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Thank you to everyone that came through to the Space. If you didn't manage to make it feel free to listen to the recording.
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Freezer (work in progress): Self Custody Bitcoin on absolutely any phone.
If you would like to be among the first people in the world to use Freezer (and possibly Cell, the 2nd iteration of Project Super Saiyan) find us in Cape Town, January 26-26 2024.
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🚨 new feature alert 🚨
Clans give you the ability to send and receive Bitcoin as a group on machankura.
Sending Bitcoin requires approval from the members/admins. With the added option to equally distribute the balance to all members (Hello to the stokvels and chamas 👋👋)
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Machankura users can now redeem
@Azteco_
(and 1 For You) Bitcoin vouchers using the USSD interface.
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Machankura users across Africa can now buy airtime via
@bitrefill
using Bitcoin over USSD.
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Off the grid with
@GridlessCompute
"Insanely amazing" -
@OKIN_17
"It's brilliant setup" -
@satstacker_21
"This is a paradigm shift" -
@BrindonMwiine
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@diopfode
@gladstein
@jackmallers
@r0ckstardev
We been working on something. 😶🌫️
Ghana: *920*8333#
Uganda: *284*8333#
Kenya: *483*8333#
Malawi: *384*8333#
South Africa: *134*382*382#
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Today
I leave El Salvador
a country whose light can be seen in the eyes of its people
inspired.
Gracias El Salvador 🧡🙏🇸🇻
Gracias
#Bitcoin
🇸🇻🙏🧡
May the path to your future stay lit 💡
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Machankura is live in ~8 African countries.
Try it out by dialing either of these numbers from any of these countries.
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Hello, we have some bad news. 😢
Our USSD gateway service provider is increasing the requirements for "cryptocurrency" use cases of USSD infrastructure to maintain their good standing with their telecos/regulators.
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Let's accelerate Bitcoin adoption across Africa (regardless of what type of phone a person has).
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🚀 Exciting news! Sending
#Bitcoin
just got easier!
Send BTC to any phone number in the countries we're in even if they're not registered on the platform. The recipient will receive a special notification-gift 🎁 & can claim the Bitcoin as soon as they register.
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How much is a bottle of water when you are in the desert?
Bitcoin is selling for a 60% premium in Nigeria (37,235 USD) right now.
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El Salvador is bringing Bitcoiners from around the world together.
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1 year after the conception.
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🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
Machankura users can now spend sats to an onchain address.
This feature is still in beta because we process the onchain transactions via additive batching (use replace by fee to append batch of spends while unconfirmed).
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Let's be sure to meet up in Kenya next week. 🥳🥳
🥁This August, we bring you an extraordinary lineup of speakers, industry innovators geared up to Launch
@Machankura8333
,in Nairobi KENYA the ussd service bridging the finance and tech divide.
Bringing you the Catalyst himself
@440UrPp
,
@OKIN_17
@herrytheeagle
@noelynesumba
....
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@AfricaFactsZone
We are the Machankura mentioned in the tweet.
The new feature on the USSD allows users to create clans (send and receive Bitcoin as a group). With group approval of proposed transactions.
🚨 new feature alert 🚨
Clans give you the ability to send and receive Bitcoin as a group on machankura.
Sending Bitcoin requires approval from the members/admins. With the added option to equally distribute the balance to all members (Hello to the stokvels and chamas 👋👋)
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Users of Machankura in South Africa can now buy electricity using their sats (from
@CryptoConverted
).
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Use Bitcoin on any phone.
As seen here on the Nokia N73.
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╬═╬ NO INTERNET! NO PROBLEM!
╬═╬
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@Machankura8333
#Bitcoin
#NokiaN73
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South African Machankura users can now buy Groceries (from Pick n Pay and Checkers) and fuel (from Total Energies) via
@bitrefill
vouchers.
🧡💛🖤
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Our implementation of additive batching runs on a taproot wallet with a frost threshold spending condition.
This allows us to produce multisig transactions that are indistinguishable from single signature transactions.
Thanks to the wonders of Schnorr signatures!
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WAVE YOUR FLAG
🇬🇭🇰🇪🇲🇼
🇳🇦🇳🇬🇿🇦
🇹🇿🇺🇬🇿🇲
ft
@BitcoinEkasi
,
@OKIN_17
,
@5atoshiNakamoto
,
@QuintineAlbert
,
@Ramadan_AN
,
@Azteco_
,
@realbedfordtz
,
@mumo_mumo_
,
@CryptoConverted
,
@RunwithBitcoin
,
@bitrefill
, 🇧🇯,
@Reggie_on6
,
@MasterGuantai
,
@1Voucher_za
,
@alpha_x007
,
@orphansofuganda
+++
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Hello, we have some good news. ☺️
The service will continue to stay live on
@Africastalking
and we will be working in collaboration to engage the telecos/regulators to ensure long term operation of the service.
Many thanks to all the voices and support over this past week!
❤️🔥
Hello, we have some bad news. 😢
Our USSD gateway service provider is increasing the requirements for "cryptocurrency" use cases of USSD infrastructure to maintain their good standing with their telecos/regulators.
