Interviews

Video - George Crewe CEO of Touristcoin

October 18, 2014

Technical and Media Advisor to CryptoBiz Magazine Jay Addsion interviews George Crewe CEO of ToruistCoin at Inside Bitcoins Las Vegas. An online wallet to prevent credit card fraud for tourists. A secure way to give tourists a peace of mind on their payments. Fraud prevention and peace of mind for tourists founded in Mexico.

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foreign we are live in Las Vegas at inside Bitcoins we're live here with George crew from tourist score and you're the CEO tell us a little bit about Couture's coin joint well tourist coin it's going to provide tourist Services cryptocoin tourist Services uh well to people that travel overseas so we're going to provide online wallets to people in hotel lobbies money exchanges and through travel agencies the online wallet what it will do is Will Allow people to keep their credit card secure preventing fraud and we will provide them with discounts at selected partners and duty-free shops this is a way to secure the credit card credit card fraud is uh it's very it's huge and it's still a long time till credit card secure technology gets to the to the US at least a couple of years so we're we're betting on that yeah now where are you guys located we're located in Cancun Mexico so we are very close to what uh overseas tourists see every day we are we see credit card fraud it's very common uh something that's not very talked about because it's not very good for tourism but it's a it's a common problem so where are where can someone use a tourist coin right now if someone had one will have selected partners that will accept uh tourist coin but we will also be able to will allow people to pay uh uh to bitcoin Merchants okay so uh we'll have all the network of Bitcoin Merchants uh available to them to to use the their balances on it and and how many countries do you guys have with the tourist coin right now at the moment we're starting uh with the with a with experiment which is in Mexico which is basically in Mexico uh we want to start it because it's you know 80 of overseas travel from the US goes to Mexico that's for sure so if we cover that we if we do well there we will we'll try to expand to another other countries okay so because our crypto Biz magazine is is all over the world and let's say there's some tourist destinations we're here in Las Vegas right now let's say someone in Las Vegas wants to get involved with you in the tourist coin and set it up so that they can accept the tourist coin and also provide someone a discount for that how would they get a hold of you to do that uh you can get a hold of me through the website touristcoin.com or G crew at brucecoin.com sounds good now George let me ask you the question we ask everyone January 1st 2015 what do you think the price of Bitcoin is going to be I think he'd be a thousand well that was a pretty quick answer George crew CEO of tourist coin thanks again for joining us thank you so much have a great day this is Jay Addison from cryptobiz magazine live from meckler media's inside Bitcoins conference in Las Vegas remember to subscribe to cryptobiz magazine at cryptobismag.com follow us on Twitter at cryptobizmag thanks for joining us and learn more at cryptobizmagazine.com