Introducing BuyCoins

About 10 months ago, I published “Introducing Bitkoin Africa”. Since then, my team and I learned a lot about what gaps still need to be filled, what different kinds of users want and how we can serve them.

It quickly became apparent that we needed to build a different kind of product, one that builds upon some things that made the peer to peer platform good:

• the ease of making payments (and receiving them)
• super simple but effective and reliable user verification/KYC
• eliminating the need to trust some human on the other side of a trade
• bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum and bitcoin cash support.

Now we have a product that espouses all the goodies above with one major difference: it’s not peer to peer.

You do not have to wait until someone is interested in buying or selling cryptocurrency with them. You can now buy & sell directly (with no hidden fees) in the app, instantly.

Now anybody in Nigeria with a debit card or bank account, can create an account, get verified and trade in less than 5 minutes.

That product is BuyCoins and it’s available for both iOS and Android.

It’s been a long, challenging road for my amazing team & I, but we’re very aware that this is just the beginning.

BuyCoins is just the second step of many on the road to truly borderless exchange of value across the continent and beyond.

We hope you like our second step. :)