Bitcoin In Africa Show 2025: Bitcoin Leap News - March 8, 2025

Bitcoin In Africa Show 2025: Bitcoin Leap News - March 8, 2025

Tune into the New & Improved Bitcoin In Africa Show! Join host and founder Charlene Fadirepo as she navigates the exciting world of Bitcoin, with a special emphasis on global Bitcoin news across the African continent. In this inaugural episode of the new format, we delve into the latest headlines, including key updates from Coinbase and Binance's recent activities in Africa, as well as insights from Tether and the South African investment firm, Altvest. Don't miss out on this and other episodes of the Bitcoin In Africa Show!

Bitcoin In Africa Show: Live from Africa Bitcoin Mining Summit- Part 2 (Gitugu, Kenya Site Tour)

The goal of the Bitcoin In Africa Show is to expand the narrative of Bitcoin by giving voice to innovators and early adopters that are leading the Bitcoin Revolution across Africa. In this podcast, we connect with fintech founders, developers, influencers, and ecosystem builders that are an integral part of Africa's Bitcoin story. We hope our podcast can help deepen your understanding of the global use case of Bitcoin across Africa and around the world. The show is created and hosted by former regulator and Bitcoin Activist Charlene Fadirepo.    On this December 2023, episode of the Bitcoin In Africa Show, this is part 2 our coverage of the Africa Bitcoin Mining Summit, held in Nairobi, Kenya. Special thank you to the leadership of Kenyan Bitcoin Mining company, Gridless Compute (@GridlessCompute) [Erik Hersman (CEO  & Co-Founder), Janet Maingi (Co-Founder), and Phillip Walton (Co-Founder), who organized the conference.  Join us as Charlene takes us on a tour of central Kenya, at Gridless’s Gitugu site. The Gitugu Hydro-Solar power plant is a solar and hydro mini-grid bitcoin mining site in the mountains of Kenya, 2 hours from Nairobi. Based in Kenya, Gridless [https://gridlesscompute.com/] acts as a buyer of last resort for energy produced by renewable mini-grid energy generators in rural areas like Gitugu. In turn, Gridless uses this excess energy to run Bitcoin mining operations onsite, thus generating revenue to pay for the excess energy and driving down the costs for the other users that draw power from the mini-grid. In this episode, Charlene speaks with Leah Adero, Operations Specialist, at Gridless, about the massive team effort required to execute the first Africa Bitcoin Mining Summit in Africa.  Next, Charlene also speaks with Diviter Kerani, Engineering Tech at Gridless, who provides a brief technical overview of the Gitugu site.  Lastly Charlene speaks with Siyanbola Yassar and Sambo Ridwan  the co-founders of Trojan Mining (@trojanmining), a Bitcoin mining company based in Nigeria. Siyanbola and Sambo talk about the incredible success and growth that Trojan Mining has experienced in the two years.  We hope you enjoy this episode!

Bitcoin In Africa Show: Live from 2023 Africa Bitcoin Mining Summit

The goal of the Bitcoin In Africa Show is to expand the narrative of Bitcoin by giving voice to innovators that are leading the Bitcoin Revolution across Africa. In this podcast, we connect with fintech founders, developers, influencers, and ecosystem builders that are an integral part of Africa's Bitcoin story. We hope our podcast can help deepen your understanding of the global use case of Bitcoin across Africa and around the world. The show is created and hosted by former regulator and Bitcoin Activist Charlene Fadirepo.    On this October 2023, episode of the Bitcoin In Africa Show, Charlene is live at the first Africa Bitcoin Mining Summit, held in Nairobi, Kenya. Special thank you to the leadership of Kenyan Bitcoin Mining company, Gridless Compute (@GridlessComputer) [Erik Hersman (CEO  & Co-Founder), Janet Maingi (Co-Founder), and Phillip Walton (Co-Founder)] who organized the conference.  In this episode, Charlene speaks with several guests across African's Bitcoin mining ecosystem. Charlene speaks with Guinean Bitcoin miner, Omar Berry (@Fula_coin). Omar shares his Bitcoin mining origin story and how he is living his own dream of bringing more hashrate into the continent. Then Charlene speaks with Gridless Compute Co-Founder, Janet Maingi (@nduku_jay) about her Bitcoin journey and how her past career success in the telecom space led to a golden opportunity–an opportunity to become one the first large-scale pioneers of green Bitcoin mining in Africa. Janet also shares stories of hope --about how Bitcoin mining is transforming lives and providing basic needs across rural communities in Kenya.  Next up, we meet Kenyan Mechanical Engineer, Barre Yassin,who is the lead designer of Kifaru, Gridless Compute’s Bitcoin mining container. Barre shares his insights on designing the mining container to thrive in African terrain. Lastly, Charlene speaks with Gridless Compute CEO, Erik Hersman (@whiteafrican), who shares his Bitcoin journey and his vision for Gridless to “push electrification to the edges in Africa”. We learn about Erik’s incredible leadership in the African Bitcoin Mining ecosystem and more inspiring stories of how bitcoin mining is changing lives in East Africa. Special thank you to all of our incredible guests on this show: Omar Berry (@Fula_coin), Janet Maingi (@nduku_jay) Co-Founder of Gridless Compute, Erik Hersman (@whiteafrican),Gridless Compute CEO, and Barre Yassin, lead Designer at Gridless Compute.

