Africa leapfrogs with technology, this is a well established fact.
For example many of Africa's smart phone users have never owned a PC or a laptop.
We may soon witness not only an African technological leapfrog but a financial one as well.
Traffic is starting to be spread throughout Africa's major centers with some very large blue dots in major cities.
The Steemit user base in West Africa is expanding most rapidly, similar to what we saw in the initial phases of the viral growth in South Korea.
If we zoom into West Africa we see that this traffic is mostly coming from the English speaking countries in West Africa; Nigeria and Ghana.
The cities being, in descending order, Lagos, Abuja and Accra.
Lagos has jumped to 5th place worldwide, from 20 or so a couple of weeks ago (ignoring the "not set").
That is roughly equivalent to 80% of the traffic out of New York over a comparative period.
This hints strongly at going viral there as well.
This has very interesting implications.
Many of these users will not have had bitcoin before. STEEM will be their first cryptocurrency.
This is not unique, since Steemit is introducing many people to cryptocurrency.
What is unique is that many of the STEEM account holders will be people that have never previously had a bank account.
Wow - Lagos at #5! I would never have guessed. Thanks for the stats - very interesting
Very true @gavvet, here is the first steem-lagos meetup yesterday that i hosted and it was the best, many people asking us what we are up to and what the steemit logo means, many promised to come but only 9-made it. So our target is to get about 250,000 to 500,000 users before 2018......God Help me and the all of us!
With your permission, here is the post about the meetup.
oh wow look at this! you need to connect with @xpency He is my Africa Team Steemit representative and i helped him and @tj4real make a 1000 anbd a 2000 post backa few weeeks agO! it sucks bnecause i helped them make like a 2400 post about signing up nigerians at his school (200 person lecture) to steemit and then price iof steem went from like $2.80 diown to $1 and it seemed like all that money he made was cut in half or more
but he STILl recieved teh SAME amountof steem, the amount he made WILl go back upo as soon as steem goes back yto $3!
uit jjust sucks when you make all that steem and the price goes down and it makes you want to sell
but i promise if yoU DONt seell you will end up making SO much money
u cant afford NOT to turn $1000 into $10,000 when price of steem hgoes from $1 to $10
We can totaly upgrade africa with steemit!
yess LEAPFROG like china did with its induystrial revolution
yes u can SKLIP all the hard parts of industrialization and u can go IMMEIDTALy to blocklchain utopia~!
steemit will give EVERYlast unemployed person in africa a JOB!
And All of Africa gets a new African reserve Currency! both Bitcoin AND steem!
i am so excited go look at #africa or http://www.steemit.com/trending/Africa and u can see how much growth there is in Africa steemit category! that #Africa hashtag is huge and we can show anyone in africa who gets online and joins steemit that they will be REWARDED
i wish to connect but they stay in different cities......
Good article,am in Kenya and there are merchants who are exchanging bitcoin to Kenya Shillings..https://localbitcoins.com/places/11450020/nairobi-kenya/
hey am KENYAN too kindly follow me @darkqueen
follow me too @darkqueen lets make Kenya proud!
I wonder if leapfrogging technology is an advantage or disadvantage when adopting new technology? Does the use of the old technology give you familiarity or do we become old dogs trying to learn a new trick? It will be interesting to watch. Thanks for posting.
This is very good new, and interesting, it will be nice if steem could be accepted as payment in a place like Nigeria, which could well happen if enough people obtain it to put presure on business.
business is very informal there so not so much pressure would be required, since the business owner is also a user.
Thus they can just transfer from one account to the next - great
This is exactly how m-pesa started
The stats are impressive, people who never own a PC nor they have ever used one are now owning smartphones and using platforms such as Steemit. This is indeed a technological leapfrog. I wonder how people are going to understand what actually a cryptocurrency is and how to transfer it to their national currency.
I hope there are Steem users who are guiding these newbies into the world of cryptocurrencies.
The hope is that they eventually wont have to transfer into their national currencies as steem becomes widely used.
This is huge. Steem and Steemit can change a lot of lives in developing countries. I've really enjoyed getting to know some Nigerian Steemit members lately. I agree that Steem could become a default currency in many parts of Africa and the world. We need to support this growth.
And congrats to the Indonesians, Australians, and always the Koreans. Incredible growth there, too!
This is AWESOME! Love it!
