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📚 Readers' Friday Book Club What can Bitcoin's scaling debate teach us about incentives, governance, and the future of the network? Tonight, we're diving into Chapter 8: The Right Incentives from Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver and Steve Patterson. 🕕 6:00 PM UTC 💬 Discord:

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🌍 Project Spotlight: Bitcoin Karoo 📍 Location: Karoo, South Africa 🇿🇦 About: Bitcoin Karoo is a grassroots initiative creating a real-world Bitcoin circular economy in South Africa’s semi-arid heartland. The project helps local merchants accept Bitcoin, primarily via the Lightning Network using simple tools like lightning wallets, so they can avoid fees and settle instantly. Key Objectives: 1. Grow a Lightning-first circular economy where Bitcoin flows freely between residents, merchants, and visitors. 2. Onboard local businesses and township spaza shops to accept Bitcoin, giving them lower costs, instant settlement, and access to a new customer base. 3. Promote everyday Bitcoin spending so sats become normal for coffee, groceries, crafts, services, and tourism experiences. 4. Deliver practical, hands-on Bitcoin education, especially to youths through engaging programs that teach saving, spending, budgeting, and sound economic principles. 5. Strengthen local economic participation and community self-sovereignty by reducing dependence on distant financial systems and multinationals. Connect with Bitcoin Karoo: X handle: @BitcoinKaroo Nostr: @Bitcoin Karoo 👇Dive deeper into the African Bitcoin economy!

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What's the biggest Bitcoin opportunity in Africa? 🔘 Education 🔘 Payments 🔘 Savings 🔘 Entrepreneurship

🤯 Fun Fact Thursday! Did you know? Bitcoin has no customer support line, no complaints department, no account manager, and definitely no “Can I speak to the manager?” option. 😂 If you don't like the rules, your options are simple: Learn them. Ignore them. Or create your own Bitcoin and see how that goes. 😂😅

🌍 Project Spotlight: Bitcoin Johannesburg 📍 Location: Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦 About: Bitcoin Johannesburg is a community-driven meetup group bringing together Bitcoiners, builders, entrepreneurs, and newcomers to learn, network, and discuss Bitcoin adoption in South Africa's largest city. Key Objectives: 1. Host regular Bitcoin meetups. 2. Foster networking and collaboration. 3. Promote Bitcoin education. 4. Support local Bitcoin adoption. 5. Strengthen Johannesburg's Bitcoin ecosystem. Connect with Bitcoin Johannesburg: X handle: @BitcoinJHB 👇Dive deeper into the African Bitcoin economy!

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Our Watch Party Wednesday was a success! 🧡 We watched Joe Nakamoto's thought-provoking video on privacy, human rights, and Bitcoin in El Salvador, and the discussion that followed raised important questions for Africa. A few key takeaways: 🔸 Bitcoin is bigger than price. Its values include privacy, freedom, self-custody, and individual sovereignty. 🔸 Bitcoin adoption should never mean giving up fundamental rights. We must be willing to question governments, even those that publicly support Bitcoin. 🔸 We need to separate Bitcoin from the state. A government adopting Bitcoin doesn't automatically make its policies pro-Bitcoin. 🔸 Africa must learn from every experiment. As more African countries explore Bitcoin, we should build systems that protect privacy, individual freedom, and financial sovereignty from the start. The conversation reminded us that Bitcoin is not about who controls the system. It's about building a system where no one has to ask for permission to be free. Thank you to everyone who joined the Watch Party and contributed to the discussion! 🧡 View quoted note →

Happy Birthday, Lys! 🥳🎉 Thank you for your dedication as our Francophone Lead and Backend Engineer. Your hard work and commitment continue to strengthen African Bitcoiners and expand our impact across Africa. Wishing you a year of joy, good health, growth, and success.🧡⚡

🎬 Watch Party Wednesday Join us today at 2PM UTC on Discord as we watch, learn, and unpack Bitcoin ideas together. ⚡ Bring your questions. Bring your perspective. Leave with new insights. See you there 🍿👇

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🌍 Project Spotlight: Bitcoin In The Wild 📍Location: South Africa 🇿🇦 About: Bitcoin In The Wild is a Bitcoin-only non-profit that harnesses the power of Bitcoin to fund and advance wildlife conservation, environmental education, and community empowerment across South Africa. Key Objectives: 1. Support wildlife conservation and protection efforts — Funding essential work such as anti-poaching units, elephant orphanages like HERD/Jabulani, rhino protection, and broader habitat preservation in South Africa. 2. Expand Bitcoin and financial education in local communities — Onboarding conservation teams, schools, and townships to build knowledge of Bitcoin, sound money, and self-custody, fostering long-term sovereignty. 3. Create sustainable economic opportunities — Empowering local communities, including women rangers and rural families, through Bitcoin-powered incentives, merchant adoption, and projects that link conservation success with economic benefits. 4. Demonstrate Bitcoin’s real-world utility in conservation — Showcasing how Bitcoin enables direct, efficient, and transparent funding for environmental causes, from paying for ranger travel and education programs to holding value that can grow to support future initiatives. 5. Empower communities through financial inclusion and direct impact — Bridging global Bitcoin supporters with local stewards of Africa’s biodiversity, supporting education access, women-led initiatives, and grassroots projects that protect both nature and people. Connect with Bitcoin In The Wild: Website:

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🌍Builder Thought... Every thriving Bitcoin ecosystem started with a few people willing to organize, teach, and show up consistently.

