The Benefits of Bitcoin in International Travel
Nick Tomaino is on the business development team at Coinbase, and is also a first-year business school student at the Yale School of Management. Prior to that, he worked in venture capital, most recently for Softbank Capital. Bitcoin is an open payment network that anyone in the world with an Internet connection can use. The open, global nature of bitcoin has tremendous advantages over existing financial infrastructure for international travellers. These advantages became clear to me during a recent trip to South America. Below are some of the problems that international travellers....
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