THELOGICALINDIAN - From 2526 November associates of the all-around Bitcoin association will accumulate at the University of Botswana for the countdown Botswana Blockchain Summit Conference Founders Alakanani Itireleng of Satoshicentre and Kesego Tumisang of Google Developers Group of Gaborone aim to brainwash attendees on Bitcoin and blockchain technology with bounded and all-embracing speakers
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An Interview with Botswana BitcoinLady Alakanani Itireleng
I had the advantage of interviewing Alakanani Itireleng to allotment added about her background, and how she aboriginal got complex in Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Alakanani is about accepted as BitcoinLady and the woman who is demography accomplish to accompany Bitcoin to Botswana.
EM: How and back did you aboriginal apprentice about Bitcoin?
AI: I accept I aboriginal heard about Bitcoin in aboriginal 2012 afterwards an online chase for means in which one can accomplish money alive online. I was absorbed by the amount of bitcoin, and I anticipation if I can assignment and acquire bitcoin, my ancestors and I would be able to accession abundant money for our son’s affection and lung transplant. My boy had Hypertrophic adverse cardiomyopathy, and they said his affection was askew and he had what they alleged Noonan syndrome. I alone fell from one betray to addition and absolutely never fabricated any bitcoin and eventually I absent my son. I chock-full alive online and chock-full aggravating to acquire bitcoin. However, a berry was buried in my head, and article about this Bitcoin affair fabricated me appetite to chase it and apprentice more.
In 2025, I started to absolutely analysis and apprehend added about Bitcoin, and I anticipation that this is article I can advise my adolescent countrymen and women, so I started acclimation meetups to advise bodies about Bitcoin. I accept never chock-full back then.
EM: What does the Bitcoin ecosystem attending like in Botswana?
AI: We are boring communicable up. It has been a apathetic process, but today we acquire businesses that acquire bitcoin, such as the agenda business company, Bitbrandsbw. We additionally acquire an added cardinal of bodies who appear to our business to argue on bitcoin.
EM: How can addition buy and advertise bitcoin in Botswana?
AI: We are alive on accepting our exchange, Eepah Exchange, up and active during the Botswana Blockchain Summit, and we additionally accept EzyRemit which will be operating alongside the Eepah exchange.
EM: Can you allotment about some bounded Bitcoin and blockchain projects?
AI: We are alive on two projects for now. One is a pilot activity for a aces and bead agenda for preschool accouchement and a blockchain character agenda which we achievement can be acclimated by abounding companies in Botswana. We will additionally be active a Bitland activity starting this year, and we achievement we will accept added projects advised by our bounded developers as well.
EM: How has the government of Botswana beheld Bitcoin?
AI: So far we accept not heard annihilation from the Government of Botswana on bitcoin, so I am acquisitive this acme will advice us brainwash and alpha the chat with the government. This acme is an befalling for government admiral to ask questions and accept their questions answered.
EM: Can you allotment added about the goals of your accessible Blockchain Summit on November 25th-26th?
AI: The aim is to artlessly accessible Botswana to the befalling that Bitcoin and the blockchain technology can accompany to the country. This is a time to accept all questions answered. This is additionally a time for attendees to abstracted Bitcoin from MLM schemes and all these added schemes that accomplish bodies cryptic of what bitcoin is and what it is not. We additionally see this as a time for developers to be accustomed an befalling to anticipate through solutions to our accustomed problems in Africa and how the blockchain can appear in handy.
EM: What are you amorous about with Bitcoin?
AI: This technology is amazing, and it is a apparatus that can be acclimated to deliver an accustomed African and accord the unbanked an befalling to accept article they can use to administer their affairs after accepting to go through a lot of paperwork and be absolved for not accepting a coffer account.
Do you anticipate Africa is accessible for bitcoin? What do you anticipate will be the after-effects of the Botswana Blockchain Summit? Let us apperceive in the comments area below.
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