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81  Other / Off-topic / Re: Dota 2 or lol? on: September 11, 2017, 03:28:37 PM
LoL! Coz its sounds good  Grin
82  Economy / Economics / Re: What is occurring when someone sells 1 BTC at a price lower than he/she bought? on: September 09, 2017, 04:46:24 PM

It's just simply unprofitable because in the long run you lose bitcoin which grows in price and lose that difference between buying and selling
83  Economy / Economics / The Headhunting for Blockchain Professionals Starts – Part 1 on: September 09, 2017, 01:31:00 AM
Lots of money and human assets are being invested nowadays in the crypto industry. We can see new kinds of crypto currency and new smart contracts on the market almost every day. The hype is incredible. Startups launch Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) instead of the Initial Public Offerings (IPO) worldwide and raise almost the same amounts as venture investments are able to bring. Tezos ICO’s unprecedented $232 million-worth of bitcoin and ether record on the market will be broke very soon, experts forecast. At the forefront of this demand, market needs for blockchain and ICO experts grew too. Hype born the other hype — recruiters starts their serious head-hunting for blockchain pros. Unfortunately, the HR market is not able to meet this kind of demand — there are too little opportunities the market can offer, staying hungry.

Looking for any proof? While writing this article and talking to blockchain startups founders, I got four job offers just due to the combination ‘blockchain’ and ‘good at writing’. The HR market in many countries faces the increasing demand of blockchain employees. For example, in the United Kingdom, the blockchain job market has seen an average monthly growth of 25% with 546 blockchain jobs have been posted in the UK since August 2016, according to Joblift. LinkedIn data show more than 1000 blockchain-related job adverbs this summer, more than treble the level of a year ago. The number is growing at more than 40 percent each quarter. All the main worldwide job portals have their blockchain section — Job.com, Indeed, Monster, etc. There are even special job portals customized for blockchain adverts: Blockchain Jobs or Blockchains Startup Jobs, for example. Vladislav Martynov from the Ethereum Foundation in the meantime invested in BlockGeeks, the global project to consolidate all the experts in the blockchain area and to help companies to find the relevant employees for their blockchain-based projects.

Interesting fact: the proportions of specialists the market required are changing. A year ago 90% of job adverts claimed they are seeking for blockchain developers and other technical pros. Today about 30% of adverts belongs to project managers, behavioral researchers, analysts, marketing and SMM managers, communication managers, copywriters, and editors.

As the number one issue facing the blockchain industry today is a lack of talents, top blockchain developers are so scarce that they can demand annual salaries ranging between $300.000 and $600.000, according to industry experts. However, blockchain marketing managers, especially with ICO experience, have now salaries 2-4 times above the average on market.

Which competencies are current experts short of to cover the demand? An ideal employee should not only have a fluent English but also to be up to speed on blockchain technology. Even for jobs in marketing and communications companies ask for a technical background (higher technical education, for example) or proved experience in ICO campaigns support, or knowledge of specific tools (e.g., Telegram and Slack, crypto-related media and social channels, work with advisors, ICO trackers and listings and so on). The majority of projects are constrained by tight schedules and high rates, with some intending to launch ICOs in 1-3 months in order to earn money on the hype. Almost everywhere you get a non-standard work day for real-time interaction with users from USA, Europe, and Asia. However, in fact, nobody has more than two or three years of experience in this.

Get the latest in Asian Bitcoin news here at Coin News Asia.
84  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Burger King Russia Introduces The "Whoppercoin" on: September 07, 2017, 09:59:26 AM
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-25/burger-king-russia-introduces-whoppercoin-fast-food-industrys-first-digital-currency


“The Whoppercoin launched in tandem with a new loyalty program. For each Whopper burger customers purchase, they'll receive one Whoppercoin in a special cryptocurrency wallet. While the coins’ wider use is unclear, some reports suggest that the Whoppercoin will be accepted as payment at Burger Kings across Russia.”

Dat Sound Great !
What do you think about this news  ?^^ Any russian gonna try  it ? give us some feedback please
We guess that, this project is hyped. Coz Burger King in Russia doing a lot of things like this.
85  Economy / Economics / Re: How to invest in casinos? on: September 07, 2017, 09:56:25 AM


How to invest in casinos?


I want to invest in casinos, so I decided to create this thread to suppress my doubts.

