Africa`s Poised For A Bitcoin Revolution In 2022

Africans stand to gain the most from Bitcoin and they are quickly realizing this fact and spreading the word. Most know that our corrupt "leaders" will not embrace the path to prosperity that El Salvador is on, due to their own self-interest. By opting out of the fiat-based legacy financial systems holding us back, we will create the change we want to see.

Bitcoiners in Africa are building and actively engaged in this peaceful monetary revolution. Let's explore themes that will ensure more Africans are onboarded to the Bitcoin standard in 2022.

TRAIL BLAZERS

Orange-pilled Africans are leading the charge toward hyperbitcoinization by building the infrastructure needed to onboard fellow Africans to this idea whose time has come.

Ejara founder Nelly Chatue Diop is an inspiration for the world-class platform she is building while empowering women and girls in the continent to be all they can in this new industry. The Ejara wallet is true to the Bitcoin ethos of "not your keys not your cheese." Self-custody will shift Africans' mindsets to self-sovereignty, ensuring they do not give their hard-earned wealth to banks in unsecured loans, aka deposits.

USER-OWNED INTERNET

New infrastructure is making it possible for talented African artists, content creators and musicians to totally cut out the middlemen agencies who often take a huge share of their revenue.

Lightning payments on social media platforms such as Twitter enable people to actively grow their community while getting paid directly for the value they put out to the world.

Great minds, such as former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey working full time on Bitcoin at Spiral, are sure to offer Africans greater ways to reach international markets from which they have traditionally been marginalized from.

Initiatives by Africans for Africans, such as the Bitcoin Developers Academy by Fodé Diop, strives to teach African youth the skills they require to work on Bitcoin.

GETTING PAID IN BITCOIN

The new normal has seen African youth and young adults shift more to working remotely as job opportunities in the continent are very few, especially for the former who make up the biggest demographic. "Number go up" technology has made them cognizant of the opportunity of getting the most out of their time and effort by being paid in the best store of value on Earth, bitcoin.

On December 6, 2021, Bitwage made the world's first salary payment via Lightning. This is revolutionary as Africans working remotely now can be paid instantaneously without huge service charges levied by Western Union, inconveniences of using PayPal when they decided to block access to one's funds, or the several business days banks take to process wire transfers at exorbitant fees.

Getting paid in bitcoin will ultimately enable Africans to save more as no one wants to sell their sats. They will sell the amount they need to on P2P exchanges and safely self-custody the rest in affordable cold storage or hardware wallets such as Coldcard.

Free online courses with accreditations at Saylor Academy are already giving Africans the opportunity to get higher education thus very good jobs in the Bitcoin ecosystem internationally. Unemployment being very high in Africa, these are just some of the avenues people will explore to not just make ends meet but thrive in this new industry

Source:bitcoinmagazine.com