Signaling Growing Bitcoin Acceptance, Colombia Gets Second Cryptocurrency Conf

[tyz]

Colombia is poised to economically breakout in coming years due to its blessings of climate and natural resources, a vibrant working-age population, newly arrived at peace, and an embrace of bitcoin. Cryptocurrency conferences, training workshops, are sprouting all over the country in preparation. 

Mauricio Tovar, blogger and cryptocurrency educator, tweeted plans to hold the second conference this year on bitcoin and related technologies in Colombia.

Organizers of the first gathering anticipated maybe 300 attendees. More than double that number attended. Topics included basic understanding of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency and proposed government regulation.

[Mometaskers]

Good for them. Not only would they get the chance to hold bitcoins, if it becomes legal there, their diaspora might be able to use it to send remittances home.

I sure wish them well. Is Colombia part of the Pacific Alliance? Would be great if that bloc really takes off.

[junoreactor]

That's awesome to hear. Another country embracing Bitcoin, surely not the last
I read that approximately 200 million south american are expected to join into cryptos activities in the next 10 years!

[player514]

Good for them. Not only would they get the chance to hold bitcoins, if it becomes legal there, their diaspora might be able to use it to send remittances home.

I sure wish them well. Is Colombia part of the Pacific Alliance? Would be great if that bloc really takes off.

Columbia is indeed a part of the Pacific alliance. The more the word gets spread out about bitcoin, the higher the price goes, and the more lives it affects. This is a great introduction of the crypto currency into a new field of operation.

[davis196]

Colombia is poised to economically breakout in coming years due to its blessings of climate and natural resources, a vibrant working-age population, newly arrived at peace, and an embrace of bitcoin. Cryptocurrency conferences, training workshops, are sprouting all over the country in preparation. 

Mauricio Tovar, blogger and cryptocurrency educator, tweeted plans to hold the second conference this year on bitcoin and related technologies in Colombia.

Organizers of the first gathering anticipated maybe 300 attendees. More than double that number attended. Topics included basic understanding of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency and proposed government regulation.

Did Colombia solve all the issues with the cocain mafia?I don`t have much information about this topic.
It will be bad if the Colombian mafia "accepts" bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies as a payment method,because they are anonymous.This will create lots of bad publicity about btc.
Anyway,there`s a lot of potential in Latin America.

[miyaka26]

Hope they will implement blockchain technology and bitcoin to schools and universities as most millennials teenager are open for this innovation of the future currency and the advance technology of the blockchain, this will surely educate them more about it and promote its great potential to the investors. it's Great news to introduce such coin into a country i hope countries all over the world will held the same conferences and teachings about the bitcoin.

[Mometaskers]

Good for them. Not only would they get the chance to hold bitcoins, if it becomes legal there, their diaspora might be able to use it to send remittances home.

I sure wish them well. Is Colombia part of the Pacific Alliance? Would be great if that bloc really takes off.

Columbia is indeed a part of the Pacific alliance. The more the word gets spread out about bitcoin, the higher the price goes, and the more lives it affects. This is a great introduction of the crypto currency into a new field of operation.

Great, who knows, the other members like Chile could follow suit. Maybe bitcoin might become big in Latin America if the bloc legalizes it. Who knows what innovations might arise by doing that. There's probably still a lot of unbanked people there, a big market to be tapped.