{"id":8989,"date":"2015-07-08T18:02:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T18:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/?p=8989"},"modified":"2024-07-13T18:04:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T18:04:16","slug":"bitcoin-events-elizabeth-rossiello-bitcoin-remittances-and-the-developing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/bitcoin-events-elizabeth-rossiello-bitcoin-remittances-and-the-developing-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Events: Elizabeth Rossiello &#8211; Bitcoin, Remittances and the Developing World","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO of BitPesa, discusses how her company is revolutionizing remittances and international transfers in Africa using blockchain technology. BitPesa offers a platform that enables users to buy and send Bitcoin quickly and cost-effectively, leveraging mobile money systems prevalent in Africa. Rossiello highlights the inefficiencies and high costs associated with traditional banking and money transfer services in sub-Saharan Africa, explaining how BitPesa&#8217;s innovative approach addresses these issues. The company&#8217;s success is demonstrated by its significant fundraising and partnerships with global financial institutions. Watch it <a class=\"waffle-rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cTVWasymExg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO of BitPesa, discusses how her company is revolutionizing remittances and international transfers in Africa using blockchain technology. BitPesa offers a platform that enables users to buy and send Bitcoin quickly and cost-effectively, leveraging mobile money systems prevalent in Africa. Rossiello highlights the inefficiencies and high costs associated with traditional banking and money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":4,"featured_media":8990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[188,177,585,586,707,718,901,900,244,441],"class_list":["post-8989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aza-news","tag-africa","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitpesa","tag-blockchain","tag-financial-technology","tag-fundraising","tag-inefficiencies","tag-international-transfers","tag-mobile-money","tag-remittances"],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}