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🌍 Project Spotlight: MoneyBadger 📍 Location: South Africa 🇿🇦 About MoneyBadger is a South African payments infrastructure company that makes Bitcoin practical for everyday spending. The platform enables customers to pay with Bitcoin over the Lightning Network both in-store and online, while merchants receive the full invoiced amount settled in South African Rand (ZAR), or Bitcoin with zero volatility exposure on their side. Key Objectives: 1. Expand Lightning Network Bitcoin payments to every corner of South Africa’s retail and online economy. 2. Make Bitcoin acceptance effortless for merchants by plugging into existing payment service providers with guaranteed ZAR settlement and no operational changes. 3. Deliver instant, low-friction QR-code payments that work directly from the wallets people already use. 4. Unlock real-world Bitcoin commerce so holders can spend sats on daily needs without converting to fiat first. 5. Build and strengthen a true circular Bitcoin economy in South Africa where Bitcoin circulates as everyday money. Explore MoneyBadger here: Website:

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📚 Readers’ Friday Book Club was a success! Today, we dug into Chapter 10: “Keys to the Code” from Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver and Steve Patterson. The discussion challenged some of the assumptions we often make about Bitcoin, particularly around decentralization, governance, custody, and who actually has influence over the software we use. Key takeaways from today’s discussion: 🔹 Bitcoin is a human project. While the protocol is designed to minimize centralized control, the people and institutions building, maintaining, and using it still matter. 🔹 Bitcoin ≠ Bitcoin Core. The protocol and the software implementation used to interact with it are not the same thing. Understanding that distinction is important when thinking about Bitcoin governance. 🔹 Open source doesn't automatically mean decentralized. Anyone can inspect or modify Bitcoin's code, but getting changes accepted into widely used software involves social processes, technical review, and governance. 🔹 Decentralization is about more than the number of developers. The ability for users to independently verify the rules, run their own nodes, choose implementations, and ultimately reject changes is a critical part of Bitcoin's resilience. 🔹 Self-custody matters. The chapter also reminded us that Bitcoin's censorship-resistance and confiscation-resistance are strongest when users actually control their own keys rather than relying entirely on custodians. Most importantly, we don't have to agree with every argument in the book to learn from it. Good Bitcoin education requires questioning assumptions, examining history, and being willing to engage with perspectives we disagree with. A huge thank you to everyone who showed up, participated, asked questions, and contributed to today's conversation. 🧡 See you at the next Readers’ Friday. 📚⚡️ View quoted note →

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📚 Readers’ Friday Book Club Tonight, we’re discussing Chapter 10: “Keys to the Code” from Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver and Steve Patterson. Bitcoin is often described as a system no government or institution can control. But what happens when we look beyond the code? This chapter challenges the idea that Bitcoin is completely immune to human influence, arguing that custody, institutions, developers, and social decisions can all shape how Bitcoin is used and controlled. Is Bitcoin truly beyond anyone’s control, or does its security ultimately depend on the people who use and maintain it? 🕕 6:00 PM UTC 💬 Discord:

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🌍 Project Spotlight: Cardware Wallet 📍 Location: South Africa 🇿🇦 About: Cardware Wallet is Africa’s first hardware wallet company, designing and manufacturing a truly 100% air-gapped, offline device in South Africa. Built for people who refuse to compromise on self-custody, it keeps private keys completely isolated from the internet, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or any data connection. Key Objectives: 1. Enable true secure self-custody — Give every user full ownership of their private keys on a device that never touches the internet, removing reliance on exchanges or software wallets. 2. Eliminate online signing exposure — Keep all private-key operations and transaction signing strictly air-gapped through QR-code workflows, so internet-connected devices only ever handle watch-only data. 3. Simplify hardware wallet usability — Deliver a clean interface with physical buttons, camera, and browser-based web wallet that works on any device without apps, downloads, or complicated pairing. 4. Promote verifiable security best practices — Use transparent hardware design, open-source code, user-generated entropy, EAL6+ secure elements, and non-upgradable protected firmware so users can independently confirm the device is trustworthy. 5. Put users in complete control of their keys — Ensure private keys are generated, stored, and used only on the offline device, with robust backup options and multisig support, so no third party ever has access. Connect with Cardware Wallet: X handle: @CardwareWallet Website:

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🤯Fun Fact Thursday! Did you Know? Bitcoin’s security comes from computers competing to solve mathematical puzzles every 10 minutes using real-world energy. This process is called Proof of Work. No central authority. No master server. Just a global network of machines independently verifying truth in real time. Technology, economics, and cryptography, all working together to create digital money without borders.🌍

