The story of Bitcoin in Africa and beyond is often told through charts, adoption metrics, and headlines about currency collapse. What those narratives miss is the human infrastructure underneath them, the educators translating technical concepts into everyday language, the developers maintaining open-source systems, the organisers building institutions, and the women creating pathways into an ecosystem…
I grew up inside a system designed to limit me. Not in an abstract, structural sense — in the lived, daily, suffocating sense. By the time I was ten years old, I was already questioning the story I had been handed: that my highest aspiration was marriage, that my role in the economy was peripheral,…
The IWD 2026 theme, Give to Gain, rests on a straightforward premise: that what you contribute to a community compounds. What you build for others returns in ways that accounting cannot fully capture. This year, we celebrate ten organisations, founded or led by women, that are advancing Bitcoin adoption across the world. Each operates from…
Welcome to THE 21st. Every month on the 21st, this editorial does one thing: it looks at what is actually happening with Bitcoin across Africa, with the rigour the subject deserves and the directness the moment demands. This February edition asks: what is the new intersection of Bitcoin and Africa today? THIS IS NOT ABOUT…
What exactly happens when the ledger learns your identity? Between the final months of 2025 and the opening weeks of 2026, African governments enacted the most decisive set of Bitcoin and digital asset regulations the continent has yet seen. Nigeria folded Bitcoin transactions into its tax system, linking them to national identity and tax databases….
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