Before starting i must say that i consult GOOGLE and this time i was disappointed because GOOGLE has no answers to the questions i have.

Some things to consider:


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Do not control my bad english, just read and try to understand my doubt and answer if you can and if you do not understand what I wrote just ask me that I will have the pleasure to rephrase the question.

- Please do not ask me how many bitcoins I have to invest.

Let's start:

I've never been to a casino. ha ha ha

But I always wanted to get into a casino. Ha ha ha

According to wikipedia

A casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. The industry that deals in casinos is called the gaming industry. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships or other tourist attractions. There is much debate over whether or not the social and economic consequences of casino gambling outweigh the initial revenue that may be generated. Some casinos are also known for hosting live entertainment events, such as stand-up comedy, concerts, and sporting events.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino

My questions:

- How do you invest bitcoin in casinos?

- Are the best casinos to invest bitcoin?

- What are the casinos that we should avoid investing our bitcoin?

- What is the minimum amount to invest in casinos?

- What is the ideal value for investing in casinos?

- What is the percentage of daily return that casinos offer?

- In your opinion, what are the best strategies to invest in casinos?

- Is it safe to invest in casinos?

PS: Feel free to say everything you think about casinos, if one or another casino has stolen your bitcoins share your discontent here about that casino that stole you.











We have opinion on that question "Is it safe to invest in casinos?". And it not safe! Any casino can be safe. So be careful.
86  Other / Off-topic / Re: Do you believe in aliens? on: September 06, 2017, 03:19:32 PM
It would be selfish, to consider that we are alone in the whole universe.
87  Economy / Economics / Re: Loans too risky? on: September 06, 2017, 03:16:08 PM
I know that people give out loans but what's up with people no returning what they borrowed?? I want to know this because I might give out loans myself and I want to know what to watch out for... I have ~800 BTC at the moment and would it be a bad idea to start loaning? I bought my BTC back in 2010 mid August January(when it was about $0.07 per BTC) and I noticed the price went up a ton! Also what would be some other way to grow my BTC? Any ideas on what I should do?

Something I should have added my friend was doing something you guys call "mining" I am very knew to the bitcoin world even though I have had them for a long time. I bought these bitcoin from him because he needed to sell them, my financial advisor has told me that the longer I wait the more return I would get so I told him hold the account for 5 years and ill see where I am... So last July I had gotten my account back, did a bunch of research then found you guys. So I came here to post a few posts and for everyone skeptical this is the proof https://gyazo.com/ee99cef712e9b72f03a3e8e870c33624
Giving loans its always risky! But if you understand the risk, and have good model to choose to whom you can give loan, it must be more safety. And of course create a good agreement.
88  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / MicroMoney becomes a part of the ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ global program on: September 06, 2017, 03:04:52 PM
MicroMoney announced it joined the principles of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) global program, set up in 2015 by 193 world nations. To implement the program’s global objectives the company will work to provide a multi-purpose digital identity and opportunities to build creditworthiness and reputation for 2 billion unbanked people, without borders or intermediaries.
 
The MicroMoney’s business activity rests upon the ‘Remaking of our world: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ document, which contains descriptions of 17 global goals and 169 related issues.
What is the common issue?
More than 2 billion people worldwide are recognized to be unbanked. That means they forced to use only cash in their daily life and have no chance to solve their urgent problems by applying for banking services. Borrowing from friends and family is the most common source of credit because their loan applications are hardly be approved by banks. The reason is always the same: they have no credit histories.
What are our common goals?
As MicroMoney admits financial services availability as the part of human rights our aim is to provide banks with the tools that allow them to give the access to high quality, fast and affordable services for the world’s financially excluded.
 
MicroMoney, the United Nations, and other NGOs and government organizations alike are directing resources towards resolving global financial inclusion, leading the way towards eliminating poverty with mobile and internet availability, along with financial inclusion. These technologies will give the access to lending and other financial services even for those who don’t have any credit history, which means the access to basic necessities.
 
Artificial Intelligent, neural networks, mobile scoring, blockchain to keep all the data securely and Big Data technologies will help the unbanked people to receive this access and will make their data available upon customers’ agreement for financial businesses to organize processes cheaper and more efficient.
How is MicroMoney going to resolve the issues?
In order to bridge the divide, MicroMoney is striving to provide the access to payday loans for unbanked people on emerging markets and the access to the unbanked audience for banks, trade, insurance and financial organizations so they can offer affordable and easy-to-use services around the world.
 
