Tune into the New & Improved Bitcoin In Africa Show!

Join host and founder Charlene Fadirepo as she navigates the exciting world of Bitcoin, with a special emphasis on global Bitcoin news across the African continent. In this inaugural episode of the new format, we delve into the latest headlines, including key updates from Coinbase and Binance's recent activities in Africa, as well as insights from Tether and the South African investment firm, Altvest.

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The goal of the Bitcoin In Africa Show is to expand the narrative of Bitcoin by giving voice to innovators and early adopters that are leading the Bitcoin Revolution across Africa. In this podcast, we connect with fintech founders, developers, influencers, and ecosystem builders that are an integral part of Africa's Bitcoin story. We hope our podcast can help deepen your understanding of the global use case of Bitcoin across Africa and around the world. The show is created and hosted by former regulator and Bitcoin Activist Charlene Fadirepo.   

On this December 2023, episode of the Bitcoin In Africa Show, this is part 2 our coverage of the Africa Bitcoin Mining Summit, held in Nairobi, Kenya. Special thank you to the leadership of Kenyan Bitcoin Mining company, Gridless Compute (@GridlessCompute) [Erik Hersman (CEO  & Co-Founder), Janet Maingi (Co-Founder), and Phillip Walton (Co-Founder), who organized the conference. 

Join us as Charlene takes us on a tour of central Kenya, at Gridless’s Gitugu site. The Gitugu Hydro-Solar power plant is a solar and hydro mini-grid bitcoin mining site in the mountains of Kenya, 2 hours from Nairobi. Based in Kenya, Gridless acts as a buyer of last resort for energy produced by renewable mini-grid energy generators in rural areas like Gitugu. In turn, Gridless uses this excess energy to run Bitcoin mining operations onsite, thus generating revenue to pay for the excess energy and driving down the costs for the other users that draw power from the mini-grid.

In this episode, Charlene speaks with Leah Adero, Operations Specialist, at Gridless, about the massive team effort required to execute the first Africa Bitcoin Mining Summit in Africa. 

Next, Charlene also speaks with Diviter Kerani, Engineering Tech at Gridless, who provides a brief technical overview of the Gitugu site. 

Lastly Charlene speaks with Siyanbola Yassar and Sambo Ridwan  the co-founders of Trojan Mining (@trojanmining), a Bitcoin mining company based in Nigeria. Siyanbola and Sambo talk about the incredible success and growth that Trojan Mining has experienced in the two years. 

We hope you enjoy this episode! 

The goal of the Bitcoin In Africa Show is to expand the narrative of Bitcoin by giving voice to innovators that are leading the Bitcoin Revolution across Africa. In this podcast, we connect with fintech founders, developers, influencers, and ecosystem builders that are an integral part of Africa's Bitcoin story.

We hope our podcast can help deepen your understanding of the global use case of Bitcoin across Africa and around the world. The show is created and hosted by former regulator and Bitcoin Activist Charlene Fadirepo.   

On this October 2023, episode of the Bitcoin In Africa Show, Charlene is live at the first Africa Bitcoin Mining Summit, held in Nairobi, Kenya. Special thank you to the leadership of Kenyan Bitcoin Mining company, Gridless Compute (@GridlessComputer) [Erik Hersman (CEO  & Co-Founder), Janet Maingi (Co-Founder), and Phillip Walton (Co-Founder)] who organized the conference. 

In this episode, Charlene speaks with several guests across African's Bitcoin mining ecosystem. Charlene speaks with Guinean Bitcoin miner, Omar Berry (@Fula_coin). Omar shares his Bitcoin mining origin story and how he is living his own dream of bringing more hashrate into the continent.

Then Charlene speaks with Gridless Compute Co-Founder, Janet Maingi (@nduku_jay) about her Bitcoin journey and how her past career success in the telecom space led to a golden opportunity–an opportunity to become one the first large-scale pioneers of green Bitcoin mining in Africa.

Janet also shares stories of hope --about how Bitcoin mining is transforming lives and providing basic needs across rural communities in Kenya. 

Next up, we meet Kenyan Mechanical Engineer, Barre Yassin,who is the lead designer of Kifaru, Gridless Compute’s Bitcoin mining container. Barre shares his insights on designing the mining container to thrive in African terrain.

Lastly, Charlene speaks with Gridless Compute CEO, Erik Hersman (@whiteafrican), who shares his Bitcoin journey and his vision for Gridless to “push electrification to the edges in Africa”.

We learn about Erik’s incredible leadership in the African Bitcoin Mining ecosystem and more inspiring stories of how bitcoin mining is changing lives in East Africa.

Special thank you to all of our incredible guests on this show: Omar Berry (@Fula_coin), Janet Maingi (@nduku_jay) Co-Founder of Gridless Compute, Erik Hersman (@whiteafrican),Gridless Compute CEO, and Barre Yassin, lead Designer at Gridless Compute. 

