{"id":209,"date":"2015-07-19T12:28:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T12:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2015-07-19T18:12:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T18:12:24","slug":"episode-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/episode-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode #9: The Curious Case of Remittance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/3683210\/height\/50\/width\/640\/theme\/standard\/direction\/no\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"50\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"one-half column\">Episode 9<\/div><div class=\"one-half column last\">July 19, 2015 \u2014 51 mins<\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div> <strong>Guests:\u00a0Sandeep Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We here at the Bitcoin Podcast have started accepting the fact that Bitcoin is emerging as a leading option to help the remittance market not just reduce cost but increase speed as well. Remittances growth to slow sharply in 2015, as\u00a0total remittances in 2014 reached $583 billion. This is more than double the official development assistance (ODA) in the world. India received $70 billion\u00a0and the country has its own homegrown Bitcoin companies and there are many international ones who are looking to set up shop in India. <a href=\"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zebpay<\/a> is one such homegrown Bitcoin company and this week we caught up with Sandeep Goenka, Co-founder of Zebpay and asked him a few questions.\u00a0Bitcoin is truly a game changer in the remittance markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guests:\u00a0Sandeep Goenka We here at the Bitcoin Podcast have started accepting the fact that Bitcoin is emerging as a leading option to help the remittance market not just reduce cost but increase speed as well. Remittances growth to slow sharply in 2015, as\u00a0total remittances in 2014 reached $583 billion. This is more than double the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","unlock_protocol_post_locks":"","publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}