Colombians Want to Jump Blockchain Train, To Host Continent-Wide Conference
Cartagena, a historical city in Colombia’s Caribbean coast, is set to play host to the Blockchain Latinoamérica conference in December. This will be Latin America’s second regional conference in Latin America in 2016, after the Latin America Bitcoin and Blockchain Conference (LaBitConf), which will hold its fourth annual meeting in Buenos Aires in November. The conference promises to explore the potential impact of Blockchain technology that will “irreversibly transform not only the financial world but diverse industries by allowing secure and distributed transactions without the....
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This April, the city of Cape Town, South Africa plays host to the first ever Bitcoin conference in Africa. The event is set to take place on the 16th and 17th April 2015 at the Atlantic Imbizo Conference and Function Studio, located at the Victoria and Albert Waterfront. The Bitcoin Africa Conference will bring together merchants, investors, venture capitalists, startups and Bitcoin enthusiasts who are all looking to move Bitcoin forward in Africa. Bitcoin in Africa is at a decidedly infant stage. Subjects to be discussed include what bitcoin is, the blockchain, merchant adoption, and the....
BBVA, a private bank based in Spain, released an article that states Latam users are very interested in their crypto-powered solutions. The institution informed that close to 20% of the users of their New Gen accounts, which are available from Switzerland, are Colombians who are attracted by the crypto services offered by these accounts.
Colombians Attracted by Crypto Services, According to BBVA
Cryptocurrency solutions and their associated services are being embraced more and more by Latam users due to the characteristics of their economies. According to BBVA, a Spanish bank....
Blockchain Africa highlights the remaining hurdles that stand in the way of widespread adoption of crypto and blockchain on the continent. The first-ever virtual version of Blockchain Africa delivered an optimistic outlook for the cryptocurrency and blockchain space in the continent as the world settles into a new normal dictated by COVID-19.The conference featured a number of well-known industry commentators, participants and thought leaders from around the world who addressed a completely virtual audience. The event attracted around 4,000 attendees online, according to organizer Sonya....
According to the findings of the latest study by Disrupt Africa, the number of fintech start-ups based on the African continent grew to 576 in 2021. This figure represents a 17.3% jump from the 491 start-ups that were operating on the continent in 2019. Overall, the number of fintech start-ups in Africa has increased around 90% from the 2017 figure of 301. Nigerian Dominance Leading the charge in this continuing African fintech growth is the West Africa region where “Nigerian figures were up 42.6 percent on 2019.” In Ghana, fintech companies grew by 25% over the same period....
Bitcoin and Africa are often mentioned in the same sentence, particularly when talking about remittances and the unbanked. Now, the stage is officially set to delve into these issues and beyond, as the first Bitcoin conference on the African continent is ready to open its doors April 16-17. While the rate of adoption and the number startups on the African continent are no match for those of Europe and North America, there is an effort to catch up and the African Bitcoin community is taking a major stride forward on April 16-17, 2015. In these two days, the Imbizo Conference and Function....