Bitex.la Exchange Acquires User-Friendly Bitcoin Buying Service
Argentina-based exchange Bitex.la is acquiring and relaunching a bitcoin-buying service aimed at novice bitcoin users in Latin America. The move sees the firm closing its offshoot company, bitcoin marketplace Conectabitcoin.com, as a separate entity and spinning that product into its real-time bitcoin exchange. Bitex.la was launched in May as the first regional bitcoin exchange connecting all Latin American countries. Its initial product was directed at seasoned traders; providing the ability to place orders where trading had previously not been easily accessible. Conectabitcoin's chief....
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Buenos Aires-based real-time bitcoin and litecoin exchange Bitex.la has officially launched with the goal of providing what its founders call the Latin American market's "first regional exchange". The news follows the company's soft launch this March, with the formal unveiling representing the company's introduction to the wider Latin American ecosystem it aims to target. To date, Bitex.la says it has enlisted users in Colombia, Mexico, Spain and the US, though it aims to soon expand to more countries. Perhaps most importantly, however, the exchange will also service its home market of....
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Through a partnership with Uruguay-based remittance company, More Money Transfers (MMT), Latin American Bitcoin exchange Bitex.la has 19 agents in Argentina and one in Chile who will now sell bitcoin. Providing services for the non- or underbanked in emerging markets has been regarded as a powerful use case for bitcoin, especially in Argentina. The country's high inflation and strict economic controls have led many to believe bitcoin as currency and a payment network could succeed there. According to a company spokesman, Bitex.la had that in mind when they were planning the branches. The....
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