Quote from: coin-investor on September 19, 2019, 03:09:41 PM

Quote from: CryptopreneurBrainboss on September 18, 2019, 07:22:42 PM

This threads is as a respond to the numerous replies on my previous thread proclaiming everything Nigeria is been associated with negatively. The actual truth is the good/positive incident aren't been circulated like the negative news. The media are mostly interested in painting the country bad. This incident of a bitcoin entrepreneur returing 7.8 BTC (worth around $80,000 when the transaction occurs) is an example we do have good individuals among us. I did follow the development of the story when i saw his tweet informing about the mistake although I'll be linking you guys to a more reliable source.

Quote from: https://cointelegraph.com/news/nigerian-crypto-educator-returns-80k-in-bitcoin-received-by-mistake

Keith Mali Chung the co-founder and president of African blockchain firm Loopblock Network has returned almost $80,000 worth of Bitcoin (BTC) mistakenly sent to his wallet.

Chung who goes by the Twitter handle of Bitcoin Keith (The African Bitcoin Bull) tweeted about the incident on Sept. 12:
I received huge sum of BTC from an unknown sender and its definitely a mistake from someone I must have had transaction with before, Kindly DM me time of transaction, your adress and exact digits sent..
thank you. Kindly retweet

In a further update on Sept. 13, Chung revealed that the exact sum of apparently accidentally transferred Bitcoin was 7.8 BTC worth $79,482 to press time. He also indicated that the sender who remains anonymous had responded to his request, meaning he was able to return the funds. He explained:

In Africa, which is where I am situated, 80% we transact Cryptos through WhatsApp escrows and someone who himself and I had business in the past made this huge mistake of sending 7.8BTC into my blockchain wallet. I spread the words round & he reached out.

Chungs actions earned him significant social media acclaim and even the moniker of African/Nigerian good samaritan on crypto Twitter. Had he failed to identify the sender, he had pledged to donate the accidentally-gotten proceeds to Binance, which organizes a series of philanthropic projects via its charity arm, Binance Charity.

In conclusion, Nigerians are enthusiast of this currency (bitcoin), Any Nigerian who have encounter the currency and invested wisely can testify it has had more effects in their life than the government had during that timeframe😁 all I'm trying to say is we mean well towards the adoption of the currency. Although this is a story of just one individual, there are many of us out there who would had done the same.

I can vouch for Nigerians that they are good people, I'm not a Nigerian and had a lot of Nigerian friends and bad and good people exist in every country, it should not be associated to one nationality alone, going back to the Nigerian crypto educator who returns $80k in bitcoin received by mistake, it's a good marketing for Bitcoin $80k is a big amount, and it will go higher because of Bitcoin's potential in the market.

No one here claims that Nigerian people are bad by nature. The situation prevailing within the country portrays them bad to the outer world. This will eventually change, and what we see is just a single news. There might be more and more incidents that have taken place over the past, but never revealed out.