Africa's Largest Online Marketplace Bidorbuy Adds Bitcoin Payments

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Sure, these are good news, but bidorbuy isn't the largest marketplace in Africa, let alone in its single home country: South Africa.
http://www.takealot.com/ is larger, and they are even bigger online markets in Nigeria.

Takealot also accepts Bitcoin, but you have to jump through a lot of hoops to get it done. http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/106487-takealot-com-now-taking-bitcoin.html < Quick search on Google > Here are a list of some other places, where you can also spend Bitcoin in South Africa. https://www.payfast.co.za/2015/06/05/10-awesome-places-to-spend-bitcoin-in-south-africa/ I was part of a consortium of companies, who worked with Naspers to develop IT infrastructure for a project they were planning and when I visited them, they were talking about Bitcoin being linked to some of their services in the future. ^smile^

No Takealot doesn't accept BTC, I've just checked. I guess it was once planned, but quickly cancelled. I haven't checked the others, but I guess bidorbuy is the largest so far to accept it. I hope it'll have many followers!

so far behind but yet so far ahead!

Good to see that third world countries are more progressive than most
the companies here in the states

No sir. South Africa isn't a third world country. Far from it.