Africa is poor for many reasons, the most important is a lack of human capital 

the top post of `/ecash`
is a claim that ecash is self-custodial

Africa is poor because of fiat banking and currency manipulation. What is a digital fiat mint going to fix?

BlueSlime

I do not backed in any way the use of ecash.
Yes is custodial. Everybody knows that.
Are just digital gift cards.

Yes, ecash is not for OG botcoiners. They really do not need it.
But think about those poor guys in African continent, when they cannot afford opening a decent LN channel.

bitcoin

Ecash is just digital fiat. Change my mind

I do not backed in any way the use of ecash.
Yes is custodial. Everybody knows that.
Are just digital gift cards.

Saying that... [in some use cases could push for bitcoin adoption](https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/bitcoin-adoption-using-ecash).

Yes, ecash is not for OG botcoiners. They really do not need it.
But think about those poor guys in African continent, when they cannot afford opening a decent LN channel.