As people worldwide are lacking the access to basic financial services, they have restricted opportunities to overcome poverty and to improve their lives. That means they do not have an access not only to banking services like loans, mortgages or bank accounts themselves, but the access to all the other services and opportunities. However, such different industries as banking and mobile can help each other.
 
For example, MicroMoney provides premium micro-financing services for lower income people, underbanked and unbanked customers on emerging markets without any collateral requirements. We use an innovative Big Data approach with our own scoring platform based on neural networks which allow us to establish easy procedures with the shortest processing time for the loan application approval. People don’t need to have a credit history to apply for financial services anymore. The company uses any data collected from a customer’s mobile phone to assess the potential borrower's score rate.
 
MicroMoney believes that its activities meet the SDG goals:
1 (No Poverty)
8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth)
9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure)
 
Financial inclusion is a huge part of the equation when attempting to resolve the issues which result in poverty and lower standards of living. MicroMoney is working to improve the financial systems to establish a sustainable and equal world in which individuals can afford to support their families and beyond.
89  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why All Coins Dump? on: September 05, 2017, 01:38:09 PM
what goes up, must come down and hopefully vice versa  Tongue
Its because China banned ICO. China is a very big market..
90  Economy / Economics / Re: Bitcoin or gold? on: September 04, 2017, 04:46:25 PM
Bitcoin is fast growing, but gold is stable. So we guess both.
91  Economy / Economics / Re: Bitcoin has defeated gold on: September 04, 2017, 04:35:55 PM
Bitcoin bear gold double time!
92  Economy / Economics / Re: Do You Think Bitcoin Will Replace Dollar Soon? on: September 03, 2017, 02:49:27 PM
This is very hard question, coz if bitcoin will be near to replace Dollar, or another currency, the government will do everything to stop it. But another question will be this steps successful or not.
93  Economy / Economics / Three Quarters of The World’s Poor Are “Unbanked” on: September 02, 2017, 01:30:44 PM
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
About 75% of adults earning less than $2 a day don’t have a bank account
More than 2.5 billion people around the world don’t have a bank account
The poor face bureaucratic, travel distance and cost barriers
Three quarters of the world’s poor don’t have a bank account, not only because of poverty, but the cost, travel distance and amount of paper work involved in opening an account, according to new data released by the World Bank.
About 25% of adults earning less than $2 a day have saved at a formal financial institution, according to the 2011 survey of about 150,000 people in 148 countries. The problem of being “unbanked” is also linked to income inequality: the richest 20% of adults in developing countries are more than twice as likely to have a formal account as the poorest 20%, according to the data collected by Gallup, Inc. for the World Bank’s Global Financial Inclusion Database. The Bank’s Development Research Group is building the database with a 10-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The research offers the most comprehensive picture of how adults around the world save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Worldwide, 22% of adults report having saved at a formal financial institution in the past 12 months. More than half of the population in developing countries doesn’t have a bank account, compared with just 10% in rich countries.
“Providing financial services to the 2.5 billion people who are ‘unbanked’ could boost economic growth and opportunity for the world’s poor,” said World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick. “Harnessing the power of financial services can really help people to pay for schooling, save for a home, or start a small business that can provide jobs for others. This new report on the world’s ‘unbanked’ makes the case: the more poor people are banking today, the more they are banking on their future.”
Even among those who do have a formal bank account, only 43% use their account to save. And 61% of account holders worldwide use their account to receive payments from an employer, the government or family members living elsewhere, according to the World Bank Global Financial Inclusion Database, or Global Findex.
