5 sats \ 1 reply \ @KenyaCoin OP 6 Feb 2022 \ on: Growing The Bitcoin Development Ecosystem In Africa | Bitcoin Magazine bitcoin
There are an even smaller number of Bitcoin developers on the African continent, with the number further shrinking as we go lower in the stack, from the Lightning Network daemon (LND) all the way down to Bitcoin Core.
This shallow number of developers working on Bitcoin development is the result of multiple factors — one of which is the widely held belief among developers that Bitcoin is devoid of innovation and is a deprecated technology (or at least soon to be).
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @KenyaCoin OP 6 Feb 2022
The reason that is the general consensys [SIC] (and pun intended), is because of the amount of propaganda by the state (and state co-opted media), along with the competitor bashing from the slew of shitcoins, many of which attempted to gain a foothold in various cities and regioins.
Blockchain, not bitcoin, was the mantra on the continent for well over half a decade!
Celo (affiliated with Stellar) spends a ton of money in Africa. Cardano / Charles Hoskinson, ... is all over the continent. Previously, blockchains like Algorand had been very active. Binance is the latest to be paying handsomely to expand their footprint (for not just their exchange, but for development for DeFi and DApps that use their BSC blockchain) in many African nations.
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