BY Nkosazana Ngwadla
Kgothatso Ngako is a software developer and he has built Machankura, a tool for using Bitcoin with nothing but a feature phone. No computer, smartphone, or internet service is required.
Machankura is a fully custodial bitcoin and lightning wallet that requires zero configuration and works on any mobile phone in the world and does not require an internet connection to send or receive bitcoin.
South African Software Developer Kgothatso Ngako has created an app called Machankura to enable Africans use Bitcoin without internet access. He translated introductory Bitcoin literature into KiSwahili, isiZulu, and Shona in 2021. He also made an app called Thread Tweet.
According to Ngako, they are about 2,900 people using Machankura from Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia.
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