3) Lack of PSB use right now, and investors not believing in the huge impact of Pesobit remittance system. If PSB makes OFW save money, won't they use it instead of Western Union or Paypal and its high fees? Bitcoin is complicated for the worker who has never heard about it; we will bring PSB directly to OFW's doorsteps, litterally.
morality: e-wallet.ph is coming out soon and will create gradually a rising demand for PSB - just wait for e-wallet.ph !
Lack of use. This is what hurts most of cryptocurrencies.
For Pesobit, remittance by OFW kept being mentioned. But how does the Pesobit team plan to implement and achieve attracting use of Pesobit for remittance by OFWs?
Western Union charges
7-10% to transfer money to the Philippines; Moneygram
6% and Paypal charges
2.9% plus requires the users on both sides have a bank account;
also Paypal may decide "on a whim" not to do business with anyone it chooses. These two flawed solutions are some of the ones used right now to send money back to the Philippines. Some even use shady "money courriers".
Bitcoin is technically more complicated, the network is slow and has been known to reject transactions (lost Bitcoin), transfer fees in Bitcoin are cheap but the
actual commission to pay to buy BTC can be extremely high - Bitcoin is also a flawed solution for OFWs and their families.
For these reasons, with the Philippine remittances there is
huge opportunity and
unmet demand.
Enter Pesobit
OFW Filipinos and Filipinas tend to stick together; most big cities where OFW work has some sort of Philippine association, created to help the interests of its members. This is where we will promote and educate about our product, as well as precise guidelines how to use Pesobit. If we do our job right, the association top members should be pretty enthusiastic about PSB - making remittances simpler, cheaper, and a system created by a real Filipino.
The process goes something like this:
1) How to convert local currency directly to Pesobit
2) Earn staking interest, to offset any sending cost incurred
3) Sending Pesobit to OFW's family account
4) In the Philippines, how to cash in
directly to local Pesos, or, ideally spend Pesobit using mobile apps and QR code to buy goods and services.
To entice hesitant first time users we will give them Pesobit, and this will be presented with a marketing approach. Once people start using it, word of mouth will finish the job.