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: https://www.bitpesa.co/
nostr:npub1xv8mzscll8vvy5rsdw7dcqtd2j268a6yupr6gzqh86f2ulhy9kkqmclk3x 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.
