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Peer-to-peer crypto trade in Africa surges to 2nd place by more than 50 percent

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In just a few months, African countries now represent more than USD 15 million in combined weekly peer-to-peer crypto trade following triple-digit growth.

The African continent has shown swift growth in the Bitcoin trading on peer-to-peer crypto trade platforms and now is second to the United States. Over the past week, the African continent was the only region to post an increase in the seven-day peer-to-peer crypto trade.

Early this year, the sub-Saharan African continent passed the Asian-Pacific, Eastern European, and Latin American regions coming out as the second-powerful peer-to-peer crypto trade market by a volume margin of more than 50 percent.

Growth of peer-to-peer crypto trade in Africa

Kevin Rooke, a crypto analyst posted data on Twitter disclosing a triple-digit peer-to-peer crypto trade activity among Africa’s top peer-to-peer markets:

Bitcoin adoption in Africa is setting all-time highs every week now.

In just 3 months, P2P volumes are up:

125% in Nigeria

199% in Kenya

194% in South Africa

257% in Ghana

Combined, these four currencies are now exchanging over 15M USD/week of Bitcoin.

A spokesman for top peer-to-peer Bitcoin market exchange Paxful revealed that in addition to Africa’s top market, Cameroon came out as a “breakout country” with USD 5 million in volume so far. Africa has been hailed as the continent that would acquire crypto adoption in the future.

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Source: Kevin Rooke

Bitcoin interest in Africa

Earlier on, an interactive map showed the level of cryptocurrency interest all over the world, disclosing Bitcoin searches are often in African countries and South America.

In consonance to the map issued at Blockchaincenter.net, Google Trends statics shows that the Bitcoin dominates search interest in the African continent. 94.7 percent of all searches related to crypto, including BTC, Bitcoin Cash, Cardano, Dogecoin, Ethereum, and Tron—in Kenya are for Bitcoin.

Since its establishment almost 10 years down the line, some crypto enthusiasts had stated that Africa would play a crucial role in acquiring the crypto adoption in the future.

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