Bitcoin In Africa Show: A Conversation with Obi Nwosu

The goal of the Bitcoin In Africa Show is to expand the narrative of Bitcoin by giving voice to innovators and early adopters that are leading the Bitcoin Revolution across Africa. In this podcast, we connect with fintech founders, developers, influencers, and ecosystem builders that are an integral part of Africa's Bitcoin story. We hope our podcast can help deepen your understanding of the global use case of Bitcoin across Africa and around the world. The show is created and hosted by former regulator and Bitcoin Activist Charlene Fadirepo.    On this September 2023, episode of the Bitcoin In Africa Show, Charlene shares a blast from the past which is a real treat for both new and old Bitcoiners. On this episode, we have an engaging conversation with the CEO of Fedi, Obi Nwosu (@obi). Although this conversation was taped in December 2022 at the Africa Bitcoin Conference in Ghana, Obi’s Bitcoin origin story is timeless. During the interview, Obi shares his journey as a self-proclaimed “computer science geek” whose brilliance led him to a successful career in technology. Yet it was his passion to improve the lives of others in his native country, Nigeria that led him to two successful careers in Bitcoin, first at the helm of UK Bitcoin-only exchange CoinFloor and now Fedi. Fedi is a Bitcoin technology company that enables “community-custody”, which empowers large groups or people with the ability to safely, securely, and privately custody their Bitcoin. Find out more about Fedi here: https://www.fedi.xyz/aboutus. [https://www.fedi.xyz/aboutus.] Follow Fedi at (@fedibtc) on Twitter.

Bitcoin In Africa Show: Live from WMF Conference in Italy & Interview with WMF Speaker, Cairo Arevalo, of Bitcoin Dominicana

The goal of the Bitcoin In Africa Show is to expand the narrative of Bitcoin by giving voice to innovators and early adopters that are leading the Bitcoin Revolution across Africa. In this podcast, we connect with fintech founders, developers, influencers, and ecosystem builders that are an integral part of Africa's Bitcoin story. We hope our podcast can help deepen your understanding of the global use case of Bitcoin across Africa and around the world. The show is created and hosted by former regulator and Bitcoin Activist Charlene Fadirepo.    On this August 2023, episode of the Bitcoin In Africa Show, Charlene is live in beautiful Rimini, Italy for the We Make Future Conference, one of the biggest digital innovation and technology conferences in #europe [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=europe&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7077395529109798914]! During this episode, Charlene takes viewers all around the conference where viewers can enjoy a range of tech gadgets, wearable tech devices, and singing and talking humanoid robots at the conference. During this episode, Charlene also speaks with WMF Speaker, Cairo Arevalo, (@revoluto), one of the members of  Bitcoin Dominicana, a circular Bitcoin community. Bitcoin Dominicana is a growing community of #Bitcoiners building an inclusive Bitcoin ecosystem in the Caribbean. Cairo and his team are working to address the financial inclusion challenges that many Dominicans face. Cairo is also a writer and futurist who explores the intersection of cryptocurrency, equity, and financial inclusion. Check out his latest viewpoints on his substack blog,the https://nodesociety.substack.com [https://nodesociety.substack.com/] and follow Cairo on Twitter, @revoluto.