Just to make one thing clear. We are working to create a
#Bitcoin
economy in a
#township
in
#SouthAfrica
using the
#LightningNetwork
. NOT a
#crypto
economy. We are not interested in alternative crypto currencies and consider these an unnecessary distraction.
A friend of our project is working on something exciting!
#AirBTC
- like AirBNB, but 100%
#Bitcoin
only!
Before the website goes live they're looking for people to help test. If you're keen, leave a comment. They'll reach out to you. Make sure you're DM's are open.
We got him!!!
After almost a year of back and forth, Peter is ready to accept
#Bitcoin
at all three of his
#township
#spaza
shops!!!
That brings the total number of shops in the township accepting
#Bitcoin
over the
#LightningNetwork
⚡️⚡️ to 9💥🤩
First time in Prague. First time at a
#Bitcoin
conference. First time outside
#Africa
🌍
First time on an airplane and first time on a subway.
@BrindonMwiine
halfway through
@BtcPrague
and already a list of firsts that's too long for a tweet.
#Bitcoin
was created by someone who wanted to do something good for the world.
Crypto was created by people who saw that, and figured they could get rich quick by copying it and selling it as something else.
I'm super proud of this dude!
@bonganithebe518
just finished reading 'The Bitcoin Standard' by
@saifedean
Bongani is a 15-year-old learner in Gr.10 at Indwe Secondary School in Mossel Bay.
He's been with
@the_surfer_kids
for several years, but when we opened Ekasi Center in
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It took a while, but once I grasped the significance of
#Bitcoin
and what it's trying to accomplish, other crypto projects quickly paled in comparison. Sure, a permissionless appstore sounds cool. But a borderless money that cannot be stopped or co-opted? That's a paradigm shift.
Wish I could stay longer & surf in
#Ghana
🇬🇭 But stoked to get a bit of swell and glassy conditions!!
🏄♂️🧡😎🤙
@satsminded
@SpecialAf
Drone🎥
@RunwithBitcoin
🙏🏽🙏🏽
And who knows, if the little
#Bitcoin
seeds we planted find fertile ground, we might be back sooner than we think..😉
Two US presidential candidates from opposite sides of the aisle speaking at the same
#Bitcoin
conference. I can't imagine there are too many conferences, of any kind, where this happens.
@BitcoinMagazine
@TheBitcoinConf
And regardless of what you think about Bitcoin (and these
@Machankura8333
makes
#Bitcoin
super accessible by enabling
#LightningNetwork
⚡️ payments without internet access, using USSD.
We're busy recruiting feature-phone owners in the
#township
to test buying groceries... without a smartphone
🤯👆🤩
This is why I love
#Africa
🌍🧡💥
I've been using
@PhoenixWallet
for almost three months, paying salaries for 11 people on a weekly basis, every Monday, using only
#Bitcoin
& the
#LightningNetwork
I've been thoroughly impressed.
I tried a few different self-custody lightning wallets and, of those I tried,
Very grateful for the support we've received from the
@_einundzwanzig_
community
🧡🙏🏽
Coolest thing connecting with Bitcoiners from all over the planet.
🌍🤩
Our communities are in completely different environments but we all share the same mission:
👇👇
global
#Bitcoin
adoption
Kids'
#Bitcoin
rewards is about more than receiving and spending Bitcoin to help build a circular economy.
Yes, that's the primary goal, but something interesting happens to the mind when a person starts using Bitcoin.
We know it, but what effect has it had on the kids?
🧵👇
This weekend was another
#Bitcoin
rewards day💥🏆
From right to left, Iminathi, Zintle and Avethandwa, counting their hard earned
#SATs
If these kids can use
#Bitcoin
and the
#LightningNetwork
⚡️ shouldn't you at least give it a try?
🧡🤩😉
Very sad news.
If you've ever visited our project and spent some sats here, chances are you visited this shop.
