{"id":824,"date":"2016-03-27T16:43:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T16:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2016-03-27T18:31:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T18:31:28","slug":"episode-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/episode-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode #48: Inertia, My Friend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4251330\/height\/100\/width\/640\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/no-cache\/true\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/fcc500\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"100\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"one-half column\">Episode 48<\/div><div class=\"one-half column last\">March 27, 2016 \u2014 72 mins<\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div> <strong>Guests: Aldo Carrascoso<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the blockchain and bitcoin are invisible to the end user, then that must mean that you\u2019re adding some other value to the consumer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aligncommerce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Align Commerce<\/a> was founded by a world class team with over 100 years of combined experience in banking IT infrastructure management.\u00a0\u00a0They enable businesses and payment platforms to send and receive payments in local currency, by using the blockchain as a new payment rail. On the surface, it doesn\u2019t seem like a very exciting premise for a \u201cfinancial revolution,\u201d but let\u2019s think about what\u2019s actually happening here. Small businesses that have no formal partnerships, binding contracts, or even lines of credit between them, are settling cross-border payments in real-time on behalf of their customers. This has never been possible before without a centralized intermediary. We get the\u00a0Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Aldo\u00a0Carrascoso in the studio to chat about all this juicy\u00a0Bitcoin remittances stuff. Also, Tony Swish of <a href=\"https:\/\/augur.net\/markets\" target=\"_blank\">Augur<\/a>, fills in for Corey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guests: Aldo Carrascoso When the blockchain and bitcoin are invisible to the end user, then that must mean that you\u2019re adding some other value to the consumer. Align Commerce was founded by a world class team with over 100 years of combined experience in banking IT infrastructure management.\u00a0\u00a0They enable businesses and payment platforms to send [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":826,"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\/824"}],"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=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}