Quiet
The operator’s site is up, but we found no dated activity in the last 12 months. Quiet is not closed.
Four programmes are described as active or expanding, without dates (checked 30 September 2026).
Dated activity none foundChecked 30 September 2026
Bitcoin education, a merchant network, Lightning payments, waste-collection incentives and a local marketplace for merchants, riders, women, youth and other residents of Kibera.
- Operator
- Afribit Africa
- Funding
- Donations and a public circular-economy fund; merchants take ordinary Bitcoin payments.
- Adoption, as the operator reports it
- The operator says it connects 40+ merchants, and its marketplace displayed 28 products. It gives no community-wide denominator.The figures are undated at the source.
- What the figures don’t show
- A self-reported merchant count is not a measure of resident adoption.
- How sure we are
- High for current operator proposition and displayed merchant count; not independently audited.Our confidence in reading the source — not a rating of whether the claim is true.
- Source
- www.afribit.africa/aboutWhere on the page: “Built in Kibera / Today Afribit connects 40+ merchants” · checked 30 September 2026
- Record
afribit-kibera-keLocality: Wikidata Q579521
Status history
| Snapshot | Status | Source last checked |
|---|---|---|
| 1 October 2026 | Quiet | 30 September 2026 |
A snapshot freezes every place’s grade on the 1st of the month; sources are re-checked on a rolling basis, at least every 120 days. The pulse has the whole history.
Cite this record
Billasaari Bitcoin Places Register (2026). Afribit Kibera [afribit-kibera-ke], v0.2.0. https://billasaari.com/atlas/afribit-kibera-ke/. CC BY 4.0.