Banking Without Banks: How To Use Bitcoin to Escape the Cash Trap
Banking Without Banks: How To Use Bitcoin to Escape the Cash Trap
Card networks won’t touch cannabis, and most banks won’t either — leaving an industry running on cash that’s expensive to secure and risky to move. This session gives operators a practical, hype-free look at Bitcoin as a payment rail: how direct-to-wallet payments work, what they cost versus cashless ATMs and workaround processors, and the real hurdles — volatility, accounting, adoption, and compliance. Attendees leave knowing what implementation would look like, and whether it’s right for them.

Frederick Coleman
Banking Without Banks: How To Use Bitcoin to Escape the Cash Trap
Frederick Coleman is Head of Operations and Growth at Blockonomics, a non-custodial Bitcoin payment gateway serving merchants worldwide since 2015. With the company since 2017, he helps businesses locked out of traditional payment rails, including cannabis operators, accept payments directly to their own wallets.