# Reinventing [[Remittances]] with [[Bitcoin]] Available for free here: https://www.bloom.solutions/books ## [[Reinventing Remittances with Bitcoin.pdf]] There’s a lot of rhetoric about Bitcoin and its impact on the US$430 billion international remittance industry. One of the cryptocurrency’s most obvious uses is, after all, sending money across the planet with roughly the same effort as sending an email. The potential effect on emerging markets — aggregate savings that are larger than most countries’ education budgets — cannot be overstated. But beyond all the pontificating there is still the practical implementation that has yet to be sorted out.