Giving a helping hand to the unbanked with Kamari Many people don’t realise that Africa is one of the world’s last great growth regions. In the coming decades, as Africa’s population doubles to two billion people, its GDP has been predicted to increase from $2 trillion to $29 trillion by 2050. It is the perfect environment to launch the mass distribution of cryptocurrency. In the developed world you can survive without Bitcoin and its challengers, whereas Africa needs cryptocurrency to thrive. The failure of central banks to regulate their economies is starkest on the continent; double digit interest rates and currencies that can not cross borders are the norm.