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Once you have a phone, you can enter Web3: Daniel.

Daniel, in Nigeria, on the cohort he runs over WhatsApp, and why. The problem he is working against is a belief: “most people feel like the only way they can actually make money is through internet fraud.” His answer is the phone in their hand. “Once you have a phone, you can get it to Web3.” From there, in his list: “you can learn blockchain development,” digital marketing, remote work for crypto and Web3 brands. The point of all of it, in his words: “you can earn without having to be a fraudster.”

He is modest about the scale. It is a WhatsApp group, “nothing to fancy, just onboarding new members and teaching them the basics of blockchain and then the basics of crypto,” and “I have a cohort coming up very soon, probably in August.” Why crypto rather than forex? “you can actually start even without a dime in your pocket once you have a phone in your palm.”

The channel’s own title for the piece is in pidgin: ’As you just get phone, na Web3 you don enter so.’ Executive producer @cxy; supported by Donna Dalton and Aja Davis. The transcript below is from the original audio.

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0:00Yeah, I think you’re right. And I’ve been doing that with my community on WhatsApp. I’ve been trying to abort new users. When I told you I’m trying to combat the whole idea where people think that where some of these youth and young people think that the only way that they can make money through internet fraud. Do you get it? Like most people feel like the only way they can actually make money is through internet fraud. So I’m aborting them, telling them that you don’t have to get money. Once you have a phone, you can get it to Web3. You can begin to do blockchain. You can use your mind. You can actually end by using your digital skills to work remotely for some of these crypto.

0:30and Web3 Brands, you can learn blockchain development, you can learn, you can begin to mine with your phone, you can learn digital marketing, you can learn this stuff, and I’m trying to tell you that, okay, you can earn without having to be a fraudster. So I’m trying in my only two way, offering, not as sophisticated as what Shifa is doing, but something similar. And I have a cohort coming up very soon, probably in August.

0:53It’s not going to be here. If I is on WhatsApp, nothing to fancy, just onboarding new members and teaching them the basics of blockchain and then the basics of crypto and trying to let them see that there are opportunities over here in crypto. And the good thing, why I feel like crypto is better than Forex is that you can actually start even without a dime in your pocket once you have a phone in your palm. Yeah.

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