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🪡thread🪡
Today I'm in a village called Moloto. Let me see how many shops I can buy a 1 For You Voucher and redeem it for BTC on via
@Azteco_
.
Pictured is the first store, and the voucher I got from them (and the subsequent redemption)
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It's time to onboard as many people onto a Bitcoin standard in the shortest space of time as possible.
If they need an easy way to send and receive Bitcoin on anyphone use
If they need an easy way to acquire sats use
@Machankura8333
is one of the mind blowing ideas I have seen this year.
You don't need a smartphone to have/create a bitcoin wallet 🫵
You can even create a lightning ⚡ invoice 🔥
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🥳🥳🥳
Respect & gratitude: Our Most Impactful African Bitcoiner of 2023 is none other than the ridiculously talented, Kgothatso Ngako!
@440UrPp
is founder of
@Machankura8333
,
@ExonumiaAfrica
and
@AdoptingBTCcpt
and a peerless contributor to Bitcoin in Africa.👏
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What would you need to print
@Azteco_
vouchers from any Bluetooth compatible device?
A $50 Bluetooth Portable Thermal Printer.
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A warm welcome to all the new users from Ghana today. 👋👋
May the Yam phone stay winning!
Dial *920*8333# and send me screenshot
You can use your yam phones
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Mad
#Bitcoin
love 🧡 to the great people working at
@Africastalking
!
I have no doubt that service wouldn't be where it is today had they not been so focused on being the "go to platform for African developers" looking to build widely accessible technology
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Hello due to rolling power cuts in South Africa, our lightning node is down.
Working on a permanent solution before getting it back up. The node should be back up in a few hours. The permanent solution should be live in a day or two.
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Nothing says 'amazing lightning experience' like an LNURL! Encoded as QR codes they spark instant transactions and trigger payment requests.
Unleash the full power of lightning ⚡️by getting yourself a Machankura LNURL hassle-free on
Happy transacting! 😉
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My one and only new years Resolution:
- Hyperbitcoinization
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🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
🌹Happy Valentines Day 🌹
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
To spread the 🧡, if this tweet gets 1 000 retweets we will release an App that allows users to send and receive Bitcoin without internet data on their phone.
😘
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Here's what you should expect at
@AdoptingBTCcpt
as told by the attendees of the recent
@AfroBitcoinOrg
.
May the networking and excursion to
@BitcoinEkasi
be one for the history books.
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📢🔈🔉🔊
The point of view of someone sending sats via lighting to a user page.
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We are happy to announce that you can buy
@Azteco_
vouchers using mobile money in Ghana and Kenya (thanks to the great people at
@kotanipay
).
is a new project under the family focused being an easy way to acquire Bitcoin.
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🚨🚨🚨🚨
std::cout << "Hello World! 🌎🌍🌏";
Machankura is now accessible on WhatsApp (beta).
Access the same text interface as you would access via USSD, just with a persisted chat (and no character limits).
Hit us up by clicking the following link.
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The Machankura Orange Piller Program is now live!
❤️🔥🧡❤️🔥🧡❤️🔥🧡❤️🔥
This means an orange piller now gets a split of the transaction fees Machankura garners from all the people that were orange pilled.
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If you don't comprehend what Kgothatso is saying in this video understand that
@JoeNakamoto
spent a week in South Africa and had this to say.
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In this short clip you can see the new changes:
- UX/screen order has changed (enter destination of payment before amount).
- You can now input the value in Bitcoin (also we now accept decimal values on the fiat amount input, sorry)
- Spend without imputing a pin (lock optional)
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Here's an alternative video (with an alternative method of redeeming Bitcoin) for people who don't think the above cinematography is epic.
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Will
@CowriesKumi
@BitcoinCowries
be able to drink enough energy drinks to drive the
@Trezor
academy
@BitcoinetaWA
?
Find out... Next time... At
@AdoptingBTCcpt
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Users who use their lightning address on nostr can now receive zaps.
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Let's accelerate Bitcoin adoption across the African continent!
🧡
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!!!
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Hello 👋👋
We just deployed the first major feature of the year. Please dial the USSD code in your respective country and let us know what you think of the new changes.
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Being that it's December I had to bring
@RunwithBitcoin
to at least 1 township/kasi lobola celebration.
If anyone can invite him to a wedding he will bring his drone.
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As of 10 November 2022 the Machankura USSD service will only be accessible in Ghana, Namibia, and South Africa.
Machankura users with internet connected devices are encouraged to use the web interface to maintain access to their funds without USSD.
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To date there have been 265 clans created on Machankura.
We will be making a few more updates to how things work from all the feedback we have received from users of this feature.
Thank you for highlighting all the blind spots we missed. Soon the clans feature goes out of beta.
🚨 new feature alert 🚨
Clans give you the ability to send and receive Bitcoin as a group on machankura.
Sending Bitcoin requires approval from the members/admins. With the added option to equally distribute the balance to all members (Hello to the stokvels and chamas 👋👋)
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During
@BtcRetreat
2023 I had the pleasure to pay for a coffee using my feature phone (roaming on a South African number) to the cafe's
@Pouch_PH
lightning address.
