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Re:Akon wants to run a Senegal city on cryptocurrency by dopidopHN on Saturday April 10, 2021 @11:39PM (#26767306)
From what I seen: crypto provide swap between telecom minute and fiat.
Re:Akon wants to run a Senegal city on cryptocurrency by africanboy on Sunday April 11, 2021 @06:12AM (#26769120)
sorry, I don't get it

you buy phone credit and that phone credit it's money

you don't need crypto for that

mobile payments have been a thing in Africa since the 2000s

a digital currency doesn't have to be crypto to work

I would say that it works better if it isn't

Re:Akon wants to run a Senegal city on cryptocurrency by dopidopHN on Monday April 12, 2021 @07:23AM (#26778151)
Oh sorry. I should have elaborate.

People already use telecom minute as money in Africa as a whole. The African diaspora does it abroad as well. ( I’m aware that Africa is a continent, I think it’s a broad practice. Idk, I can only speak for the Maghreb)

The use case here is :

You cousin pay you back some debt worth 50$ in telecom minute X. You accept, spend some of it. Then realize you need to pay back someone else.

That person has no interest in telecom minute X and can only use the Y company.

You have to buy brand new Y minute. Few mécanism exists to convert one in another.

That particular crypto aims at providing that.

If that work and the fee are not outrageous. That would be massively useful.

Hope it’s help.

Re:Akon wants to run a Senegal city on cryptocurrency by anteatersa on Monday April 12, 2021 @03:57AM (#26776963)
Fraud is also a thing in Africa, I suppose adding crypto is an attempt to add some transparency/accountability to mobile payments.
Re:Akon wants to run a Senegal city on cryptocurrency by africanboy on Monday April 12, 2021 @05:14AM (#26777356)
I'm not sure how a self emitted digital coin not backed by any institution or protected by any law could add security from frauds.

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