2022: A Year Of Grassroots Bitcoin Adoption For Africa
The local BFF group has set up their own ZambiaBitcoinMeetups.com website, it fulfills at Scallywags a (restaurant accepting bitcoin) and one of the members began a Bitcoin podcast in the regional Bemba language on our recently-launched BTC Podcasting platform.ZimbabweWe kicked the Zimbabwe journey off with a Bitcoin talk in early March which was participated in by 60 individuals in the capital of Harare. Now, his program is the very first Zimbabwean podcast getting bitcoin payments through Alby.After my look on “In Conversation With Trevor,” Newsday Zimbabwe published an article entitled “Bitcoin Should Be The Currency Of Choice,” composing, “Anita Posch has urged Zimbabwean businesses and individuals to use bitcoin as a medium of exchange due to the fact that of its low charges when negotiating as well as its being less susceptible to abuse. The focus on Bitcoin as a tool for Africans to empower and complimentary themselves economically from colonial and authoritarian structures resonated with the work of BFF.Prior to the conference, I helped Marcel Lorraine, the founder of Bitcoin Dada, a women-focused Bitcoin education group raising funds, to go to the conference and I likewise fulfilled Noelyne Sumba and Mary Imasuen who organized a BFF sponsored meetup in Nigeria previously this year.With Marcel Lorraine from Kenya and Noelyne Sumba from NigeriaAfter the conference, we arranged a BFF meetup together with the regional Bitcoin Cowries neighborhood in One Corner Garden, a restaurant accepting bitcoin, where we set up wallets, offered away a Trezor device and spoke about how to earn bitcoin.Built Educational Content And Infrastructure For CommunitiesThe Bitcoin FlyerOn top of all of the above, I published the BFF Bitcoin flyer together with the C4 Cryptocurrency Certification Consortium.
The local BFF group has actually set up their own ZambiaBitcoinMeetups.com website, it fulfills at Scallywags a (restaurant accepting bitcoin) and one of the members started a Bitcoin podcast in the regional Bemba language on our recently-launched BTC Podcasting platform.ZimbabweWe kicked the Zimbabwe journey off with a Bitcoin talk in early March which was participated in by 60 individuals in the capital of Harare. Now, his program is the first Zimbabwean podcast receiving bitcoin payments via Alby.After my look on “In Conversation With Trevor,” Newsday Zimbabwe published a short article titled “Bitcoin Should Be The Currency Of Choice,” writing, “Anita Posch has advised Zimbabwean organizations and individuals to use bitcoin as a medium of exchange because of its low charges when transacting as well as its being less prone to abuse.”Newsday Zimbabwe has more than 640,000 followers on Twitter and is one of the larger newspapers in Zimbabwe.South AfricaIn May, I went to South Africa to work with Bitcoin Ekasi, the circular Bitcoin economy in Mossel Bay. I also linked Paxful with the community, which led to a Paxful and Built With Bitcoin education center being positioned on site.GhanaAs quickly as I heard the announcement of the very first Pan-Africa Bitcoin conference, I understood I wanted to be a part of it. The focus on Bitcoin as a tool for Africans to empower and complimentary themselves economically from colonial and authoritarian structures resonated with the work of BFF.Prior to the conference, I helped Marcel Lorraine, the founder of Bitcoin Dada, a women-focused Bitcoin education group raising funds, to visit the conference and I also met Noelyne Sumba and Mary Imasuen who organized a BFF sponsored meetup in Nigeria earlier this year.With Marcel Lorraine from Kenya and Noelyne Sumba from NigeriaAfter the conference, we organized a BFF meetup together with the local Bitcoin Cowries neighborhood in One Corner Garden, a dining establishment accepting bitcoin, where we set up wallets, gave away a Trezor gadget and spoke about how to make bitcoin.Built Educational Content And Infrastructure For CommunitiesThe Bitcoin FlyerOn top of all of the above, I published the BFF Bitcoin leaflet together with the C4 Cryptocurrency Certification Consortium.