Coincove Uses Bitcoin to Make Remittance Easier in Latin America
Money remittance can be expensive, difficult and time consuming. However, currency market Coincove hopes to change this for its Latin American customers. Using the Localbitcoins platform, Coincove allows its customers to take their fiat money to a local bitcoin dealer in-person. From there, Coincove translates their currency into a USD value on its website so that customers can move money to different countries around the world. Entry and exit nodes. The company plans to allow users to see the BTC value of their accounts in the future, but right now bitcoin is simply the conduit or 'pipe'....
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