How many true mavericks have you encountered? Could you even tell? Could you feel the potential radiating off them? Was it obvious?

When you talk to Abubakar Nur Khalil, it is obvious. You feel it. He got into bitcoin after graduating from high school in 2016. He spent a year teaching himself the mechanics of bitcoin down to the code, and he started contributing to Bitcoin Core in 2019. To help smooth funding cycles, he founded Recursive Capital in 2020, his own Africa-focused Bitcoin VC. He’s grown tired of struggling with broken and fragmented payment rails in Africa and his native Nigeria, so he’s building Volt Wallet to make bitcoin work better for him and 1.5 billion other Africans.

Abubakar is out to improve Africa’s money, Africa’s many diverse societies, and the freedoms and rights of Africa’s people. Volt Wallet is his vehicle, and its engine is the Breez SDK.

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