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Blockchain and Remittance

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Remittance is the transference of money from a migratory worker to someone back in their home country. People have always moved in search of better work forecasts in high-income (or high currency value as compared to home) countries. Based on the  World Migration Report 2018 , there are presently a projected 244 million international migrants living in other countries. This number has either unswervingly or indirectly contributed to the global remittance’s $689 billion-dollar industry with India being top of the pile, contributing $80 Billion or 11.6% of its entirety. The global remittance industry  is expected to grow by more than 3% in 2019. Blockchain can be the future for remittance The most prevalent Cryptocurrency is Bitcoin. It has been labelled as the future of the global financial industry. Bitcoin positively has great potential to be the digital currency of the world but before that, one of two things needs to happen: ·      ...