Building Bitcoin Communities From The Ground Up In The Philippines
A key to gaining adoption in local communities is having on the ground educational resources available to business owners and customers.This is an opinion editorial by Dustin Watchman, founder of the bitcoin community educational group Cloud 21 Siargo.What if we could recreate the elements of a big city that we all love but on a much smaller scale? What would those elements be that we would seek to replicate? For much of history, cities have been places that provide opportunity, hope and connection to others. Cities hoped to bring together the best and the brightest to work hard and build....
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The majority of people in the Philippines don’t have bank accounts or credit cards. The largely ‘unbanked’ population is an issue that the country is trying to tackle as it slows down the growth of things like ecommerce. Bitcoin can be a solution to this problem in the Philippines, according to Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur Ron Hose. He has created a Bitcoin trading site for the Philippines called Coins.ph. As of last year, only 32 percent of Filipinos had a bank account. Of this number, only three percent owned a credit card. Philippine President Benigno Aquino III once noted....
A chart based on the practicality of bitcoin for daily expenditures was introduced on many popular bitcoin online forums, including Reddit. The user, who goes by the alias “themetalfriend” is a bitcoin enthusiast who formulated the chart after using bitcoin to finance his day-to-day life in Germany. Bitcoin practicality chart shared by Reddit user....
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At 8 a.m. EST today, various Dogecoin and Litecoin members plan to announce a brand new initiative to both raise Christmas money for orphans in the Philippines and unite the crypto communities over a special cause. The charity, deemed "Liteshibes4Christmas," will launch on both the Litecoin subreddit and the Dogecoin subreddit, along with litecointalk.org. The hope is that this charity event will set precedent for all the digital currency communities to join forces and work together for good causes in the future, regardless of differences. Andrew, also known in the Litecoin community as....
The Philippines will hold a convention on payments and e-commerce this September to highlight the growth an opportunities in this industry. This will bring together more than a thousand attendees, 60 speakers, and 40 international and local exhibitors for the Cards & Payments Philippines and E-Commerce Show Philippines expo, with some set to discuss cryptocurrency trends in the country. The events will be held in the SMX Convention Center in Manila from September 2 and 3, with industry leaders from the Department of Trade & Industry, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Globe Telecom, E-PESO, Land....