Botswana Blockchain Summit: An Interview with Alakanani Itireleng
From 25-26 November, members of the global Bitcoin community will gather at the University of Botswana for the inaugural Botswana Blockchain Summit. Conference Founders, Alakanani Itireleng of Satoshicentre and Kesego Tumisang of Google Developers Group of Gaborone, aim to educate attendees on Bitcoin and blockchain technology with local and....
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Bitcoin continues to make inroads in Africa. One particular African country pushing the penetration of the digital currency is Botswana. The Satoshi Centre in collaboration with GDG Gaborone and Partners are putting together the first ever Botswana Bitcoin & Blockchain Summit. It is scheduled from 25-26 November, 2016, at the Botswana University in Gaborone. With the theme ‘Bitcoin & Blockchain: The Only Chance for Africa to Empower her People’, the summit will host 150 people from across Botswana and Africa. Participation is free. Rationale behind summit. Coin Telegraph spoke to....
An India based company Power Hashing Solutions has joined the sponsors of the Botswana Blockchain & Bitcoin Summit that is scheduled for November 25-26. The summit will be the first of its kind in Africa. Power Hashing Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is an India based cryptocurrency mining, exchange and trading company. Other summit sponsors are HardBTC, PlayBetr and Bitland. Alakanani ‘Motherpky’Itireleng, Director of the Satoshi Centre, the organizer of the summit, says: “It’s overwhelming to see people from all over the world supporting this event. For instance HardBTC has been with us from the....
Prominent African bitcoin campaigner Alakanani Itireleng is turning her attention to charity, appealing for bitcoin donations to Botswana's SOS Children's Villages. Founded in 1980, SOS Children's Villages care for orphaned, destitute and abandoned children. According to the website, these villages "aim to develop children into responsible and independent adults who will have the inner strength to cope with the challenges of the future." It is affiliated with the United States Department of Labor, with which it works to care for children who have been exploited as child labor. Among its....
Africa is often touted as the region most likely to benefit from Bitcoin. However, for the most part, the technology has yet to take off in any meaningful way. A recent survey by mobile platform Jana interviewed 1,800 people across 9 emerging markets. This included respondents from Africa's leading market, South Africa. Of the survey group, only 13% had heard of Bitcoin. This represented the lowest awareness of any emerging market. At present the continent has two full service exchanges, both in South Africa. One of these exchanges has made its services available to Rand holders in....
Potentially, Africa’s huge unbanked population combined with the burdensome process of opening and operating a bank account should make Bitcoin an instant hit. However, its adoption has been irritatingly slow even though the basic infrastructure is not missing. It is estimated that by the end of this decade that 80 percent of the continent’s more than 1.2 bln population would be using Smartphones. Then what hinders Bitcoin penetration in Africa? Cointelegraph spoke about it with experts in the cryptocurrency community on the so-called dark continent. Fear of change Scrutinizing the....