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Businesses bloom, with BitPesa and Bitcoin

BitPesa CEO Elizabeth Rossiello says her company hopes to start operating in South Africa this year.

05 February 2018

Elizabeth Rossiello often relates how the traditional ways of moving money around the world are cumbersome, and slow.

The CEO of BitPesa tells Brainstorm she'd tried to make a $2 500 payment with PayPal recently, but since she was abroad, the company tried to call her parents’ house in the United States. The payment ended up being declined, and her account was frozen.

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