South Africa: Bridging the Chasm with Bitcoin
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.
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.
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.