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Watch Party Wednesday was a success! 🎉 Today, we watched a short but important guide from Jack Mallers on Bitcoin self-custody, especially in light of the recent Coldcard exploit. Here are some key takeaways: 🧵👇 🔐 1. Bitcoin security starts with strong key generation. Weak seed phrases can become your biggest vulnerability. 🛡️ 2. Self-custody is about more than preventing theft. Your setup should also make recovery possible if something goes wrong. 🔑 3. Single-sig vs. multisig. Choose a setup that matches your needs, risk profile, and technical ability. 🌍 4. Geographic key distribution matters. Keeping all your backups in one place creates a single point of failure. 🧩 5. Understand key sharding. Splitting key material can improve resilience when implemented correctly. ⚙️ 6. Trust open-source, battle-tested software. Bitcoin Core remains one of the most extensively reviewed codebases in the ecosystem. 🤖 7. AI is changing the security landscape. As attacks become more sophisticated, Bitcoiners need to continually improve their security practices. Thanks to everyone who joined today's Watch Party Wednesday! 🧡 If you missed it, take some time this week to watch Jack Mallers' explanation of self-custody, it's a valuable refresher for every Bitcoiner. View quoted note →

🎬 Watch Party Wednesday Join us today at 2PM UTC on Discord as we watch, question, and learn Bitcoin together. ⚡ Bring your curiosity. Challenge ideas. Learn with other Bitcoiners. See you there. 🍿👇 discord.gg/uVD8C5Jurh #Bitcoin #BitcoinEducation

🎉 Happy Birthday to Em, our incredible Head of Technology! ⚡ Your dedication, creativity, and leadership continue to power everything we build at African Bitcoiners. Thank you for the countless hours, the brilliant solutions, and the passion you bring to our mission every single day. We're grateful to have you on this journey as we build the future of Bitcoin in Africa. Wishing you a year filled with joy, good health, new opportunities, and many more milestones. Happy Birthday, Em! 🧡🎂🎉 — From the African Bitcoiners Team!🟠

🌍 Project Spotlight: Bitcoin Only 📍 Location: South Africa 🇿🇦 About: Bitcoin Only is a South Africa-based Bitcoin service provider founded and operated to help individuals, businesses, and trusts operate confidently on a true Bitcoin standard, prioritising self-custody, long-term security, and practical integration. The project also supplies seed backup kits, educational resources, and strategy guidance so users can secure, manage, and spend their Bitcoin without relying on third-party custodians. Key Objectives: 1. Deliver expert Bitcoin consultations and onboarding — offering free discovery calls plus tailored sessions for individuals, companies, and trusts covering self-custody setup, security best practices, estate planning, recovery, and full Bitcoin strategy. 2. Enable businesses to accept Bitcoin payments — providing dedicated consulting and implementation support so merchants can integrate Bitcoin (including Lightning-friendly rails) smoothly into their operations. 3. Supply trusted, locally available Bitcoin hardware and tools — acting as an authorised South African reseller of open-source, Bitcoin-only devices, SeedSigner DIY kits, and complementary seed backup solutions, with nationwide shipping. 4. Promote practical Lightning and payment adoption — helping users and merchants leverage fast, low-cost Lightning payments while building the infrastructure and knowledge needed for real-world circular Bitcoin use. 5. Support the broader transition to a Bitcoin economy — guiding South Africans toward financial sovereignty through education, community event listings, institutional advice, and tools that make self-custody and Bitcoin-native business operations the default. Connect with Bitcoin Only: Website: https://bitcoinonly.io/ X handle: @BitcoinOnlyZA 👇Dive deeper into the African Bitcoin economy!

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🌍 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT: BitcoinFriendlySA 📍 Location: South Africa 🇿🇦 About: BitcoinFriendlySA is a practical directory, educational hub, and Bitcoin-only online store that helps South Africans spend and accept Bitcoin with confidence in everyday life. The platform maintains a curated, verified list of Bitcoin-accepting businesses (independent shops plus large chains reachable via MoneyBadger, Scan to Pay, and similar rails), runs the Academy with clear guides for both spenders and merchants, and operates a circular-economy store where customers buy local SA products (coffee, rooibos, biltong and more) exclusively with Bitcoin while partner merchants are paid in Bitcoin. Key Objectives 1. Build and maintain a trusted, regularly updated directory of verified Bitcoin-accepting businesses, starting hyper-local in Cape Town and the Winelands and expanding nationwide. 2. Equip both consumers and merchants through the Academy with practical guides, wallet how-tos, real-world payment examples, and case studies so anyone can spend or accept Bitcoin confidently. 3. Onboard and support merchants — making it easy for local businesses to become Bitcoin-ready, get listed, and gain extra sales channels. 4. Grow genuine circular Bitcoin economies by running a Bitcoin-only online store that sources products from merchants who already accept sats and pays those merchants entirely in Bitcoin. 5. Drive real-world Bitcoin spending by connecting users with places to spend sats, highlighting adoption stories (including the Proof of Spend movement), and making everyday Bitcoin use visible and accessible. Connect with BitcoinFriendlySA: Website:

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