Blockchain-based Remittance App AirPocket Comes To Latin America

Blockchain-based Remittance App AirPocket Comes To Latin America

Blockchain technology has a lot of potential to disrupt the financial sector, and DigitalX is one of the companies wielding the blockchain for remittance purpose. Now that the company has inked a deal with Telefonica in Latin America, AirPocket will be coming to that region very soon. People active in the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain will have heard of DigitalX before, as the company wields distributed ledger technology for financial purposes. Through its AirPocket mobile app, anyone in the world can become a remittance provider, which established a peer-to-peer network of money....


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