How Bitcoin became the premier means of payments in Africa

Africa is gaining a reputation as being the Bitcoin continent but how did we get here? In this talk, I’ll be sharing stories about how Bitcoin adoption happened in Africa and what I believe the future of Bitcoin in Africa is going to look like.

Tim is a foremost Bitcoin evangelist from Africa. In a bid to raise more awareness about Bitcoin in Africa was running the first publicly accessible Bitcoin node in West Africa. As a developer, he has made several open source contributions to JoinMarket (a bitcoin privacy tool) and Bitcoin Core. In 2021, he teamed up with Bernard Parah and others to found Qala Africa - a Bitcoin developer school focused on raising the next generation of African Bitcoin and Lightning developers.