I´m Norwegian but have lived in Kenya for some years and do business with people in East Africa now.
This could really become a game changer for many people.
I can totally see this one. It reminds me of communications, Africa basically bypassed traditional phone lines and went straight to mobiles. So i can see them leapfrogging in other areas.
very good news!!
Right! The African would have some hope to overcome the low quality of technical and financial system with steemit!
Thats true the hope is building up
I have just realised that steemit is actually balancing the general value of a money. I mean everyone is earning the same, does not matter if he is from poor country or rich, maybe it has no deeper meening, but it seems kind of interesting for me heh
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2.35% upvote thanks to @pastzam - Hail Eris !Wowww. ...I love how the development is going..lagos is doing a great job. Hope most of the Giants of Africans can emulate this hardwork from lagos. I'm from Ghana and we are doing all that it takes to put the continent on the map. .thanks fod the stats.
That's really good news! For Steemit and for the people living in Africa.
Steemit is growing fast this year. Hope it will keep the moment and grow to be one of the biggest social network around.
:)
Korea and China are all over the place in the crypto world and I'm glad. You know what would be nice? To see more users from arabic and persian countries, especially Iran, Lebanon... Iraq?
And imagine having Steemians from North Korea one day. That would be the best thing to happen.
I am happy to see African countries on top of technological revolutions!
Great future ahead for Steemit.. this is just the beginning....Once it gets little popular in Africa, Steemit is going to spread like wildfire. Thanks @gavvet for sharing these amazing growth statistics.
Africa will soon be top dog & fix the world!!!
One step at a time , unrealistic goals lead to some rather awful failures and deception
Many things have to be overcome .
Also , we should stop thinking in terms of someone being a top dog or no , everyone should rise.
Steemit can change life for everybody !
follow for follow #lagosians #nigerians #africans @dkinx
I really enjoyed this. Thank you. Are you South African?
Yup
I was just in your beautiful country. I love it. I posted a short write up on when I met nelson Mandela in 1996. Pls read it and leave a comment or resteem. Or upvote. Thanks so much for all your posts. It is very inspiring.
Good post indeed
This is really impressive
Awesome Article I got not only new ideas , got information about the new stream and crypt currency
interesting, There are people who earn -1 dollar a day
Steemit can eradicate this problem.
Noble Prize of Humanity : steemit
That is very interesting, what impact crypto could have in this format. Often times I think that a many people sees it as a fight against the banks. However one could ask how much is changed by putting some of that power over to the techies - but Steemit could actually make this movement more mainstream.
Totally agree friend
This is a great news. I'm quite sure within the next few month the influx of Africans on steemit will skyrocket.
Together we can move steemit to a greater height .
We are Africans
Can explane anyone please
What do you mean?
Excellent data analysis and reporting!
انا من اشد المعجبين بيك ممكن تدعم حسابي انا اتبع قناتك علي اليوتوب
Shout-out for Africa, Steemit is developing huge all over:)
Beautiful post !
Upvoted !
Nice keep it up, I would like to visit Africa one day
nice post brother..
Steemit is changing people lives around the world 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Wow, India, Africa ... I never thought that there is such a spread of the Internet.
Which proves the Steemit is gonna more be valuable n stronghold in future
It speaks of development. And I mean everything (not just technology). Everything is cyclical. For a long time there was a lull, and now a violent growth. Welcome to everyone who wants to join steemit!
Great Post!! Steemit can be a game changer.
Blessings to you!!!
Keep supporting them there, they always need the latest technological developments.
Nice post i just upvoted :-). Can anyone please answer this question https://steemit.com/steemit/@stefen/where-does-this-potential-payout-goes-after-7-days ?
I'm glad that Steemit acts as a bridge to the world of cryptocurrency.
As the users grow so will the interesf in cryptocurrencies and I hope this keeps going on so here is more exposure to everyday people.
Crazy to see the growth of Steemit users in Africa but I guess it will make the community better with different cultures and traditions.
Steem on!
thank you nice post i love it
Are you from africa? I love africa and will be the someday
that is amazing for the steemit community
more people it means more content and readers
when there is enough demand there will be solutions! Its the biggest challenge for crypto it goes so fast for so many areas in the world... Interesting read thx
And you've done a great job spreading the news about all these things.
Indeed steemit has a great future.
Thanks for sharing!)