Kwallos Shop, owned by Nosihle and her husband Vuyisa, was the first township spaza shop to start accepting payment in
#Bitcoin
, in August 2021.
@ecb
@Isabel_Schnabel
If you think Bitcoin doesn't fulfill the characteristics of money, either you don't understand Bitcoin, or you don't understand money, or, heaven forbid, you don't understand either one of them.
Bitcoin has failed to become a global decentralised digital currency, instead falling victim to fraud and manipulation.
The recent approval of an ETF doesn’t change the fact that Bitcoin is costly, slow and inconvenient, argues
#TheECBBlog
Something highly unusual happened this morning, at our usual weekly team meeting.
One of the coaches was approached by a shop who wanted to accept
#Bitcoin
as payment.
"Wait, why is this unusual?"
Well, think about it.
🤔👇👇
We're uninterested in anything that isn't
#Bitcoin
& the
#LightningNetwork
not because there aren't interesting things happening outside of it. Maybe there are. But because time is the scarcest of all resources and we'd much rather focus our attention than spread it out too thin.
You wanna know what's more exciting than $60k
#Bitcoin
?
There's no difference between the
#Bitcoin
owned by
@saylor
and
@LuthandoSABTC
Luthando lived in a shack until two years ago, but the fundamental quality of their investment is precisely the same.
#Bitcoin
We onboarded another merchant today, our first barber shop!!! And to celebrate the first haircut paid for with
#Bitcoin
in this
#township
our Junior Coach
@Lukhangelemai
got a special haircut ✂️🤘👇🤩
This dude watched all his buddies getting wallets... and thought he was left out... but
@Machankura8333
turned his feature phone into a
#Bitcoin
wallet!!!
💥🤩🧡
In Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭 for
@AfroBitcoinOrg
starting today!!!
New shop on-boarded and the first one to approach us, rather than the other way around!
🤩👀⚡️🌍🧡
Welcome Gabi's Kitchen! Selling home cooked take-away meals and now accepting
#Bitcoin
as payment!
👩🍳🍲🥣🍖😋
Rolled out the first batch of customized kids'
#Bitcoin
rewards cards from
@bolt_card
this week!
Each child received a personalized card with their name printed on it, linked to their own
@lnbits
wallet hosted on our
@voltage_cloud
node.
Thanks to
@MotoleseOficial
from
I used to be terrified of speaking in public. And I still get nervous.
But when I'm talking about
#Bitcoin
it's easier to sideline those insecurities.
Because if I can contribute anything at all to the mission, to make Bitcoin global money, no matter how big or small my
Until a month ago, I expected 10, maybe 20 people, to join our
@AdoptingBTCcpt
post-conference road trip.
I never imagined we'd have 60 people.
🤯💥🧡✊🏽🌍🙏🏾
I'm humbled.
Thank you for making the effort to come and see the
#Bitcoin
circular economy we're building.
Since we launched, in Aug 2021, we've always approached the shops. Every shop now accepting
#Bitcoin
in the township was approached from our side.
Until today.
This is the first time a shop approached us.
It feels like a significant turning point.
I can't change the immediate fact that war mongering psychopaths run the world.
But I can build a
#Bitcoin
circular economy and encourage people to use Bitcoin, to build more circular economies.
And if enough people do that, then we make war unaffordable, among many other
I'm not here to have fun. There are healthier ways of having fun. Disconnected from technology. Connected to nature.
I'm here to (try) change the world. And there's a realistic chance of failure.
Go for a run. You need it. And you might even see
#Bitcoin
differently afterwards.
In case you didn't know, this beautiful woman is why I decided to help organize
@AdoptingBTCcpt
.
I kept traveling to conferences and, while she'd have loved to join, we have two small kids, she's a full-time mom, and she runs her own business
@UnravelSurf
(Which has its own
With the recent increase in price, people who fail to understand the utility value of
#Bitcoin
will make more noise.
Saying things like: "But no one is using it!"
