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Elyse Petersen is a food scientist and the founder of Tealet, a wholesale tea supply chain network. Tealet's business model is based on cutting out unnecessary middlemen between tea growers and buyers, same like in Bitcoin. Since 2013 Tealet is using Bitcoin for payments, which eliminates the inefficiencies of global financial systems and saves a lot of transaction costs. Tealet was one of the first companies worldwide to use Bitcoin. Topics: History of tea as an international commodity Traditional tea supply chain absorbs 85% of the growers profit Tea Horse Road Tea as currency Venture capital demands growth Taking investment in Bitcoin Bitcoin Black Friday Bitcoin payments in India Microfinancing with Bitcoin What Elyse learned from Bitcoin Like it? Support me on Patreon and receive special podcast bonus content, ad-free epsiodes, show transcripts and more. https://anita.link/p Want more? All episodes sorted by guest and topics https://bitcoinundco.com/en/ ---------- Thank you to my sponsors: LocalBitcoins.com - the peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange. Buy and sell bitcoin at https://www.localbitcoins.com ---------- and ---------- BitBox02 Hardware Wallet by SHIFT Crypto https://anita.link/bitbox02 Order now and get 10% off! Code: anita ---------- and ---------- Card Wallet - the easy cold storage solution. No software needed. Order now and get 20% off! https://www.cardwallet.com/anita ---------- and ---------- Check out the LTB Network https://letstalkbitcoin.com ---------- Follow and Subscribe: Mailing list: https://anita.link/subscribe Twitter: https://twitter.com/anitaposch YouTube: https://youtube.com/AnitaPosch ----------