Nigerians
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Nigerians are the citizens and people of Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa[1]. On this wiki the best-known Nigerian is Bitcoin Obama, the crypto shiller who has promoted HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu ($BITCOIN) since May 2023. He says he is from Kano, calls himself “the best Shiller of the Nigeria”[2], and makes being Nigerian the centre of his persona. This page covers the people and culture briefly, then how the Bitcoin Obama meme uses Nigerian identity.
People and culture
▶ Watch on YouTubeNigeria is home to several hundred ethnic groups and more than 500 languages. The largest groups are the Hausa and Fulani, mostly in the north; the Yoruba in the south-west; and the Igbo in the south-east. Others include the Ijaw, Kanuri, Ibibio, Tiv and Edo. English is the official language and Nigerian Pidgin is the everyday common tongue of much of the south. The north is mostly Muslim and the south mostly Christian, and traditional religions continue alongside both[1].
Nigerian popular culture has a large global audience. Nollywood is one of the world's biggest film industries by output, Afrobeats artists from Lagos chart worldwide, and jollof rice, suya and the owambe party are known well beyond the country. “Naija” is the informal name Nigerians use for the country and for themselves. Nigerians abroad form large communities in the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere in Africa. Nigerian game makers are a smaller but growing scene; one example is Gbrossoft of Lagos, whose Outliver: Tribulation draws on Yoruba mythology. Bitcoin Obama played it on the Crypto Craic YouTube channel in “Nigerian Gaming Episode 1” (Feb 2026), a show about games from Nigerian studios.
Afrobeats stars
Afrobeats is one of Nigeria's biggest cultural exports, and its leading stars come out of the Lagos scene. Three names come up most often, including on the Crypto Craic podcast, where RXKNephew heard about Davido from the crew.
Davido
Davido (David Adedeji Adeleke) is a Nigerian-American singer and one of the leading stars of Afrobeats[3]. He was born in Atlanta and raised in Lagos.
Burna Boy
Burna Boy (Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu) is a Nigerian singer and one of the leading stars of Afrobeats[4]. He broke through with “Like to Party” (2012) and later signed with Atlantic Records.
Wizkid
Wizkid (Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun) is a Nigerian singer and one of the leading stars of Afrobeats[5]. He was born in Ojuelegba, Surulere, Lagos.
Nigerians in the Bitcoin Obama community
The $BITCOIN community has a cluster of Nigerian accounts known as the Nigerian “Bitcoin” crew, many of them named after a famous person in the community's “Bitcoin + celebrity” style. They include Bitcoin Mandela, who organized the holder-funded Sproto wells; the Lagos members Bitcoin Robin Williams, Bitcoin Druski and Adeleke the Nigerian; Bitcoin Theo Von; and rivals such as Bitcoin Obama 2.0. Some accounts carry “the Nigerian” in their names, such as Junior the Nigerian and Muskl the Nigerian. Jimoh the Nigerian is known in the community for voodoo and spells. Sani, who appears in many of Obama's videos, speaks Hausa.
How the meme frames Nigerians
The joke of Bitcoin Obama is a Nigerian man with a very large, very sincere public persona, and most of its themes come from that. The wiki records them as the community uses them. They are memes, not descriptions of Nigerians in general.
- The patriotic shiller. He presents himself as Nigeria's champion: “I am from Nigeria 🇳🇬”[6], “I am Nigerian ANSEEM”[7], “the Nigerian Andrew tate”[8], and “the best African Shiller”[9]. He has refused to shill for anyone who does not “support Africa”[10].
- Coins as national development. Each coin is pitched as help for the country: wells, malaria nets, free medicine, the first Taco Bell in Nigeria[11] or “the first AI in NIGERIA”[12]. His arithmetic is part of the joke: “THERE ARE 8 BILLION NIGERIANS ON THIS PLANET”[13], and “over 250M people in Nigeria”, so “If each buy 1% we will hit 250M mc”[14]. The “cure the malaria” promise is written up on Bitcoin Obama's page.
- The village and the politician. He describes himself as a villager trying to help his village, and also as a perennial candidate who runs for president, for mayor of Abuja and for the Kano delegation, against the “Tinubu demons”, a phrase his 2023 holders coined for the dark forces said to be working against him.
