#81: Paytaca & Philippines Adoption feat. Joemar Taganna

Joining us is Joemar Taganna, CEO of Paytaca, a Philippine fintech company building Bitcoin Cash tools and services. Joemar is also a biologist, programmer, technopreneur, and startup builder at SciBiz Informatics. We talk about Paytaca, Philippines BCH adoption, BitCat Heroes NFT collection, BTC 2023 conference, among other things. Enjoy the chat!Links:Joemar on Twitter: https://twitter.com/joemar_tagannaPaytaca on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_paytaca_Paytaca website: https://www.paytaca.com/Selene wallet: https://selene.cash/What is Emerald DAO? https://bitcoincashpodcast.com/faqs/Projects/what-is-emerald-daoBitCats Heroes NFT: https://bitcatsheroes.clubBCH is getting to crypto normies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tEVprFAzpE&t=1005sMeme of the week (bch.meme): https://www.instagram.com/p/CsUj9N9RLvX/Presentation slides of this episode: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1McDt-9RGH3QwTg9Ho165I8BYkmQyGHv6/edit#slide=id.g230c3797047_0_4Donations:bitcoincash:qqnpkr3arngwnasm7ezyzuylv5ljeekvcgr72jl5x4Sponsors:General Protocols: https://generalprotocols.com and https://bchbull.com Thank you very much to all of our flipstarter contributors: https://flipstarter.bitcoincashpodcast.com/en Socials:Website: https://www.bitcoincashpodcast.comTimestamps:00:00 Podcast starts00:38 Intro01:10 PSA on legit BCH wallets02:53 Joemar’s intro and Bitcoin journey10:30 Reminiscing about BTC-e 12:25 Bitcoin, the movie 13:44 Why Bitcoin Cash?20:08 Market update: no CashTokens pump23:24 Paytaca34:46 Wallet download and usage stats41:17 Paytaca team44:38 Paytaca’s future plans49:06 Emerald DAO59:15 BitCats Heroes #NFT1:09:10 Paytaca building an NFT #marketplace 1:15:21 PurelyPeer1:21:45 PurelyPeer release in June?1:25:06 BCH is getting to crypto normies1:33:43 #Bitcoin2023 BTC Miami, just boring?1:35:55 Bitcoin Cash 2023 conference?1:37:25 Sad state of Bitcoin brand1:40:56 Meme of the week1:43:17 Message to the community1:48:29 Podcast supporter appreciation1:49:16 Shoutouts and outro