Who is Mpho Dagada Mr Bitcoin

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By profession, Mpho Dagada is the Best-Selling Author, Keynote speaker, Obsessive entrepreneur and investor.

By nature, he is a solution architect, a passionate conveyor, and has been caught on several occasions attempting to shift mindsets.

By circumstance, he is a digital currency mogul, a digital visionary, blockchain technology expert, and futurist.

Mr Dagada was officially appointed to be a Member of the Presidential Commission on the Fourth Industrial Revolution(4IR) in order to ensure that he positions South Africa as a globally competitive player in the 4IR. The world is moving and growing and Mpho has a clear understanding of the direction that it will be taking. At the age of 25, he has an arsenal of accolades and is proving that no task is too big for him. President Cyril Ramaphosa has entrusted Mr Dagada to advise government on policies, develop framework for implementation of a multi-sectoral strategy, coordinate, monitor and evaluate multi-sectoral initiatives. He continues to become an authority in the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency space.
Mpho has travelled all over the country hosting tours that are centred around educating people about the Fourth Industrial Revolution and in turn- how they can use this knowledge for the betterment of society and their individual lives.
Mpho grew up in humble Venda, South Africa. This is where he first developed his entrepreneurial acumen as a budding micro-lender at Louis Trichardt High School where he matriculated. In between his entrepreneurial escapades, he began honing his passion for speaking and left the young public speaking community wanting as they witnessed him thrive globally. Some of his many early accomplishments include Young Communicator Award Finalist, An invitation to an International Exchange Program in Toronto, Canada and being selected among young entrepreneurs globally to participate in the prestigious TrepCamp which took place at Stanford University, USA. This journey afforded him the opportunity to learn and study alongside the world's best in Silicon Valley in a program that sent him on an odyssey through Googleplex, Facebook HQ, Salesforce, Adobe HQ and many other digital mega-corporations.
Mpho Dagada is often booked globally to be a Keynote Speaker on Blockchain Technology and more importantly the future of finance. He has worked alongside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in their efforts in helping bank the 1.7 Billion unbanked people around the world. He has spoken alongside the likes of Karen G Mills, who was a member of President Obama's Cabinet. Through this Harvard Senior Fellow, Mpho Dagada has conducted extensive research about fostering innovation, growing entrepreneurs and fin-tech. Mpho Dagada has advised Provincial Governments on fostering public private partnerships that foster transformation and inclusive growth. Mpho Dagada has headlined conferences such as the Namibia Oil and Gas Conference where he spoke to companies such as Shell, Total, Anadarko, ExxonMobil, Tullow Oil and Standard Bank.