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Title: Wanna help with Bitcoin in Africa? Post by: weex on February 19, 2013, 08:19:49 AM If you'd like to help with Bitcoin in Africa, check out this post. Feel free to discuss here or PM me if you're interested.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145100.0 Title: Re: Wanna help with Bitcoin in Africa? Post by: greyhawk on February 19, 2013, 11:29:56 AM What has Africa ever done for me? ???
Title: Re: Wanna help with Bitcoin in Africa? Post by: evrynet on February 19, 2013, 11:57:22 AM hmmm well you should do some charity work really:D
Title: Re: Wanna help with Bitcoin in Africa? Post by: greyhawk on February 19, 2013, 12:18:46 PM Charity work? Sounds pretty neo colonialist too me.
Title: Re: Wanna help with Bitcoin in Africa? Post by: Gabi on February 19, 2013, 04:43:24 PM Nah thanks, african warlords are rich enough
Title: Re: Wanna help with Bitcoin in Africa? Post by: alir on February 19, 2013, 04:51:08 PM Why do people think any problem can be solved if you throw enough money at it?
Title: Re: Wanna help with Bitcoin in Africa? Post by: Gabi on February 19, 2013, 04:55:47 PM African warlords rule at PR :D
Title: Re: Wanna help with Bitcoin in Africa? Post by: jojo69 on February 19, 2013, 04:59:48 PM a bitcoin to M-Pesa portal would be a good start
Title: Re: Wanna help with Bitcoin in Africa? Post by: Lethn on February 19, 2013, 05:11:57 PM a bitcoin to M-Pesa portal would be a good start This is the correct way to "help"! Don't give people things, trade with them as equals. Either that or share knowledge with them. Title: Re: Wanna help with Bitcoin in Africa? Post by: alir on February 19, 2013, 05:15:13 PM I think the funniest thing is nobody (myself included until just now) actually clicked the link. It's about spreading information on bitcoins in Africa not donating. >_<
Title: Re: Wanna help with Bitcoin in Africa? Post by: weex on February 19, 2013, 07:03:59 PM One way you can help is to organize the PR effort by helping locate all Kenyan and African forums, image boards, message boards, and twitter clones. Post in this thread (http://www.bitcoins.co.ke/forum/showthread.php?tid=3) please.
I don't see this as neo-colonialist by the way. This is about empowering people who have weak governments to provide for their own future with the same great tools that we have found. Title: Re: Wanna help with Bitcoin in Africa? Post by: StanChan on February 19, 2013, 08:46:06 PM a bitcoin to M-Pesa portal would be a good start Any ideas about how to get this started? Title: Re: Wanna help with Bitcoin in Africa? Post by: weex on February 19, 2013, 11:15:09 PM I don't think this will work well as a portal since M-Pesa has some daily limits...like $700 a day equivalent for an account. https://www.bitcoinary.com/ could work for this though.
First thing is, do you know anyone with an M-Pesa account? Title: Re: Wanna help with Bitcoin in Africa? Post by: klmist on February 20, 2013, 03:46:18 AM I don't think this will work well as a portal since M-Pesa has some daily limits...like $700 a day equivalent for an account. https://www.bitcoinary.com/ could work for this though. First thing is, do you know anyone with an M-Pesa account? perhaps one way round that would be to do a p2p style m-pesa exchange - you'd need to find a few good BTC sellers with m-pesa accounts to get it started though.. Title: Re: Wanna help with Bitcoin in Africa? Post by: dascampman on February 20, 2013, 04:23:20 AM Why do people think any problem can be solved if you throw enough money at it? I guees rightown doogieTitle: Re: Wanna help with Bitcoin in Africa? Post by: StanChan on February 24, 2013, 10:38:34 PM I don't think this will work well as a portal since M-Pesa has some daily limits...like $700 a day equivalent for an account. https://www.bitcoinary.com/ could work for this though. First thing is, do you know anyone with an M-Pesa account? Yes I do. Whats next? Title: Re: Wanna help with Bitcoin in Africa? Post by: weex on February 24, 2013, 11:17:40 PM I don't think this will work well as a portal since M-Pesa has some daily limits...like $700 a day equivalent for an account. https://www.bitcoinary.com/ could work for this though. First thing is, do you know anyone with an M-Pesa account? Yes I do. Whats next? Great! First of all, if they have any concerns, PM me with their email and I'll be happy to address them. The basic strategy is to have them setup a listing on LocalBitcoins.com listing Bitcoin to M-Pesa and Ksh available. They can set a quite low limit as to the amount of money they can spare for this and set whatever price they want since they're the first. The main competitor in Internet transfers is is PayPal, getting Ksh or M-Pesa from which will likely cost 30-50%. Once they have a listing, I'll be happy to put them up on the front page of bitcoins.co.ke and it'll stay there until there are too many to list. Personally, I would like to try making a purchase from Pewahewa.com (an online music store) and will pay bitcoins to the sender of the M-Pesa for a first transaction. |