New Bitcoin Killer App: “FIAT to BTC to FIAT”
The Bitcoin software park is enriching with upcoming apps that convert fiat currency to Bitcoin, transfer it and reconvert it to fiat, all in a single step. Who needs a money transfer service, when you can just download an app? With Bitcoin being around for a few years now, one would have expected remittance services to begin to adopt it for their own business, but somehow this didn’t happen. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin software ecosystem keeps expanding, and another killer app seems to be on the horizon. “Using the blockchain and a local currency in/local currency out vision, we will make....
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