cryptochama
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cryptochama
@cryptochama
Muses on crypto & chamas. Loves tulips.


After spending time observing Kenyans on a Facebook group 52 week savings challenge with 400,000 Kenyans aged mostly between 20s and late 30s, here is what i found out about what Kenyans want of financial services/1


5/14 "You can exist outside the banking system and you are still accessing all the financial services you'd access from a bank" @pesa_africa #banksarefaceless

5/14 "You can exist outside the banking system and you are still accessing all the financial services you'd access from a bank" @pesa_africa #banksarefaceless

A journalist asked me what i thought about Kenya's blockchain taskforce recommendation to have a Central Bank Issued Digital Currency Here is a lesson from Ecuador's attempt Tldr: great idea on paper, harder in practice. Likely to fail




2/14 "The story that's never told: people have also found ways to bank themselves outside of the banking system" #socialsavings






The Chamapesa documentary in 14 twideos - video/tweets (we'll release 1 per day to spare the spam). 1/14 How and why #mpesa scaled where traditional banks couldn't? Agent network. Low KYC requirements.

"Took me quite some time to fully internalise this: The majority of innovation today (culture, tech, service & business models, etc.) is coming from and happening in non-western markets (asia, africa, etc.). Not a fluke, but indicative of a larger global shift. Plan accordingly."
