Carel van Wyk
Carel co-founded Luno and was an early engineer at Snapscan. He has been working on Bitcoin payment systems for the past 8 years and currently is the Director at Crypto Convert, a South Africa based company connecting merchants to Lightning with a Rand-denominated Merchant API.
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CryptoConvert drives Bitcoin adoption and supports the Bitcoin Circular Economy by enabling Bitcoin payments for large merchants. Founder, Carel van Wyk, talks about why South Africa is primed for Bitcoin adoption and shares some statistics from CryptoConvert's first year processing Bitcoin payments for Pick n Pay, the "Wallmart" of South Africa.
With the most fragmented payments space in the world, Africa can lead the rest of the world in adopting LN and BTC. As Femi from Btrust said, bitcoin needs Africa, Africa does not need bitcoin. Would also be happy to touch upon stablecoin adoption and how LN can take part of that market share with new advancements like stable accounts.