On this closing episode of the Bitcoin in Africa collection, we be a part of Anita Posch as she travels to Botswana and speaks with Alakanani Itireleng on bitcoin’s current and potential future within the “authentic dwelling of the honey badger”
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On this closing episode Anita speaks with Alakanani Itireleng, who based the Satoshicentre in Botswana in 2014 and single-handedly constructed a rising bitcoin neighborhood. She is the guts and heart of bitcoin schooling there, even the federal government is counting on her consultancy. This interview was recorded as Anita traveled by way of southern Africa in February of 2020, simply days earlier than the COVID-19 lockdowns went into impact. Her best ambition, the group of a Bitcoin convention in Southern Africa won’t come true quickly. When you’d wish to assist her work and the Satoshicentre, join together with her on twitter
See additionally: In Zimbabwe, Crypto Is a ‘Liberation Tool’: Bitcoin in Africa, Part 1 of a New Documentary Podcast Series
“Bitcoin is for everybody. Bitcoin is the forex of affection.”
Alakanani Itireleng
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“Bitcoin is permitting me to make use of and obtain cash from anybody and to ship it to anybody around the globe with out discriminating. That’s essentially the most wonderful factor about bitcoin. It’s cash for everybody, no matter the place you might be coming from, your race or creed or no matter. So it’s one of the best.”
Alakanani Itireleng
- How her son’s sickness and loss of life result in the primary meetup
- The web as “white individuals’s downside”
- The excessive unemployment charge in Botswana
- The price of web connections
- Ponzi schemes and the way they’re disturbing bitcoin adoption
- Bitcoin use circumstances and regulation in Botswana
- Exchanging the native forex pula to bitcoin
- African international locations on the forefront of adoption
- Her opinion about libra and lightning
- Cell cash in Botswana
- The way forward for bitcoin in Botswana
See additionally: If Bitcoin Works in Zimbabwe, It Works Everywhere (Part 4 of a Six-Part Documentary Podcast Series)
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See additionally: Bitcoin Maximalism, Entrepreneurs and COVID-19 in Zimbabwe (Part 5 of a Six-Part Documentary Podcast Series)
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This podcast particular and my journey to Africa wouldn’t have been potential with out my sponsors and supporters.
I need to thank my sponsors first: Thanks: LocalBitcoins.com a person-to-person bitcoin buying and selling website, Peter McCormack and the whatbitcoindid podcast, Coinfinity and the Card Wallet, SHIFT Cryptosecurity, producer of the {hardware} pockets BitBox02 and plenty of because of a number of unknown non-public donors, who despatched me Satoshis over the Lightning Community.
This particular is edited by CoinDesk’s Podcasts Editor Adam B. Levine and revealed first on the CoinDesk Podcast Network. Thanks very a lot for supporting the Bitcoin in Africa collection along with your work.
Thanks goes additionally out to stakwork.com – stakwork is a superb venture that brings bitcoin into the world by way of incomes. One can do microjobs on stakwork, incomes Satoshis and money them out with out even having an understanding concerning the lightning community or bitcoin. I feel we want extra initiatives like that to unfold the utilization of bitcoin around the globe.
Thanks additionally to GoTenna, for donating a number of GoTenna units to arrange a mesh community in Zimbabwe and to Team Satoshi, the decentralized sports activities group for supporting my work.
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