Building Nigeria’s Bitcoin’s Village

Building Nigeria’s Bitcoin’s Village

Entrepreneurs in Nigeria are building on the country’s growing interest in BTC and establishing Bitcoin Village, a safe haven for Africa.Nigeria is a unique country in West Africa, geographically situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea to the south in the Atlantic Ocean. Inflation is currently over 18%, and money debasement is sometimes a daily occurrence. If you’ve never had a backpack full of useless naira, you wouldn’t understand. In places like Accra, Ghana, the cost of living is among the highest in any African country. But Bitcoin can remove the trust factor of....


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