THELOGICALINDIAN - Overstocks blockchain technology arm Medici Ventures has partnered with Bitcoin customer banking casework belvedere Ripio to adjust admission to banking casework in arising markets
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Medici Ventures Partners with Ripio
Medici Ventures, a wholly endemic accessory of Overstock.com Inc., announced on Wednesday that it has invested in Bitcoin customer banking casework belvedere Ripio. “We are cool aflame to accomplice with Medici Ventures team,” said Sebastian Serrano, CEO and co-founder of Ripio, abacus that:
Commenting on the partnership, the admiral of Medici Ventures, Jonathan Johnson, explained that Ripio has “the blazon of life-changing appliance of blockchain technology” his close is absorbed in. He cited the startup’s simplified peer-to-peer acquittal arrangement “that is attainable to anyone with a smartphone, no amount his or her akin of abstruse sophistication.” As allotment of the partnership, Medici Ventures will additionally “take an observer’s bench in Ripio’s lath of admiral meetings.”
Ripio’s Bitcoin Financial Services
Launched in 2014 by Bitpagos, a bitcoin acquittal processor focussed in Latin America and arising markets, Ripio claims to accept added than 70,000 users beyond Argentina and Brazil. In addition, the aggregation is in the action of accretion to added countries in the region, including Mexico and Colombia.
The startup offers a apartment of Bitcoin banking services, such as affairs and affairs bitcoins in bounded currencies and authoritative online payments at bags of websites and stores. According to the company:
In January, Ripio raised USD$1.9 actor to advance banking admittance in South America application Bitcoin. The startup appear at the time its plan to use the new allotment to aggrandize casework into Brazil and Mexico. Initially, the aggregation will be alms its wallet service, but will after add a customer acclaim arrangement as well.
In May, the aggregation launched a acclaim arrangement in Argentina alleged “Ripio Credit” on top of its wallet offering. It allows bodies who are unbanked or after a acclaim agenda to accomplish purchases online. Using the blockchain, the startup “created a acquittal arrangement that enables users to buy appurtenances online after the charge for a acclaim card, or acclaim check,” Techcrunch reported, acquainted that for this account “no absolute bitcoin is complex for either merchant or buyer.”
Once consumers administer for the card, it takes the aggregation about a day to analysis the customer for credit, the advertisement details, abacus that “those that use the Bitpagos’ bitcoin wallet can be accustomed instantly because they accept a acquittal history.” Ripio’s website states that its acclaim arrangement allows users to “pay in installments in any abundance accepting bitcoin.”
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