{"id":242571,"date":"2019-11-17T14:39:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T19:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidebitcoins.com\/?p=242571"},"modified":"2019-11-17T14:39:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T19:39:11","slug":"paxful-launches-new-marketing-campaign-for-africans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidebitcoins.com\/news\/paxful-launches-new-marketing-campaign-for-africans","title":{"rendered":"Paxful Launches New Marketing Campaign for Africans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paxful, one of the most popular peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchanges on the market, rolled out a new marketing scheme, which would use locals to grow the popularity of the firm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Announced on November 15, the initiative, which was appropriately called the Paxful Peer Program, will see customers get paid for evangelizing the exchange to those around them. The objective? To get Paxful into countries and markets where other crypto exchanges have either generally ignored or found it challenging to succeed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/paxful\/status\/11851283870834728960<\/p>\n

Select markets\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

In an interview with news medium Decrypt, Tugba Abadan, the company\u2019s Head of Community, clarified that while they are targeting people from all over the world, they have a particular focus on markets in South Africa, India, Ghana, and Kenya.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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New technologies have a progressive history. So does bitcoin and crypto in Africa.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, Africans didn't know much about bitcoin or how to buy it. So founders built the bitcoin merchant websites and apps that we have today.<\/p>\n

Now that we have $1 billion of crypto…<\/p>\n

— atsu (@atsudavoh) November 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n