Domineum’s Mohammed Jega on CoinGeek Backstage: We’re taking Bitcoin SV to the grassroots in Africa

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Africa has con­tin­ued to shine as a Bit­coin and blockchain hub, with the likes of Nige­ria, South Africa, and Kenya con­sis­tent­ly mak­ing the Top 10 lists for dig­i­tal asset adop­tion. Mohammed Ibrahim Jega is right at the heart of this Bit­coin adop­tion, push­ing BSV uptake in Nige­ria and beyond. In an inter­view with CoinGeek Back­stage, he broke down how he has been spear­head­ing BSV uptake at the grass­roots lev­el in Africa.

One of the biggest part­ners for Jega and his Domineum team has been acad­e­mia, he told CoinGeek’s Becky Lig­gero on the side­lines of the BSV Glob­al Blockchain Con­ven­tion in Dubai.

This part­ner­ship with acad­e­mia enabled Domineum “to take the mes­sage down to the grass­roots through the stu­dents. They can now under­stand what blockchain is, how they can use blockchain. We also trained lec­tur­ers so that they could include blockchain in their curriculum.”

This part­ner­ship laid the foun­da­tion for Jega, and lat­er, he was able to reach out to gov­ern­ment agen­cies, edu­cat­ing them on what blockchain offers them, he point­ed out.

Domineum has set up a lab in Abu­ja, Nigeria’s cap­i­tal, where they fos­ter inno­va­tion on the blockchain. The lab “has giv­en us great insight into the appetite for blockchain and [taught us] that we need to do more.”

Jega and his Domineum co-founder Geof­frey Weli-Wosu orga­nized the inau­gur­al Blockchain Devel­op­ers Sum­mit in July, bring­ing togeth­er over 1,000 devel­op­ers, start­up founders, and gov­ern­ment offi­cials to talk about blockchain technology.

The sum­mit was geared toward devel­op­ing blockchain solu­tions for African prob­lems, “for us, by us,” Jega told CoinGeek Backstage.

With thou­sands of blockchain net­works in the mar­ket, Jega believes that only BSV can lib­er­ate Africa. With its very low fees and infi­nite scal­ing (hit­ting 35 mil­lion trans­ac­tions in a day recent­ly), BSV allows African inno­va­tors to devel­op solu­tions for chal­lenges like low finan­cial inclu­sion and cost­ly remit­tances. Already, Cent­bee is show­ing what’s pos­si­ble with its remit­tance solu­tion, which is cut­ting down the cross-bor­der funds trans­fer process from 3–5 busi­ness days to just a few seconds.

Watch: The BSV Glob­al Blockchain Con­ven­tion pan­el, Blockchain in Africa

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