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Happy Independence Day, Zambia! 🇿🇲 Today, we celebrate Zambia's freedom, resilience, and the people shaping its future. Independence is more than a moment in history. It is the continued pursuit of freedom, opportunity, and economic empowerment. Bitcoin offers another path to financial freedom, giving people greater control over their money and access to a global financial system. As we celebrate Zambia's independence, let's keep building a future where every African has the opportunity to thrive.🙌

🌍 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT: Bitcoin Mining Namibia 📍 Location: Namibia 🇳🇦 About: Bitcoin Mining Namibia is a local initiative helping individuals and interest groups access Bitcoin mining hardware and participate in Bitcoin mining. Key Objectives: 1. Facilitate mining access: Help more people access Bitcoin mining hardware. 2. Promote local mining: Encourage Bitcoin mining within Namibia. 3. Support new miners: Help individuals and groups get started with mining. 4. Build mining knowledge: Increase awareness and understanding of Bitcoin mining. 5. Strengthen the ecosystem: Contribute to the development of Namibia’s Bitcoin infrastructure. Connect with Bitcoin Mining Namibia: X handle: @BTCMiningNam Linktree:

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📚 Readers’ Friday Book Club Recap! Tonight, we explored Chapter 19: “The Mad Hatters” from Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver and Steve Patterson. Some of the key takeaways from our discussion: → The 2017 scaling debate exposed deep disagreements over Bitcoin’s blocksize, transaction capacity, and development direction. → SegWit2x highlighted the challenges of reaching consensus when different groups have competing visions for Bitcoin. → The chapter examines how censorship, online attacks, and pressure campaigns affected businesses and individuals involved in the debate. → The cancellation of SegWit2x demonstrated the difficulty of coordinating major protocol changes without sufficient consensus. → The discussion raised important questions about Bitcoin’s governance, the role of miners, developers, businesses, and the wider community. A big thank you to everyone who joined, shared their perspectives, challenged ideas, and contributed to the conversation. 🙌 See you at the next Readers’ Friday Book Club! View quoted note →

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📚 Readers’ Friday Book Club! Today, we’re reading Chapter 19: “The Mad Hatters” from Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver and