrance 8y agoLightning networkng has been a thing for over 6 months now. Transactions are instant.
- 1996 8y agoNo, at the moment the fees are quite low. Maybe you could trust the person asking for crypto instead of showing an anti-crypto bias?
- aecorredor 8y agoFuerza bro! Pa’ lante.
- Exuma 8y agoHow did you get stuck?
- aecorredor 8y agoHe’s probably venezuelan and by stuck he means he has no feasible way of legally migrating to another country. Therefore, he’s stuck and seeking out help. I know because I myself am a venezuelan who migrated, but have most of my family also stuck in Venezuela.
- make3 8y agowith Maduro being a dictator and the economy being so incredibly rough (like, money worth nothing & people dying from starvation rough), even people who were born there likely feel stuck right now
- inferiorhuman 8y agoIt's disappointing (to me, at least) that you're being downvoted. Maduro is bad. Worse than Chavez bad. And, yes, mass starvation in Venezuela is very real. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/17/world/americas/venezuela-children-starving.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/17/world/america...
- ekianjo 8y agoIts called living under a dictatorship.
- sebleon 8y agoYes, incredibly difficult to get a Venezuelan passport now, these restrictions prevents nationals from leaving en masse. Thousands of Venezuelans have illegally walked out of their country, and making their way to my home country Ecuador on foot.
- thepumpkin1979 8y agoThat’s correct, everybody is hungry so corruption is everywhere. To get a passport you need to give the officer an iPhone 7 or a few thousand dollars. I read this today, it’s pretty bad.
- howitworks 8y agoGood luck! Are you still working on https://www.tryeffortless.com/ https://www.tryeffortless.com/ ?
- Hernanaracena 8y agothank you, This is not for me I'm just helping somebody in Venezuela (Yes, I'm still working on effortless)
- domlebo70 8y agoGreat idea.
- vorpalhex 8y agoCan you post a eth/bitcoin wallet address on your site?
- leesalminen 8y agoI’ve submitted his web form requesting it.
- peterlk 8y agoIn case anyone is not aware of the current situation of Venezuela. Here is a recent explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17408792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17408792
- ddtaylor 8y agoDo you know of a mirror of the video not in that weird scroll form?
- imbokodo 8y agoThe EU has sanctions on Venezuela and the US keeps piling on sanctions and newspaper reports say Trump is contemplating an invasion. Obviously these external pressures will have a negative effect on the Venezuelan economy. One reason for so much pressure is oil prices are rising and external forces want things changed before that happens. Thus the talk of US invasion. This is in contrast to the US-backed military overthrow of the Honduran government, which has been slaughtering its political opposition. In fact, these are many of the immigrants on the US border being discussed. The western governments back the military and post-coup governments on that case, which has been much more bloody.
- swagasaurus-rex 8y agoGot any sources for this? Anybody know if these claims are substantial?
- mc32 8y agoMaduro and Chavez just about every time on TV or radio claimed the US was preparing an invasion, was subverting the gov't by way of the opposition, etc. All the way back to the GW Bush, through Obama and till now. Was/is Chavez/Maduro credible? I'll leave that up to you to decide. The sitch down there is the govt's own doing. Nationalizing, expelling and enacting policies which drove out Industry SMEs ensured that the country would slowly but surely go downhill.
- hackstack 8y agoYour page says "text that need to be translated" but it would read more correctly as "text that needs to be translated". Just saying! Good luck.
- hodljuna 8y agoHi, sent you an email. Hopefully we can help each other out!
- firekvz 8y agoHey there, another venezuelan here. if you want to help this person PLEASE dont send any money without asking for verification first, I have seen so many people lately using this "please help me im venezuelan and i am in need" to scam money, there has been at least 5 sucessfull scams on r/btc, r/bitcoin and other online forums. Also Please note that: 1- it's harder to change BTC for VEF than change USD for VEF 2- this domain it's registered at godaddys servers, meaning that what the OP claims here: "Venezuelans cannot accept USD without a bank account. You can use paypal but its hard to exchange from paypal USD to the venezuelan currency (Bolivares)" is half incorrect and does not really applies to him, he had to use either paypal or an international debit/credit card to pay for this domain.
- thepumpkin1979 8y agoop is not the Venezuelan behind the service, explained here[0]. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17512031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17512031
- firekvz 8y agothat makes it even more suspicious. The venezuelan in question, could just use any other freelancing site or a service like fiverr just like any other venezuelan or person from another country. There is countless way to get paid even if you are Venezuelan living in venezuela, you can normally have a paypal account and use tons of others services like neteller, paxum, payoneer, etc, etc. I am just warning everyone to be carefull if they feel the need to help the person behind this site in a different way, the site looks like a really smart idea but please be sure that its legit :)
- thepumpkin1979 8y agoIt seems like you know your away around getting paid in the country, any chance you can get in touch and explain it to them? I wish I could, I'm also Venezuelan but I left in 2010 so I have no idea.
