THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitsoko is a Nairobibased Android agenda bill wallet adjourned by Bill Melinda Gates foundation that aims to accommodate the Blockchain technology to the adaptable acquittal bazaar in Africa The startup enables bodies to accelerate money from a smartphone for a 01 transaction fee The companys mission is to accompany agenda bill to African bodies and to facilitate money transfers to Kenya
Bitsoko, today announced affairs to sponsor a alternation of educational contest in Nairobi, Kenya, on the Blockchain.
This will be 6 contest captivated account at the iHub addition hub that will focus on Blockchain education, networking, and opportunities for bounded startups to pitch. The contest will focus on the Blockchain technology to accommodate bounded start-ups with ability on opportunities and innovations in the industry.
The start-up is currently aggravating to actualize added casework aural the wallet to access the use of bitcoin in Kenya.
Allan Juma, Bitsoko co-founder commented:
“We accept active up bounded businesses including restaurants, cyber cafes,…. If you go to a restaurant and pay application bitcoin, the buyer of the business will accelerate us the bitcoin and accept adaptable money in exchange. We are aggravating to body the basement about bitcoin, which is defective here.”
Bitsoko ambition is to advise the association on the opportunities presented by the Blockchain while auspicious entrepreneurs in Nairobi to innovate the industry. Speakers will be arrive from the all-embracing and bounded bitcoin community. Each attendee will accept a baby bulk of bitcoin and educational abstract on bitcoin and the Blockchain. The contest are appointed to run on a account base for a bisected a year.
BitHub, a new amplitude with a able focus on agenda currencies accompanying apprenticeship and development, in Cape Town. BitX afresh appear bitcoin payments for adaptable top-ups in Nigeria and South Africa. With the cardinal of agenda currency-related startups ascent every day, Africa is bound growing a able bazaar in the bitcoin space.
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