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Bitwala Launches BTC to M-Pesa Services in Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and Tanzania
Bitwala says they are admiring to announce the company’s bitcoin-to-M-Pesa service. Users of the belvedere can now accelerate bitcoin to an M-Pesa annual in Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and Tanzania chargeless of charge. M-Pesa is a broadly acclimated adaptable phone-based money arrangement acclimated in Afghanistan, India and Africa.
The adaptable bill is predominantly acclimated in Kenya and Tanzania, accordingly giving users in the arena admission to much-needed remittance services. The adaptable money has accustomed anyone after a coffer annual to alteration funds application a registered sim-card and has become a confusing force aural the region.
“We appetite to be a allotment of the adaptable money revolution, and we’re dispatch it up a cleft by enabling anyone to accelerate money to any M-Pesa annual application bitcoins,” capacity Bitwala CEO Jörg von Minckwitz.
Remittance Solutions for the Unbanked
The acquittal startup Bitwala believes appointment money should be “fast, bargain and secure” for anyone in the world. In regions such as Kenya, area M-Pesa is acclimated absolutely a bit to alteration money, Kenyans transacted $28 billion application the account in 2024. This cardinal is abiding to rise, says Bitwala, as adaptable buzz assimilation in sub-Saharan Africa grows exponentially.
To accelerate money to any M-Pesa annual utilizing Bitwala’s latest service, users artlessly annals with the platform, accept a “mobile money” payment, and again an balance to be paid in bitcoin is beatific to the user. The startup hopes the new account will become a reliable money alteration band-aid for everyone.
Will Bitwala Have Issues With Safaricom?
After the advertisement was publicized, one bitcoin enthusiast asked, “What will anticipate you from accepting the aforementioned problems as Bitpesa in Kenya?” Bitpesa has been aggravating for years to affix sub-Saharan Africans with the aforementioned blazon of solutions. But, in 2015, the startup had acknowledged issues with the owners of M-Pesa, Safaricom, which took the case to the Kenyan High Court.
The adaptable money abettor fabricated it difficult for Bitpesa to conduct affairs through Safaricom’s aperture casework like Lipisha. Bitpesa has back been authoritative added access to advice with the African remittance account by partnering with added banking institutions in Japan, China and more. Safaricom explained to the High Court that there were authoritative apropos with bitcoin, and companies are appropriate to access a authorization for these types of transfers.
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