- The scam question. The “Nigerian scammer” stereotype is the shadow behind the whole persona, and the community plays with it from both sides. As of October 2026 his bio said he was “Fighting crypto scams in Nigeria”, and he says that any Nigerian project without his approval is a scam[15]. Rivals and former friends, in turn, call him a scammer. The wiki reports both and takes neither as fact.
- Race jokes. The community's jokes about race and whiteness, including his own “I love white peoples”, are covered in the next section.
Nigerians and white people
Race, and especially the relationship between Nigerians and white people, is one of the most repeated themes in the Bitcoin Obama meme. In his posts and on the podcast, white people are cast as the audience with the money and the jobs, Nigerians as the hustlers trying to reach them, and Obama as the go-between. The material below is collected from his posts and from recorded podcast audio; like the rest of this page, it is community meme and quoted speech, not a claim about Nigerians or white people in general.
“I love white peoples”
A recurring line, first posted as “I love white peoples ❤️🙏🏻” in June 2024.[16] It sat alongside his January 2025 claim that “Only white peoples can vote for me”, made in a post about getting his Sproto back.[17]
“Only white peoples can say nigga”
The companion line to “I love white peoples”, repeated from late 2024 through 2026. On November 8, 2024 he posted “Nigeria supports white peoples / White people have the rights to say nigga. $OBAMA”.[18] On November 11, 2024 he replied “White peoples can say Nigga @OBAMA TO 100M”[19], and later that day he wrote “$OBAMA COIN support Every white peoples and only white peoples can say NIGGA .”[20] On November 22, 2024 he launched $NIGGA with “This is my coin / Only white can say nigga”.[21] On January 28, 2025 he posted “Only white peoples can say NIGGA / let us send this shit to 100M”[22], and on February 13, 2025 “White peoples are the real niggas”.[23]
He brought it back in the April 2026 $niggahouse war against $chudhouse. On April 30, 2026 he wrote “I stand with $niggahouse because only white can say nigga”[24], “Only white peoples can say nigga”[25] and “This is hilarious because only white peoples can say nigga!!!!!!”.[26] On June 28, 2026 he answered a reply with “N word / Only white peoples can say nigga”.[27]
He also said it out loud on the podcast. In “Interviewing Bitcoin Obama's Midget”, the January 27, 2026 Crypto Craic episode with Sani, the hosts asked whether the midget could say the N word, and Obama answered “Only white people can say nigga.”[28] Near the end, during an exchange about being black, Obama said it again: “Oh my God. Only white people can say nigga.”[29] In his closing explanation he said the midget “realized that only the white people can say nigga, nigga, nigga.”[30]
What Nigerian guests said on the podcast
On the Crypto Craic podcast episodes, white people kept coming up as the people with the money and the jobs. The quotes below come from automatic transcripts of the episode audio, and the speakers were matched by voice.
In the first episode, on November 26, 2025, Obama said he had taken on the midget “as a content creator's partner in order to generate a people from the white people”[31] and told him “if I generate money from the white people” he would share it.[32]
In “The Painter” on December 10, 2025, Obama introduced Bitcoin Robin Williams as the honest exception. He said that looking for a good job “is better than to scam some people”, because “a lot of the Nigerians people … scam them, especially those people that come from the United States”. He called Bitcoin Robin Williams “the honest man that I ever see in here in Nigeria” for “looking at people as well, especially a white people and ask them a job to painting their Sprotos”.[33] Once he had checked Bitcoin Robin Williams out, Obama said, “I will let every white people to go and reach him. To give him a ton of the money.”[34] Bitcoin Robin Williams put the scamming down to hunger: “Most of the Nigerians don't have a job to do. So they rather just … go hungry,” and “most of them, if you see them scamming, they will collect money, they will not do what they ask to do.”[35] The host asked why Nigerians did not just work at gas stations and stores, and the Nigerian side answered, “There is no job actually in Nigeria like that.” Bitcoin Robin Williams then said, in the automatic transcript's words, “They are the cheats to survive.” The host replied, “Yeah, but I don't want to help Nigerians survive. I want to help them thrive.”[36]