They can not explain the price going up, but they don't want to re-evaluate. So, they reiterate and reinforce
When the beaches are empty, there's work to do for our lifeguards.
Far from being environmentally destructive,
#Bitcoin
teaches respect for nature.
If you're building generational wealth, it only makes sense to also concern yourself with the natural world that surrounds you.
Here's the reality:
Today I attended the opening of a new
#Bitcoin
education center in Kumasi, Ghana, in rural
#Africa
.
The village chief spoke during the formalities and he expressed some unexpected skepticism towards the opening of the new center.
While portraying themselves as offering solutions, shitcoiners are, in fact, symptomatic of what's wrong with the world today.
Listen to Mr Hoskinson in the video below. This is a child in an adult body.
Essentially, he's complaining that it's unfair that the authorities are
The purpose of a blockchain is not to save energy. The purpose is to use energy as a type of moat, to make it difficult or impossible for bad actors to mess with the money. Removing that is not an accomplishment.
Here's why
#Bitcoin
will win if we keep building and using it:
Because it's got magic. And the legacy system just cannot do magic.
Thanks to
@LuthandoSABTC
for demonstrating,
@BTCPrague
for the best conference gift ever and
@bitcoin_ring
for building magical stuff.
Super stoked to announce that
@voltage_cloud
is sponsoring our
#Bitcoin
&
#LightningNetwork
⚡️node!!
We'll be running our own instance of
@BtcpayServer
and do lots of super cool things with it!!!
🤩🙌🌍
Small 🧵below👇👇
And more related announcements coming soon!!
👀👀
This is the intended location of our soon-to-be
#Bitcoin
education center, with
@the_surfer_kids
' Senior Coach, Luthando, in the foreground. It's right next to the first
#township
#spaza
store we onboarded to accept
#SATs
. You've just got to imagine it painted 🟠😁
@JohnReedStark
I have no PHDs, and I've never had a high profile job anywhere. I've always been self-employed. And I've always basically just figured things out.
But I'm incredibly grateful that I stumbled across Bitcoin long before cleverer-than-thou types, like John, realized, in a state of
Resident teacher, Ms. Nomsa, is working through 'The Bitcoin Standard' by
@saifedean
She runs our education center, powered by
@paxful
&
@builtwithbtc
, with Senior Coach
@LuthandoSABTC
To better spread
#Bitcoin
knowledge within the community they must first educate themselves.
If, hypothetically,
#Bitcoin
failed completely, would it be possible to recreate it?
Assuming the entire network disappeared off the face of the planet, and all we're left with was the knowledge to rebuild it from scratch.
My feeling is no, it wouldn't be possible.
1.
It's crazy to think that there are people in this little
#SouthAfrican
township community who use
#Bitcoin
far more regularly than some of the biggest influencers who spend all day talking about it.
Congratulations to the
#Springboks
!! The first team to ever win 4
@rugbyworldcup
trophies !!
🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆🏆🇿🇦
Absolutely incredible. And team captain, Siya Kolisi, is truly inspirational.
He grew up in a township and he tells the story of how, oftentimes, he was sent to bed with
The Executive Mayor of Mossel Bay, Dirk Kotzé, made his first
#Bitcoin
transaction yesterday.
We didn't just build a skate bowl.
We built a reason for anyone (and everyone) from the surrounding community, South Africa, and wherever else to ask (and learn) "Why
#Bitcoin
?"
On-boarded another shop, and this one makes take-away food!
🌭🍟🍔
Township's first take-away food purchase with
#Bitcoin
and the coaches are stoked!
🤩🔥🧡
Cooking after a long day on the beach isn't always fun.
🌊🤗🏄♂️
Skateramp done!!!
🤩🤩🤩
Thank you
@walletofsatoshi
for the generous sponsorship to cover construction materials.
🧡🙌🏽🙏🏾
Busy editing a video to showcase the process.
🛹🎥⚡️
I have no words.
Will have to process the past two days.
