Bitcoin for Fairness with Anita Posch - WBD545

Anita Posch is a fellow Bitcoin podcaster, author, advocate, and
educator. In this interview, we discuss her mission to educate
Bitcoin educators in emerging countries, the challenges Africans
face using Bitcoin, and the numerous innovative Bitcoin
initiatives happening in Africa.


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Bitcoin has a tremendous capacity to help people, particularly
those living in emerging economies, but a lot of people associate
it directly with scams. A large part of this is due to
misreporting within mainstream media. Traditional media outlets
have incredible reach but seem to lack the care required to
provide authoritative balance.


Last Saturday, The Times printed an article with the headline
“How the Bitcoin boom led to ‘a giant fleecing of ordinary
people’”. The article focused on the numerous events in crypto
over the past few months that have wiped out retail investors.
But, at no point in the article is there any attempt to
differentiate Bitcoin from the crypto market.


The Bitcoin community is therefore lucky to have fearless
advocates like Anita Posch, pushing back against the mainstream
FUD to educate people on the ground level. This is hard, lonely,
but vital work, to provide access to uncensorable money to those
who need it the most. It is this type of work that has made the
growth and adoption of Bitcoin, despite all the obstacles, a
silent revolution.


Anita has focused a lot of attention on Africa. She has visited
and helped people throughout the continent. Against a backdrop of
countries suffering from crippling inflation, corruption and
strict currency controls, there are numerous innovative
initiatives empowering ordinary people through Bitcoin. These are
inspirational stories of normal people doing extraordinary
things.


But Anita is one person. She is therefore focused on maximising
her impact by educating the educators. To this end, Anita has set
up a non-profit initiative, Bitcoin for Fairness. Please give
generously. That way you can help Bitcoin’s silent revolution to
continue.