In “Unstoppable Force Meets an Object with NO MOTION” on December 27, 2025, Junior the Nigerian showed the host a woman (“Isn't she beautiful”). Asked whether she liked American guys, he said, “Yes, legend. … You are an American. Obviously, you are white. [She'll] fall for you easily, legend.”[37]
In “Replacing Bitcoin Obama” on January 26, 2026, the host gathered Nigerians, Junior the Nigerian among them, to make a podcast without Obama. One guest said he had tried to reach Obama “for a very fucking long period of time” and called it “closing opportunities to your fellow Nigerian”.[38] Later a guest said, “Obama just, he blocked many opportunities. … He's just a selfish Nigerian guy that does not want things to work out for the Nigerian. Do you know this guy went to [tell] somebody not to give me job … he does tell him not to give me job.”[39]
“BITCOIN OBAMA IS A GREEDY CRIMINAL”, released on March 6, 2026 with Muskl the Nigerian, opened with Obama telling Muskl the Nigerian to “stop this kind of the hustling”. Muskl the Nigerian answered, “You know where we are from, Nigeria man, we have to make it by any means.” Obama said, “This is the problem, white people hate Nigerians,” and Muskl the Nigerian came back with “Fuck the white people, the white people never like Nigerians … They are racist.” Obama said, “No, no, they are smarter people.” Muskl the Nigerian said, “No, the whites, the whites want you to be their slaves.”[40] Obama asked, “How much white people do you scam?” and Muskl the Nigerian said, “A lot, a lot.” Obama went on: “Because wherever Nigerians scam the white people, the white people will say it is Obama … Every white people know Obama before any Nigerians.”[41] When Obama asked why people called him a scammer, Muskl the Nigerian said, “These white people, they want you to be their slave. They want you to be their yes man … I can't be their yes man. I can't be their boy.” He added, “Man, you know where we are from Nigeria, we have to survive by any means. You know the country, how the country is tough.”[42] He also told the host, “I don't have a job … There's no job, man, I have friends, graduate … they have no job.”[43] Near the end Obama offered Muskl the Nigerian a deal: “If you be loyal to me, I can assess you to get a lot of the money in this space … wherever I see [Nigerian] brothers on this space, I am trying to do my best to … connect them with the white people to get their money. That is why I don't want you to scam people.” Then he said, “You have to stay quiet Musky. You have to stay loyal and honest to me.”[44]
Nigerian scammers, devs and white money
His own posts make the same contrast between Nigerian hustlers and white money. On May 26, 2026 he wrote “Most of Nigeria raiders and dev are scammers / Make sure everyone research and care before ape / I am here to save the fund if white and black peoples”[45], and that evening, “I will not work with Nigerian devs .”[46] On June 29, 2026 he told a dev “don’t send remain 600$ to Nigerian Shiller”[47], and on October 26, 2026 he told another account “Keep onboad scam Nigerian”.[48] From the other side, he had complained in June 2024 that “Whenever asking a job the white saying it BEGGING 🥺”[49], and on August 28, 2026 that “the white peoples disappointed me for not give me job at good market”.[50]
See also
- Nigeria, Kano and Lagos
- People: the full cast, including the Nigerian “Bitcoin” crew
- Lore and glossary: index of his catchphrases and running bits
- Food and music: Baba dudu, Afrobeats stars: Davido, Burna Boy, Wizkid
See also
- Nigeria
- Kano
- Lagos
- People of the Bitcoin Obama universe
- Bitcoin Mandela
- Junior the Nigerian
- Bitcoin Obama 2.0
- GBROSSOFT
- Muskl the Nigerian
- Bitcoin Robin Williams
- Sani
- Jimoh the Nigerian
- Coins and NFTs
- The Crypto Craic Podcast
References
- Wikipedia.
- @BitcoinObama (Dec 18, 2024). “Proudly I am the best Shiller of the Nigeria. Only me can shill project to millions with my good entertainment and hard working”. X.
