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Don Tapscott带你了解数据区块链会对货币、商业、政府以及社会造成的影响。
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- Number three: the biggest flow of funds from the developed world to the developing world
- 第三点：从发达国家到发展中国家，规模最大的资金流动
- is not corporate investment, and it's not even foreign aid. It's remittances.
- 并不是公司投资，甚至也不是外国援助，而是汇款。
- This is the global diaspora; people have left their ancestral lands,
- 这是散居在全球的人们，离开了祖辈的土地，
- and they're sending money back to their families at home.
- 他们把钱汇回家中。
- This is 600 billion dollars a year, and it's growing, and these people are getting ripped off.
- 一年会产生6000亿美元的汇款，而且还在不断增加。而且他们正在被剥削。
- Analie Domingo is a housekeeper. She lives in Toronto,
- 安娜丽·多明戈是位女管家。她在多伦多生活，
- and every month she goes to the Western Union office with some cash to send her remittances to her mom in Manila.
- 每个月都会带着现金来到西联汇款公司，把钱汇给在马尼拉的妈妈。
- It costs her around 10 percent; the money takes four to seven days to get there;
- 手续费占了将近10%，转账手续需要花费4到7天的时间，
- her mom never knows when it's going to arrive.
- 她妈妈从来不知道到账的时间。
- It takes five hours out of her week to do this.
- 每个礼拜她都要花五个小时来检查是否到账。
- Six months ago, Analie Domingo used a blockchain application called Abra.
- 六个月前，安娜丽·多明戈使用了一款名叫阿布拉的区块链应用。
- And from her mobile device, she sent 300 bucks.
- 她从自己的手机上转出了300美元。
- It went directly to her mom's mobile device without going through an intermediary.
- 直接转入了她母亲的手机上，并没有经过中间商。
- And then her mom looked at her mobile device --
- 她的母亲只需查看她的手机
- it's kind of like an Uber interface, there's Abra "tellers" moving around.
- 有点像Uber的应用界面，阿布拉中有”出纳员“在循环滚动。
- She clicks on a teller that's a five-star teller, who's seven minutes away.
- 她点击一个五星的出纳员，只相隔7分钟的路程。
- The guy shows up at the door, gives her Filipino pesos, she puts them in her wallet.
- 那位伙计很快出现在门口，给了她菲律宾比索，随后把钱放进钱包。
- The whole thing took minutes, and it cost her two percent.
- 整个过程只需要几分钟时间，并且花费只有2%。
- This is a big opportunity for prosperity.
- 这是经济繁荣的巨大机遇。
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| application | [.æpli'keiʃən] | |||
| minutes | ['minits] | |||
| global | ['gləubəl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| device | [di'vais] | |||
| funds | ||||
| prosperity | [prɔs'periti] | 联想记忆 | ||
| corporate | ['kɔ:pərit] | 联想记忆 | ||
| wallet | ['wɔlit] | |||
| opportunity | [.ɔpə'tju:niti] |
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