Bitcoin Pizza Day Fest to organize over 20 events in 15 African countries 

The founder  Crypto Bootcamp Community( CBC), and the pioneer Bitcoin Pizza Day Fest, Obinna Iwuno  said  the Pan-African event with an eye on the global landscape would organize over 20 events in fifteen different African countries through this  year edition.  

He noted this,  while speaking to our correspondent in an exclusive chat. The CBC Boss, hinted  that before now, his team had organized  not less than 80 Bitcoin events  with  an outstanding impact on the  Bitcoin ecosystem.

According to him, Bitcoin Pizza Day Fest, aimed at creating awareness,   educating, onboarding,   gathering Bitcoin  enthusiast under a fun environment where they can  network,  come  up with ideas  on how to advance the Bitcoin ecosystem in Africa and  expand the  Bitcoin adoption.

Bitcoin Pizza Day Fest, also underscore the resilience efforts of the African spirit to start great things from a small place with a resonating effects globally.  \

 He opined that, the Crypto Bootcamp Community (CBC), will be  celebrating the  Bitcoin Pizza Day Fest in a more impactful way this year. The celebration will be premised on the understanding of its  benefit to  the African continent,  how it activated the implementation of Blockchain technology and what we could do with it on the continent.

It means, we shall be   driving  people’s  mind,  attentions,  information in the right direction.   The  Bitcoin Pizza Day Fest,  was  formerly known as Bitcoin Pizza Day Hangout,  has onboarded  more than  30,000 people,  60% of those onboarded   are  doing amazing things in the circular economy, while others are building industry related idea around the Bitcoin ecosystem.   

While underscoring the importance of the event to the African continent and the global ecosystem, Obinna said, this  year edition of the Bitcoin Pizza Day Fest  celebration makes it the fourth edition in a row.His words,  “ This is our fourth  edition,  we started the Bitcoin  Pizza Day Fest in Africa  and in the first year  we had it in not less than  18 cities across  four African countries.  Although  we started  in Nigeria,  we are a Pan-African  community,  and  we are all over Africa. You can find us majorly in; the West African region, Eastern African region, Central African region and the Southern African region.  Going historical and unveiling  the rationale behind the celebration within the  global context,  Obinna said the Bitcoin Pizza Day Fest,  points to  how great things can start from a small place  and resonates across the globe, providing education to the people, and creating awareness under a fun-filled  environment.  “The story of Bitcoin Pizza Day for us, is about how we did a great thing from a small  place. Why we choose Bitcoin Pizza day as that one event for creating awareness  for education, for onboarding,   gathering Bitcoin  enthusiast in one room under a fun environment where they can  network,  come  up with ideas  on how to advance the Bitcoin ecosystem in Africa and  expand the  Bitcoin adoption.  

He   also  make  passing reference to  the giant steps of Laszlo Hanyecz  who was a pathfinder in the Bitcoin global ecosystem by placing price values on Bitcoin. “The Impact of that story  is  what Laszlo Hanyecz  did, although, many years after many people focus  on the price  of what 10,000 Bitcoin could have been worth today, forgetting that  without what he did,  there would not have been any price action  to Bitcoin today.

For us, “we had to create an event around it  to educate people properly because if we don’t,  Bitcoin  may end up as a price speculation  in certain quarters and you would not blame  the people because that was what was promoted, given to them and they would assume that  the Bitcoin is for price speculation and come in speculating what the price of the Bitcoin would or could be.   Again, “ we needed to address that and make it very clear  that Bitcoin  is not for price speculation and without what Laszlo Hanyecz did with the Bitcoin on that day, Bitcoin may not have even been  able to reach the current value  it is now, because that is what accelerated the growth in the value  of Bitcoin. For instance, “That was the first time, that  a value was assigned  to Bitcoin, the first time it was used as medium  of exchange for a physical good,and  the  first time the  Bitcoin value transaction occurred.

“So for me, Laszlo,  is a believer and legend not someone  who wasted 10,000 worth of Bitcoin on two boxes of Pizzas and so we have to redefine that because we have seen the importance and the  benefit of Bitcoin to  the African continent  and how it activated the implementation of Blockchain technology and what we could do with it on this continent. It means we need to drive  people’s  mind,  attentions,  information in the right direction and that is why we started “the Bitcoin Pizza Day Fest”

 While highlighting the bigger dreams of   Bitcoin Pizza Day Fest is to extend  the frontiers of  the  event  across the globe and ensure that more of Nigeria cities benefited massively from  its offerings. He noted the organization  envisioned more impact, influence, and aimed  to cover the Africa continent and beyond in the shortest time possible with more strategic partnership and sponsorship from brands.

According to him, his team have enjoyed  enormous support from organization such as; Tether, Plan B Network, Yellow Card, Celo,   Tradefada , Alphageek Technologies,  Quidax,  Convexity, Roqqu, and CBC Blockchain ServicesOthers includes;  Aeon,  Akash Network,  Sasomis Jackocoins , Vent,  Fort Solar, Obiex,  Satoshi Centre , ICP KE,  Snapiro, Blockbuild, Gibchain, Jambo, BiTFI, and  QUGO. Bitcoin Pizza Day Fest,  is currently celebrated  in  West African region, Eastern African region, central African region and the Southern African region, whilst  we are making frantic effort towards entering the Northern region of Africa. 

This year, what we are doing at  Crypto Bootcamp Community (CBC),   is the  Bitcoin Pizza Day Fest, because we have moved from a hangout to a festival, so it is not just  talking about the Bitcoin Pizza Day, but also celebrating Bitcoin Pizza Day as it should. The convener,  notes that soon  a lot of initiatives  such as “One Shatoshi at a time”  which has been line up to tell the story of Bitcoin in the proper perspectives will be unveiled.  “So you can watch out for “One Shatoshi at a time” we are going to be pushing it across the continent and it is going to be  very massive. “We hope to keep  pushing this  thing and tell  the story.  it  is  beautiful to see that  this year we have individuals  now hosting Bitcoin Pizza Day hangouts, other brands are now using our slogan “Coming To A City Near You” to announce the  Bitcoin Pizza Day and it’s beautiful because we are building a global community.