Nigeria’s Lightning Off-Ramp: Theophilus Isah on Building MavaPay to Turn Bitcoin into Instant Local Bank Transfers
Theophilus Isah trained as a biochemist, taught himself to code, and walked away from a hackathon loss to build MavaPay, one of the few Bitcoin Lightning off-ramps from Africa's 2023 builder cohort still standing. He explains why Bitcoin, not the banking system, is the part that actually works.
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