🌍 Project Spotlight: Bitcoin For Business 📍Location: Pretoria, South Africa 🇿🇦 About: Bitcoin For Business is a South African initiative dedicated to helping local businesses understand, adopt, and seamlessly integrate Bitcoin into their daily operations. By focusing on real-world use cases, Bitcoin For Business demonstrates how Bitcoin serves as a superior medium of exchange and store of value. Key Objectives: 1. Educate businesses on Bitcoin fundamentals and adoption — Deliver clear, actionable training on how Bitcoin works, its benefits, and practical integration steps suitable for South African businesses. 2. Promote Bitcoin as a strategic treasury asset — Guide businesses on holding Bitcoin to protect against rand volatility, preserve capital, and strengthen long-term financial stability. 3. Enable easy Bitcoin payment acceptance — Help merchants set up reliable ways to accept BTC (directly or via gateways), reducing costs compared to traditional card fees and attracting Bitcoin-savvy customers. 4. Improve overall business financial resilience — Show how Bitcoin lowers friction in payments, minimizes intermediary fees, enables global reach, and provides censorship-resistant money that settles immediately. 5. Build a thriving network of Bitcoin-friendly businesses — Connect adopters to create a supportive ecosystem, increase visibility for participating merchants, and accelerate broader Bitcoin adoption across South Africa. Connect with Bitcoin For Business: X handle: @BTC_4_Biz 👇Dive deeper into the African Bitcoin economy!

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💡Spotlight on Bitcoin Ekasi 📍Location: Mossel Bay, South Africa. 🇿🇦 About: @BitcoinEkasi is a grassroots initiative based in the townships of Mossel Bay. Inspired by Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador, it builds a real Bitcoin circular economy by paying its entire local team of surf coaches, lifeguards, teachers, and community workers 100% in Bitcoin. At the same time, it onboards township merchants and spaza shops to accept Lightning Network payments, turning sats into functional everyday money for groceries, lunch, and services. Some Key Objectives: 🔹Build a thriving local circular Bitcoin economy where value stays and circulates within the township, creating economic resilience and reducing leakage to external systems. 🔹Onboard merchants and residents to seamlessly accept and spend Bitcoin via the Lightning Network for everyday transactions, from groceries and lunch to services, making sats as practical as cash. 🔹Demonstrate real-world Bitcoin adoption through tangible daily examples, such as coaches buying lunch or families purchasing essentials with sats, shifting the narrative from speculation to utility. 🔹Drive financial inclusion, literacy, and empowerment for township residents, especially youth, by integrating Bitcoin education and usage with existing community programs, helping overcome barriers from traditional banking, inflation, and limited access to sound money. 🔹Inspire scalable Bitcoin circular economies across Africa and beyond by hosting visitors, collaborating with global projects, openly sharing the model, and prioritizing voluntary grassroots adoption and self-reliance over dependency-creating approaches. Connect with Bitcoin Ekasi: X handle: @BitcoinEkasi Support:

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📚 Readers' Friday Book Club Recap! This week, we explored Chapter 7: The Real Cost of Big Blocks from Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver and Steve Patterson, revisiting one of Bitcoin's most influential scaling debates. Key takeaways from today's discussion: 🔸 Scaling is a trade-off. Every design decision affects decentralization, security, and usability. 🔸 Technology evolves. The chapter argues that storage and bandwidth costs continue to decline, making larger blocks more feasible over time. 🔸 Node accessibility matters. A key question remains: who should be able to run a full node, and what level of hardware should that require? 🔸 Ideas shape Bitcoin. The Blocksize Wars weren't just about megabytes, they reflected different visions for Bitcoin's future. 🔸 History still matters. Understanding these debates helps us better evaluate today's discussions around scaling, Lightning, and Bitcoin's long-term evolution. Whether you agreed with every argument or challenged them, the conversation reminded us why reading different perspectives makes us better Bitcoiners. 📖 Missed this session? Join us next Friday as we continue reading, asking better questions, and learning together. See you at the next Readers' Friday Book Club! ⚡🧡 View quoted note →

📢Africa doesn't just need more Bitcoin projects. It needs more sustainable Bitcoin companies. If you'd like to help founders move from prototypes to sustainable products, we'd love to hear from you.📩 View quoted note →