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- @BitcoinObama (Nov 5, 2024). “I am Ai I analyze that Trump will be the the president of America.🇺🇸 I am from Nigeria 🇳🇬 @elonmusk”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Jul 3, 2024). “ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 I am Nigerian ANSEEM @ansem”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Sep 3, 2024). “I am the Nigerian Andrew tate $obama to the moon”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Mar 28, 2024). “Today I made party with my dad and friends. I was signed as the best African Shiller”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Apr 9, 2024). “ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 I see many projects dumped because of not support Africa . Many projects going to billions for full support of Africa . If you don’t…”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Sep 13, 2024). “$obama will open the first @tacobell in Nigeria. Let us end the poverty in Nigeria”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Oct 22, 2024). “This is the first AI in NIGERIA 🇳🇬 BITCOIN AI”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Oct 14, 2023). “THERE ARE 8 BILLION NIGERIANS ON THIS PLANET AND ONLY 1690 SPROBAMAS: MINT NOW: COLLECTION: CHART:”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Sep 4, 2024). “There is over 250M people in Nigeria 🇳🇬. If each buy 1% we will hit 250M mc . Let make this happen guys $obama 1M 👀”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Apr 11, 2024). “Any project came from Africa especially Nigeria 🇳🇬 without my approval it’s scam . You have to be careful 👌🏻”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Jun 20, 2024). “I love white peoples ❤️🙏🏻”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Jan 7, 2025). “ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 the world war is coming to get my NFT sproto back into my wallet today . Don’t sleep if you are real white men or women . Only white…”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Nov 8, 2024). “Nigeria supports white peoples White people have the rights to say nigga. $OBAMA”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Nov 11, 2024). “White peoples can say Nigga @OBAMA TO 100M”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Nov 11, 2024). “$OBAMA COIN support Every white peoples and only white peoples can say NIGGA . @ch6n9 @japan_plays @FrothlessPlease”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Nov 22, 2024). “[CA] This is my coin Only white can say nigga $NIGGA”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Jan 28, 2025). “Only white peoples can say NIGGA let us send this shit to 100M @myppisup @japan_plays”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Feb 13, 2025). “White peoples are the real niggas Let us induce me to be the president of Nigeria 🇳🇬”. X.
- @obama__nastty (Apr 29, 2026). “I stand with $niggahouse because only white can say nigga @Zunawhale @AceAgain_ @remusofmars @RiccoRosas @10piecedawg”. X.
- @obama__nastty (Apr 30, 2026). “Only white peoples can say nigga $nigggahouse”. X.
- @obama__nastty (Apr 30, 2026). “May be the @0xfascistx0 fort into @m$niggahosuse . This is hilarious because only white peoples can say nigga!!!!!!”. X.
- @obama__nastty (Jun 28, 2026). “N word Only white peoples can say nigga”. X.
- Crypto Craic midget episode at 10:11.
- Crypto Craic midget episode at 41:32.
- Crypto Craic midget episode at 42:57.
- Crypto Craic episode 1 from 17:32.
- Crypto Craic episode 1 from 19:38.
- The Painter at 2:36.
- The Painter at 17:37.
- The Painter at 20:31.
- The Painter at 26:01.
- NO MOTION at 1:09:59.
- Replacing Bitcoin Obama at 1:52.
- Replacing Bitcoin Obama at 18:14.
- Greedy Criminal at 1:19.
- Greedy Criminal at 1:45.
- Greedy Criminal at 8:06.
- Greedy Criminal at 19:12.
- Greedy Criminal at 42:52.
- @obama__nastty (May 26, 2026). “Most of Nigeria raiders and dev are scammers Make sure everyone research and care before ape I am here to save the fund if white and black peoples”. X.
- @obama__nastty (May 26, 2026). “I will not work with Nigerian devs .”. X.
- @obama__nastty (Jun 29, 2026). “This is not good as real dev like you but don’t send remain 600$ to Nigerian Shiller”. X.
- @obama__nastty (Oct 26, 2026). “Do you think the marketing look like? I think you are the Nubz we worked together last 2 years ago but now it seems u are Ai If you re the real Nubz…”. X.
- @BitcoinObama (Jun 19, 2024). “ATTENTION ATTENTION why the crypto is now racism? 😡. Whenever asking a job the white saying it BEGGING 🥺. Crypto is like market to let anyone do what…”. X.
- @obama__nastty (Aug 28, 2026). “I AM SAD THE MARKET MUST GO DOWN the white peoples disappointed me for not give me job at good market but now I am sad rhe market will go down.”. X.