Why Bitcoin's Remittance Disruption Slowed to a Crawl
There was a time when cross-border remittance was expected to be bitcoin’s killer app. It was a simple equation: the global remittance market is huge, and the (often poor) people sending money to friends and family across borders pay high transaction fees that could (in theory) be reduced with bitcoin transactions. And yet, years later, the giants of the remittance market are far from slain, despite the average fees of 7.5%, and the growing crisis of bank "de-risking" – strategically refusing to process transfers to or from regions considered to present a high risk of money....
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Luis Buenaventura is the head of product at Satoshi Citadel Industries, and "dreams of a world where everyone has access to everything". Satoshi Citadel Industries manages several different digital currency services and sites, including Bitmarket, in-beta exchange Coinage, photo-sharing site Bitstars.ph, and remittance service ReBit. SCI is also rolling out pre-loaded bitcoin cards as a way to get bitcoin into newcomers' wallets. Remittance is often cited as the one of the primary ways that bitcoin would change the global financial landscape, by virtue of the cryptocurrency's microscopic....
Data shows the Bitcoin trading volume is now once again moving sideways at a low average value as activity on the network slows down to a crawl. Bitcoin Average Daily Trading Volume Returns Back To Below $4 Billion As per the latest weekly report from Arcane Research, the 7-day average BTC spot volume has once […]
Bitcoin could cause trouble for Western Union. New cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are disruptive by their very nature. They allow for cheaper, faster, and easier payments than any system can currently do. Market leaders in remittances, banking, and investing, could have their world turned upside down by the new Bitcoin ecosystem! Since Bitcoin allows for many banking or payment transfer “functions” to be automated by user created applications (similar to apps. in the iTunes app. store), some believe that these currencies could disrupt industry leaders like Western Union and Paypal in a same....
The bad news is how companies looking into this business model will need to convince the Central Bank of Nigeria about their intentions. Money transfer services are prone to disruption by new technologies. Many people feel Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies are a legitimate threat to remittance services. But in Nigeria, MoneyGram will continue its operations, as they are officially recognised as a trusted money transfer provider. This news comes on the heels of various remittance platform shaving their licenses revoked two weeks ago. It will not be easy to venture into the money transfer....
FastCompany’s report revealed that overseas remittance totaled $429 billion in 2016. Some of the largest Remittance markets include China and the Philippines. Already, bitcoin startups have begun to dominate the remittance markets in the two countries, with the Philippines leading bitcoin remittance innovation. Both domestic and international remittance is a massive market within the Philippines. Companies such as Lhuillier and Palawan operate thousands of branches throughout the country, with deeper market penetration in comparison to international remittance companies such as Western....