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Re: Certified Translator, stuck in Venezuela, looking for remote freelance work

#41
It's heartbreaking seeing what happened to Venezuela.

It is also really scary as Venezuela was doing relatively quite well compared to other nearby nations. Democracy, functional institutions (relatively) and then .... people chose to vote in some strong men who trashed it.

Granted oil prices would have resulted in real problems anyway, but nothing to the extent we're seeing now. While nobody would want that situation, people in a democracy chose people who set them on that path (since then it hasn't been a democracy) ... and that is scary.

Re: Certified Translator, stuck in Venezuela, looking for remote freelance work

#42
post #39

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op is not the Venezuelan behind the service, explained here[0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17512031

that makes it even more suspicious. The venezuelan in question, could just use any other freelancing site or a service like fiverr just like any other venezuelan or person from another country. There is countless way to get paid even if you are Venezuelan living in venezuela, you can normally have a paypal account and use tons of others services like neteller, paxum, payoneer, etc, etc. I am just warning everyone to…

It seems like you know your away around getting paid in the country, any chance you can get in touch and explain it to them? I wish I could, I'm also Venezuelan but I left in 2010 so I have no idea.

Re: Certified Translator, stuck in Venezuela, looking for remote freelance work

#43

Love the idea. But I'm curious... Is ~$12/page actually the going rate for translating english to/from spanish? As $6,300 USD/BTC * 0.002 BTC = $12.6 USD

https://www.strakertranslations.com/translation-pricing/ - $0.13 - $0.16 per word which comes to $32.50 - $40 per 250-word page.

https://gengo.com/pricing-languages/ - $0.06 - $0.12 per word or $15-30 per page.

https://www.gts-translation.com/translation-prices-per-word/ - $0.10 per word or $25 per page.

https://www.onehourtranslation.com/translation/benefits/tran... - $0.087 or $21.75.

It's certainly seems cheaper and Bitcoin fees seem relatively low right now (at least compared to the end of last year). However, I'm not sure it seems so significantly cheaper, especially weighing the 250-word one-size pricing.

Agreed that it's really cool, though.

Re: Certified Translator, stuck in Venezuela, looking for remote freelance work

#45
post #33

Hey there, another venezuelan here. if you want to help this person PLEASE dont send any money without asking for verification first, I have seen so many people lately using this "please help me im venezuelan and i am in need" to scam money, there has been at least 5 sucessfull scams on r/btc, r/bitcoin and other online forums. Also Please note that: 1- it's harder to change BTC for VEF than change USD for VEF 2- thi…

To add to this to this point:

1. USD is the de facto world currency, and many (most?) banks in the world let you open an account in the local currency, plus another account denominated in USD which is absolutely necessary for doing any sort of international business

2. Venezuela's currency collapse is a problem mainly because it needs to import goods (medicine, machine tools, etc.) from the international market, which must be paid in USD, and which Venezuela now can barely source because their oil industry (main source of foreign earnings) is falling apart [1]

3. In most cases, USD is superior (more liquid, more easy to transact in, a more stable store of value) to any cryptocurrency. View 'I'm Venezuela ergo crypto' claims with skepticism, especially when they could be paid in USD to a foreign account instead. Not sure what the exact situation on the ground is in Venezuela, maybe it's very hard to receive USD because the government will seize it, but that's the a situation a foreign bank account can solve.

OTOH, if the goal is to use BTC to pay for living expenses by converting to bolivars, it's probably even easier to use USD.

[1] https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/13803

Re: Certified Translator, stuck in Venezuela, looking for remote freelance work

#46
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No, at the moment the fees are quite low. Maybe you could trust the person asking for crypto instead of showing an anti-crypto bias?

Coin Metrics says the transaction fee stands at $7.67 which is astronomical. ETH is a bit lower at $1.39 but that is still far far higher than most payment instruments.

Check western union.

Re: Certified Translator, stuck in Venezuela, looking for remote freelance work

#47
post #41

It's heartbreaking seeing what happened to Venezuela. It is also really scary as Venezuela was doing relatively quite well compared to other nearby nations. Democracy, functional institutions (relatively) and then .... people chose to vote in some strong men who trashed it. Granted oil prices would have resulted in real problems anyway, but nothing to the extent we're seeing now. While nobody would want that situatio…

Democracy is hardly democratic anymore. It is mostly just a show. Votes don't seem to matter. Trump won the vote, putin won the vote.

Re: Certified Translator, stuck in Venezuela, looking for remote freelance work

#48
post #43

Love the idea. But I'm curious... Is ~$12/page actually the going rate for translating english to/from spanish? As $6,300 USD/BTC * 0.002 BTC = $12.6 USD

https://www.strakertranslations.com/translation-pricing/ - $0.13 - $0.16 per word which comes to $32.50 - $40 per 250-word page. https://gengo.com/pricing-languages/ - $0.06 - $0.12 per word or $15-30 per page. https://www.gts-translation.com/translation-prices-per-word/ - $0.10 per word or $25 per page. https://www.onehourtranslation.com/translation/benefits/tran... - $0.087 or $21.75. It's certainly seems cheaper a…

WOW... no wonder there are so many AI startups working on translation.

I thought Google Translate uses AI now fairly perfectly.

Why is anyone paying a human translator $40/page when Google Translate is "free"?

Re: Certified Translator, stuck in Venezuela, looking for remote freelance work

#49
post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, at the moment the fees are quite low. Maybe you could trust the person asking for crypto instead of showing an anti-crypto bias?

Coin Metrics says the transaction fee stands at $7.67 which is astronomical. ETH is a bit lower at $1.39 but that is still far far higher than most payment instruments.

I'm not sure where you are getting those figures from, Coin Metrics shows fees under $1 for both for me [0]. The two sites I've used in the past that have been pretty accurate show ~$0.10 for both [1] [2].

[0] https://coinmetrics.io/charts/#assets=btc,eth_left=averageFe...

[1] https://ethgasstation.info/index.php

[2] https://bitcoinfees.info/

Re: Certified Translator, stuck in Venezuela, looking for remote freelance work

#50
post #33

Hey there, another venezuelan here. if you want to help this person PLEASE dont send any money without asking for verification first, I have seen so many people lately using this "please help me im venezuelan and i am in need" to scam money, there has been at least 5 sucessfull scams on r/btc, r/bitcoin and other online forums. Also Please note that: 1- it's harder to change BTC for VEF than change USD for VEF 2- thi…

I wont help, as in give money against nothing, but if I have things to translate I will consider their services.

And if their prices are competitive, I have no problem giving them my business.

Commerce is the best help system there is.

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