Introducing BitINKA, South America's First Universal Bitcoin Platform
BitInka, a bitcoin platform that operates in Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil will soon expand its services throughout Argentina, Colombia and Chile, to become South America's first universal bitcoin platform targeted for the unbanked. Founded in 2013 by Roger Gabriel, BitINKA is one of the only companies in South America which implemented bitcoin....
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Founders of a South American Blockchain platform InkaPay tell Cointelegraph about how it was launched and how it penetrates to the the areas where many unbanked people live. BitInka was founded in Nov. 2013, in Lima, Peru, by a group of entrepreneurs and it took a whole year to develop the platform. BitInka’s first goal was to deal with Blockchain technology as a local exchange. After the project was started, its founders had to put it on hold for almost half a year due to lack of initial funds. Restrictions. After half a year of sitting with the initial project and traveling around South....
Idea.me, a regional crowdfunding platform in South America, has embraced bitcoin payments. Although the platform uses a Montenegrin domain, it's an Argentinean outfit currently available in seven South American countries. In fact, Idea.me is the only regional crowdfunding platform in South America, according to TechCrunch. So far, the company has managed to raise $750,000 and it hopes to raise a further $2.4m in Series A funding next March. To date, the platform has funded over 450 projects using an estimated $2m. Idea.me recently added bitcoin as an alternative to more traditional payment....
Roger Gabriel has four years of experience working in a financial division of IBM in Argentina and 5 years working on e-commerce businesses. He is launching a Bitcoin trading platform that is easy enough for anyone in South America to use. Ruben Alexander: How did you get started with Bitcoin? Roger Gabriel: On bitcoin itself around July of last year, I read a lot about the currency and it intrigued me. Made my first purchase of around 0.25 BTC and just held it on a wallet. On developing a platform around November of last year, I had purchased several coins and made some profit [and] I....
Trading volume on peer-to-peer exchanges broke another all-time high in most of South America, Russia, and even in the U.S. South America Following Venezuela. According to recent stats, Bitcoin continues to gain popularity presenting itself as a way out from accentuated inflation, demonetization policies and general economic and political uncertainty in troubled countries. Besides Russia (as usual), LocalBitcoins has registered another record week across South America. Countries including Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil are all seeing record high trading volumes in their respective....
Simon Chamarro discusses how his platform, Valiu, helps Venezuelans protect their wealth from inflation. The post Video: Valiu And Protecting Wealth In South America appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.