Interestingly, we saw today an announcement from YourBrainOnBlockchain that Developer Edition of Bluephone is now available for pre-order.

YourBrainOnBlockchain itself is something TELOSNEWS.COM might dig out further and introduce to you one day, but for now, know that YourBrainOnBlockChain is supposed to be a centralised place to buy all things Telos, and lately it seems there been a lot of building happening like TELOSNEWS.COM news items have been released on YourBrainOnBlockChain-blog as well.

Since this is the first time an announcement was made by them, and of all things it was about bluephone, it might mean something.

Bluephone, as the name suggests, is a Mobile phone. Now why on earth do we need another one of those? That is because neither Google play store nor Apple store lets you release any master node running software.
Since mobiles are usually 24 hours a day turned on and connected to the internet, they would be a quite working solution for running a master node.

Now how to solve this problem?

By releasing your own mobile with Aeros as its operating system. No google play store nor apple store restrictions and people can finally get to run their nodes on the go and earn money to buy the next model when it comes out. So in the best case you buy one phone and keep buying all your phones in future with profits, get your phone bills paid and even earn some extra on top of that. Now talk of a good deal in here!

Current pre order pricing has two different prices.

699 Euros from YourBrainOnBlockChain, or 238 000 Telos from Bluephone.biz

With current Telos price that is around 800-900 Euros, so YourBrainOnBlockChains offer is pretty good, especially when taking into consideration that they have even price guarantee – If final price be lower, the overpayment will be returned, if higher, then you can choose to cancel your order or send the missing amount.

As of now, hardware specifications, and I suppose final price, is not known, since it havent been decided yet, there however should be couple of different options to choose from available in the end.

If the price sounds high, keep in mind that this price should include 100 000 Telos node in it, which alone is worth 400 Euros in the current market price.

All in phone, including nodes, however, might still change before the final release.

“Give a man a fish, and he be hungry tomorrow – Teach him to fish, and he is never hungry again”

This is basically the principle upon which Kiva operates.

Some peoples fathers and forefathers choices didn’t bring the same amount of fruit out as some others, especially western fathers, choices did.

Is it fair? that depends upon your view. The only way to be equal is to leave all the babies to the hospital’s floor right after they are born and let them survive themselves as they can (and that still doesn’t rule out the possibility that the hospital floor of some babies happen to disappear due to earthquake, making it still unfair to those ones). If this is not the choice we decide to make, then some will have better and more capable parents than others, and that is the reality.

However, that doesn’t mean that we who happened to be born to a more successful line of fathers shouldn’t give a damn about those who didn’t.

There has been a lot of good criticism in giving direct help to people since that is like giving the before mentioned fish, making them both hungry tomorrow, and perhaps even helpless to find anything else than expecting to get another fish from us.

Kiva, however, operates with a different principle.

In Kiva, you don’t even donate money to people, but you are actually giving them a loan.

And the principle of this loan is that this loan is a life-changing loan to them, making it possible to make their dream of earning their own living come true.

While westerns dreams might be pretty expensive and vain, like dreaming a world round trip, many peoples dream is simply to have a relatively cheap tool for us to make up a living. A tool of 25 USD might be out of reach for many people, especially for the bankless people who might make even less than 1 USD a day, and this price of couple of hamburgers left uneaten by us can make these peoples dream of making their own living a true.

Not only does it make them be able to make a living, but also feed their families, and sometimes even resulting in businesses that will bring living to even more people than just themselves.

On top of that, since we are talking of a loan here, this one 25 USD will not just change a life of one man, but when he is able to pay it back you can use that same 25 USD to loan for the next unbanked poor man.

When taking into account the cumulative effect of some of these growing into businesses supporting more than just one man, by loaning this same sum again and again after getting it back, you might well be making even 1000 people be able to make it possible to earn their living during your lifetime, with just 25 USD.

To support this idea, there is now a new TELOS bounty.

Kiva has a TELOS team. Join this Telos Team, and you will get 50 TELOS.

Even better, Lend to one of the Kiva credit projects and choose to do this as a TELOS team member, and you will get 1000 TELOS.

So now you don’t need to loan 25 USD anymore, but less, since you are getting 1050 TELOS back right after you loan.

This bounty has a total amount of one million Telos to be claimed and can be claimed only once per person.

As an additional incentive, part of Devs idea is that if TELOS team can have enough people there, even KIVA will notice this and then when Dev contacts KIVA to introduce them to the benefits that Telos can offer to bankless world (as example fight against hyperinflation), they will be much more willing to hear as they see TELOS has already done something to them.

Now go and make your life make a difference!