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- flyGuyOnTheSly 8y agoLove the idea. But I'm curious... Is ~$12/page actually the going rate for translating english to/from spanish? As $6,300 USD/BTC * 0.002 BTC = $12.6 USD
- barsonme 8y agoApparently it's something like $0.21/word https://slator.com/deal-wins/usd-0-21-per-word-americas-translation-rate/ https://slator.com/deal-wins/usd-0-21-per-word-americas-tran... Another website said $0.11. 250 / $12.6 = $0.5/word which is roughly 1/2 to 1/4 the going rate.
- mdasen 8y agohttps://www.strakertranslations.com/translation-pricing/ https://www.strakertranslations.com/translation-pricing/ - $0.13 - $0.16 per word which comes to $32.50 - $40 per 250-word page. https://gengo.com/pricing-languages/ https://gengo.com/pricing-languages/ - $0.06 - $0.12 per word or $15-30 per page. https://www.gts-translation.com/translation-prices-per-word/ https://www.gts-translation.com/translation-prices-per-word/ - $0.10 per word or $25 per page. https://www.onehourtranslation.com/translation/benefits/translation-price https://www.onehourtranslation.com/translation/benefits/tran... - $0.087 or $21.75. It's certainly seems cheaper and Bitcoin fees seem relatively low right now (at least compared to the end of last year). However, I'm not sure it seems so significantly cheaper, especially weighing the 250-word one-size pricing. Agreed that it's really cool, though.
- flyGuyOnTheSly 8y agoWOW... no wonder there are so many AI startups working on translation. I thought Google Translate uses AI now fairly perfectly. Why is anyone paying a human translator $40/page when Google Translate is "free"?
- fnordsensei 8y agoThere are plenty of situations when the human sense of nuance and appropriateness is absolutely necessary. Translation of legal documents is at the extreme end of this (for example, when my Brazilian wife had to translate her university diploma into English upon moving to Sweden.) If you just need to get the basic gist of something in a different language, then machine translation is obviously more performant.
- duxup 8y agoIt's heartbreaking seeing what happened to Venezuela. It is also really scary as Venezuela was doing relatively quite well compared to other nearby nations. Democracy, functional institutions (relatively) and then .... people chose to vote in some strong men who trashed it. Granted oil prices would have resulted in real problems anyway, but nothing to the extent we're seeing now. While nobody would want that situation, people in a democracy chose people who set them on that path (since then it hasn't been a democracy) ... and that is scary.
- downrightmike 8y agoDemocracy is hardly democratic anymore. It is mostly just a show. Votes don't seem to matter. Trump won the vote, putin won the vote.
- duxup 8y agoI think the state of democracy can be a wide range of various forms and states and just declaring it "hardly democratic anymore" shows very little perspective and really favors the folks you think might be manipulating it....
- downrightmike 8y agoAnd that's the difference between theory and practice.
- duxup 8y agoWhat do you mean?
- microcolonel 8y ago> Trump won the vote, putin won the vote. Not sure how you could be convinced that these elections are even remotely similar in terms of legitimacy, I suggest diversifying your news sources.
- megaman22 8y ago
- rhapsodic 8y agoFor those searching this page for this word: socialism
- dang 8y agoPlease don't.
- benryon 8y agoHas anyone gotten verification? Or where can I get some bitcoin to try it out?
- euske 8y agoWhile this looks interesting, it only helps one person/family. Is there any other way to help the people in the country? I looked up a couple of websites, but would love to hear people's opinions.
- gok 8y ago“Please help me use the blockchain, a ledger that can never be erased and can be tracked back to you, to circumvent your country’s sanctions against mine.”
- MarkMc 8y agoWhy hasn't some cryptocurrency replaced the bolívar as the unit of currency for most private transactions in Venezuela? Given the Venezuelan government's poor economic management and tight restrictions on foreign exchange transactions, if cryptocurrency was going to overthrow fiat currency anywhere it should be in Venezuela.
- azernik 8y agoI think you are aiming at this result, but to spell it out: Because most cryptocurrencies are not suitable for use as a currency. They are not stable units of account, are not as easy to exchange on an everyday in-person basis as cash, and are only a stable store of value by comparison to complete disasters like the bolívar. There are attempts (e.g. https://basis.io/ https://basis.io/ or https://tether.to/ https://tether.to/) to make a crypto-currency that fills this niche, but they have flaws (Basis isn't deployed yet, and Tether is a bit scary - it's backed by a single company that theoretically owns one dollar for every Tether coin issued).
- known 8y agoVenezuela is working on sovereign crypto asset backed by oil http://archive.is/Zdhxe http://archive.is/Zdhxe