CEO of Katalyst.ph heads to the rural provinces of the Philippines to promote Bitcoin.
July 3, 2015: Pinky Natividad, CEO of startup accelerator Katalyst.ph, travelled out to Paniqui, Tarlac to hold the first of many in a series of workshops aimed at promoting free and open source technologies. Among the technologies that Natividad covered was Bitcoin. Many among the crowd were relatives and even spouses of OFWs—overseas workers that regularly remit funds to support families in rural provinces in the Philippines. Natividad demonstrated many applications, including a Bitcoin wallet and ATM. Katalyst.ph believes that the full potential of open source and free technologies such....
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