Women make up a disproportionately large share of the unbanked. For example, while 37% of women in developing countries have an account, 46% of men do. That gap is even bigger among those in poverty: women living below $2 a day are 28% less likely than men to have a bank account.
“Financial tools for savings, insurance, payments, and credit are a vital need for poor people, especially women, and can help families and whole communities lift themselves out of poverty,” says Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Gates Foundation. “The Global Findex can enhance our understanding of how poor households access and use financial services.”
“Lacking a bank account often forces savers to resort to risky measures, such as putting money under the mattress,” says Asli Demirguc-Kunt, director of development policy and chief economist of the Finance and Private Sector Network, who co-authored the paper analyzing Global Findex data. “That makes it harder to build up reserves, let alone use credit, insurance and other complex formal financial tools,” she says.
The database also identifies the barriers to financial inclusion. Nearly two-thirds of the unbanked cite poverty as the main culprit, but within that group, about a third of them also blame the cost of opening and maintaining an account or the banks being too far away (which means long bus rides for many).
“ Financial tools for savings, insurance, payments, and credit are a vital need for poor people, especially women, and can help families and whole communities lift themselves out of poverty “
Melina Gates
Co-chair, the Gates Foundation
“These barriers may have proved to be excessive, especially considering that many people can only set aside a very small amount of money each month,” says Leora Klapper, supervisor of the Global Findex and lead economist at the Development Research Group. “Policy makers should take note that adults who save informally find the physical, bureaucratic and cost barriers to opening a bank account to be especially prohibitive.”
Money transfers through mobile phones are a form of increasingly popular nontraditional banking, which often doesn’t require users to travel or set up an account at a brick-and-mortar bank. Such mobile banking, which allows account holders to pay bills, make deposits or conduct other transactions via text messaging, has expanded to16% of the market in Sub-Saharan Africa, where traditional banking has been hampered by transportation and other infrastructure problems. In particular, Kenya has seen impressive growth in that market, with 68% of adults using a mobile phone for money transactions.
The widespread use of informal-savings mechanisms suggests a missed opportunity for the market to provide safe, affordable financial products to the unbanked. For example, adults who don’t use banks or other formal financial institutions often turn to fairly sophisticated methods to manage their finances, such as rotating-savings clubs or credit associations. Each week, those clubs pool deposits from members and give the entire collection to a designated member. The practice is particularly popular in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 48% of savers use an informal savings club or person outside the family to save. In Nigeria, 69% of adults who save use the clubs, also known there as esusu, ajo, cha, or adashi.
Few adults in developing countries use formal financial products to manage risk. More than 11% of adults in developing countries have an outstanding loan for emergencies or health-care needs, but more than 80% of these adults use only informal sources of credit. Of adults in developing countries working in farming, forestry or fishing, only 6% of them have crop, rainfall or livestock insurance.
The questionnaires used for the survey, available in 15 languages, can be found here. The World Bank encourages countries to use the questions to collect more financial inclusion data, by adding them into censuses or other national surveys.
94  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: online wallet on: September 01, 2017, 04:00:04 PM
hello,I want know how much online wallet we can use.
I only know we could deposit the ETH in the IMtoken
and I want know the other platform like Omni have online wallet?
Try to use Jaxx.
95  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / How to do business in Cambodia on: September 01, 2017, 03:55:28 PM
Co-founder of MicroMoney Payday Loan Services in Southeast Asia, Anton Dzyatkovsky, talks about attracting customers, recruitment issues and risks.
Two years ago, my wife and I thought that it was too difficult to do something interesting and new on the financial market in Russia. The market has already been occupied entirely by serious market players and automation technologies in the microfinance sector were already developed by strong competitors. So I thought: “Why not to become a pioneer of payday loans lending in a total greenfield country?”

