User talk:JasonWilliamsBit

Jason Williams
Jason Williams is the founding member and current sitting President of Bitcoin Association of Australia and the cofounder of his own Bitcoin startup, BitPOS, the visa equivalent of the Bitcoin world is an Australian Company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Sydney.

Personal Life and Education
Jason (born in 1972), studied the Bachelors of Business, with incomplete majors in computer information systems at the University of Western Sydney. Some of his areas of interest in spare time include watching movies, mountain biking, exercise and long walks across the beach.

Career
Williams, gave a start to his career at the age of 41, at the major Australian Bank, and further on went to develop his skills across vast fields including the fraud prevention and management accounting before he settled in the Australian Startup, bound to rollout of cable internet across Australia. He moved to Netherlands, in the year 2002 and led a group of professionals committed to work for the maintenance and operation of business critical provisioning systems, which is the second largest ISP Ziggo.

He has experience in enacting on the project team to provide an AML solution for the St. George Bank. Amid his reign over there, the Westpac acquired the bank and he moved along the team to establish and provide a similar solution.

In 2010, a friend familiarized him to the Bitcoin community. The Bitcoin Association of Australia is an assimilated entity formed in October 2013 and incorporated as not - for - profit, Incorporation No: INC1301339.

Williams, is currently the sitting president of the Bitcoin Association of Australia, founder of the Bitcoin SYD meet-up group and the cofounder of his own setup BitPOS.

About the Company
BitPOS, is Australia’s first bitcoin merchant service provider. Established in 2013, it renders elementary solution for bricks and mortar business looking to accept Bitcoin. The company brags a distinctive authorization and verification system for an easy and secure processing of transactions in physical and online stores.

Bitcoin, is particularly an asset for the charitable organizations who work in rural locations where there is a lack of infrastructure for the receipt of funds. It all started when Jason noticed in 2012 what difference would Bitcoin actually make to the world and then he incorporated the Sydney Bitcoin community in May, 2013. Jason initially wrote up the prototype system for the Old Fiztroy, that was later replaced by new technology developed by the co-founder Alex Taylor at the end of 2013.

The Sydney community was now eager to have the Bitcoins used somewhere and then the BitPOS came into action with the founding partners, Alex Taylor and Matt Allen, and cofounder being Jason Williams. The core design and the corporate look of BitPOS was an effort of Stuart Pollock of Gimmiko, who is also one of the founding partners of Gimmiko. In addition, the Adroit Lawyers, partners with BitPOS are the first law firm to accept Bitcoin as the payment option here. Thus, they added their first merchant in September 2013, with the launch of the event using the twitter hashtag “Beers4Bitcoins”. The software is designed to release Bitcoins at a decreasing rate for the time until there is a final worldwide supply of 21 million. BitPOS was initially started as a company, which brought online transactions to the offline business. In 2014, BitPOS also added online payments systems in 2014 through the HTML integration, Word press and Magento plugins.

Achievements
Bitcoin was accepted as payment gateway using Australia’s leading merchant provider from May 5 to May 7 at the Sydney Olympic Park by country’s largest business technology event CeBIT Australia. Bitcoin also won a Linux Award and was assigned the name “Most Innovative Open Source Project”.

The awarded Bitcoin was globally acquired by the representatives of bitcoin.de, which is a German company and service provider.