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Toulon-Foerster has been interviewed and written extensively on Bitcoin and how it could potentially impact the lives of the billions of unbanked people in developing and emerging markets. Our initial products are Bitcoin ATMs, which are at the centre of the Bitcoin ecosystem because they allow public access to easy and convenient buying and selling of Bitcoin for cash.
I work directly with the legal department and the CEO. But, as a Dominican and a West Indian, remittance issues are always near and dear to me. I would like to see Caribbean people send their hard earned dollars home to their loved ones for a minimal charge.
According to the World Bank, over half a trillion dollars are sent every year as remittances. Can you imagine that? Those dollars are from people who are working hard to take care of their families. Why should they have to pay an arm and a leg to send money home? CoinOutlet is a very conscious, progressive company. We want to do things differently and we always look at the impact on the ecosystem that we are working in.
Our goal is to provide a top notch service and address some of the issues of the unbanked. I am really proud to be a part of this team of dynamic people. Are you or CoinOutlet involved with that?
But we do hope to install some of our ATMs in Dominica so that when people receive their free Bitcoin, they can turn it into E. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or distributed. The comments on this page do not necessarily reflect the views of DominicaNewsOnline. All comments are approved by DominicaNewsOnline. We never censor based on political or ideological points of view, but we do try to maintain a sensible balance between free speech and responsible moderating.
We will delete comments that:. Congradulations-well done Whereever Domincans go we persevere and prosper despite the ovwerwhelming obstacles yet we are not appreciated in our own home the nature island.
BitCoin is an unregulated money market for peer to peer transactions — which is not a good idea. Also Governments find it hard to tax bitcoins which can be lost if a machine is compromised. We need honest, feasible, sustainable projects for development of our nation….. Put your acquired talent to work elsewhere Mam. Is it a better idea to have currency that can be manipulated by treasuries, currency boards and governments?
Every single transaction is stored on the block chain — a massive accounting ledger. The double spending problem has been solved and there is NO way that the system can be readily manipulated by one person or group.
This is extremely false. That would mean that early adopters would most certainly profit while late adopters lose. Every adopter can profit from a trading mechanism is that is secure and decentralized.
New government fresh energy whoever wins. This will be news that a poor small Island is trending with the times what do we have to lose really.? So Adella a Dominican is now employed in a dynamic environment of big business and the world of finance Congratulations to you girl. So why do we dismiss our leaders who served this country well.? Why are we ignorant of their contributions to this nation?
The world has stood up and taken notice and like the cell phone and email this is the new money! We can speak all the negatives we want ,however we in Dominica are a drop in the bucket on this international progression and ADELLE is now placed at the crest of the new phenomena. A positive position will always yield positive results..
Adella may your sun shine! Bravo girl we thank you and former PM OJ Seraphin who led the way on this BIT COIN DA initiative and by your mature understanding of what is peaking and the energy you have put in persuading your country to embrace and to be counted in a world trend which is now irreversible!!
Bitcoin is here and we may well adjust to that fact whilst getting educated at its possibilities. Thank you for your kind comments: However, I have to admit that I was not looking for a job in the Bitcoin space — I was on my way to begin a Doctor of Juridical Science candidacy — to write more about cryptocurrencies and how their nature and adoption will affect Banking Law.
I think soon, everyone will know what Bitcoin is. Remember when the internet started being wildly adopted and people were like WTH is this?! So that all public officers could receive their salary in bitcoins… how much money would we really have on the bitcoin market?
And right now there are alot of people hoping to ride out the bitcoin wave before the market collapses and will leave us lay people with major losses just as the new millennium dot com bubble collapse and the more recent stock market crash that led to a financial crisis and has left some of us with huge losses in our insurance policies….
I neither speculate nor invest in BTC. I use it to as a quick way to send and spend. So, long term instrument? Nah, not savvy enough for that. Immediate store of value for transacting? However, it is a lovely way to send money quickly and efficiently without the horrendous charges. Dominicans are going to see this as legit because you are now the poster child and that makes me very uncomfortable.
