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Namibia’s Bitcoin Builder: Okin Tjongarero on Teaching Through Experience, Not Theory
Okin Tjongarero did not start with ideology. He started with a payment problem. That practical beginning led him to build EasySats, onboard merchants in Windhoek, host Bitcoin Burgers and Beers events, and launch Bitcoin Mining Namibia, all grounded in one principle: people learn Bitcoin by using it, not by studying it.
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