Bitcoin trading feels the impact in Uganda over complete internet shutdown
Internet shutdown? what does that means, while there are definitions explaining what it means (service providers blocking all internet access) experiencing it should be a nightmare. I am very impatient with slow internet connection let alone be complete shutdown.
The government of #Uganda has ordered #Internet service providers to shut down all international gateways until further notice. We are completely cut off from the world. pic.twitter.com/kZEpqbhRPM
— Kyle Spencer (@kyleville) January 13, 2021
Obviously that's some stunt pulled so the current president can not only retain 35 years ruling power but cut off every form of transparency as well and communication with the world.
Interestingly this is rapidly becoming a means of exacting power over people as a number of African leaders have impose such measures on its people.
Talk about your basic right being taken from you and we go about believing we are free!
As a side effect, according to analytics site UsefulTulips, there’s been no reported Bitcoin trading activity on peer-to-peer exchanges LocalBitcoins or Paxful within Uganda since January 14. A visit by Decrypt to Paxful’s Uganda shilling (UGX) site found sell offers from Ghanaians, Nigerians, and Kenyans—but no Ugandans. UGX traders on LocalBitcoins hailed from neighboring countries Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Away from the political side of things, Bitcoin trading have felt the impact in Uganda, though a small crypto market it is over there, it is inhuman to cut off a nation from internet access due to some selfish plans.
I am sure most of us here on HIVE can relate to days when we can't access HIVE due to Hard Fork, I personally always feel the impact on those days when I can't interact with the blockchain.
With lockdown measures all in the name of Covid, internet shutdowns etc are we really free? I don't think so.
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Uganda is an example of a country that needs s revolution by all means. I can't believe they'll shut the country from the rest of the world.
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Talk of one person ruling a country for 35 years and not wanting to let go, more like late Mugabe. Some times I don't why leaders cling to power that much.
A revolution is needed obviously.
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Mehnnnnn we need a decentralized internet supply...then these guys at the govt won't be moving this mad
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Hahahah true bro, they have been having control over us for way too long, every form of decentralization we can get the better of freeing ourselves from their tyranny.
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A really sad situation going into four days without the internet, if I was Ugandan I would just move out of there until that dictator is out of power. Democracy is dead and people's freedom totally compromised. I believe he indeed stole this election and was totally scared of Bobi Wine. Let's see how things turn out in the coming days.
This is one of the reasons people leave their native country, I will also leave the country if I was Ugandan.
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