After three weeks of listening, recording and speaking bitcoin (BTC) in Africa, podcaster Anita Posch shares her experiences partially one in every
After three weeks of listening, recording and speaking bitcoin (BTC) in Africa, podcaster Anita Posch shares her experiences partially one in every of this new six-part documentary podcast sequence.
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On this first a part of the “Bitcoin in Africa” podcast documentary sequence, be a part of Anita as she learns concerning the present dwelling state of affairs of Zimbabweans and the nation’s political historical past. Combining on-the-ground recordings, interviews and considerate narration, she paints an image of why issues are how they’re, in addition to the state of human rights and free speech.
“I needed to see on my own if that is true and the way far bitcoin is thought and used there,” mentioned Anita Posch.
Recorded February 2020 within the run-up to the rising quarantine motion and coronavirus journey restrictions, Anita traveled to Zimbabwe and Botswana to hear, study and file concerning the utilization of bitcoin in these international locations. On the planet of bitcoin, international locations like Zimbabwe and Venezuela are steadily talked about as locations the place the cryptocurrency might or maybe needs to be making a distinction and the place they’ll actually assist the individuals’s financial conditions.
Take a look at one other of Anita’s favorite episodes featuring Andreas M. Antonopoulos debunking arguments against bitcoin like excessive volatility, vitality consumption, inequalities and the exaggerated threat of potential failure.
TRANSCRIPT: “Bitcoin in Africa: The Ubuntu Manner” – Half 1 – Zimbabwe: Best circumstances for Bitcoin?
Hey associates, bitcoiners and pre-coiners alike! That is the primary episode of a multipart sequence referred to as “Bitcoin in Africa: The Ubuntu Manner”
In February 2020 I travelled to Zimbabwe and Botswana to search out out, if and the way bitcoin (BTC) is used there. I spent three weeks in Zimbabwe, two weeks of that point I used to be in Harare the capital and I travelled for one week to Bulawayo and Victoria Falls. After that I spent some days in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana to satisfy and speak with the founding father of the Satoshicentre Alakanani Itireleng.
The instrument you heard is a mbira (pronounced m-BEER-ra , IPA (ə)mˈbɪəɾə) it’s an African musical instrument, conventional to the Shona individuals of Zimbabwe.
Why did I go to Zimbabwe?
I needed to see with my very own eyes how the dwelling state of affairs is for individuals and, extra importantly, to analysis the utilization of bitcoin. Bitcoin is in my eyes at the beginning not a speculative, buying and selling object, the place all the things is about worth. For me it’s a software of liberation that allows people and communities to free themselves of tight restrictions by authoritarian or totalitarian nation states that hurt individuals’s human rights. This has many faces. Within the so-called western world, in international locations with freedom of speech, security and a excessive degree of wealth, it’s the risk to free oneself from the banking system. The banking system has within the final 30 years together with nationwide and world rules developed into a really strict system of surveillance and allowances. The place we – the bulk individuals of integrity are being policed by the banks – due to worry of cash laundering and terrorism finance accomplished by the few. Along with “surveillance capitalism” – a time period coined by Shoshana Zuboff in her e book nicely price studying – surveillance capitalism – which is the everlasting recording of all our digital traces on Fb, Google and Co. – which can be getting used not solely to consolation us with higher search outcomes and comfort, but in addition to control our choices and extort our knowledge for cash and better earnings. This has had disastrous penalties for democracy, freedom and our privateness. So in international locations with excessive dwelling requirements, security and a comparatively good working banking system with a low inflation fee managed by so referred to as “impartial” central banks, I might argue that governments attempt to regulate bitcoin within the face of “cash laundering and financing terrorism” – whereas in international locations like Zimbabwe bitcoin needs to be tamed or managed by the governing elite, due to the likelihood for extra “human rights and freedom” for its residents and their lack of energy.
This podcast particular and my journey to Africa wouldn’t have been potential with out my sponsors and supporters.
I need to thank my sponsors first: Thanks: Peter McCormack and the whatbitcoindid podcast, Coinfinity and the CardWallet, LocalBitcoins.com a person-to-person bitcoin buying and selling website, SHIFT Cryptosecurity, producer of the {hardware} pockets BitBox02 and plenty of because of a number of unknown personal donors, who despatched me Satoshis over the lightning community.
This particular is edited by CoinDesk’s Podcasts Editor Adam B. Levine and revealed first on the CoinDesk Podcast Community. Thanks very a lot for supporting the Bitcoin in Africa sequence along with your work.
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