May we continue accelerating the adoption of Bitcoin across the world!
Sending a
#Bitcoin
payment without an Internet connection with a feature phone here on Boracay 👀
Thanks to
@Machankura8333
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Hello,
It's time for Plan B (the meetup).
We are hosting a Bitcoin meetup in Pretoria at a venue called Plan B in Menlo Park this Saturday from 13:00 until 15:00.
Please RSVP by sending us a DM.
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The web interface should now allow users to send out to a lightning address (as supported by
@Bitnob_official
and
@walletofsatoshi
) and bolt11 lightning invoice (users can now send their funds to
@MuunWallet
and
@PhoenixWallet
for the first time).
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Dear Machankura users, remember to customize your lightning address username in the settings menu.
This personalized username allow you to not be forced to reveal your phone number when telling people where they can send you sats.
You can still use the phone number if you wish.
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Initial sketch, code, work in progress, final result.
That absolutely brilliant moment when
@440UrPp
casually lets it slip out that he coded the
@Machankura8333
Logo using JavaScript 😅 &
@OKIN_17
goes 🤯
#AfricanTalent
#BuildersBuild
#Innovation
#Bitcoin
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The Rise of the Ancestors by George Mavimbela
❤️🔥
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In the event that you don't know which number to dial in which country, check bio.
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Join us tomorrow as we are gonna be talking about the easiest way to get Bitcoin in Africa (with
@Azteco_
,
@EasySats_
,
@satstacker_21
and more).
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Hola Argentina 👋🏿👋🏿
If you would like to see in action right before your eyes. You are in luck. We brought our feature phone to
@labitconf
and can send/receive sats while we are here due to the magic of roaming.
⚡🇦🇷🇦🇷 hola
@8333
.mobi 🇦🇷🇦🇷⚡
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"Suffice it to say that it is not that the unbanked need more education but more tools, as they are often the savviest with money." -
@ihate1999
In my latest for
@ForbesCrypto
, I document what could be the missing piece to bringing
#Bitcoin
to billions in Africa, and globally—
@440UrPp
's Bitcoin Java Card project announced last week at
@AdoptingBTCcpt
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We would like to do more interviews with African podcasters.
Anyone would like to have us on a few episodes?
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Are you ready for the day where over 1 Million people make their first Bitcoin transaction?
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Who ever put together this
@AdoptingBTC
panel should post their lightning address under this tweet.
👏👏👏
🔥🔥🔥
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Dial
🇬🇭: *920*8333#
🇰🇪: *483*8333#
🇲🇼: *384*8333#
🇳🇦: *142*8333#
🇳🇬: *347*8333#
🇿🇦: *134*382*382#
🇺🇬: *284*8333#
🇿🇲: *384*8333#
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Workshops are packed.
@ColeTU
hosting a workshop on self custody, and
@lobaestrangeira
running a workshop on
@fedibtc
for communities.
Note to
@AdoptingBTCcpt
organizers: have bigger workshop rooms.
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If you are in Ghana be sure to go grab your pizza at One Corner Garden.
Bring 3 of your friends on Bitcoin Pizza Day on the 22nd of May and the pizza is on the house!
🧡🍕
As an African business we are honoured and privileged to be sponsored by one of the most innovative Bitcoin projects in the space...
@Machankura8333
⚡
Created by an African with a focus on Africa. A big, warm thank you
@440UrPp
for all your support!!!
#BitcoinPizzaDay
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It's great to see
@LumiExc
in the flash!
He is the guy who managed to redeem the last
@Azteco_
voucher we had purchased on our
#21DaysOfRedeemingBitcoin
all because who saw the QR code on Nostr and was the quickest to scan it
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Service Update:
In the past 2 months there was a bug that caused users transactions to fail sending lightning transactions under certain conditions. Bug has been fixed.
Sorry for the inconvenience this issue may have caused.
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If you were in attendance at the Machankura Kenya Launch please come and speak for at most 5 minutes on how you experienced the event.
If you have any question regarding the event please tweet them as replies under this tweet so they get addressed.
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We will be encouraging users without internet connected devices to send out or spend their entire balances to avoid them losing access to their sats during this time.
We'll send daily SMS notifications to users with a positive balance to achieve this.
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Machankura Usage Stats
Total Users: 255
Total Transactions: 385
Be sure to join us on the quoted space to talk about this past weeks activities.
Been a busy week. Be sure to join us as we talk about it.
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We have just added most recent/frequent recipient input on Machankura.
Here's how
@LuthandoSABTC
can now pay via USSD in less then a minute.
Better believe it.
@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
🌍🧡💥
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We have been asked for a guide/manual on how to use the service multiple times.
This manual has been put together based on all these interactions.
If there's an improvement you think we could make, please free to suggest.
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Thank you very much to
@BtcRetreat
for having me at a speaker this year.
I had a wonderful time talking about Hip Hop and how I believe Bitcoin will follow a similar trajectory with regards to adoption.
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It's a pleasure to finally meet a comrade who I've been in conversation with for the past few months.
Let's accelerate Bitcoin adoption across the continent comrade!
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