Cool idea, is the plan to build something like Farmville with Bitcoin payments?
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Better idea,
A real-life farmville, with bitcoin payments.
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But a farmville type game doesn't relate to real-life for a couple reasons ... primarily: 1.) scale (cost), 2.) variances, and 3.) time. With a game the virtual resources can be allocated (or discontinued) at no real cost -- it's just bits. In real-life, adding an acre to a producing farm incurs a great amount of capital and commitment. And that new acre won't be the same as that farmer's existing acre. Farming that land may produce results that vary greatly from other land -- even that of an adjacent plot. And the timing. A Farmville type crop might be planted today, and yield results in a few days. A real farm might not be able to harvest what is planted for six months! (or, take something like an Avocado tree where it can take years for the seed to develop into a tree mature enough to bear fruit.)
In much of Africa, the "smallholder" farmer accounts for a significant chunk of the nation's GDP and employment, but the smallholder farmers take on an endeavor larger than they alone can oftentimes shoulder.
Maybe some day there'll be some type of hybrid of farmville and real life smallholder farming where remote participants in a real farming operation can occur, where the land, labor and crops are real, but the risks and rewards are shared between the farmer and the remote "farmer". It would likely lead to something where an experienced farmer and investor might be able to contribute expertise as well, rather than just be a game "player" putting capital at risk. That combination of expertise and capital could result in increased production for the farm, and increased wealth for both the real farmer and the remote "farmer".
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