By Nathan Ferguson
La Haus, a Latin-American giant in real estate, will incorporate Bitcoin (BTC) for payments, as per the press release. Being the top in the market of Colombia and Mexico, the firm will permit Bitcoin transactions through Lightning Network (a payment solution based on the second layer). The supporter of the integration will be OpenNode, which would be a part of the plan of La Haus to accept the innovations emerging in the sector of cryptocurrency, and also maintain a place of being the leader of the market. The firm runs with completely online transactions, and the crypto enthusiasts will be welcomed to avail the respective offer.
La Haus and Crypto
A $1B average transaction volume is recorded by La Haus at an annual level, and the number of consumers is 1M per month. Additionally, the firm declared to have collected $150M via the funding round of venture capital, and the investors include a well-known singer Maluma, Greenspring Associates, Endeavor Catalyst, Bezos Expedition, and others. The value of BTC has been acknowledged by La Haus (the provider of cost-effective transactions and financial security), particularly through Lightning Network, across Latin America.
This region includes one of the biggest unbanked populations across the world. In this way, the citizens thereof have been considered to be among those who adopt crypto at the fastest pace. The La Haus President “Rodrigo Sánchez-Ríos” claimed while discussing the firm and BTC payments that they are determined to develop homeownership to be available and feasible for numerous people residing within Latin America. He added that Bitcoin is the solution for the issues countered when the native currencies are utilized as a method of payment. He asserted that the real estate and BTC worlds have tremendous collaboration.
Numerous use of BTC as a payment method
The respective initiative will commence in Kahala, an extravagant housing development based in Playa del Carmen (an area located in Mayan Riviera). Customers will be permitted to use Bitcoin for condominiums. This initiative will further develop the Bitcoin integration thereof regarding additional products. As per the press release, there are more than 80,000 properties to be offered through BTC in the later phase. Kevin Adekayode, the Head of Operations at OpenNode, stated that they are pleased to operate with La Haus, which is a forward-thinking firm, and will leverage BTC collaboratively.