Quote from: GymClassHeroes on September 15, 2018, 11:35:14 PM

Africa is a large segment of the world economy that could see some challenges in catching up with the rest of the world in being a part of the crypto revolution due to poor internet services infrastructure. This is the fall out from less investment in the development of the sector. Crypto is a much more needed addition to the Africa economy as it has the potential to generate huge wealth and get the younger generation engaged.Africa should a crypto hub.

https://news.bitcoin.com/poor-internet-access-could-slow-down-cryptocurrency-growth-in-africa/

Unfortunately, computers and good Internet connection are really needed for the adoption of cryptocurrencies and Africa seems mainly not to be ready for that. Yet I don't quite understand how cryptos in their current state could help people there. The coins are volatile, there are probably almost no potential investors and I bet the situation with exchanges is also very poor. So what, is anyone actually expecting African merchants to accept bitcoin as payment? I can see that there are some applications of blockchain on the continent, but I bet these people mostly don't even have bank accounts, so the use of cryptos as mediators ensuring low fees must be extremely rare.