User:Craig Bunhu (CB)

Craig Bunhu (Zimbabwean: born March 16, 1996) is a Zimbabwean entrepreneur and I.T student primarily known as the founder of the African cryptocurrency; AfriPound.

Personal Life
Craig Bunhu was born in Nketa 9, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, to Phillip Bunhu and Sibongile Bunhu. He lived in the area until the age of twenty one then migrated to South Africa in search of better academic and employment opportunities.

Bunhu attended Hamilton High School, a private high school in Bulawayo, for three years, which he said, "were a few of the most interesting years of my life; the level of which the material was taught, made me widen my level of thinking and to envision and think out of the box". Bunhu has written that although he was "never particularly inspired by the traditional education system",when subjects were presented with "dedication and focus on intellectual inquiry", he said:

"I noticed my attitude and my results almost immediately and drastically change. Education is ultimately much more than simply memorizing individual facts, or even learning individual concepts. What matters most: learning how to think, learning how to reason and learning how to learn."

As a young entrepreneur, retail trader and protege of Professor Blessing Kasiyamhuru he managed to acquire a few thousand dollars sometime last year which helped him start his banking and cryptocurrency research. And on the 20th of December 2018 he wrote his very first whitepaper proposing AfriPound. He is still a full time student at Monash South Africa and working part time on the cryptocurrency.

Beginnings as a cryptocurrency Research Fellow
After coming across Bitcoin early last year as he added it to his trading portfolio, he started reading and researching on how one can develop such a construct and how to create and run a fully responsive and functional Blockchain. The interest grew even more when he found the Ledger, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes full-length original research articles on the subjects of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

AfriPound
Main article: AfriPound

Craig Bunhu is a co-founder and inventor of AfriPound, described as a decentralized form of currency that bridges the money transaction gap between peers. The cryptocurrency operates on top of the Ethereum blockchain (a cryptographic transaction ledger).

Bunhu first described AfriPound in a white paper late last year (2018). He argued that both Bitcoin and Ethereum weren't very common in African countries. This is what he said when he asked as to how he meant: "I am truly grateful to have the opportunity to work in such an interesting and interdisciplinary area of industry, where I have the chance to interact with cryptographers, mathematicians and economists prominent in their fields, to help build software and tools that already affect tens of thousands of people around the world but aren't popular in Africa, and to work on advanced problems in computer science and world economics."

Open source software
Before he started working on the AfriPound project, Bunhu was working as a freelance developer and worked on a few open source projects for example the famous Dark Wallet by Cody Wilson and Bitcoin Python libraries.