We Need Our Farmers, Our Farmers Need Bitcoin
The backbone of our nation, farmers stand to benefit the most from sovereign money that cannot be diluted or degraded.With special contributions by: Texas Slim, Clemenza, Mark Maraia and Colin CrossmanThanks to Bitcoin Magazine giving my voice an outlet, throughout 2021, I have brought to your attention issues that I believe are plaguing the general health and well-being of the public. These include by way of diet and decision-making and how those effects are bleeding into the healthcare (doctors and nurses, but also health insurance) sectors, as well as education and the economy itself.....
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There is an interesting project currently taking place in Argentina. Nubis Bruno, an Argentinean web developer and entrepreneur, has found a way to help local organic farmers sell their products using Bitcoin. In Buenos Aires, organic farmers are struggling to sell their products. However, some farmers have found an alternative. With the help of Bitcoin, these farmers have succeeded in creating an online presence where they can sell their organic vegetables directly to customers with no fees or middlemen getting in the way. Santiago Zaz, a friend of Nubis Bruno, is a member of an organic....
Bitcoin startup Bitmari is leading efforts at introducing a Zimbabwe Women Farmers Accelerator program that is aimed at opening the doors of bitcoin to farmers as an alternative to cash, reports TechZim, a Zimbabwe technology news site. The bitcoin-based money remittance service for the African market based in Zimbabwe has recently been laying the foundations to extend its financial services to a small group of rural female farmers through an accelerator program. The Zimbabwe Women Farmers Accelerator has been set up that will work with ten women farmers from ten provinces. Its aim is to....
Overstock’s Farmers Market service connects organic, local farms with customers, allowing their products to be sold for Bitcoin - without even knowing it. Aside from the occasional creative Russian farmer or underground market in New Hampshire, the average agricultural worker is not that well-versed in fintech, and as such few are likely to accept Bitcoin for their products. Online retailer Overstock.com, which proudly accepts Bitcoin, launched Farmers Market in 2014, seamlessly connecting farmers and ranchers to customers. Through Overstock, farmers can inadvertently be paid for their....
Zimbabwean women farmers will be given Bitcoins which they can redeem for goods at selected suppliers. Put together by BitMari, the first black owned Bitcoin startup, this first ever Bitcoin accelerator programme for women farmers in Africa is aimed at making the farmers successful and to return the initial investment at the end of the second harvest. It will also teach them on the usefulness and power of Bitcoin, and train the female farmers to be able to make Bitcoin transfers. According to BitMari’s CEO, Sinclair Skinner, it is important to make women understand how to transfer Bitcoin....
Nubis Bruno, an Argentinian web developer, has designed a way to help organic farmers in his country sell their goods online using Bitcoin. Farmers in the Buenos Aires, the capital, struggle to sell their products in the cities markets. The alliance between Nubis Bruno and Santiago Zaz is changing this for the better. Bruno is a Bitcoin entrepreneur and co-founder of a Bitcoin exchange in Buenos Aires. “We became friends when I rented an apartment from him, and a few months ago Santiago told me that he was ... selling organic vegetables in Buenos Aires area, and ... he was selling also....