Edwin Sikini

Long before Edwin Sikini was building blockchain infrastructure, he was a paramilitary officer with Kenya's General Service Unit, trained to think in threats, evidence and control. Years later, after a decade investigating financial crime inside Kenyan banks, he would come to a conclusion that unsettled even him. The money system he had spent his career protecting was already being quietly replaced. In this episode of Power Dialogue Africa, Edwin makes a claim that stopped me mid-sentence, Bitcoin will do to money what email did to the post office. Not eventually. Now. We trace this from cowrie shells and gold coins to Nixon ending the gold standard in 1971, the 2008 financial crisis that birthed Bitcoin, and why Kenya is quietly becoming one of the world's biggest crypto markets. If you have ever wondered whether crypto is money, an investment, or a scam, this conversation gives you the full picture, no jargon, no hype.