In the meantime,
@AdoptingBTCcpt
goes road-tripping up the coast to visit Bitcoin Ekasi and
@BitcoinWitsand
To see the adoption of
#Bitcoin
there, first hand.
The oldest king ever crowned sits on the British throne while the oldest US president ever is running for re-election.
They represent an aging system that's becoming less relevant every day.
A new world is being built with
#Bitcoin
and there's nothing they can do about it.
This narrative of "sats are too valuable to spend" is becoming a little tiresome.
You do realise that every time you're spending fiat, instead of buying more
#Bitcoin
, you're literally doing the same thing.
Dan Yelled thinks this 👇🏾👇🏾 is "virtue signaling"
Ignoring the fact that this "hobby" employs 15 people (8 of whom work full-time) and ignoring the fact that, while it may not solve problems, it certainly addresses them and could **potentially** help solve them.
Like the fact
Once a month, 42 children write tests on the weekly classes they attend with our resident teacher
@Rotso16Rotso
They earn
#Bitcoin
based on their results and get to decide whether to spend their sats with a
@bolt_card
or save it in their
@lnbits
wallets, hosted on our
@SMB_Attorney
Yes. Many things. But my guess is, you're not really interested. Because with either a little curiosity or basic reading skills, you'd quickly find it. And while I can imagine you're not too curious, I'm pretty sure you can read. Which only means you're not really asking.
"But nobody uses
#Bitcoin
..."
"It's only used for money laundering and drugs..."
No. Pull your head out of your a**e and open your eyes.
“A year ago, Bitcoin turnover in Pick n Pay stores was R220,000 per month. It is now over R1 million, still a
Why pay kids
#Bitcoin
rewards?
Because
#Bitcoin
demands curiosity and while adults are stubborn children are naturally curious.
In an environment of understandable skepticism what better way to spread a new money than through the natural curiosity of children?
My trip to
#ElSalvador
for
@AdoptingBTC
inspired me with hope. Seeing
#Bitcoin
used, as widespread as it is there, really is quite something.
Hopefully this year some of our team can join me for the trip. Until then, this piece of history is their inspiration.
I don't like to talk about the
#Bitcoin
price because I've only ever lost money trying to trade.
However, at the beginning of 2024, everyone is asking the question: "Are we entering another bull market? What's gonna happen with the
#Bitcoin
price in 2024?"
My simple answer to
Super stoked to announce that we've received a
@blocks
and
@CashApp
#Bitcoin
Discovery Grant!!!
@jack
🧡🙏
So much to do, but first up, we'll be re-building
@the_surfer_kids
skatepark!
🛹🤩
A task for which we've recruited Dallas Oberholzer, second from the right below.
👇👇
Early concept drawings & plans for our new Ekasi Center!! It's a work in progress, but this is good progress!!
🤩😎
And these look way better than my early DIY job😂 Thank you so much to
@StudioIMW
! We love working with people who accept
#Bitcoin
🧡🔥
Next step: submit a
This dude,
@JoeNakamoto
, travels to some of the dustiest corners of the world, Peru, Cuba, Senegal, Central African Republic (and god knows where else) investigating grassroots
#Bitcoin
adoption with a light heartedness that often belies the harsh reality of the people on
I was curious to know 🤔 why did Gabi's Kitchen show interest in
#Bitcoin
?
@LuthandoSABTC
explained that, for Nontuse and Nolukholo, it was security.
2 women. Operating a cash-only business in a neighborhood notorious for crime...
#Bitcoin
fixes that✊🏽
New shop on-boarded and the first one to approach us, rather than the other way around!
🤩👀⚡️🌍🧡
Welcome Gabi's Kitchen! Selling home cooked take-away meals and now accepting
#Bitcoin
as payment!
👩🍳🍲🥣🍖😋
Don't be fooled by people selling you
#cRYptO
.
They're all pointing fingers at
@SBF_FTX
today, but tomorrow they'll sell you the next shitcoin that'll eventually crash and burn.
