Africa

African fintech giant Chipper Cash announces over half of its Bitcoin transactions now run on the Lightning Network via Voltage, driving faster, cheaper, and more reliable payments across the continent.

From Costa Rica to Kenya to Ghana, it’s becoming easier than ever to live on a bitcoin standard thanks to homegrown apps that allow users to settle fiat mobile money bills with bitcoin over Lightning.

Once a Bitcoin skeptic, Anaïse Kanimba discovered Bitcoin amid a campaign to free her father — and now she’s helping to launch Africa’s foremost Bitcoin think tank.

Africa: There are currently 150+ Bitcoin adoption and education initiatives across the continent, many of them look impressive online but only a few lead to actual Bitcoin adoption.

Regulators want to monitor bitcoin and crypto use and deal with economic problems it may be causing.

African nations very frequently hold strategic stores of commodities, a reserve of Bitcoin could be a more functional strategy.

Conference Bitcoin Afrique aims to empower the French-speaking Bitcoin community across Africa.

From South Africa to Kenya to Ghana, Africans are using Bitcoin to better their lives — and they aren’t asking anyone’s permission as they do so.

Listening to Sébastien Gouspillou share stories from the past eight years of his international life as a Bitcoin miner, it’s difficult to believe he’s...

Gridless’ co-founder Janet Maingi explains how her company’s Bitcoin mining work is helping to electrify rural Africa, leading to a better quality of life for those in the communities Gridless touches.