Fwd: Bitcoin Argentina
- From:
- Matías Battocchia
- Date:
- 2011-09-24 @ 19:14
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From: Matías Battocchia <matias@eudemocracia.org>
Date: 2011/9/24
Subject: Bitcoin Argentina
To: darren@tradehill.com
Cc: eudemocracia@librelist.com
Hello Darren,
Today I noticed your mail sent at beginnings of month
(http://listas.eudemocracia.org/pipermail/contacto/2011-September/000239.html);
it happens that our contact address is not functioning properly. I
apologize for this inconvenient.
I hope that TradeHill is still interested in partnering with
Eudemocracia, the NGO behind the Bitcoin Argentina. Our main goal is
to fulfill the role of promoting "open democracy" governance
philosophy: direct and continuous democracy assisted by information
and communication technologies. By exchanging bitcoins we expect to
gather financial resources for our organization achieving a social
change.
I saw that TradeHill wants to expand to a considerable number of
countries/currencies, in between them, Argentina. Working together we
could help you to overcome all those difficulties that one normally
stumbles upon when trying to operate in a foreign country --here--
while you could help our business to flourish, which up today finds
itself in a precarious state.
Since we made the Bitcoin Argentina page at bitcoin.it we have
received several buying requests, we never could attend one of them
because we lack a BTC reserve. At first we thought that pool mining
could permit us to conform and maintain one, soon we realized that the
only viable option we had was to buy them wholesale. We could not get
an initial fund to make the investment yet. In order to go on, we
considered another possibility: to have a trading platform. The
problem with this idea is that the Argentinean BTC market is still
weak, so an local exchange is utterly necessary to pump the internal
supply and demand.
I refer to a local exchange because individuals feel insecure about
making international transactions --plus they are not easy nor
cheap--, they prefer to trust their money to a neighboring and legally
constituted organization. Thus, Eudemocracia could canalize
crossborder deposits and withdrawals, acting as a global trading
platform-local exchange hybrid.
Of course, joining TradeHill would be great. We can go fifty-fifty in
profit. Are you OK with this?
We can collaborate with the full Spanish translation of the site. We
shall formalize and agreement and research further the mechanisms of
cooperation. I desire that this be the beginning of a fruitful
venture.
Regards,
Matías