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A Look at South Africa’s Machankura – The First Bitcoin USSD Service in Africa

KODZILLA·AUGUST 15, 2022

Machankura is a South African service that let’s people send bitcoin P2P using their phone numbers on USSD, just like mobile money services that have become very popular on the African continent.

USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) is an application interface that uses just short codes to interact with an application, making it simple and widely available on feature phones.

While smartphones continue to penetrate across the continent, feature phones have remained more popular, with just over half of mobile phone units sold in Q1 2022 across the continent being the feature phones.

Send and receive sats via lightning to your phone number

Ghana
9208333#

Kenya
4838333#

Malawi
3848333#

Namibia
1428333#

Nigeria
3478333#

South Africa
134382*382#

Uganda
2848333#

Zambia
3848333#

Receive Bitcoin
Every registered user can send and receive Bitcoin to their phone number from other Machankura users or to their machankura lightning address.

27123456789@8333.mobi
sigidli@8333.mobi

Users can set a username to not need to publicly share their phone number to receive Bitcoin.

Send Bitcoin
Easily send sats to any other lightning address or to other Machankura users.

Barter Bitcoin
Spend your Bitcoin in exchange for goods and services.