The goal of the Bitcoin In Africa Show is to expand the narrative of Bitcoin by giving voice to innovators and early adopters that are leading the Bitcoin Revolution across Africa. In this podcast, we connect with fintech founders, developers, influencers, and ecosystem builders that are an integral part of Africa's Bitcoin story. We hope our podcast can help deepen your understanding of the global use case of Bitcoin across Africa and around the world.

The show is created and hosted by former regulator and Bitcoin Activist Charlene Fadirepo.   

On this September 2023, episode of the Bitcoin In Africa Show, Charlene shares a blast from the past which is a real treat for both new and old Bitcoiners. On this episode, we have an engaging conversation with the CEO of Fedi, Obi Nwosu (@obi). Although this conversation was taped in December 2022 at the Africa Bitcoin Conference in Ghana, Obi’s Bitcoin origin story is timeless.

During the interview, Obi shares his journey as a self-proclaimed “computer science geek” whose brilliance led him to a successful career in technology.

Yet it was his passion to improve the lives of others in his native country, Nigeria that led him to two successful careers in Bitcoin, first at the helm of UK Bitcoin-only exchange CoinFloor and now Fedi.

Fedi is a Bitcoin technology company that enables “community-custody”, which empowers large groups or people with the ability to safely, securely, and privately custody their Bitcoin.

Find out more about Fedi here: https://www.fedi.xyz/aboutus. Follow Fedi at (@fedibtc) on Twitter.

The goal of the Bitcoin In Africa Show is to expand the narrative of Bitcoin by giving voice to innovators and early adopters that are leading the Bitcoin Revolution across Africa. In this podcast, we connect with fintech founders, developers, influencers, and ecosystem builders that are an integral part of Africa's Bitcoin story.

We hope our podcast can help deepen your understanding of the global use case of Bitcoin across Africa and around the world. The show is created and hosted by former regulator and Bitcoin Activist Charlene Fadirepo.   

On this August 2023, episode of the Bitcoin In Africa Show, Charlene is live in beautiful Rimini, Italy for the We Make Future Conference, one of the biggest digital innovation and technology conferences in #europe! During this episode, Charlene takes viewers all around the conference where viewers can enjoy a range of tech gadgets, wearable tech devices, and singing and talking humanoid robots at the conference.

During this episode, Charlene also speaks with WMF Speaker, Cairo Arevalo, (@revoluto), one of the members of  Bitcoin Dominicana, a circular Bitcoin community. Bitcoin Dominicana is a growing community of #Bitcoiners building an inclusive Bitcoin ecosystem in the Caribbean. Cairo and his team are working to address the financial inclusion challenges that many Dominicans face.

Cairo is also a writer and futurist who explores the intersection of cryptocurrency, equity, and financial inclusion. Check out his latest viewpoints on his substack blog,the https://nodesociety.substack.com and follow Cairo on Twitter, @revoluto.

On this June 2023 episode of the Bitcoin In Africa Show, Charlene is live at the Bitcoin 2023 conference held in Miami, Florida. This is part 2 of the Bitcoin 2023 conference episode. This episode focuses on Bitcoin Mining in Africa and explores the Bitcoin Mining Village at the Bitcoin 2023 conference.

In this episode, Charlene speaks with @TheCoinDad (Tobias Barbir), the founder of The Bitcoin Mining Museum which has the largest collection of ASIC Bitcoin miners on the planet. Charlene also got a chance to speak with @TheCoinDad’s lovely wife, April Barbir. Charlene also learns about turn-key Bitcoin mining containers with multinational crypto mining company @BitDeer and discusses Bitcoin immersion mining set-ups with Bob from the Home Bitcoin Immersion Mining Channel (@HBIM_Channel) and Michael Schmid (@schnitzel) of Nakamoto Heating Solutions (@NakamotoHeating).

The goal of the Bitcoin In Africa Show is to expand the narrative of Bitcoin by giving voice to innovators and early adopters that are leading the Bitcoin Revolution across Africa. In this podcast, we connect with fintech founders, developers, influencers, and ecosystem builders that are an integral part of Africa's Bitcoin story. We hope our podcast can help deepen your understanding of the global use case of Bitcoin across Africa and around the world. The show is created and hosted by former regulator and Bitcoin Activist Charlene Fadirepo.   

On this June 2023 episode of the #Bitcoin In Africa Show, Charlene is live at the Bitcoin 2023 conference held in Miami, Florida. Charlene takes viewers all around the Bitcoin Expo and Bitcoin Bazaar at the Bitcoin 2023 conference. Special thank you to our special guests in this episode: Susan Van Vokenburg, Alex Li, Jacques Alexander and George Mekhail.

