A group of Bitcoiners traveled to the Central African Republic to meet with the country’s president and discuss pathways for bitcoin adoption.
The people of the Central African Republic (CAR) are on a mission to be the first country in Africa to enable widespread bitcoin adoption. They are the second country in the world (after El Salvador) to officially adopt bitcoin as legal tender for use in regular commerce and for paying taxes.
I asked Gouspilllou if he thought the people of CAR are backing their president on this bitcoin initiative.
“Yes, everyone has a role to play. Citizens have to take ownership of Bitcoin, and educate those around them. The knowledge will be shared from the citizens we have already introduced to Bitcoin, to Lightning, and to all those that the next delegations of Bitcoiners will form.”
“I insisted during my speech at the big CEMAC (Central African Economic and Monetary Community) conference that Central Africans should be sure of one thing, and that is that the decision of their president is an excellent one, that of a visionary. And with this certainty, we, the Bitcoiners of the world, should help this president, and they should help him too, by simply adopting Bitcoin.”