Meet the Kenyan Startup Trying to Change Bill Gates’ Mind on Bitcoin

By July 23, 2015Bitcoin Business

bill gates Last month, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded bitcoin startup Bitsoko $100,000 to help troubleshoot Africa’s now-ubiquitous mobile money systems.

The news, which followed a long application process beginning last September, came as a surprise to the team of six, not least because Bill Gates has been publicly skeptical about the future of the payment technology in the developing world.

"They [the foundation] had not worked with any other bitcoin startups to our […]

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