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Twitter’s Jack Dorsey names 3 Nigerians on Bitcoin board

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Twitter co-founder and erstwhile CEO, Jack Dorsey has announced the appointment of three Nigerians Abubakar Nu Khalil, Obi Nwosu, and Ojoma Ochai on a board to monitor 500 bitcoin fund devoted to bitcoin development “in Africa and India”.

Dorsey had in February announced an application for the board member in a tweet.

He said in the post; “JAY-Z/@S_C_ and I are giving 500 BTC to a new endowment named ?trust to fund #Bitcoin development, initially focused on teams in Africa & India. It‘ll be set up as a blind irrevocable trust, taking zero direction from us. We need 3 board members to start”.

However, the announcement disclosed four board members namely: Carla Kirk-Cohen, Abubakar Nu Khalil, Obi Nwosu, and Ojoma Ochai.

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Dorsey’s post reads; “Announcing the ?trust board: @actuallyCarlaKC @ihate1999 @obi @ojomaochai
! I’m so grateful for you all and so inspired.

“They’ll now work towards defining the operating principles as they think about how to best distribute the 500 bitcoin towards development efforts.

“(will update this with any accounts they create to share updates going forward…)

“(and a MASSIVE thank you to the working team that made this happen. 7,000 applications to these incredible 4, all reviewed with purpose and rigor)”.

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