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Belyï Nobel Kubwayo is a Burundian Bitcoiner, economist, and social entrepreneur with a passion for technology and financial autonomy.
He is the founder of BTC Shule, an initiative that is building a Bitcoin circular economy to foster financial autonomy in Gitega, while educating Burundians on Bitcoin through meetups and online training.
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He is the founder of BTC Shule, an initiative that is building a Bitcoin circular economy to foster financial autonomy in Gitega, while educating Burundians on Bitcoin through meetups and online training.
Get Tickets:
za25.adoptingbitcoin.org
The El Zonte-born Blink Wallet is built to be the bottom-up bitcoin adoption weapon for communities around the world to make bitcoin payments accessible and secure for the masses.
He is also the founder of the Istanbul Bitcoin Meetup and the Yirmibir Bitcoin Community, developing Bitcoin educational resources in Turkish language.
Previously, Kemal was the Director of Marketing at Galoy, developing the open source bitcoin banking infrastructure that powers Blink.
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Witsand is a remote South African seaside village next to the Breede river estuary. With only 601 permanent residents it celebrates the highest per capita merchant adoption of #Bitcoin in the world, as per data from 
He is actively involved in driving STEM education in schools within the district and leads financial literacy and empowerment initiatives centred around digital skills development among the youth utilising Bitcoin as a tool for progress.
With a strong background in finance and economics, Carel discovered Bitcoin in 2013 and has since become a passionate advocate for #Bitcoin as the best form of money.
Under his leadership, Shiftly has become the largest supplier of #Bitcoin to South African exchanges, consistently providing liquidity and driving growth in the local market for the past five years.
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His contributions to the local ecosystem in South Africa include co-founding the largest Bitcoin exchange, Luno, and, more recently, building the country's leading Bitcoin payments service provider, Money Badger, which powers Bitcoin payments at over 1,600 Pick n Pay stores nationwide.
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He completed his master’s degree at the University of Pretoria and works as a multidisciplinary creative and designer, and self-taught graffiti artist, doing illustrations and large scale murals.
In 2024 he started accepting Bitcoin as payment, converted all his savings into Bitcoin and adopted it as a savings tool for his family in the future.