We chose Southeast Asia, and almost immediately we found that bringing our automation capabilities there was like sending a computer to the Middle Ages. The vast majority of microfinance companies in Asia keep all their records in Excel or even on paper ledgers. This extremely low level of automatization is compensated by the huge number of affordable employees.

The country that loves banks
The market in Southeast Asia is completely different to the European and the US markets . The first surprising thing is that local people trust the banks completely. There are 36 banks per 1.5 million urban residents (I mean Phnom Penh city) now in Cambodia. Not a single bank in the country’s history has failed, and none of them has had its license withdrawn . No financial bubble or fraud schemes have set in. It is very convenient for business that the US dollar has formal circulation in Cambodia. The rate of the country’s official currency (the Riel) has not changed against the dollar in the last twenty years. Cambodia still has the image of a postwar country with aid demands, and thus inflation is compensated for. During the civil war of 1975–1980, the currency units were abolished: the “Khmer Rouge” blew up the National bank and placed a fertilizer warehouse in its stores.

At the same time, the country takes seventh place in the world for money laundering. I talked to ABA-Bank managers (Top-3 Cambodian bank) and they told me that banking transactions up to $500 thousand are not a subject of state financial monitoring. Banks do not ask questions even if the money comes from Afghanistan or Syria. An amount that exceeds this sum is investigated more seriously — sometimes banks can ask for a contract.

In general, state regulation on the market is in a ‘lite’ version: the government does not have enough resources to control many industries and, for example, consumer cooperation is still not properly regulated. About fifty companies are involved in consumer lending, each with capital of $1.5 million average and $5000 of ARPU.

Local banks and microfinance organizations are frightened by any idea of ​​lending money without collaterals and papers. Usually, people give real estate or land property security and have to bring at least five certificates, passports and a person ready to vouch for the borrower.
Moreover, it works. In fact, credit overdue for more than thirty days here is only 0.9%, according to the local Central Bank, so the PAR ratio (portfolio at risk) is quite profitable.

How to start a financial business in an Asian country
We tried some different Asian markets and made a simple list to check if the country is open and full of opportunities.
Consumption is on its way on the market: the middle class and Gross Domestic Product are growing. In Cambodia, GDP showed +6% per year in 2016. For comparison, in Russia, there was a decrease of 3% in 2015.

The market has cheap leads generation capabilities: in our situation, almost all users live on Facebook, literally, and sometimes have several Facebook accounts. Cambodian people understand the Internet as Facebook; do not use Google or something, and every mobile network provides a free access to this social network.

There are simple options for money transactions. For example, in Cambodia, any SIM card owner simultaneously owns an e-wallet and can withdraw cash or make a deposit to his or her account anywhere.

Low competition or lack of competition: e.g. in Cambodia there are no paperless lending services without a security of land or real estate property.
There is your target audience: in our case, only 5% of the population has a credit history. However, all of the Asia region is in the same situation: according to McKinsey, the number of ‘unbanked’ people ranges from 65 to 80% of the adult population.
It is possible to find a local partner. We highly recommend this in order to understand the local customers and to follow local regulations (sometimes the company’s share of 51% should belong to a local person).

We explored about thirty local organizations and found excellent partners eventually. The first was the Japanese venture fund East Wing ASA Capital with capital of about $ 100 million dollars and its member, Mr. Tetsuji Nagata — CEO of Sonatra, one of the largest development companies in the country. He became our co-founder with a share of 50%. The second was the local fund’s partner — Khmer Oknha Sorn Sokna, who provided us with an office space and a full legal support. By the way, “Oknha” in his name is a title, the highest for Cambodian citizens, and similar to Sir in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Sorn Sokna is the counselor for economic affairs of the Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen (in fact, he is the head of the country). Okna Sorn Sokna is a council member of ASEAN with a number of royal orders and awards in acknowledgement of his contribution to the Cambodia development.
As a result, we were actually involved with their friendly family. In 2016, we visited the ASEAN forum in the delegation team. Moreover, we even became famous within the country — The Phnom Penh Post, in the main newspaper of the capital, published an article devoted to our company. Thanks to this publication we became acquainted with the Head of the Central Bank of Cambodia.

“Your loan costs exactly one cup of coffee per day”
We became the very first service in the country to complete, to process and to approve loan applications online without any collateral required. All we need is an access to a customer’s mobile phone data. In Cambodia, people, in fact skipped the PC era and began to use smartphones at once. To start a scoring process a customer just has to download the MicroMoney’s mobile application, complete some fields and to sign a personal data processing agreement with just one click. It is an Android application, by the way — because the majority of devices people use in Cambodia are Android-based.

SMART is the cheapest mobile provider and mobile phones vendor with a price of 30–50 dollars per a phone. The system of customer data track based on AI technologies and self-learning neural networks. All the data is stored within the system with the help of blockchain technology. As a result, the process of approval of a payday loan application takes less than five minutes, and that way MicroMoney became the microfinance company with the fastest approval, with no collateral or people to vouchsafe for the client.

We approve payday loans before the customer’s salary date, and this is a rule. The rate, as well as the loan amount, are small for the first time — 2% per day. We show this rate to clients as a comparison: “Your loan costs exactly one cup of coffee per day.” The majority of the customers are satisfied with this because an average loan is $60, so the overpayment is just a dollar per day. This is a price for a cup of coffee or a plate of rice.
We transfer the approved loan to local plastic cards. A person can apply for it only with a passport, and in this way we solve the problem of customer identification.

