Topic: consumer pull (Read 596 times)
Forget US bank charges, international remittances and trade are the killer app for bitcoin.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24330394
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23598832
one of the demonstrators said without the money transfer companies, every aspect of his family's life would suffer: "There are no banking systems so that you can transfer money from one bank to the other. There is absolutely no other way other than the money transfer companies.
"It will affect my family because whether it's education, food, everyday living - if that money is not there, then clearly they won't be able to eat, they won't be able to educate themselves, they won't be able to do anything, so it's just allowing somebody to die."
surely bitcoin can help here ? how do we make it easy for the senders and receivers / let them know ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23598832
one of the demonstrators said without the money transfer companies, every aspect of his family's life would suffer: "There are no banking systems so that you can transfer money from one bank to the other. There is absolutely no other way other than the money transfer companies.
"It will affect my family because whether it's education, food, everyday living - if that money is not there, then clearly they won't be able to eat, they won't be able to educate themselves, they won't be able to do anything, so it's just allowing somebody to die."
surely bitcoin can help here ? how do we make it easy for the senders and receivers / let them know ?
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