There's no free lunch. There's no secret. Just work hard, stay away shitcoins and save in
#Bitcoin
After starting classes just over a month ago, yesterday we organized a community open day at the Bitcoin Ekasi Center.
The center offers
#Bitcoin
education to anyone that's interested, starting with children already enrolled in
@the_surfer_kids
existing program.
I've a feeling that
#Bitcoin
and minibus-taxis in
#SouthAfrica
(yah, the ones who drive like psychopaths) are a good fit for one another.
Not sure if they've been introduced, but Taxis are an integral part of the
#township
economy, so we're gonna see if they're interested.
Without a doubt
@AdoptingBTC
in
#ElSalvador
is one of my most memorable experiences.
I wish I could stay but I'm not sad to leave.
We have a window of opportunity to spread
#Bitcoin
adoption everywhere.
And I'm leaving more driven than ever before to do exactly that.
In case you haven't noticed
@LuthandoSABTC
is on a
#Bitcoin
mission✊🏽
He just on-boarded a Guest House & Lodge in
#MosselBay
💥
Park House Lodge now accepts Bitcoin as payment.
That's Luthando with the lodge manager, Leilani.
If you think Mossel Bay is far out, go to Witsand.
It blows my mind that 50 people visited, to see the
#Bitcoin
Circular Economy being built there by
@BitcoinWitsand
.
🤯🤩🧡🌍🔥🇿🇦✊
This was the final stop of our
@AdoptingBTCcpt
post-conference road trip. Super stoked we
Absolutely stoked to paint this epic design by
@BitkoYinowsky
🔥💥🧡
@BtcpayServer
- gotto love what they're building!
Enabling anyone to accept
#Bitcoin
payments without a middleman. Legends!
We've been using their software (running on our
@voltage_cloud
node) since the
Another merchant onboarded by
@LuthandoSABTC
to accept
#Bitcoin
as payment!!!
CBS Cafe is a restaurant located in the township outside Mossel Bay and it offers something a little different. (Luthando ordered 'binnegoed' a local delicacy that's made with the cooked insides of an
I don't understand all the technical complexities of BIP300, but it seems to introduce complexity at the base layer. My use of
#Bitcoin
is relatively simple and the added complexity doesn't seem to improve that simplistic use case. I'm grateful that there's significant pushback
When we posted about the fire accident at Kwallos Shop, we received an absolutely incredible response!
It took some time for Nosihle and her husband Vuyisa to process the death of a family member, organize a funeral and console their family.
But the
Very sad news.
If you've ever visited our project and spent some sats here, chances are you visited this shop.
Kwallos Shop, owned by Nosihle and her husband Vuyisa, was the first township spaza shop to start accepting payment in
#Bitcoin
, in August 2021.
It's super cool to see people traveling here from far to experience the building of a
#Bitcoin
circular economy on the southern tip of
#Africa
.
🌍🤩⚡️
Last week, we welcomed
@pahueg
&
@InsightDeFi
🙌🏽🔥🧡
My
#Bitcoin
journey started with
@BitcoinMagazine
(The Cyprus issue, top left, orange pilled me)
10 years later, I made a little pilgrimage to their HQ in Nashville.
The art gallery is awesome! It feels more like a shrine.
The professionals have arrived, and we're getting warmed up for Saturday's opening of the
#Bitcoin
Bowl🛹💥🧡🔥
Enabled by a
@blocks
and
@CashApp
Discovery Grant!!
@jack
🧡🙏
We're building a circular
#Bitcoin
economy, and today feels significant.
A small step that can make a big difference.
👉🏾 A virtual
@Visa
card bought with sats over the
#LightningNetwork
from
@thebtcco
and used to buy stock from the local Cash & Carry.
#Bitcoin
education isn't normal yet, but hopefully soon it will be.
We're teaching children recruited into
@the_surfer_kids
daily after-school program about how a decentralized scarce money (and not endless debt and monetary expansion) will lead to a better life for everyone.