Africa Bitcoin Day was a blast🧡!! Always a pleasure to talk Bitcoin and
@Tando.me
We had a meaningful conversation on Bitcoin’s infrastructure in Africa and for me, the core of that discussion always circles back to localizing Bitcoin products.
I believe this is key: making Bitcoin feel like a natural extension of tools people already know and trust. In Kenya, that means things like M-Pesa and Saccos. When Bitcoin is designed to fit within those familiar frameworks, it stops feeling foreign or overly complex and instead becomes just another, better way to save and spend money.
Because at the end of the day, people need to see bitcoin for what it truly is: money. In fact, better money. And to use it that way, they need tools that are simple & intuitive, just like the tools they already use every day. No one needs to understand every detail under the hood. We don’t ask that of cars or smartphones, and Bitcoin should be no different.
As builders, that’s our job: to simplify the experience. To compress the technical layers and present Bitcoin in a way that’s straightforward, relatable, and usable, so it can actually serve the people it’s meant to empower.
