A World of Potential in the Philippines - Bitcoin for the Masses
Bitcoin outfits have been making the rounds recently, doing more and more outreach outside of the typical circles—i.e. startup conventions and the like. The Bitcoin Organization of the Philippines (BOP), for one, regularly engages “laymen.” They hold weekly meetups, which are announced via their invite-only Facebook group, which has almost one thousand active users, and is beginning to rival the “Bitcoin PH” universal/general/generic bitcoin user group that has roughly four thousand active Facebook users. (The latter is large and attracts Bitcoin users from all over the world, whereas the....
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