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The title, though reflective of the article, is misleading. It should be "Some speculation about what might happen in the unlikely event that many Kenyans start

• notahacker 13y ago
  It's also speculation which doesn't exactly fill me with confidence the author knows what he's talking about: the unsupported suggestion that Bitcoin will stop people asking for bribes is frankly laughable and then he suggests the "relative consistency" of Bitcoin could be a welcome change above a chart which appears to show that over the last year the Kenyan shilling has fallen in value less than BTC fell in the last week (I'm comparing 7 day MtGox USD exchange rates with a presumably YoY Kenyan inflation rate of <5%) I really wish Western speculators whose position in BTC vastly exceeds their financial knowledge wouldn't shill their position by recommending people in developing countries risk their money