If you want to buy verified Binance account, you’ll be relieved to discover that the procedure is pretty straightforward. In this weak environment, Ethiopians are forced to buy government bonds, which, as Kassa dryly noted, have negative real interest rates. Inflation is officially reported at around 20%. Kassa is not sure what the exact rate is, but said that Ethiopians traditionally buy a chicken or sheep or lamb for Easter, and these prices go up steadily every year. Kassa is focused on the Lightning Network, and uses it to pay his contacts in Ethiopia. He helps them set up the open-source, free Blue Wallet, and pays them directly with Lightning. On the other end, his contacts use Blue Wallet as their savings accounts, and they exchange locally into birr when they said need to in peer-to-peer markets.