On today's episode I talk with Ray Youssef, Co-Founder and CEO of Paxful, a peer-to-peer marketplace for money transfers serving about 4 million people in every country of the world. He says that in the next five years Africa with its tremendous growth in trading volume is going to become the leading crypto continent.

Topics:
His start-up failures and learnings
Why he was an MMA fighter and actor
His couchsurfing time in New York and what it taught him
Making money with gift cards
The founding idea for Paxful
Payment networks in Africa
Privacy
Africas growing trading volume
How Covid-19 impacted trading
Social justice and #BuiltWithBitcoin
Paxfuls vision for Africa
How to prevent scams and rippers
The Africans should lead your business
Women controlling the majority of the worlds money
The unbanked in the US

Full Transcript: https://bitcoinundco.com/en/ray-youssef/
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