This was one of my favourite videos I think I’ve ever worked on I BLOODY LOVE WHAT THEYRE DOING IN KENYA with bitcoin 🇰🇪 Please do me a massive favour and share this around! 💜 ⚡️

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Benking 5 months ago
What an amazing video! ❤️ It’s really exciting to see what they’re doing with Bitcoin in Kenya ⚡️ I’ll definitely share it with my friends!
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MBE 5 months ago
Great journalism 👏👏
Hey Joe, we’re drying mangos in Paraguay and Ethiopia using waste heat from our mining facilities, let me know if you ever want to take a look / share how we’re trying to develop systems that re use the heat we produce create jobs and BTC education to the communities that we work with. 🇵🇾🇪🇹💜🥭
Shoutout to the people who did the first ever bitcoin-to-mpesa bridges over a decade ago (Kipochi, Bitpesa, @bumi), but were shut down by Safaricom at the time!
I met Pelle in Nairobi in 2013 or 14. Here's his account about Kipochi: https://blog.stakeventures.com/articles/what-actually-happened-at-kipochi Bitpesa was shut down by Safaricom in the same year IIRC, but apparently turned into an exchange later: @bumi and I were traveling around East Africa during that time frame, and he built a Telegram bot in order to pay for his own things with bitcoin and to demo how bridges could work.
Brilliant and so refreshing to see. A hand up rather than a hand out - in such a crazy world. Good work, to all involved. And great video, Joe! 👊🏻₿ 🧡
Oh wow, I've never seen the second one with the taxi driver. Unfortunately, I don't have a Vimeo account anymore, and somehow it's behind a login wall. Could you re-upload elsewhere perhaps?
guess I did not think about the tik-tok age attention timespan back then when I did the video. 😉 this is some good memories though, but makes me wonder how far we came? I might have arrived in a "maybe I should have just chilled at the beach" mode.
At least we don't do zero-conf txs for small payments anymore. That's a massive improvement.
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Stefan 4 months ago
Great video, nice work!
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Mike Beatty 4 months ago
Love this one Joe! Bitcoin's not just for rich people... arguably it's for the opposite
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Aitor Angualia 4 months ago
Here in Uganda there are some efforts going on but still very far behind #Kenya
So true, it's the impoverished and the unbanked that this technology really shines bright for.
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Proof of Earth 4 months ago
🧡Amazing. Another great short film. I’ve reposted it too😊
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Zaawaadi 4 months ago
great video thank you so much! 🧡🧡
Super interesting. Totally true that money spend locally has a huge multiplier effect for local community. Great work Joe 🧡
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xoroda 4 months ago
Always interested to learn what wallets people use around the world. I’ve seen Bitkit and Pheonix in the videos but would love to know what people in all these countries prefer? Assume WoS?
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xoroda 4 months ago
That so cool love to see the impact of one community all over the world!
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EDJ 4 months ago
Awesome video Joe! Really enjoyed it. Do you think it would be possible to share the QR codes of the merchants you visit on screen for the viewers? For future videos 😃. Tried some of them but they weren't in focus enough for my camera to pick up. Thanks in advance!
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Mambafx 4 months ago
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