THELOGICALINDIAN - Eighteen housemates of Nigerias adaptation of Big Brother took allotment in a bitcoin quiz with anniversary actor accepting 500 account of BTC as award-winning money Big Brother Naija BBN reportedly agreed to this abnormal footfall as allotment of moves to action added than aloof ball to its audience
As allotment of BBN’s centralized quiz segment tasks aftermost week, housemates took allotment in activities that activated their ability of cryptocurrencies. Housemates had to acquaint the admirers some of the use cases for bitcoin such as airtime top-up and online payments. Additionally, housemates had to participate in a claiming to actualize aboriginal radio jingles.
According to one media report, “housemates had to acknowledgment questions like what is a bitcoin wallet? or how is the amount of bitcoin determined?” Housemates had to name the top bristles arch cryptocurrencies as well. Finally, the housemates were fabricated to draw sketches that “depict a bitcoin wallet.”
After declaring all housemates winners, the articulation sponsor Patricia, a cryptocurrency barter that operates in Nigeria and Ghana, gave anniversary actor a agenda loaded $500 BTC.
BBN’s circuit into cryptocurrency in affiliation with Patricia, represents an important footfall in Nigerian efforts to access awareness. The country is already Africa’s distinct better cryptocurrency bazaar whose traded volumes dwarfs that of the abutting rival. As data from associate to associate trading platforms shows, Africa’s best crawling country accounts for added than 50% of traded volumes.
Meanwhile, some assemblage in Nigeria accept the use of BBN, the better absoluteness TV appearance in Nigeria, to woo new users is a masterstroke.
Senator Ihenyen, a advocate and General Secretary with the Stakeholders in the Blockchain Technology Association of Nigeria (SIBAN), is one of those who allotment this belief.
Ihenyen starts by pointing to BBN’s massive ability as one of the affidavit he is optimistic about the abeyant aftereffect of the bitcoin quiz. In the accomplished season, the BBN appearance garnered a absolute 240 actor votes and 50 actor of those came in the final anniversary alone.
In his comments on the BBN show’s absorbing numbers, Ihenyen additionally reveals that “at the affection of Big Brother Nigeria is the youth— Nigeria’s army of youths active into tens of millions.”
He adds that it is “a appearance that abundantly appeals to millions of adolescent bodies in Nigeria. There is no agnosticism that the cryptocurrency quiz would accomplish those who didn’t apperceive annihilation about cryptocurrencies to become inquisitive. I see Google chase for bitcoin in Nigeria increasing.”
Ihenyen additionally commends the quiz sponsor, Patricia for demography an abnormal access in its attack to accompany bitcoin to the masses. He says:
Finally, Ihenyen says he imagines that “these contestants ability end up advocacy cryptocurrency acceptance added by accepting complex in some anatomy of cryptocurrency activities.”
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