During a visit to African Bitcoin Conference in Ghana in 2023, we learned that the Asante people had a deity of Thunder and Lightning. That deity was known as Tando. At the conference we were also inspired by a great talk by Femi Longe where he said: 

Africans need to build bitcoin solutions for Africans.

With that newfound knowledge and inspiration from the trip to Ghana, we came back to Kenya with a fire in our belly to build something revolutionary. Through our boots-on-the-ground research we learned that most people in Kenya were more interested in using bitcoin as a Medium of Exchange (MoE) first, and Store of Value (SoV) second, which is the reverse of how most people in The West typically use bitcoin. 

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By standing on the shoulders of giants, we figured we could help 54 million Kenyans change their MoE from KES to BTC with one easy-to-use app. An app that looked and worked nearly identical to the M-Pesa app that is ubiquitous throughout the country, but with just one small change – Bitcoin as the medium of exchange.

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• M-Pesa forever changed the way people transacted in Kenya in 2007.
• Satoshi Nakamoto forever changed money for the world in 2009.
• Tando combines both of these two great inventions in 2024.