Bitcoin is a worldwide cryptocurrency and digital payment system called the first de-centralized digital currency, as the system works without a central repository or single administrator. They can be exchanged for other currencies, products, and services. Bitcoin can also be held as an investment. According to research produced by Cambridge University in 2017, there are 2.9 to 5.8 million unique users using a cryptocurrency wallet, most of them using bitcoin.
Have you understood that Wikipedia description of what bitcoin is? Me neither! I just know it is cashless. Act like you know.
Now why have I given you a whole paragraph about bitcoin? Why? Because people have started using it to pay dowry. Mbuzi na ng’ombe hatutaki! Bitcoin pekee ndiyo tunakubali! Have you seen a man going to pay dowry but with neither livestock, cash, mobile money or any of the mainstream measures of value, yet still pays? In Naivasha, one man has done it. Anthony Mburu used bitcoin to display the marriage between tradition and technology in his ruracio’ to Elizabeth John. Watch the video below to see more of this sorcery!
