Bennu Bitcoin Wallet: Machankura’s New Group Wallet Lives Inside an Encrypted Chat
Machankura has announced Bennu, an experimental open-source wallet where the group chat is the wallet. No single person or phone
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Africa’s Bitcoin Education Engine: Joseph Tětek on Why Bitcoin Is Being Used as Real Money Across Africa
Bitcoin adoption is often measured through price, ownership, or exchange activity. Josef Tětek, the educator behind Trezor Academy, sees a different measure: whether people are actually using Bitcoin to solve problems. From local educators and community-led courses to circular economies and everyday payments, Trezor Academy is helping build Bitcoin adoption across Africa from the ground up.
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Africa’s Offline Bitcoin Builder: Kgothatso Ngako on Making Bitcoin Work Without Smartphones, Reliable Internet, or English.
Kgothatso Ngako created Machankura and Exonomia to solve two of the biggest barriers to African Bitcoin adoption: access and language. By enabling Lightning payments via simple USSD codes on feature phones and translating foundational literature into African languages, his tools bring open monetary infrastructure to where people actually are.
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Machankura’s Bitcoin on Feature Phones Gains Real Usage Across African Cities
Machankura continues expanding Bitcoin access for feature phone users across multiple African countries, with over 39,000 unique devices accessing USD-less Bitcoin transactions via USSD codes connected to the Lightning Network.
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