Right from the very beginning, we used a long list of cross checks to approve a loan.For example, we asked for the colour and the number of floors of the office building a person worked, and then checked the answer; asked parents in a person’s contact list for a customer’s date of birth, inquired with a person’s relatives about his or her home address. Eventually, we found that such inspections were redundant, made the approval procedure tricky and caused stress to borrowers. We realized that a thorough scoring is suitable only for mature credit markets. The ‘virgin’ markets are not full of scammers, so fewer questions means more approvals. As a result, now we check only the place of work, the boss, the family and the contact details. Our goal is to distribute at least $10 to everyone who applies.

It wouldn’t be possible without a simple CRM system. Firstly, we processed all the clients in Excel — but then we reached 10 thousand customers and we gave up. Now an operation analyst task is just to read the text from the screen with expression and CRM do the other things.
A good reason: a friend’s wedding

Asia is like another universe. There are super-technological countries such as Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and emerging markets with a lot of poor people — Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia.

90% of borrowers take their very first loan ever. The majority (88%) are male, and 75% of customers have the average income of $200 per month. The basic reasons for payday loans: 15% need some food, 35% apply for a loan because of an invitation to a friend’s wedding! There are also the following popular reasons (10%): school expenses, children and medical care, the Chinese New Year celebration, gas, and motorcycle repairs.
Here are some reasons a payday loan wasn’t approved: 23% people had no work, 20% refused to provide their contacts, and 7% simply gave false information.

We approve a loan for every sixth client on average. Our expenses per loan include $6 per application process and scoring procedure, and operating costs (wages + rent), $10 in total. The average loan amount is $60 and the average period is 12 days.

Each signed-up customer takes 4.5 loans on average. We can see that clients get payday loans because the conversion from the first to the second and further loans is quite high — 73%. 34% people take five or more loans, and 7% take ten and more. The gold pool in our audience is 4% of clients who borrowed money fifteen or more times.

The good, the bad, and the ugly
We have a very simple scheme — a good, a bad, and an ugly police officer. For the first month of overdue date, we are not bill collectors but financial consultants helping people to plan their assets and payments. After 30–90 days of delay, we remind a person politely and persistently about the debt and call all his or her contact persons. We use SMS-mailings service and calls for that. After 90 or more days of delay, we use all the possible channels, including social networks, to remind them about the debt. In Cambodia, this is the only thing that can help in the case of serious delay.
Lunch on time: HR in Cambodia

Recently, we created the picture of a perfect employee in the Southeast Asia — local, inexpensive, a solid sales manager and a workaholic. The key word was “perfect” because we soon found that the task to find such a person was fantastical itself. If we talk about specialists and not only about processing operators this task sounds impossible.

While we were searching for employees, we faced the same questions repeatedly:
Why does Khmer behavior operate with logic we cannot understand?
Why are the most reliable employees older than 35 years and why are people of this age tricky to find?
We found all the answers in Cambodian history: almost forty years ago, the civil war of 1975–1980 ruined more than three million peoples’ lives. The war’s goal was population enslavement, the elimination of intellectuals , and resettlement of urban residents to the villages. The share of the urban population has fallen dramatically, and until 2015 the growth was at a low level — less than 1%.

The Khmer Rouge had a policy of evacuating urban areas and forcibly relocating their residents to the countryside. The civil war ideology was that the cities are full of evil, and a person will finally understand the true meaning of life by working hard at growing rice. All Cambodians must become peasants and the country should focus on working towards a purely agrarian society.

Teachers, doctors, intellectuals, or even those who simply wore glasses were executed without any tribunal or investigation. Writing and reading were forbidden, books were burned, six thousand schools and all universities were destroyed. The Khmer Rouge decided to get rid of all modern benefits of civilization: they broke cars with hammers and buried household appliances.

All this had a serious impact on the HR market today. It is hard to find professional or highly- motivated employees over 35 years old because these people born during the civil war or right after. Simultaneously, these are the most experienced and preferred employees, unlike Europe and USA, where companies want someone up to 30 years old. There are not so many thinking or ambitious specialists because most of them are peasants’ children. Education in Cambodia is still optional and, therefore, the illiteracy level is very high — for up to 30% of the population. This explains some the national peculiarities in the employee’s behavior:
Planning and thinking about the future are not employee strengths. This explains the loan services popularity over long-term deposits and or projects: the main thing is to get some money today.

