The Greek crisis from the perspective of IT-community
Many watching the world news knows that today the deadline for the next payment on IMF loans in Greece, in the case of uncollected money will be declared a technical default. By the way, the message that Greece will hold a referendum, just to surprise everyone - negotiators from the Greek government, arrived in Brussels, found out about it on June 28th from Twitter .
Apparently, the money did not really go, and different analysts have different opinions about what will happen next. Optimistic forecasts say that Greece somehow be able to negotiate with the bankers, and the referendum to be held later in the week, the citizens have expressed a desire to remain in the EU. Others argue that the EU will have to leave Greece. Still others predict the imminent disintegration of the entire European Union, which will inevitably begin after Greece.
But while the politicians argue, IT-experts offer their solutions to the problem. For example, a resident of London, Tom Feeney has created a known resource kraudfandingovom IndieGoGo campaign to save Greece from default . The purpose of the campaign - to collect € 1, 6 billion. He picked up a calculator and figured that if each of the 500 million inhabitants of the European Union will throw only for € 3, then received a half billion is just enough for the next tranche.
Among the proposed Baker campaign awards - postcard with a picture of Prime Minister of Greece, various traditional Mediterranean dishes and drinks (olives, feta cheese, vodka, ouzo). For € 5,000 you can relax together in Athens. At the beginning of the campaign, Mr. Fini even offered to anyone who will donate half the necessary Millard once, a small Greek island.
He himself did not own this island, but reasoned that the Greek government will not abandon actually sell the island to avoid default. But after the campaign gained prominence, he was contacted officials from the Greek Government and demanded to remove the "prize" of the campaign. On the second day of its existence, the campaign has raised more than € 200,000.
Fans Bitcoin is also looking ожидают developments . One of the founders of the payment processing system Bitpay said that in the case of «Grexit» (Greece exit, a Greek exit from the eurozone) Bitcoin will jump several times - from the level of $ 250 to $ 600, or even $ 1,200. His reasoning fans cryptocurrency build on that first boom Bitcoins happened in 2013, at a difficult moment when Cyprus suffered a banking collapse, povlёkshy of a backfire.
The #bitcoin market just needs a little GREASE to get unstuck. #Grexit price targets $ 610 and $ 1250 pic .twitter.com / A0ZJ0ppdfZ - Tony Gallippi (TonyGallippi) June 28, 2015 blockquote>
As Bitcoin decentralized and not controlled by anyone, and transfers around the world are committed fairly quickly and with scanty, the Commission may, on the background of what is happening to them could wake up some interest. About two weeks ago, they cost before long to keep at the level of $ 210-230, gradually went up and now exceeds $ 260. It is unlikely that the Greek government will rush to buy Bitcoins to all the remaining money, but individual citizens can try to save their savings. The first Bitcoin ATM-appeared in Athens в early 2015 .
Another unconventional way предложил German columnist for Bloomberg Leonid Bershidsky. It analyzes the joke appeared in 2012, when at the presentation, someone asked Tim Cook, the company is not going to redeem himself whether Greece as a country for the summer holidays. At that time the company had funds of approximately $ 100 billion.
Bershidsky says that now Apple has twice as much money, and Greece is doing worse. This money Apple and other US companies essentially are abroad, because when translated into the United States with them will have to pay 35% tax. Reviewer sure to invest such a huge amount of nowhere, and if the company does not start to build cars, and better spaceships, and money will continue to accumulate.
According to estimates the browser, the five largest companies in the US, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Pfizer and Cisco, have a total of just over $ 400 billion. Bershidsky believes that if they agree on the repayment of debts of the country, using it for about half of their money (or only 13% more than in the case of tax refund in the US), and Europe will offer them in return free of tax activity in the territory EU, as a result, both parties will benefit from the transaction.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/252810/
