Bitcoin and the alternative African internet.

[Tungbulu]

I'm surprised that this thread hasn't attracted any comments. Just in case you haven't heard about the African continent Internet exchange, here is a YouTube video about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOy7jwi0At8

That looks like one of those videos people who don't understand the topic make only to get views.

What is being explained doesn't sound new either and it is not exactly "alternative" internet either. It sounds more like "Domestic Internet". A couple of developed countries have had that for a very long time. For example in Iran we built it decades ago and everything domestic runs on that which makes it cheaper as well.

It is basically a national security matter specially in this day and age that everything is depending more and more on the internet. Any country has to be able to have full control over its own internal traffic (eg. the banking system) to remain safe.

I've surfed the net for credible source(s) that validates the claim of Africa launching their own different internet protocol stack that doesn't work on Google's or American Server,  but unfortunately I can't seem to find a reliable source, I'm an African and inasmuch as I'd like those claims to be true, I'm a afraid that's not entirely true.

What's actually happening is more of a push for digital sovereignty in Africa. More local data centres, subsea capbles, internet exchange points as well as policy coordination, in order to allow data to stay within the African locales. Smart Africa, in collaboration with the AU are actually the ones making this push. And for what it's worth, most of the bandwidth growth still comes from those Big Tech cables, like the Meta-backed 2Africa and Google's Equiano.

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

I'm surprised that this thread hasn't attracted any comments. Just in case you haven't heard about the African continent Internet exchange, here is a YouTube video about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOy7jwi0At8

This is a very good news if such infrastructure will be implemented by the African Union, of which the current chairperson happens to be the President of the Republic of Angola "João Goncalves Lourenço". Because by implementing an independent Internet system here in Africa, we will stand the chance of having a fast cheap and reliable internet system where we own control of all our data, just the same way Bitcoin offers us the privilege to have control of our funds too. But however, I just made a research about this news and hoping to see it on major news platforms, but couldn't find any, and as such, I'm having a 50/50 chance this news is likely to be fake, because before such will be successful, it will take Africa probably 10 to 15yrs to finally conclude this project.

[dkbit98]

It seems that I may have been prescient in my other thread, but that didn't really go anywhere. I've just learnt that Africa has implemented an alternative Internet that avoids using Google and American servers and transport.

I am not surprised to hear about this, and few years ago I was reading that Russia is preparing to do something similar, and they are slowly banning many apps and services including VPN.
China already have their own Great Firewall so it would not shock me to see them having something similar, or maybe join with Russia and other countries.
I honestly don't know exactly how this would affect Bitcoin network, but I think we could start having different tiers of bitcoin in future, maybe we already have it with all those ''tainted'' coins crap.

[Nathrixxx]

Africans can do more better, but the need to understand that their first solution to breakthrough is by living a decentralized economy, I could remember sometimes back when they got to introduce the use of mobile phones to transfer Bitcoin without Internet, this gain a lot of traction then, but after some time, it seems everything went down and we hardly hear more about other developments happening with the use of bitcoin in the continent, if not a decentralized network, then it's better none because there will be no difference to what has been happening before now except they live independently under a decentralized network and economy.

[justinlamode]

It seems that I may have been prescient in my other thread, but that didn't really go anywhere. I've just learnt that Africa has implemented an alternative Internet that avoids using Google and American servers and transport. There is a possibility that South America will do the same thing. I think people are concerned about the technocrats supporting the Global elite and disadvantaging the people. At the fundamental conceptual level, Bitcoin should be able to take advantage of this. How will it do it though? Obviously it will need a different node to handle the different African protocol, but the basic ledgers should be the same on both systems. Will this node need a port for each Internet? A cross over service will lead to centralisation, and will act against the strength of Bitcoin's independence.

I'm just hearing this for the first time, could it be the new proposal by our government for the laying of new optical cables for faster internet and things like that? That discussion is ongoing and they are already making plans on how to raise the funding. At this stage I don't know the advantage that will have and why they need an alternative to what we have now but if it will benefit us the more, it should get the support of all. I don't think Bitcoin will be affected by that since all you need to use Bitcoin is internet and it does not matter who the provider is.