In reply to Chris Farlee.

I actually did that a while back and I imagine it probably helped. (if they kept it they might be millionaires now but that's obviously beside the point because of the great risk associated with keeping them)

But the idea is not really that we should send them bitcoins. The much bigger idea is that they might be able to transfer/keep their own savings out of the hands of dictators, thugs or mob rule. Secure "banking" in these parts of the world/this part of society is but a dream.

They don't really care if they lose say 50% or more of their money, if they can just keep some of it. By the end of the week, they might be considered millionaires, not by their increase in wealth, but because they didn't loose all of it.

Let's not be pessimistic, lets instead strive for development and increased prosperity in the whole world.

This is where the power of capital comes in. You don't really need to give a shit. We'll take the risk and we'll take the potential return.

Be it economic, psychomoral, through societies advancement or through building of the new human relationships needed on the way or those that result from use of the product itself.