Greetings -

I’m Sam Kaddoura, CEO and Co-Founder of BuyBitcoin.ph, the Philippines’ first and longest running Bitcoin exchange, offering quick, easy, and secure buying and selling of Bitcoin.

Improved Website Rollout

We’re thrilled to rollout our new and improved website. Along with constant incremental improvements, we’ve also streamlined the user experience with our Facebook single-sign-in and traditional log-in. This new feature gives our developers a platform allowing them to add greater functionality for our clients as we move forward, such as transaction history and order tracking, easily accessible from any device.  Expect more features to be introduced in the weeks to come!

Bitcoin is Revolutionary

We are strong believers that Bitcoin will revolutionize the financial landscape in the Philippines. It will allow people from all socioeconomic backgrounds to participate in the global marketplace through access to financial services that may have once been out of reach.  E-commerce and remittances are just two of the many applications that Bitcoin can and will disrupt from the stagnant financial status-quo.

Our Team

Along with myself, BuyBitcoin.ph was founded by Lasse Olesen, James Florentino, and Daniel Walton.  To this day, we continue to strive in offering a seamless user-friendly experience that is non-intimidating to the Bitcoin beginner.

The essence of Bitcoin through its decentralized design makes money transcend physical location: be anywhere, pay for anything, give to anyone in the world, and receive from anyone in the world, all without ever having to pay to do this. If you think that not having to pay someone to use your own money is a good thing, then Bitcoin might be your champion.

We here at BuyBitcoin.ph thank you for your continued business.  Any new updates will appear here on our blog, Twitter, and Facebook. Follow us, and sign-up.

Best,

Sam Kaddoura

CEO & Co-Founder

BuyBitcoin.ph announces deal with Dragonpay

Leading Philippine bitcoin exchange BuyBitcoin.ph announced a an agreement with payment processor Dragonpay on Wednesday.

The integration deal allows customers to pay for online bitcoin purchases at branch offices of 14 Philippine banks. In addition, customers can make deposits at remittance centers, or through online banking at participating banks.

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[Executive Edge] Filipino bitcoin CEO wants to change how we use money

By Ezra Ferraz, rappler.com

Experts often predict that the “cryptocurrency” known as Bitcoin will become hugely popular in the Philippines. Still, Bitcoin remains largely unknown to the average Filipino, which shows that its adoption will come down to the quality of the companies that introduce it to the Philippine market.

BuyBitcoin.ph is one such company, headed by balikbayan co-founder and CEO Sam Kaddoura, along with founders Lasse Birk Olesen (CPO), Daniel Walton (CTO), and James Florentino (UI / UX Designer). Kaddoura describes the platform as “a peso to bitcoin ‘over-the-counter’ exchange allowing Filipinos direct access to buying and selling bitcoins.”

Kaddoura continued, “As the popularity of bitcoin increases and it becomes more widely accepted as a currency, the bitcoin exchange model will play a crucial role in providing a foundation for both individuals and local businesses in the Philippines bitcoin economy to flourish.”

In other words, such exchanges are important for they work both ways. They allow individuals and merchants to buy Bitcoin when necessary. On the flipside, they also allow them to “cash out” their Bitcoin for fiat money – the Philippine peso.

New bitcoin exchange offers PHL expats a new way to send money home

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BuyBitcoin.ph, a new online bitcoin exchange launched on Thursday, offers an alternative method of sending money to the Philippines, according to bitcoin website CoinDesk.

Bitcoin is a virtual currency that can be used to directly purchase items or services online. According to CoinDesk, bitcoin is “the first example of a growing category of money known as cryptocurrency.”

The payments are made directly from one person to another without passing through a central bank or clearing house.

Bitcoins can also be traded for other currencies and can be used to send remittances from Filipino expats around the world, a market that BuyBitcoin.ph is targetting.

New Filipino Bitcoin Exchange Targets Remittance Market

By Nermin Hajdarbegovic, Coindesk.com

A new bitcoin exchange, BuyBitcoin.ph, has officially launched in the Philippines.

Unlike many other exchanges popping up around the world, it is not headed by a couple of anonymous coders working out of a garage.

BuyBitcoin.ph, co-founded by four bitcoin enthusiasts from all corners of the globe, doesn’t want to be ‘just another exchange’. It appears the company is pinning its hopes on remittances, which makes a lot of sense. There are an estimated 2.2 million Filipino expats around the world, and last year they sent over $13.9bn back home. This is obviously a huge untapped market.