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Bitcoin Kakuma

Kakuma, Kenya · Circular economy

Active

Dated activity within 12 months of our last check.

The operator's Geyser post dated 16 March 2026 describes its campaign to bring Swahili copies of a Bitcoin book to learners in Kakuma; later posts to 3 July 2026 only link elsewhere (checked 28 October 2026).

Dated activity 16 March 2026Checked 28 October 2026

A project in the Kakuma refugee camp that teaches refugees to save and transact in Bitcoin and is building a community hub, with the stated aim of a local circular economy.

Operator
Bitcoin Kakuma
Funding
Funded through a Geyser crowdfunding page.
Adoption, as the operator reports it
No merchant or participant figure was found on the checked pages.
What the figures don’t show
The dated posts describe education campaigns, not payments between people in the camp.
How sure we are
Medium for operator-dated posts; no adoption numerator.Our confidence in reading the source — not a rating of whether the claim is true.
Source
geyser.fund/project/btckakumaWhere on the page: “project page / 2026-03-16 books campaign post / later link posts 2026-04-20 to 2026-07-03” · checked 28 October 2026

Status history

SnapshotStatusSource last checked
Added after the 1 October 2026 snapshot; its first snapshot is 1 November 2026.

The pulse has the whole history.

Cite this record

Billasaari Bitcoin Places Register (2026). Bitcoin Kakuma [bitcoin-kakuma-ke], v0.6.0. https://billasaari.com/atlas/bitcoin-kakuma-ke/. CC BY 4.0.