[WATCH]: Safaricom Attempts to Extricate Itself From #GithuraiMassacre

Posted by Javan Onguru 8/29/2026 09:21:00 pm

China's Quantum Leap: Is Bitcoin Really in Danger, or Are We Asking the Wrong Question?

When China unveiled yet another breakthrough in quantum computing, headlines followed a familiar script. "Bitcoin could be broken." "Cryptocurrency faces extinction." "Quantum computers will destroy blockchain." They make for excellent clickbait. But they also miss the bigger story. Because Bitcoin is not what should keep governments awake at night. The real question is what happens when someone builds the world's first genuinely useful quantum computer. If that day arrives, cryptocurrencies will simply be among the first dominoes. 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻'𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝗔𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗕𝗲 𝗜𝘁𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 Bitcoin's security rests on mathematics. More specifically, two mathematical foundations. The first is SHA-256, the hashing algorithm securing Bitcoin's blockchain and mining process. The second is ECDSA, the digital signature system proving ownership of Bitcoin wallets. Today's computers would ne...

On Tuesday 25 June 2024, at the zenith of the world-famous #RejectFinanceBill2024 and #OccupyParliament protests, Safaricom switched off the Internet on the night of the Githurai massacre as Kenya Police descended on Githurai, slaughtering countless Kenyans in their wake.

The country entered a long night of communications blackout and nobody knew where anybody was or if they were safe. Come Wednesday morning, we were informed that no fewer than 22 bodies had arrived at the Nairobi City Mortuary overnight. Some of the bodies from the Githurai massacre, we now learn, were dumped at Kware in Mukuru Kwa Njenga.

In a morbidly bizarre twist, the woman who identified the mass grave dumpsite was led there, after weeks of searching, by her dead sister who, apparently, appeared to her in a dream to pinpoint the location of her body. And as fate would have it, the first body that was recovered by the young men she enlisted to assist her belonged to her dead sister.

Angry residents soon began to clamour, expressing displeasure and demanding for answers, not in the least because the local police station is barely 50 metres from the dumpsite graveyard. But all they got was the now-famous William Ruto response.