In Africa, Machankura allows you to send bitcoins without an internet connection thanks to USSD technology. Something that will help democratize cryptocurrencies and their use.
To democratize cryptocurrencies, it is necessary to offer services that allow them to be used, and this is all the easier, in all possible scenarios and in four corners of the globe. Thanks to services developed by Machankura, residents of some African countries can send and receive bitcoin (BTC) without an internet connection.
In Africa, Machankura allows you to send bitcoins without an internet connection.
Machankura is still very young. The service should expand quickly and cover more countries in the future, maybe not necessarily in Africa, by the way, but for now it covers Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda.
If you find it difficult to imagine how it would be possible to send or receive bitcoins without an Internet connection, know that it is actually quite simple. The operation is based on a technology that has been around for several years, namely Unstructured Supplementary Data (USSD).
This is thanks to USSD technology
Those who knew about the origin of the mobile phone may remember the code “#123#”, which, by dialing it on their mobile phone, allowed them to know the status of their consumption. This is the USSD code. Each code is created to perform a specific action. In the case we are interested in, using a specific code, depending on the country – for example, *134*382*382# for South Africa – you can set the address in the lighting network, directly related to the phone number.. A simple push-button phone (normal mobile phone), no smartphone required.
Something to help democratize cryptocurrencies and their use
It then becomes possible to send bitcoins directly to a phone number. If this solution is still relatively difficult to handle, it is very promising. Especially in countries or regions where Internet access is far from widespread. Machankura’s services will undoubtedly allow for the democratization of cryptocurrencies and their use. We now hope that this initiative will be crowned with success.