Telegram isn't a very good place to interact with devs in my opinion because as you said, there are many scammers impersonating devs and community managers. I prefer 1000 times slack and discord

I cannot believe electronic payments are so rarely used in the Middle-East and North-Africa. Is MenaPay really the first to take advantage of this gap in the market?

Yeah, I thought so. Dubai is overflowing with money. It would be unpractical to do every transaction with cash or they would have to have million dollar equivalent bills.

I highly doubt it. As far as i know there are multiple blockchain starting in the middle-east.
But i haven't seen anything like this yet. I could be wrong though.

By meaning electronic payments, are you talking about cryptocurrency or credit/debit cards, bank transfer kinds of things?

Right now its probably easer to start a project in middle east countries since the regulations are still not that strict there as they are in Europe or USA and you can prepare yourself with whats coming at you since you can compare to current situation of ICOs elsewhere.

That may be true but then you cannot count on the fact of operating in Europe or US , which are quite big market as well

yes but what if that doesn't happen, I think people still choose to use mainstream payments and haven't been so interested in paying for crypto. the main reason is that many people don't know crypto, they only know crypto is bitcoin. but the rest are many lay people who don't understand at all. so crypto payments seem to still not be so popular nowadays.

If you travel trough Europe you'd be surprised, I'm italian and here people just mostly use cash lol, same in Spain, same in Greece, same in Hungary as far as I saw. If you go in northern Europe, Germany and England it's a whole other story

In Europe and the USA there is a huge competition, in the Middle East it is much easier to start an innovative business. I like this project)