The Pan African Currency Union based on bitcoin replaces US $ as reserve currency
Headline found in Business Insider dated 2025. This is science fiction, which is a fun way to speculate on the ...
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For Bitcoin To Get Mass Adoption in Underbanked, It Has To Be More Like M-Pesa
The meme that mass adoption for Bitcoin will happen first in the developing world is spreading fast. I don’t buy ...
SendWave Shows Mobile Banking for the Poor That Bill Gates Talks About
@Bill Gates is famous for kicking off the Fintech revolution way back in 1994 when he declared: “Banking is necessary ...
Zidisha takes a radical approach to the global underbanked market
Banks are worried that Fintech startups will “eat their lunch”, cherry picking their most valuable customers one service at a ...
M-Pesa and Bitcoin are mirror images of each other
M-Pesa started in Kenya because people were trading their mobile phone minutes; in a world without bank accounts or landlines, ...
Telecom firms keep on being disrupted, so will they disrupt banks?
Speculation alert; I am reporting on what could/should happen, not on what just happened. Poor old telecoms companies – who ...
Coolest Brands 2014: The Gold Standard in Mobile Payments
It just might be impossible to talk about banking services for the underdeveloped world without mentioning M-Pesa. Launched in 2007 ...
M-Pesa is Smoking Bitcoin in Number of Transactions
The media is abuzz with bitcoin stories, but the cryptocurrency's number of transactions is essentially flat since its 2009 launch. ...
