BITCOIN IN AFRICA: The Ubuntu Way (Zimbabwe)
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🗓️ 19 March 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this 1st part of the “Bitcoin in Africa” podcast documentary series, join Anita as she learns about the current living situation of Zimbabweans and the country's political history. Combining on-the-ground recordings, interviews and thoughtful narration, she paints a picture of why things are how they are, as well as the state of human rights and free speech.
Recorded February 2020 in the run-up to the growing quarantine movement and coronavirus travel restrictions Anita travelled to Zimbabwe and Botswana to listen, learned and record about the usage of Bitcoin in these countries. In the world of bitcoin countries like Zimbabwe and Venezuela are frequently mentioned as places where Bitcoin could or perhaps should be making a difference. Where they can really help the people's economic situations.
"I wanted to see by myself, if this is true and in how far Bitcoin is known and used there." said Anita Posch
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| 0:00.0 | Servos and greetings from Vienna. |
| 0:07.9 | My name is Anita Posh. |
| 0:10.4 | Thank you for listening to Bitcoin and Co. |
| 0:13.2 | My podcast that's introducing the philosophy, ideas and people behind Bitcoin. |
| 0:21.2 | Bitcoin in Africa, the Ubuntu Way, |
| 0:25.3 | Part 1, Zimbabwe. |
| 0:27.9 | Ideal conditions for Bitcoin? |
| 0:31.2 | Hello friends, Bitcoiners and pre-coiners alike. |
| 0:35.1 | This is the first episode of a multi-part series called Bitcoin |
| 0:39.5 | in Africa, the Ubuntu Way. In February 2020, I traveled to Zimbabwe and Pozwana to find out |
| 0:47.5 | if and how Bitcoin is used there. I spent three weeks in Zimbabwe, two weeks of this time I was in Harare, the capital, |
| 0:57.2 | and I traveled for one week to Boulevard and Victoria Falls. After that, I spent some days |
| 1:04.4 | in Chaboron, the capital of Botswana, to meet and talk with the founder of the Satoshi |
| 1:10.3 | Center Al-Akanani-Iterileng. |
| 1:12.6 | The instrument you heard is an Embira. |
| 1:16.6 | It is an African musical instrument traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe. |
| 1:22.6 | So why did I visit Zimbabwe? |
| 1:25.6 | I wanted to see with my own eyes how the living situation is for people, |
| 1:31.8 | and more importantly, to research the usage of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is in my eyes first and foremost |
| 1:38.9 | not a speculative trading object where everything is about price. For me, it's a tool of liberation that enables individuals and communities to free themselves |
| 1:51.0 | of tight restrictions by authoritarian or totalitarian nation states that harm people's human rights. |
| 1:59.0 | This has many faces. In the so-called Western world, in countries with |
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