SETH ONYANGO, BIRD AFRICA amassed 105.6 billion dollars worth of cryptocurrencies in forecasts for the year ending June 2021, driven by peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions in key growth markets. Markets like Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Tanzania had some of the highest grass-roots adoptions in the world and ranked in the top 20 Global Crypto Adoption Index. Digital analytics firm, Chainalysis’s latest figures show transactions volume made up of retail-sized transfers in Africa was 7 per cent, against the global average of 5.5 per cent. “No region uses P2P platforms at a higher rate than African cryptocurrency users, as they account…