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Open Bank Project
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Open Bank Project is an open-source platform that provides banking and financial APIs for developers. The project organized the Bitcoin Bankathon, a state-backed hackathon in El Salvador held from November to December 2021, inviting global participants to build blockchain-based solutions.
11:25Interview · Nov 23, 2021Francisco Montenegro on El Salvador's Bitcoin Bankathon hackathonAshton Addison is live at the LABITCONF in El Salvador for, as El Salvador celebrates Bitcoin becoming legal tender in the country. Francisco discusses the Open Bank Project, the Bitcoin Bankathon, the first state-backed hackathon for Bitcoin, encouraging the country to continue building solutions on…Watch the episode →Key facts
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“This will really help because it will be a complete new business model where some parts of the population will be able to open a wallet that has on the back end banking services provided by the banks.”
- FMFrancisco Montenegro · Francisco Montenegro on El Salvador's Bitcoin Bankathon hackathon
“With every change there comes a degree of resistance and that degree of resistance can be intensified by a lack of proper understanding and I think this is one of the main challenges that El Salvador have.”
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