BitKE is honored and excited to be an official media partner for the upcoming Africa Bitcoin Conference happening in Accra, Ghana from December 5-7, 2022.
This is the first bitcoin conference of its kind in Africa and features key speakers including:
Jack Dorsey – Co-Founder, Twitter
The former Twitter CEO and current CEO of Block is a renowned proponent of a Bitcoin future, which aligns with the African Bitcoin Conference’s mission — scaling adoption in Africa.
Dorsey has severally shown a commitment to the continent including donating 500 bitcoin (together with Jay Z) to ₿trust, an endowment fund to fund Bitcoin development initially focused on teams in Africa and India.
At a conference in Miami in 2021, Dorsey said Bitcoin was the most important thing he could work on during his lifetime.
“Bitcoin has the potential to create a whole new financial infrastructure.” – Jack Dorsey
Ray Youssef – CEO, Paxful
Ray is the CEO and Co-founder of Paxful, one of the world’s largest peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplaces.
Paxful gives people a simple, fair, and secure marketplace for trading bitcoins. With over 300 payment methods accepted on the platform, Paxful is one of the most accessible and user-friendly bitcoin marketplaces online.
Aside from making cryptocurrencies accessible, Ray also launched the #BuiltwithBitcoin charitable initiative that aims to show the humanitarian capability of bitcoin.
He’s also been a serial entrepreneur since 2001.
Jack Mallers – CEO, Strike
A Forbes 30 Under 30 2021 honoree, Jack Mallers is the founder of Zap, which has created Strike, an application that allows anyone to send money instantly, with no fees, anywhere in the world.
Strike is like Cash App or PayPal with one caveat: Instead of using the traditional payment rails, it uses the Bitcoin blockchain to send and receive money.
Outside of Strike, Zap is a bitcoin investment and payments company that transacts over the Lightning Network.
Elizabeth Stark – CEO, Lightning Labs
Elizabeth Stark is co-founder and CEO of Lightning Labs, where she is building a programmable financial layer for the internet through fast, scalable blockchain transactions.
According to Stark lightning is a software layer that operates on top of the bitcoin blockchain like a decentralized VISA for bitcoin transactions.
Further, she is a fellow at Coin Center, the leading digital currency policy organization, and an advisor at Chia, a company building a new blockchain protocol based on proof.
Abubakar Nur – Bitcoin Core Contributor, Board Member, BTrust
Abubakar was only 22 years old when he was added to the ₿trust board in December 2021, but had already garnered interest from the crypto community thanks to his work with bitcoin.
A bitcoin core contributor, he has also received $50,000 in BTC from Human Rights Foundation (HRF) for his work on Bitcoin wallet software and is in the midst of projects to qualify as a core developer in 2022. Abubakar is also part of the team setting up the Qala fellowship, which is finding and educating the next generation of crypto talent in Africa.
The Nigerian National also serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Recursive Capital, a fund investing in founders building out Web3 across Africa.
The 3-ay conference is packed with interesting personalities in the African bitcoin ecosystem.
Other speakers at the conference include:
- Obi Nwosu – Board Member, Btrust
- Benard Parah – CEO, Bitnob
- Nathalie Yamb – Nathalie Yamb Consulting
- Kgothatso Ngako – Catalyst, Machankura
- Alex Gladstein – Human Rights Foundation
The speakers will be participating in fireside chats and panel discussions that will dominate the agenda over the three days. However, the agenda also includes crash courses on bitcoin, including one on the lightning network.
You still have time to buy tickets here ahead of the opening on Monday.
BitKE will be on-location providing real-time updates via the official Twitter channel (@bitcoinke).
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