Cambodian people respect their elders a lot. This is maybe not so democratic but senior people and people with a higher status have a particular importance here. Nepotism is also ever-present: we have to prove to employees that we are the family for them to work hard. In general, you don’t need to ‘manage’ people in Cambodia because the boss status (as well as the status of the housefather) is the reason for the team to do their best.
The Khmers uphold groupthink so they better work in teams than individually.

Salary and its level are not the reason why Khmers go to work. Employees can leave the place of work anytime if they are not satisfied by an attitude or something, and their remaining unpaid salary does not matter. That’s why a lot of our borrowers change their jobs quite a lot.

Employees work better when are single-tasked, not multi-tasked. Therefore, the case with several KPI simultaneously is not effective.
Foreign companies are not trusted a lot, so to improve corporate image as a good place to work in you need to put forward some other advantages.
At first, the employees’ childish behavior made us fall into despair, but now we take it more calmly with the help of soothing medications and our own methods of work. Since employees who have worked for less than two months are not profitable, in order to protect ourselves we tried the following things:
We scored each employee the same way as a borrower was scored to check his or her trustworthiness;
We gave wages on the 15th day of the month next to invoiced period. We did it to avoid an often situation when an employee received a salary at the end of the month and then simply disappeared.

We even tried some fines for those who left us before the employment contract ended.
In total, we interviewed about four hundred candidates and chose just twenty loyal employees who can work without any total control. By the way, candidates have only two questions during the interviews: how long does the lunch last and how many bank holidays they will have. For you to know: Cambodia has twenty-eight official days of holidays.

We attract customers with food and girls
To promote the service, we have created a site monusluy.com in the Khmer language. The first you see there is the call to action — to apply for a loan, then an online loan calculator with odd numbers — a little trick to make the calculation more difficult. There are the following loan stages: the first loan is not more than $30–40, with each new loan a customer can apply for a $10 more payday loan.

We always make various experiments with advertising appeals, and at the same time teach people to spend money more wisely — not to spend all you have on entertainment and alcohol but put some aside for education or medical care, for example. The most attractive image, by the way, is a nice young lady, who holds a pretty nice bundle of money. We tried a male image for this but the statistics showed that girl’s photo attracted twice more clicks.
Other things that work are customer reviews and testimonials — I mean, real histories of borrowers with their real photos. In addition, we added quotes from great Khmer personalities — all we could find about money and loans. It was quite simple to find them, but difficult to translate into Khmer.

As I said before, Internet means Facebook for Khmers. They keep their whole life in Facebook: girlfriends and boyfriends, relatives and spouses, all their lunches, all the work and even the reason they were fired. Therefore, Facebook is a powerful tool to hire, to check borrowers and to collect debts.
We have more than 67 thousand subscribers in our social accounts and about 500,000 likes on Facebook page. We had some difficulties while searching for our target audience. At first, we sent adverts to all age categories, but later excluded young people under 24 years old — their leads were very cheap, but delivered poor quality. Then, due to the same statistics, we excluded all the people older than 37 years from our advertising audience. Finally, we looked again at ads for women: their leads are worth ten times more than male ones.

We have noticed that people reacted more actively and positively when they saw photos of real persons whose loans applications were accepted, than at clipart images. The posts that attracted the most reaction were food pictures because people often borrow money to buy something to eat. As a result, we increased the users’ involvement more than ten times, with an average reach per post from 300 to 3,000 users.

We use our Facebook account to work with debtors. For example, we publish posts with their documents and contact information and search for any new data about those who attempt to hide without payment and who do not answer their calls. Facebook helps us to understand whether a person applying for a loan provides incorrect or outdated information without any calls or cross checks.

Here’s one of example of how the process works. We had a borrower with a long overdue loan repayments. He didn’t answer our calls or other messages and all his contacts were outdated. We explored his Facebook-page and found a new photo of him with a uniform and a badge. We understood he had a new job and read the name of his employer on badge and uniform, and then found this company and its head in search engines. In such cases, you should act quickly and even aggressively, so we immediately contacted his boss. The company confirmed that the debtor worked with them, gave his current contact information, and he had a serious discussion of his behavior with the director. This tool allows our team to recover up to five times more debts than average.
Now we have a large team of about 200 employees across offices in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, and remote teams in Russia, England, and Israel. We found a 400 square meters office in Bangkok, and have already signed a contract with some people to join us. We hope to expand our team and to provide some space in our offices for start-ups interested in the advanced technologies, marketing, and blockchain. To ensure this I’m working fifteen hours a day daily and hope to continue the pace.

