You should take a look at what Rootstock and the Bitcoin Fundation Argentina are doing.
Basically similar to what you're thinking, and they received a big grant from the Latin american development bank to develop a usecase in one of the poorest places in Argentina.
Good place to start, let me know if you need more info.

Thank you Shuffledex, ICO starts in 30 minutes in case you want to participate.

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Introducing OpenVino y Costaflores
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Token Sale Going Live 6th of May at 3pm (UTC)
Tokens Available for purchase: 16.384 Tokens, each representing a bottle of wine
Introducing OpenVinoThe goal of the Openvino Project is to create the world’s first open-source winery, and wine-backed cryptocurrency.
Mike Barrow, the owner of Costaflores Organic Vineyard, explains how Openvino and blockchain are transforming his boutique winery from Mendoza, Argentina.

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"As advances in technology rapidly transform our world, the wine business, often perceived as an arcane mix of immutable tradition and arbitrary complexity, will not be exempt. The OpenVino Project seeks to revolutionize the way wine is thought about, sold, and consumed. We are actively seeking participants from the technology and wine worlds and the press to explore new ways to talk about organic viticulture, transparency and ethical business practices, blockchain trading technologies and new models of ownership and value assessment. Whether your interests lie in wine, technology or business; organic viticulture, cryptocurrencies or product distribution, we invite you to explore The OpenVino Project."What is the OpenVino project?OpenVino is an experimental collection of open-source software packages, business processes and designs, currently under construction by a global team of idealists. OpenVino is not a company, and we are not developing products to be commercialized in the future. While the first implementation of OpenVino is being built for the Costaflores boutique winery in Mendoza, Argentina, we hope our experiments will be freely adopted and modified by other wineries and businesses. 

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Who is the team behind the OpenVino project?


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Why an Open Source Winery?

How can “extreme transparency” bring value to a boutique winery? Using low-cost IoT sensors, 360º cameras, open-source accounting and ticketing software, Costaflores Organic Vineyard exposes EVERYTHING, and becomes the world’s first open-source winery.
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WineCoins and the Blockchain


Presenting the world’s first wine-backed cryptoasset! It’s like bitcoin, but for wine. One MTB18 token is worth one bottle of the Argentine organic wine, “Mike Tango Bravo 2018”, from Costaflores.
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Thank you for your interest! More information at https://ico.costaflores.com (only accept information through the website, I will not be sending PM with ETH addresses through bitcointalk) 

I also like waves but unfortunately it is not listed on the exchange that I use often. I do not feel like registering on a new exchange just for buying a single coin.

This is good the for Verge in the long run, it is interesting to know that Pornhub does not accept any other coin. It shows that verge is working on getting more partners on board.  

Most of the information about bitcoin can be obtained from this forum itself. To see price movement, you can use websites like coinmarketcap.

The issue of slow transactions has resolved in last few months and I see transfers happening in 5-10 minutes. However, it could be made instant, it would be awesome.

Working from home seems better but you need to have multiple income sources for that purpose. Relying on only crypto income is no a good idea as it may dies one day.

This is because people are investing only their additional savings and thus they do not need this money urgently. Thus, they do not mind waiting for long time.

Mining requires a lot of investment and this is a big limitation in my opinion. Trading can be done with small amounts like $ 100 or even lower.

I see that now the problem is solved to major extent . I get my funds faster and I think further improvements will make it more convenient.

Just keep your bitcoins in your wallet, their value will increase with time. No need to go for activities like gambling.

In terms of returns on investment, it is certainly better than gold. But if you talk about security or stability, I will still go with gold. Traditionally, people consider gold as a very safe investment.

Do not worry there are many other whales out there. In fact, if common people grab these at such low prices, it is good for them too.