Bitcoin in Australia receives support from the most unexpected places. A chicken farmer in Queensland has expressed his desire to accept only bitcoin payments from his customers. Mark Burgunber’s wish to include bitcoin in his trade is surprising, especially at the time when the Australian bitcoin sector is going through a rough phase.
Bitcoin usage has generally been more among people who are most involved in the tech sector. It popularity among the tech professionals, entrepreneurs, deep web etc. has been one of the reasons for slower adoption of the currency. Many people consider that bitcoin is too complicated to comprehend and they assume that they are better off sticking to conventional money than experiment with something that they do not fully understand. Whereas in reality, it is completely opposite.
Mark Burgunber, like many other bitcoin enthusiasts in the country still believes in bitcoin, in spite of recent developments in the country where the banks in Australia closed their doors to bitcoin exchanges operating in the country. Major banks of Australia recently disabled the accounts of 17 bitcoin companies without offering them any explanation. Soon after, there were reports about a fall in the number of merchants accepting bitcoin in the country.
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In an interview with ABC, Mark Burgunber has offered a detailed explanation about bitcoin and how it works. He is currently the only one accepting bitcoin in his locality, making it virtually impossible for him to find someone from the local community who is willing to pay in bitcoin. In order to change that, he is working on building a bitcoin community in his locality by educating people about its benefits.
At present only a handful of people like Mark Burgunber are using bitcoin to receive payments immediately while saving significant amount of money which would otherwise go towards transaction and processing fees for the funds transferred. By doing what he is doing, Mark Burgunber might soon become the person who brought bitcoin revolution to the farming communities in Australia.