Meet Mohamed. As a child, staying with his grandmother in rural Senagal, his life was consistently at risk when he had an attack because there was no electricity to refrigerate medicines. Many times he was rushed to hospital (a very long way away). He was one of the lucky ones. Others were not. Years later he left a senior role in the nuclear industry in US to return to his homeland, to help his country solve this problem. This happened because Mohamed, as an engineer, had a chance introduction to Bitcoin mining. Because of his upbringing, he saw the promise of the technology that most miss. Mohamed was encouraged by two things 1. how the technology was already bringing electricity to rural communities in Malawi, Kenya, Zambia through @gridlessenergy's micro-hydro plants 2. how Ethiopia's power board used it's extra revenue selling wasted energy to Bitcoin miners to build 28,571 km new power lines and 8,700 substation bays out to rural Ethiopia. So he set up his own Bitcoin mining company in Senegal. He met with the nation's energy minister. The meeting went well. Then he talked to the Prime Minister's office. He just got approval from one of the large renewable energy utilities to run its first Bitcoin mining trial. Rural electrification is one of the two biggest issues facing Africa. The other is youth unemployment. But sometimes you have to have the mindset of an engineer, and to have seen the human cost of the problem firsthand, to see the solution that others miss.(Daniel Batten)