Podcasts: #652 How Crypto Will Fix South America’s Money Problems w/ Simon Chamorro 🔗 3 years ago

Simon Chamorro was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. He co-founded Valiu to make it easier to transfer money from Colombia to Venezuela by streamlining remittances using cryptocurrency.

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