The proceedings
Essays from
the archive.
Long-form writing on the history of Bitcoin in Nigeria — adoption, policy, peer-to-peer markets, and the communities that kept the movement alive.
01 Inside Nigeria's Bitcoin Conference Scene From volunteer-run Lagos meetups in the mid-2010s to a post-ban revival, Nigeria's Bitcoin event scene is grassroots, education-first, and built around trust. Here's how it works. 02 The 2021 Ban and What Came After On 5 February 2021, Nigeria's central bank ordered banks to cut off crypto businesses. The market didn't die — it moved. A timeline of the ban, the eNaira, and the December 2023 thaw. 03 How Nigeria Became a Bitcoin Powerhouse Young population, expensive remittances, a devaluing naira, and a culture of peer-to-peer trade: the ingredients that made Nigeria one of the world's biggest grassroots Bitcoin markets. 04 Crypto Payment Processors: What Businesses Should Know As digital assets move from speculative trading to everyday commerce, Nigerian merchants, freelancers, and enterprise operators are increasingly asked whether t 05 The Case for a Crypto-to-Crypto Exchange That Skips Fiat The most common way people move between digital assets still runs through a bank account: sell one coin for cash, wait for the money, then buy another coin with