Bitcoin4Ghana.com

Purpose

A Ghanaian organization to promote the use of bitcoin in Ghana. bitcoinforghana.com also redirects to it. DS supports and promotes this organization as one of its projects, but it is its own independent entity and makes its own decisions.

Support

  • Set up a crowdfunding page to raise money to give the project a kick-start. They can use the BTCPay system to advertise ongoing fundraising.
  • Provide free web hosting

Promotion

Just some ideas to work on.

  • Set up a LinkedIn page for it and use the account to advertise for promoters and marketers. Make sure it is clear we want them to do marketing, not tell us how to do it. Yeah, they are strange people.
  • Find out how to do a press release properly (but beware of falling into the trap).
  • Make a list of places to send a press release to.
  • Make an article for Lee to publish. And Kirubai
  • Post a task on Microlancer, etc. (but make sure only real accounts with real followers). Get them to search bitcoin4ghana and then repost and like bitcoin4ghana posts about the project. Make sure the post has a good headline and working image.
  • Organise an event in a venue in Accra (?) to invite everyone in Ghana and elsewhere to come and discuss bitcoin for Ghana, a conference. Fundraise for this as the second campaign.

Contacts

Faucet

K’s idea to make a faucet for Ghana only with education as the purpose. Here is an idea. What do you think?

  • SatoshiHost.com will give 1000 sats to the first 100 to sign up for bitcoin4ghana.
  • They need to make a wallet on coinos dot io.
  • Bitcoin4ghana can use our listmonk server for its mailing list
  • The mailing list will serve as a start for the bitcoin conference too.

I think you will be chacking IP addresses to make sure they are from Ghana, but is there a sure way to detect spoofing of IP?

Resources

Caveat! Many of those who are “helping” third-world people are just pushing a political or social agenda. But there’s no need to ignore them; they often have really good critiques of existing systems and so long as we are aware that they are pushing a similar system if dependency to that which they are supposedly trying to help us escape. It’s fine to take what they have that’s useful and disregard the baggage. This lady has a strong and independent perspective that’s worth the time to learn from.

Africa is NOT Poor Because of Colonialism: Here’s Why. – Magatte Wade

other sites:

  • Bitcoin Dua (Agbozume, Ghana): A grassroots circular economy project educating youth, onboarding local merchants, and using Bitcoin for everyday earning/spending in a rural Ghanaian community. It’s modeled on ideas like Bitcoin Beach but adapted locally, with education at the core and real merchant adoption. Their own site and related write-ups describe the practical community work: bitcoindua.org, plus coverage of the project and founder Kofi’s efforts.
  • Afribit Kibera (Kenya’s largest informal settlement): Practical stories of residents using Bitcoin for daily needs (food, water, small jobs), savings, and community projects like waste management incentives paid in sats. Focuses on financial inclusion and dignity rather than speculation. See the Medium piece by the project itself and related reporting on circular use in Soweto West/Kibera.
  • Alex Gladstein’s book excerpt (“3 Stories of Bitcoin Changing Lives Outside the ‘Dollar Bubble’”): Real accounts from Nigeria, Sudan, and Ethiopia of entrepreneurs and ordinary people using Bitcoin for family support, freelancing payments, remittances, and bypassing broken or restricted local systems. Practical medium-of-exchange and savings use.
  • Anita Posch’s reporting and writing (Bitcoin for Fairness): Long-term on-the-ground work in Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, Kenya, and elsewhere. She documents teachers, farmers, freelancers, and communities using Bitcoin for savings amid inflation/currency collapse, cheaper remittances, and local payments. Her Bitcoin Magazine piece “2022: A Year Of Grassroots Bitcoin Adoption For Africa” and the site (anitaposch’s website, with the Africa category) collect many of these stories.
  • Farida Nabourema’s Medium essay (“Why the Left Can’t Ignore Bitcoin…”): Activist perspective from Togo/Africa on Bitcoin for protecting savings from inflation, lower-cost remittances (avoiding the “diaspora tax”), and safer transfers in repressive or unstable environments. Practical and political without heavy tech.
  • Bitcoin Beach / El Zonte (El Salvador) origin stories and impact pieces describe everyday use for payments, remittances, and local economies in a place with high unbanked rates—useful parallels for similar challenges elsewhere.
  • UnHerd piece on the African village (Bondo, Malawi) using Bitcoin mining to fund local renewable energy and practical community benefits, plus mentions of everyday users in Kenya.
  • Various personal adoption stories collected by Blink (e.g., Kenyan salon workers, Nigerian street vendors, community educators) showing daily spending, tips, and local merchant use.