Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town

Lightning as a global payments rail
2024-01-26 , Machankura Stage

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.


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.

At IBEX Ry leads Business Development efforts in the USA and Africa, focused primarily on our IBEX HUB lightning infrastructure service. Clients include exchanges, wallets, payment processors, payments stacks, neobanks and any app that wants to add LN functionality to their product. Ry has over a decade of experience in the legacy software industry focussed on industrial ERP (Oil&Gas, Industrial Supplies) and active Angel Investor since 2016 in Fintech. BTC class of 2017. I like to say I was reverse orange pilled with LN

Kemal is a graduate of the Geschwister-Scholl Institute for Political Science at the Ludwigs-Maximilan-University of Munich and the Director of Marketing at Galoy, a company developing free and open source software for bitcoin-native banking infrastructure as well as the co-organizer of the annual Adopting Bitcoin conference in El Salvador. With the El Zonte-born Blink Wallet, Galoy are building the bottom-up bitcoin adoption weapon for communities around the world to make bitcoin payments accessible and secure for the masses. He is also the founder of the Istanbul Bitcoin Meetup and the Yirmibir Bitcoin Community, developing Bitcoin educational resources in Turkish language.

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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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