Fintech & Payments
· 1 min read
Beyond the Banknote
Ghana is unveiling new Heritage Series banknotes, but over a billion mobile money transactions in a single month point to the bigger opportunity: how money moves.
Writing
Essays and technical notes on payments, Bitcoin, engineering and the future of financial infrastructure in Africa.
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Fintech & Payments
· 3 min read
Ghana Is Regulating Crypto. Here’s What the New Sandbox Means (on Medium)
Ghana has taken one of its biggest steps yet toward regulating cryptocurrency, with the SEC and the Bank of Ghana both admitting firms into regulatory sandboxes.
Bitcoin & Money
· 3 min read
The Lightning Network: Bitcoin’s Secret to Speed (on Medium)
How do you scale a global monetary network without compromising decentralisation? The Lightning Network became one of the most elegant answers.
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2026
Fintech & Payments
· 1 min read
Beyond the Banknote
Ghana is unveiling new Heritage Series banknotes, but over a billion mobile money transactions in a single month point to the bigger opportunity: how money moves.
Fintech & Payments
· 3 min read
Ghana Is Regulating Crypto. Here’s What the New Sandbox Means (on Medium)
Ghana has taken one of its biggest steps yet toward regulating cryptocurrency, with the SEC and the Bank of Ghana both admitting firms into regulatory sandboxes.
2025
Engineering
· 2 min read
select {} — The Secret Ingredient for Goroutine Coordination (on Medium)
select listens to multiple channels at once and reacts to whichever is ready first. This small idea gives Go its clean concurrency style.
Engineering
· 2 min read
The Power of defer, Not Just Cleanup, But Safety (on Medium)
A simple Go feature that keeps your code safe, your resources clean, and your system stable when things go wrong.
Bitcoin & Money
· 3 min read
The Lightning Network: Bitcoin’s Secret to Speed (on Medium)
How do you scale a global monetary network without compromising decentralisation? The Lightning Network became one of the most elegant answers.
Engineering
· 2 min read
What’s an MCP Server? (Model Context Protocol) (on Medium)
A short explainer on the Model Context Protocol: a standard way for AI models to interact with external tools, data sources and APIs.
Engineering
· 2 min read
The Tiny Go Feature That Prevents Stuck Goroutines: context.Context (on Medium)
A blocked API request, a slow provider, and suddenly your service is leaking goroutines. context.Context is Go’s built-in kill switch.
Bitcoin & Money
· 4 min read
Building Real Bitcoin Economies in Africa (on Medium)
Grassroots communities in Africa are building Bitcoin circular economies to solve real-world financial challenges.
Perspectives
· 2 min read
Crypto in Africa: Why the “Get Rich Quick” Dream Is Hurting the Poor (on Medium)
The people most aggressively chasing quick profits in crypto are often those who can least afford to lose.
Perspectives
How Much of My Reality About Money Has Been Distorted All These Years? (on Medium)
I’m Ghanaian, born into a middle-class family. Like many others, I grew up believing I understood money.
2024
Perspectives
· 3 min read
My Journey from Software to Bitcoin Education in Ghana (on Medium)
After a decade in software, I embraced Bitcoin to empower Ghanaian women financially.