Bitcoin gains traction in West Africa with educational drive
French-speaking West African countries are subjected to the West African CFA franc, but locals could soon favor Bitcoin.
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French-speaking West African countries are subjected to the West African CFA franc, but locals could soon favor Bitcoin.
The team at Bitcoin infrastructure company Blockstream reflects on its exceptional growth in 2021, which mirrored Bitcoin’s own.
At first glance, an out-of-this-world plan to launch a network of crypto satellites into space, sounds like one of those grandiose ideas that never got much further than a vague outline in an ICO white paper back in 2017. But when the plan comes from a team including a Google X engineer and the co-founder of the first private mission to reach the moon, the project suddenly seems a lot more feasible. The idea behind CryptoSat — which was indeed first outlined in a November 2017 paper — is to build a prototype nano-satellite the size of a coffee mug and launch it into outer space, where it ...