Progress never stands still. People seek for simplicity and convenience, and the financial system is no exception to that. Hardly anyone could have thought that cash could ever be replaced with plastic cards. Today, it’s time for cryptocurrency to trigger the change in the paradigm.

Besides being a great instrument for investment, crypto changes the very essence of how money is transferred. Today, everyone who owns crypto can seamlessly and transparently exchange, sell off and buy up assets.

Is that not the democratic solution our world needs? That’s the question which underpins the initial purpose of Chatex project. The company has chosen the African continent as the starting point of its expansion in order to help those who suffer from excessive commission fees and lack of fiat.

Why Africa?

The banking environment is so weak here, that it’s hardly called ‘banking’. It is mired in corruption and bureaucracy, while the level of financial literacy is extremely low. It’s a common practice for local third-party services to charge sky-high commission fees on money transferring. Sometimes these figures reach 10 or even 20 percent. Chatex’s CEO, Michael Ross-Johnson, comments the following:

“How can one be treated in such a sordid way in the continent where people survive on less than the equivalent of one dollar a day? We can’t just monitor with our hands folded. We at Chatex are here to help African people become a part of the transparent and fair system that will give them an opportunity to freely manage their money and enjoy the comprehensive financial freedom”

How Chatex will make it out?

Chatex offers a same-name bot based on Telegram, which could be downloaded on any kind of a smartphone supporting the messenger. It is an official, licensed and GDPR-compliant service, which offers safe data storage, BitGo instant transfers technology and additional PIN-code protection.

Thanks to Chatex, users can carry out cross border transactions, whichever their education or location is. One registered with the bot can instantly buy crypto via banking and gift cards, including even iTunes one, and transfer money to other users worldwide with no commission.

What’s the catch? There aren’t any. The verification process and money transfer won’t last more than 15 minutes here. The interface is intuitively simple and user-friendly, that’s why even a layman user will be able to operate without hindrance.

Having established an office in Ghana, Chatex plans to extricate banks and extortionate money transfer services from all over the continent. Next step would probably be Uganda, where the banking system has run rampant. In Uganda, every year relatives send home about $700 million, and almost $70 million of that total are charged by third-party service providers.

Judging upon the current trends of pervasive smartphone penetration, it can easily be said that mobile solutions such as Chatex are on their way to fit a whole set of financial operations into the user’s pocket. Africa needs such services that will ease people lives and eliminate the limits local banks and third-party services set up. Chatex avoided the well-trodden path of expansion and no one will regret. It has started a new chapter in the African market, aiming to ‘make Africa great again’.

To find out more, visit https://chatex.com/.

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Bitcoin Events is delighted to be hosting South Africa’s first Crypto Festival in Cape Town on 7 September 2019.

There’s been a lot of renewed interest in cryptocurrencies in Africa and globally, and the Crypto Festival will highlight the exciting opportunities that cryptocurrencies offer individuals and organisations: from investing, trading, mining and transacting to privacy, security, price volatility, tokenisation of assets, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and Initial Exchange Offerings (IEOs).

South Africa is at the forefront of crypto adoption. It has the highest percentage, 10.7%, of internet users owning cryptocurrencies, twice the global average of 5.5%, according to a recent international survey by social media management firm Hootsuite in partnership with London-based WeAreSocial.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have certainly changed the way we think about money, privacy, investments, payments and more. Cryptocurrencies are a disruptive innovation that numerous start-ups and individuals are leveraging, along with blockchain technology, to build innovative products and services for consumers and businesses alike.

We are expecting about 150-200 attendees from various backgrounds and industries at the Crypto Festival: crypto exchanges, payment systems, investment firms, mining operations, trading enthusiasts and companies, ICOs and IEOs, legal practitioners, crypto enthusiasts, blockchain developers, thought leaders, industry innovators and entrepreneurs.

Grab your Early Adopter ticket now for ONLY R450!

The Crypto Festival Call for Papers is Open

Our call for papers is now open, so don’t miss this opportunity to share your insights and expertise with our audience by submitting your paper now.

For more information on the Crypto Festival, visit Cryptofest or email the team at info@blockchainafrica.co.

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Mobile cryptocurrency platform Totalcoin to add support for Ripple. Users of Totalcoin will be able to create wallets for XRP in addition to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Dash wallets.

For the first time in the history of cryptocurrency, XRP can be transferred anywhere in the world by phone number.

The update is currently being tested and will be released soon.

Moreover, Totalcoin added a feature of instant exchange of Bitcoin Cash ABC and Bitcoin Cash SV for Bitcoin and vice versa. The platform now supports 20 cryptocurrencies for exchange.

The nearest plans of Totalcoin are the development of a web version of the app, an increase of the number of supported cryptocurrencies, and redesign of user interface elements.  

Totalcoin is a unique mobile cryptocurrency app, that combines a cryptocurrency wallet, a P2P platform for buying and selling Bitcoin, and an opportunity to instantly exchange Bitcoin for another cryptocurrency and vice versa.

Beta testing of Totalcoin was successfully completed late in 2018. The app has been downloaded more than 15 thousand times.

Major advantages of the app are low fees, built-in cryptocurrency wallet, opportunity to send cryptocurrency using a phone number, live customer support, convenient user interface, and profitable referral program.

The application is available on iOS and Android.

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