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Kenyans are just great people!

Here in Uganda there are some efforts going on but still very far behind #Kenya

Ok just because of this post i want to follow you

Honoured Epic lurkage too btw 😉

Fck me that’s awesome. Obviously I wanna see that!! Possibly in February next year

Woo Yay 🙌 🥭🚀

I didn’t know this. Where can I find more?

I met Pelle in Nairobi in 2013 or 14. Here's his account about Kipochi:

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Bitpesa was shut down by Safaricom in the same year IIRC, but apparently turned into an exchange later:

BitPesa | Africa's Crypto and BTC Exchange – Access the Deepest BTC Liquidity in Africa

@bumi and I were traveling around East Africa during that time frame, and he built a Telegram bot in order to pay for his own things with bitcoin and to demo how bridges could work.

damn, did that video pretty much exactly 10 years ago…

Vimeo

DEMO: sending Bitcoin to m-pesa (mobile money in Kenya) using the telegram messenger and withdraw cash from an agent

This is a quick demo of an application that I have been working on in the last days. The app allows you to send Bitcoin to any m-pesa account in K...

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Vimeo

DEMO: how to pay a taxi in Nairobi using Bitcoin using a messenger like telegram

this is a demo on how to use Bitcoin to pay in a taxi in Nairobi. The driver receives the money on his m-pesa account. So he does not need to have ...

Oh wow, I've never seen the second one with the taxi driver. Unfortunately, I don't have a Vimeo account anymore, and somehow it's behind a login wall. Could you re-upload elsewhere perhaps?

hm, try it again it should work without login now. I wish he would have just accepted the BTC back then.

damn, did that video pretty much exactly 10 years ago…

Vimeo

DEMO: sending Bitcoin to m-pesa (mobile money in Kenya) using the telegram messenger and withdraw cash from an agent

This is a quick demo of an application that I have been working on in the last days. The app allows you to send Bitcoin to any m-pesa account in K...

?

Vimeo

DEMO: how to pay a taxi in Nairobi using Bitcoin using a messenger like telegram

this is a demo on how to use Bitcoin to pay in a taxi in Nairobi. The driver receives the money on his m-pesa account. So he does not need to have ...

Works! And it's much quicker and more concise than the other video. 👌

guess I did not think about the tik-tok age attention timespan back then when I did the video. 😉 this is some good memories though, but makes me wonder how far we came? I might have arrived in a "maybe I should have just chilled at the beach" mode.

At least we don't do zero-conf txs for small payments anymore. That's a massive improvement.

So true, it's the impoverished and the unbanked that this technology really shines bright for.

Blink Bitcoin wallet mostly!

That so cool love to see the impact of one community all over the world!