In the Bitcoin Art Shop, Charlene speaks with Susan Van Volkenburg from the Essence of Bitcoin about her beautiful Bitcoin artwork. Find out more about Susan’s work at www.essenceofbitcoin.com. Charlene then walks viewers through the Bitcoin art gallery and briefly discusses Bitcoin Ordinals and their impact on Bitcoiners in Africa.

Inside the Bitcoin Expo, Charlene speaks with Alex Li, the Program Director of the Bitcoin Development Fund, which is sponsored by the Human Rights Foundation. In 2020, the Human Rights Foundation launched a fund to support software developers who are making the Bitcoin network more resilient so that it can better serve as financial tool for human rights activists, civil society organizations, and journalists around the world. Alex talks about the Oslo Freedom Forum, which is scheduled for June 13 -15, 2023.  Find out more at www.oslofreedomforum.com 

Charlene speaks with Haitian conference attendee and Bitcoin exchange start up hopeful, Jacques Alexander about his conference experience. Lastly Charlene speaks with George Mekhail, Head of Community for Bitcoin Magazine about the Bitcoin Games. The Bitcoin Games is a tournament that celebrates the power of community for the Bitcoin ecosystem. 24 Bitcoin meetups from around the world h competed against each other for 1 full Bitcoin! The winning meetup hopes to use that Bitcoin to further their work in their community.

Special thank you to all of the wonderful Bitcoiners we spoke with!

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The goal of the Bitcoin In Africa Show is to expand the narrative of Bitcoin by giving voice to innovators and early adopters that are leading the Bitcoin Revolution across Africa. In this podcast, we connect with fintech founders, developers, influencers, and ecosystem builders that are an integral part of Africa's Bitcoin story. We hope our podcast can help deepen your understanding of the global use case of Bitcoin across Africa and around the world. The show is created and hosted by former regulator and Bitcoin Activist Charlene Fadirepo.   

On this April 17, 2023 episode of the #Bitcoin In Africa Show, Charlene speaks with Nigerian Bitcoin Lawyer Jude Chide Ogene, who is the former General Counsel for P2P trading platform Paxful and the current General Council for Bitcoin payment processor, OpenNode. This episode was filmed in December 2022, at the Africa Bitcoin Conference held in Accra, Ghana.

Charlene and Jude discuss the historical significance of the Africa Bitcoin Conference, challenges with Bitcoin adoption in Nigeria and Jude's role leading legal and compliance at Paxful. Jude's incredibly unique skill set and expertise that blends business, Bitcoin, United States law, and Nigerian law contributes to his perspective to understand the complexities of financial regulation across Africa's Bitcoin ecosystem. Note: Peer-to-peer trading platform, Paxful ceased operations in April 2023.

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The goal of the Bitcoin In Africa Show is to expand the narrative of Bitcoin by giving voice to innovators and early adopters that are leading the Bitcoin Revolution across Africa. In this podcast, we connect with fintech founders, developers, influencers, and ecosystem builders that are an integral part of Africa's Bitcoin story. We hope our podcast can help deepen your understanding of the global use case of Bitcoin across Africa and around the world. The show is created and hosted by former regulator and Bitcoin Activist Charlene Fadirepo.   

On this February 8, 2023 episode of the #Bitcoin In Africa Show, Charlene speaks with Dr. Leonard Eze, a medical doctor and Bitcoin advocate based in North East Nigeria. Dr. Eze has been in Bitcoin since 2016. Charlene and Dr. Eze discuss the recent developments around the bank note crisis in Nigeria and the difficult impact it has had on everyday Nigerians. From counterfeit bills, to Nigeria cultural norms, to the upcoming Presidential elections in Nigeria, this discussion examines the deep complexity of Nigeria's bank note shortage and how it creates a perfect use case for Bitcoin.  Enjoy! If you like this episode - please consider subscribing to our YouTube channel, the Bitcoin In Africa Show. 

Learn more about our show at www.bitcoininafricashow.com.

The goal of the Bitcoin In Africa Show is to expand the narrative of Bitcoin by giving voice to innovators and early adopters that are leading the Bitcoin Revolution across Africa. In this podcast, we connect with fintech founders, developers, influencers, and ecosystem builders that are an integral part of Africa's Bitcoin story. We hope our podcast can help deepen your understanding of the global use case of Bitcoin across Africa and around the world. The show is created and hosted by Bitcoin activist, Charlene Fadirepo.   

On this January 31, 2023 episode of the #Bitcoin In Africa Show, Charlene speaks with Ray Youssef, the CEO of African peer-to-peer marketplace, Paxful. We discuss Ray's Bitcoin journey, and how he and his team at Paxful are fighting economic apartheid in Africa and all around the world.  Enjoy this episode!

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