Kgothatso Ngako

BuilderCrypto· South African

South African software engineer and founder of Machankura, a service that puts bitcoin on Africa's most basic phones: users dial a USSD short code — the same menus used for airtime and mobile money — to send and receive sats over the Lightning Network, with no smartphone or internet connection required. A former Amazon Web Services developer, he has expanded the service to ten African countries.