Africa is poor for many reasons, the most important is a lack of human capital 

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DarthCoin

the top post of `/ecash`
is a claim that ecash is self-custodial

Africa is poor because of fiat banking and currency manipulation. What is a digital fiat mint going to fix?

BlueSlime

bitcoin

Ecash is just digital fiat. Change my mind

I do not backed in any way the use of ecash.
Yes is custodial. Everybody knows that.
Are just digital gift cards.

Saying that... [in some use cases could push for bitcoin adoption](https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/bitcoin-adoption-using-ecash).

Yes, ecash is not for OG botcoiners. They really do not need it.
But think about those poor guys in African continent, when they cannot afford opening a decent LN channel.