Bankymoon Offers Bitcoin Solution For Paying Utility Bills
If we want to achieve a critical mass in terms of Bitcoin some day soon, we will need a lot more use cases for everyday consumers. Despite having the option to pay bills in Bitcoin and even receive [part of] your monthly wage in BTC, neither of these services are targeting a large market where Bitcoin payments could make a difference. But that is about to change, thanks to the efforts made by Bankymoon, a South African-based Bitcoin startup. How We Pay Utility Bills Today. In the midst of “smart” technology taking over daily life, payment technologies seem pretty archaic and are....
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Bankymoon, a South African-based Bitcoin solutions company, is changing how people pay for utilities, making them more affordable. Bitcoinist spoke with Lorien Gamaroff, founder and CEO of Bankymoon, to find out more about the utility crisis in Africa and what Bankymoon is doing to solve it. Lorien, a South Africa native, shared with us about the crisis and how it is impacting Africans and the education system. Today, Africa is in a state of crisis due to its current unsustainable utility metering system. This metering system is what’s referred to as “post-paid,” meaning consumers pay....
Africans rarely use Bitcoin payment services as they don’t trust Bitcoin as a currency. Lorien Gamaroff, CEO of Bankymoon, stated to CoinTelegraph that African residents don’t use services that offer the option of Bitcoin payments for utility bills and others because they just don’t trust cryptocurrency. Nevertheless, this could be the perfect alternative to the traditional banking system, especially considering the fact that most of Africa's population is unbanked. South Africa-based startup Bankymoon offers different solutions for utility bill payments that support Bitcoins and other....
Turns out that paying for your rent and other utilities with bitcoin is every easy with a private and simple method that has been right under our noses. If you are a hardcore Bitcoin fan, then Satoshi's brain child is much more to you then just a speculative investment, or a cool new kind of database. It is akin to a new country, the country of the sovereign international people of the Internet, or something like that. As such you want to get paid and pay for everything only with your crypto coins. Or maybe you are traveling to a third world country and want to minimize your exposure to....
Over the past year, bitcoin startups in the Philippines and Australia have begun to target day-to-day expenses and remittances; markets that are in desperate need of instantaneous, secure and cost-effective payment systems. Startups including Australia-based Living Room of Satoshi and Manila-based Rebit.ph, also known as the parent company of Bills Ninja, have been trying to educate the global population to use bitcoin in day-to-day expenses, such as paying utility bills and settling bank payments. Paying Bills with Ease. Earlier this year, Rebit.ph acquired bitcoin bills payment platform....
South African Bitcoin startup Bankymoon has built the world's first blockchain smart metering solution for modern power and utility grids, VentureBurn reports. The startup outlined its plans in a presentation titled "Smart Grids and the Blockchain - Bitcoin's first killer App" at the recent Bitcoin Conference Africa in Cape Town, South Africa. Lorien Gamaroff, founder and CEO of Bankymoon, is expected to give another presentation on May 14 at the Bitcoin Conference in Prague. Modern "smart grids" permit efficient management of supply and demand, with Internet-connected "smart meters" that....