UPDATE: Greek Island Trials Digital Currency Solution to Boost Economy
Drachmae Connect, a tourism business network, is using NXT technology in attempt to help ease liquidity problems and business-to-business trade in the Island of Agistri. Support from the mayor of Agistri has enabled a partnership between the social network, Nautiliuscoin, Drachmae.money payment gateway, Coinstructors and SuperNET, as they begin testing in Greece. John McLeod, a press contact with Drachmae Connect, described the company as a “business-to-business platform that will not only allow merchants to exchange services, but also enable tourists to book vacations at a discount using....
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Perhaps a blockchain-based parallel currency could provide a solution to the Greek crisis and be an alternative for Greece, Forbes reports. Lee Gibson-Grant, founder of U. K. -based digital currency consultancy Coinstructors, recently met with the Mayor of Agistri, an island in Saronic Gulf with a population of around a thousand people. The Mayor has agreed to start testing blockchain technology solutions in the island. The single ATM on Agistri ran out money last week. The project is related to the Drachmae project covered by Bitcon Magazine in May. Proposed by CNBC contributor Brian....
Greece has been under the weather for a long time but Agistri, a small Greek island widely considered to be a tourist haven, has been one of the hardest hit. To seek out a way to survive in this harsh time, and to keep the economy running, the policymakers have now fallen back on the magic of cryptocurrency to pull Agistri out of the crisis. The authorities have put a seal of approval to pilot a new cryptocurrency called "Nautiluscoin" with the hope that it would help pull the fragile economy on track. This virtual currency was initially made to help people who wished to make transactions....
CNBC contributor Brian Kelly, the author of "The Bitcoin Big Bang: How Alternative Currencies Are About to Change the World," proposes a quick and simple bitcoin-like solution for Greece's troubled economy. Since the January elections that brought the "anti-establishment" Syriza party to power, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has been trying to renegotiate the Greek debt with the European Union (EU), but the country remains strangled by foreign debt. Rumors of a possible "Grexit," the exit of Greece from the EU, keep surfacing.Writing on CNBC, Kelly notes that Greece could stay in the....
With the Greek debt crisis still far from over, Prime Minister Alex Tsipras is now considering alternatives to shifting back to a potentially worthless drachma. Bitcoin has been on the rise, thanks to capital controls imposed in the country, leading the Greek leader to consider digital currency solutions. The Greek referendum has resulted in an overwhelming vote against additional austerity, which means that the country could forego the much-needed bailout and be forced out of the euro zone. However, it might be thrown deeper into depression and skyrocketing unemployment in that case.....
Jersey Island is welcoming to Bitcoin. Jersey, an autonomous island of the UK, is a well established "tax haven" and besides tourism the island's economy is driven by financial services. This has lead to an increasingly affluent people on the cutting edge of financial and technological innovation. Naturally the island wants to secure its future in the emerging world of digital currency. A local campaign group, bit.coin.je, has recently been set up to pursue Bitcoin understanding and adoption on the island. The group is an alliance of Jersey-based businesses and entrepreneurs who foresee....