Payday loans in the Southeast Asia: audience and requirements
Our clients are honest and hardworking people who cannot get a bank loan because they have no credit story. The reason they have no this story is that no financial organization approve them a loan. This endless circle involves 2.5 billion people worldwide. Most of these people are from Asia -yet , even the USA has about 50 million potential such clients.
To get credit in developing countries, it’s necessary to bring at least five documents:
· A reference from the police
· A reference from the administration of your district/area
· A reference from the house owner
· Official work reference
· An income statement
You can also use land as your collateral if you own some. In all other cases with no credit history, no package of papers and no person to vouch for you, the bank approval for a loan application is practically impossible.
Our goal is to give these 2.5 billion peopl,e who do not have access to the old classical centralized bank economy, a way to achieve modern world benefits.
Is it worth doing business in Cambodia?

Would I recommend choosing Cambodia or another emerging Southeast Asia market? Yes and no. Yes because they are markets which are commonly called ‘developing’ — experts consider them the most profitable in terms of quick return on investments. These markets are not sufficiently controlled by their governments or the major players, so you can make the rules yourself. Moreover, it is interesting as a personal challenge. I had $30,000 of seed funding and a great desire to not only earn money but to help people. Usually, investors do not care how you do your business, they need just your project presentation, your mission, and business goal. Many investors give you money for emotional reasons.

I would have achieved nothing, if I had tried to do everything by myself, without like-minded persons and partners to help me. If you plan entering the Asian market alone, without reliable partners, without a local audience, or a knowledge of how the local culture operates — do not do it. Look for your own guide in the Asian jungles.
96  Economy / Economics / Re: What percentage of people on Earth will own Bitcoin by 2020 on: August 31, 2017, 03:58:26 PM
We guess that 10-20, BUT other people will one another cryptocurrency. The future stand for crypto!
97  Economy / Economics / Re: If you have a lot of bitcoin, should you spend it or save it? on: August 30, 2017, 03:07:50 PM
Let's say I have 2.1 BTC And I don't spend it. Will it go up a few cents if I save it? Cause in my wallet I have up to about 50 cents worth of bitcoin. I started up with 13 cents 7 months ago. Now all of sudden I have bitcoins worth 50 cents. What do you call this? I only made that one 13 cent deposit. Nothing else!
We think, that it will be better to save it Wink coz BTC is growing everyday...
98  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Blockchain firm Everex partners with MicroMoney on: August 29, 2017, 04:00:56 PM
Nice.. I think this project can be enjoyed by my citizens. but unfortunately the product is only available in some cities only. Does drrupiah.com also include your project?
We can talk about it in our telegram group
99  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Blockchain firm Everex partners with MicroMoney on: August 28, 2017, 02:35:30 AM
Hi, MicroMoney!
Everex is a good company with good crypto! Wish you good luck with your partnership.
Thank you very much! We do it for the people!
100  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: The Unbanked on: August 27, 2017, 04:03:11 PM
The point is to encourage unbanked people to be a part on banking economy, isn't it?
- to lend money and suffer under high interest?
- to store their money and get charged every month and for certain transactions?

Look at this; A customer should download the mobile application and sign the processing of personal data agreement. ”A phone can tell a lot more about customers than they agree to tell by their own. Moreover, an access to a mobile phone will give more diverse and reliable information than a passport or other papers can,”
the Big Data platform drives all the data received from the phone through neural networks, analyzes the result, and evaluate a customer’s trustworthiness.


It seems like an application to get private information from everyone through mobile phone. Who wants to download such apps? Lol Grin

Well in my place most of the adults don't trust banks because it was accustomed to them to stash it somewhere safe in there house. Other adults here doesn't trust the internet because they don't have site or touch on there money and probably there was this investment scam that affected a whole city. Even trying to explain the benefit of banks for loans, they wouldn't want there name to be directly connected to any banks.
Thanks for your review, by the way, where are you from?
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