48 Hours to Transfer Money via Bitcoin A few weeks ago we wrote about how blockchain technology and cryptocurrency can potentially help with the remittance problem here in the Philippines. While that’s definitely still possible with other cryptocurrencies, it won’t happen with Bitcoin. Fundamentally, Bitcoin is flawed to be considered “currency”. As most of you […]
A Practical Use Case for Blockchain Technology in Remittances We sat down with Judah Hirsch, CEO and Founder of Salarium, to talk about their Initial Coin Offering (ICO) for the Salarium Group. This couldn’t come at a better time with the hundreds of companies now doing ICOs all over the world. We took it as […]
Remittance Channel of Choice? A growing number of the 10M Filipinos overseas are starting to discover the benefit of remitting money back to the Philippines via cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. According to the Bangko Sentral, they estimate that over P300M monthly of the remittances to the Philippines are coming through this channel. That’s approximately three times […]
Welcome to my Cryptocurrency column here at Unbox.ph where I document and share all my learnings about my “Bitcoin Journey”. If you haven’t read my first post “How to Buy Bitcoin in the Philippines“, please do so you have context on why I’m doing this series. What’s an ICO? One of my Bitcoin objectives for […]
How to Buy Bitcoin in the Philippines First let me start by saying that I’m not an expert at cryptocurrency or Bitcoin BUT I want to learn as much as I can about it. The best way for me to learn is by doing (I’m not really the academic type) so I’ll be sharing with […]
That’s a combined total of around 1.65 million pesos While Acer’s Predator 21 X is the pinnacle of what a gaming notebook can be, even people with ridiculous amounts of disposable income would probably take pause before dropping the monetary equivalent of a small car for one. Well, if you ever doubted the appeal of […]
Take these instead There’s a virtual gold rush for crypto-currency mining, specifically Ethereum, which has resulted in increased prices for most GPUs in the market. While miners have traditionally gone with Radeon cards for mining, even NVIDIA’s Pascal-powered GPUs starting from the GTX 1060 above have been affected by the mining craze, with prices rising […]
Xiaomi has partnered with Crypton Future Media, the creators of popular Vocaloid and virtual idol Hatsune Miku, to launch a special version of the Redmi Note 4X dubbed the “Hatsune Miku Limited Edition”. Related: Xiaomi Launching Redmi Note 4X On Feb. 14 Xiaomi has already announced the official launch day for the Redmi Note 4X […]