That is the same for me endorsing medication that is being questioned elsewhere and allowing my name and image to be attached to it, because of sales and promotion, soft advertising it to my people. What did you buy in Bitcoin my girl? We are supposed to be leaders, people responsible to our own and yet we are the ones leading them astray. This is wrong on so many levels. I with many other Dominicans see the play here , setting up one of our brightest to push an agenda hoping that the Dominican public will not push back.
As she is well qualified, and accomplished, as well as knowledgeable, I want to know who is the fool? AML — Anti Money Laundering — Anti-money laundering AML is a term mainly used in the financial and legal industries to describe the legal controls that require financial institutions and other regulated entities to prevent, detect, and report money-laundering activities.
Traceability — Though each bitcoin transaction is recorded in a public log, names of buyers and sellers are never revealed — only their wallet IDs. As a currency bitcoin fails to address the economic inclusion and simplicity of a transaction involving exchange of goods and services for a instruments such as cash. Limited scope of Cybercurrency — At the outset there are predetermined number of bitcoins 42 Million , after which, if the currency goes mainstream will face inflationary pressures, and will face similar challenges of intermediation and interchange — the very system it attempts to combat today.
This also raises concerns over absence of economic inclusion discussed above. While bitcoin is still in infancy and lack maturity, it needs governance to resolve dispute. As a technical platform it is robust but it matter of time till the processing power catches up with the speed or other avenues to disrupt the block chain emerges.
Lack of governance can cost not just the bitcoin users but the entire bitcoin economy. Lack of safety and Volatility — Bitcoin as a Cybercurrency as described in public ledger and the owner is identified by a bitcoin address, which is protected by password.
These digital currencies can be stored on hard drive, cloud drive or even paper QR Code , access to which is a password. Lost hard drive, replicated QR code and lost password implies lost wealth. This volatility of the currency can be problematic for large sums, and transactions. I am a bitcoin skeptic but believe that Bitcoin itself has a lot of potential, not a currency but as a technology platform to be adopted in current financial system to ensure speed and security of money transfer.
It seems that technology development is quicker that law development.. Regarding due diligence aspect of Bitcoin — I would disagree with you — money launderers would need to convert their bitcoins into some currency and companies providing such exchange services should implement Know Your Customer policy and be able to identify the client. So for sake of security its beneficial to recognize Bitcoin as legal instrument and start supervising Bitcoin exchangers same way as banks, brokers etc….
Toulon-Foerster whatIi like to know is, whether your salary is paid in bitcoins or dollars. Steve that was never a flyer. Like it or not all the countries that nodded sagely to Hugo Chavez want to get paid in U.
Dollars, especially Venezuela itself. Hello and good afternoon my people. First I want to congratulate Ms Foerster on her appointment to this position but I must caution her because of the American Government position on Bitcoin.
The American Government see Bitcoin as a competitor to the American dollar and they will do anything to prevent it from taking hold. They have arrested many people and charged them with Conspiracy and Mail Fraud so please be careful because you are an educated person. With your education and your degree in finance I think you should seek employment on Wall Street where you will be safe and you can make much more money than in the Bitcoin Industry.
Tony, if you are such expert in how to profit on Wall street and can make comparative analysis between earnings potential in Bitcoin and conventional finances, why do you write such idiotic comments? If you switch on your brain just for 1 minute you would see that real money made in technology sector and Bitcoin is actually a mix of hi-tech and finances…. Hello and good evening my people.
First I never said that I am an expert on Bitcoin rather I congratulated Ms Foerster on her new job and her education. To be quite honest, American Government position on Bitcoin can be described as hypocritical: CoinOutlet is doing interesting thing: Probably you familiar of concept of volatility which is risk but also upside potential for savvy traders, so exchanging Bitcoin on physical USD currency can be extremely good venture.
I would even say genius venture. If they do it properly, at some point some large financial institution will acquire them and very same NYT and WSJ will write fancy articles about it. Regarding nature of money and your opinion of lack of tangibility of Bitcoin — obviously NYT and WSJ forgot to educate you on nature of modern banking and you never heard about something called fractional-reserve banking..
Probably Tony you will be shocked: The Americans have released clear guidelines for use of Bitcoin. There are a growing number of Americans using it and building businesses around it.