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Jack Dorsey Appoints Three Nigerians To Lead Bitcoin Trust Fund by NigeriaZoo: 7:42pm On Dec 16, 2021
Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey has appointed three Nigerians to the board of the Bitcoin (BTrust) trust fund.

Dorsey, who resigned as Twitter CEO in late November, formed the Bitcoin trust fund in partnership with American hip-hop star Jay Z.

Dorsey announced the appointment in a statement on his Twitter page on Wednesday.

“I’m so grateful for you all and so inspired,” he tweeted while announcing the leaders of the Bitcoin trust fund.

He appointed three Nigerians and one South African to act as the board of his Bitcoin Trust (BTrust) fund which will be expended for development in Africa and India.

The Nigerians appointed into the Bitcoin trust fund are Abubakar Nur Khalil, Obi Nwosu, Ojoma Ochai, and South African, Carla Kirk-Cohen.

All four have worked to promote bitcoin development efforts across Africa.

Dorsey said a team selected the four developers from a pool of 7,000 applicants.

“They’ll now work towards defining the operating principles as they think about how to best distribute the 500 bitcoin towards development efforts,” Dorsey tweeted.

Abubakar Nur Khalil is a bitcoin core contributor and had received $50,000 in BTC for his work on Bitcoin wallet software from Human Rights Foundation (HRF) in May 2021.

Khalil is also the CTO of Recursive Capital, an early-on-stage crypto VC fund, supporting founders building critical web 3.0 infrastructure.

Obi Nwosu is the Co-founder of Coinfloor, a seed-level cryptocurrency startup, which has raised $300,000 in a funding round.

Ojoma Ochai is the Managing Partner at CcHUBCreative (Co-Creation Hub), a technology innovation workspace, accelerating startup growth in Nigeria and selected part in Africa – CcHUB has raised $5.5 million to aid its operation.

Carla Kirk-Cohen is a software engineer at Lightning Labs. She previously worked for Luno, a South African cryptocurrency Exchange and Wallet firm, working on the crypto-ops team.

While the BTrust funds will be disbursed in India and Africa, it’s unsure how it will work in Nigeria considering the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has banned cryptocurrency activities in Nigeria.

BTrust is a fund with a 500 BTC capital base worth N10,014,265,775.40 ($24,426,230), when pegged to late Monday’s market price of $48,815.35, and will be overseen by the four Africans, without supervision from Dorsey or Jay Z.

Dorsey in June 2021 said “the people of Nigeria will lead bitcoin” despite the Nigerian authorities clamping down on the trading of cryptocurrencies with a ban in place by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/12/16/jack-dorsey-appoints-three-nigerians-to-lead-bitcoin-trust-fund/

Re: Jack Dorsey Appoints Three Nigerians To Lead Bitcoin Trust Fund by itsme01: 7:45pm On Dec 16, 2021
Congratulations to them
Re: Jack Dorsey Appoints Three Nigerians To Lead Bitcoin Trust Fund by Moferere: 8:03pm On Dec 16, 2021
As happy as I am. I am not happy that Nigeria is not utilising its best

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Re: Jack Dorsey Appoints Three Nigerians To Lead Bitcoin Trust Fund by DeadCountry: 8:09pm On Dec 16, 2021
Biafrans leading in all spheres.
Re: Jack Dorsey Appoints Three Nigerians To Lead Bitcoin Trust Fund by lloydtruth: 8:14pm On Dec 16, 2021
Nice one
Re: Jack Dorsey Appoints Three Nigerians To Lead Bitcoin Trust Fund by Aufbauh(m): 8:18pm On Dec 16, 2021
Mr. Dorsey is understanding Buhari's language very fast
Re: Jack Dorsey Appoints Three Nigerians To Lead Bitcoin Trust Fund by NigeriaZoo: 8:30pm On Dec 16, 2021
Aufbauh:
Mr. Dorsey is understanding Buhari's language very fast

What does this have to do with Buhari ?

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Re: Jack Dorsey Appoints Three Nigerians To Lead Bitcoin Trust Fund by Aufbauh(m): 8:34pm On Dec 16, 2021
NigeriaZoo:


What does this have to do with Buhari ?


Even if i have to try to explain to you, I've observed that your moniker won't make you to understand.... Okwa'aya!
Re: Jack Dorsey Appoints Three Nigerians To Lead Bitcoin Trust Fund by Sctests: 8:36pm On Dec 16, 2021
Aufbauh:
Mr. Dorsey is understanding Buhari's language very fast

This Mugu can't read. Ewu,they got the appointment largely because they told your dumbohari to go FUVVKK himself and traded and funded Bitcoins which your presidiot banned. grin

Read book mooslim mugu. grin

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Re: Jack Dorsey Appoints Three Nigerians To Lead Bitcoin Trust Fund by NigeriaZoo: 8:37pm On Dec 16, 2021
Sctests:


This Mugu can't read. Ewu,they got the appointment largely because they told your dumbohari to go FUVVKK himself and traded and funded Bitcoins which your presidiot banned. grin

Read book mooslim mugu. grin

Don’t mind the guy

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Re: Jack Dorsey Appoints Three Nigerians To Lead Bitcoin Trust Fund by Cholls(m): 8:50pm On Dec 16, 2021
Sctests:


This Mugu can't read. Ewu,they got the appointment largely because they told your dumbohari to go FUVVKK himself and traded and funded Bitcoins which your presidiot banned. grin

Read book mooslim mugu. grin

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Re: Jack Dorsey Appoints Three Nigerians To Lead Bitcoin Trust Fund by BlackfireX: 5:22am On Dec 17, 2021
Everytime this people will dominate everywhere ..... are they the only ones ...always showing off and intimidating others making them inferior
Re: Jack Dorsey Appoints Three Nigerians To Lead Bitcoin Trust Fund by Aidejay(m): 8:55am On Dec 17, 2021
The way Nigerians are moving with this fintech thing is amazing. The same way we dominate the african music space is how were growing to become major players in this industry too. It's still a very long way to go. But I must join.
Seun, Lalasticlala, Mynd44, Dominic - zoom zoom zoom to FP!
Re: Jack Dorsey Appoints Three Nigerians To Lead Bitcoin Trust Fund by Aidejay(m): 9:03am On Dec 17, 2021
BlackfireX:
Everytime this people will dominate everywhere ..... are they the only ones ...always showing off and intimidating others making them inferior
After reading this post, if this is the only thing your brain could comprehend and deduce then I'm sorry for all those who invested in your education. Dem throway money ooh! Bad market.

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