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March 26, 2025
Anita Posch spoke at the founding event of the Bitcoins Devs Lusaka about why Bitcoin matters for financial fairness and how developers can shape its future, especially in Africa.
March 10, 2025
Tando bridges Bitcoin and M-Pesa in Kenya, enabling seamless BTC payments converted into Kenyan Shillings - learn more in this exclusive interview.
November 27, 2024
A trip to Nairobi for the African Bitcoin conference, filled with Bitcoin advocacy, community projects, and meaningful connections across Africa.
January 26, 2024
Testing self-custodial Lightning wallets with results on their payment reliability, speed, user-friendliness, fees and security features.
December 15, 2023
Anita Posch was awarded as one of the most impactful African Bitcoiners of the year 2023.
December 2, 2023
Anita Posch's talk in Accra, Ghana offered a comprehensive introduction to the basics of Bitcoin, incl. its prehistory, transactions, and PoW mining.
June 11, 2023
Anita Posch's keynote on how "Bitcoin Empowers Africa and Africans Empower Bitcoin" presenting current adoption, use cases, challenges, future developments and how Bitcoin unites the world.
May 20, 2023
I was on Zambian TV Channel KBN discussing Bitcoin on the Fiz Show. I talked about my Bitcoin journey, why I'm focussed on Bitcoin only and how bitcoin is different to other crypto currencies.
April 16, 2023
I was attending the 7th Bitcoin for Fairness meetup in Lusaka, which was a great success, we installed self-custody LN wallets and a female focused community was founded. Here is my report.
February 23, 2023
Why I'm opting for self-custodial Lightning wallets even in areas with low Internet speed. See my test results from a rural area in Zimbabwe.
February 15, 2023
The place I chose for my Lightning wallet test isn't just any place. It's the second largest monument in Africa after the Egyptian pyramides.
January 29, 2023
In January 2023 the first Bitcoin and Lightning node (what I know of) started running in Zambia. I brought a Bitcoin for Fairness community donated Raspiblitz device, when I was visiting Zambia in October 2022.
October 10, 2022
In an TV interview I emphasized the importance of Bitcoin mining for a country with cheap electricity and hydropower like Zambia and how to detect scams.
October 11, 2022
While in Zambia I was interviewed by Buumba Cimbulu for Daily Nation "The People's Newspaper" of Zambia.
December 26, 2022
Anita Posch was awarded as one of the most impactful African Bitcoiners of the year 2022.
December 17, 2022
The Bitcoin for Fairness team Zambia hosted the 5th meetup in the capital Lusaka last weekend.
December 12, 2022
We hosted a Bitcoin meetup in Accra as the Bitcoin for Fairness closing event of a long week with lots of bitcoin education and events at the first pan-African Bitcoin conference.
December 10, 2022
I was invited to join the opening of the "Built with Bitcoin" foundation's technology center in Kumasi, Ghana. The ceremony included a walk through the new building. I gifted my book for the library and a hardware wallet.
December 9, 2022
Six hundred people from all continents gathered in Accra, Ghana for the first African Bitcoin conference including Jack Dorsey former CEO of Twitter.
November 20, 2022
The fourth BFF Bitcoin meetup in Zambia took place on Saturday Nov 19, 2022.
November 15, 2022
Thank you - We made it! BFF is bringing a female Bitcoin educator to the Afro Bitcoin conference in Ghana. Marcel Lorraine has founded Bitcoin Dada a women centric entity focussed on providing the right education to the African woman.
November 1, 2022
Supermarket chain Pick'n'Pay started accepting bitcoin in 36 stores in South Africa. They want to roll it out to all stores. Pick'n'Pay has 16% grocery market share in South Africa.
October 31, 2022
Trevor Ncube, a Zimbabwean media entrepreneur known all over Southern Africa, invited me to be a guest on his show 'In Conversation with Trevor' to discuss Bitcoin.
October 26, 2022
Die deutschen Fernsehsender ARD und BR haben eine Bitcoin-Dokumentation veröffentlicht, für die sie Anita Posch nach Südafrika begleitet haben, wo sie im Mai 2022 mit Bitcoin Ekasi gearbeitet hat.
October 26, 2022
German TV ARD published a Bitcoin documentary and followed me to South Africa where I worked with Bitcoin Ekasi in May 2022.
October 10, 2022
I brought a Raspiblitz donated by the Bitcoin for Fairness community and some hardware wallets donated by Trezor to Zambia.
October 10, 2022
My Bitcoin for Fairness team in Zambia and I conducted a workshop for journalists to educate the educators. They learned how to send and receive bitcoin and we emphasized the importance of Bitcoin as a neutral, inclusive and permissionless money for the Internet.
October 3, 2022
Together with my BFF friends in Lusaka I was organizing the third Zambian Bitcoin for Fairness meetup. Here is what happened including pictures.
October 3, 2022
Anita Posch gave a Bitcoin lecture at the University of Zambia in front of 30 students. Here you can find the video and the presentation of the talk.
October 3, 2022
A Panel on Digital Rights turned into a promotion of Bitcoin: Kathleen Ndongmo and Anita Posch made the case on how Bitcoin can be a viable alternative since the African governments and regulations keep excluding people from interacting economically with their peers. Including video.
October 2, 2022
Preparing for the panel at the Forum on Internet Freedom and TV interview
October 2, 2022
An outing to the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe with camping, stunning views, ancient rock paintings and in this remote area I wanted to test Bitcoin payments.
September 11, 2022
Speaking and trading freely with bitcoin can make you the target of harassment, arrest or worse things.
September 11, 2022
Massage therapist was very fast in understanding that with the Bitcoin price at 20k and not 60k it is a good time to start saving it.
September 10, 2022
The story of a Zimbabwean friend who has been using bitcoin for the last 2 years.
September 9, 2022
My Zimbabwean friend searched her archive and found 55 Billion Dollar!
September 8, 2022
I used my Zimbabwean SIM card and added airtime to it so that I can do calls and send texts.
September 7, 2022
There are huge price differences depending on where you go to purchase your daily goods.
September 6, 2022
You can pay with USD or the local Zimbabwe Dollar, which is legal tender.
December 23, 2021
Anita Posch's Commentary for Bitcoin Magazine after her visit to El Salvador showing that heavy-handed government efforts are clashing with Bitcoin’s self-sovereign and community-focused ethos.
April 26, 2020
Anita Posch discusses her recent trip to Zimbabwe, free speech & freedom of expression, scams & MLM, hyperinflation and if and how Zimbabweans are using Bitcoin with Peter McCormack.
April 22, 2020
Learn about the history of failed currencies in Zimbabwe and Bitcoin adoption in Botswana in this six-part podcast documentary from 2020.
February 15, 2020
Bitcoin introduction: What is Bitcoin? Use-cases for bitcoin BTC, how to prevent scams, how bitcoin works, bitcoin mining, what is a blockchain, install a bitcoin wallet, the lightning network explained