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:

BitPesa | Africa's Crypto and BTC Exchange – Access the Deepest BTC Liquidity in Africa

@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.

damn, did that video pretty much exactly 10 years ago…

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DEMO: sending Bitcoin to m-pesa (mobile money in Kenya) using the telegram messenger and withdraw cash from an agent

This is a quick demo of an application that I have been working on in the last days. The app allows you to send Bitcoin to any m-pesa account in K...

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DEMO: how to pay a taxi in Nairobi using Bitcoin using a messenger like telegram

this is a demo on how to use Bitcoin to pay in a taxi in Nairobi. The driver receives the money on his m-pesa account. So he does not need to have ...