This is manipulated by NOONES CEO Ray Youssef
The first crypto billionaires boosted marketing into our industry, but all of the hype has done harm to us. Most people, like most people who have made oil outlook and drilling gold, are not rich. In all the gold rush, the most money-earning people sold picks and shovels – they didn’t use them to dig for gold.
One of the world’s first billionaires, Howard Hughes earns most of his money from oil, but his oil money comes from selling drill bits to oil prospectors who wanted to get rich soon. Crypto’s best traders have the way of thinking of Howard Hughes, as only a small percentage of Crypto traders get rich waiting to go to the moon.
There is a better way to make money from Crypto, and the best traders understand how it works.
They look for problems and find solutions.
For years I have been a Crypto advocate as an efficient and inexpensive tool Little Guy can use to make financial transactions. But all people who use Crypto to send money home, buy or buy gift cards need someone to help them with the transaction. That’s where traders come in. They provide liquidity that allows small people to trade. More and more familiar crypto traders are turning trading into their own business. They are the technical version of Tin Sheds, which sold picks and shovels to prospectors 150 years ago. And some of those tin sheds are turning into department stores, as they did during the gold rush.
About ten years ago, a young Asian student called Martin wanted to buy a steam gift card. He bought discounted gift cards online, but soon realized that the people selling him were making huge profits. He discovered the problem.
Martin knew that the guy selling gift cards was buying them from someone else at a cheaper price, so he went to work. He was quickly buying cheap steam gift cards and began selling them to others looking for a better deal. It didn’t take him long to train for him to do the same with ciphers and booms! – He was a trader. When Martin graduated from college, he was working for the government, but he continued his trade. Like most serious traders, Martin quit his job when he realized he could make more money. His problems – expensive gift cards – led to solutions that allowed him to expand his deals into a new lifestyle.
Remote Worker Boom
The technology economy has opened up many opportunities for people to become their own bosses and create work schedules tailored to their lifestyles. People would laugh a few years ago when they said they could earn money by posting their own photos or uploading videos to social media. Peer-to-peer (P2P) businesses such as E-Bay, Airbnb, and Uber are creating so many opportunities for people to earn money and become their bosses. The proportion of remote workers jumped during Covid-19, but has already increased, remaining more than double the level in 2019. By 2030, remote digital jobs around the world are expected to increase by 25.
Over the past five years alone, Kenya’s gig economy has risen by 216%.
Statistics | Kenya leads the African gig economy, growing 216% of online freelancers over 5 years – https://t.co/xjxhiy4nvo
– ọlá (@samcenaexe) April 14, 2025
Despite the rise in online workers, people were slow to grasp the opportunities created by P2P Crypto. This is because the average people don’t see cryptography on what is at the basic level, as mainstream media focuses on crypto billionaires, fraud and privacy hacks.
Its usefulness as a problem solver is why more people in the Global South adopt P2P cryptography. Global South deals with financial trading issues every day, so you’re more likely to search for solutions. Our platform allows you to trade with people in 60 countries and use over 500 payment methods. You can also make payments, buy and sell gift cards, transfer money, restock your mobile phone, and use a virtual visa card. Traders are simply hanging from the platform, saving people time and money, and the ability to solve problems means they can make money, create business and change their lives.
Milestone | NOONES, P2P Crypto trading app for Africa and emerging markets, exceeds 2 million users worldwide
Unlike other platforms with large KYC procedures, NOONE allows users to exchange ciphers without identity verification https://t.co/m4gerbuebm @noonesapp @ray_noones pic.twitter.com/cnwbeplen2
– Bitke (@bitcoinke) January 29, 2025
Julian, an African student, says he was “stuck” not only did he break, but he was “stuck” until he began trading gift cards. He says that Crypto changed his life because he gave him “real freedom.”
Sheyi Dario is very knowledgeable and teaches other Africans how to trade and learns how to make money to tens of thousands of YouTube followers. Traders don’t make much money on each transaction, but they do it frequently. How much does Amazon or Alibaba make on a sale of $10? Not so much, but when you do it on a large scale, everything adds up and traders have the same mindset. They don’t make a lot of money making some trades each week, but if they do a lot of trades every day, they change the game. This year, the global gift card market will reach $1.4 trillion. Walmart and Amazon earnings about half of that. By 2034, the gift card market will be nearly $4 trillion.
“Entrepreneurship is primarily solving problems and expanding solutions.”
P2P Crypto is an ecosystem of people looking for solutions to problems, some of which take extra steps and help others find the same solution. I always know that entrepreneurship is primarily solving problems and expanding solutions. Therefore, those who want to be their boss and those who want to become traders must find a solution to their problems. If you live in a country where people are making it difficult for them to do financial transactions, find solutions to help people become affected. They will pay you to make their life easier.
(Monitoring) Incubation of teams solving African problems – Chat with CEO, Paxful: https://t.co/inyvoxknzi @raypaxful @paxful #paxful
– Bitke (@bitcoinke) August 31, 2021
I’ve never said trading is easy, but I say that no special skills are required. You need to work for money, and if you’re not working, you won’t make much money – but that’s about you. One of the biggest things Uber did for the world was making it easier for people to become their bosses without the need for special skills or great ideas. Most people can drive, use their mobile phones and navigate Google Maps. The problem is that it is difficult to expand your Uber business. Trade Crypto requires less skills than you need to be an Uber driver, as you only need to have internet access and a good trading app. Additionally, P2P Crypto is much easier to scale than Uber’s business. I know – I did it twice.
“Peer-to-peer crypto trading is probably like a half trillion dollar business in Nigeria alone,” says Noones CEO and founder
According to Youssef, who founded two P2P cryptographic platforms that operate in Nigeria, most P2P transactions do not occur with #noones and #paxful…pic.twitter.com/84ehgas3z3
– Bitke (@bitcoinke) May 6, 2024
There are probably not many Uber drivers making USD 10 million a month, but there are plenty of familiar crypto traders who make more than that. Many people call Crypto a revolution, but we should do more to defend Crypto as a problem-solver. Cryptocurrencies are not about billionaires, con artists or hackers. Every industry has billionaires, con artists and hackers.
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The fruits of our revolution will become clear as more people understand the opportunities P2P Crypto create. When that happens, the world is never the same.
Opinion | Pan-Africa Trade Revolution may just have begun in Kenya 🇰🇪
“For years I have argued for the end of financial apartheid in Africa because when you say, “Your money isn’t good” or “We won’t trade with you,” the end result is a failed economy and chaos… pic.twitter.com/sfntzuqgxn
– Bitke (@bitcoinke) July 15, 2024
Ray Yousef
CEO, NOONES
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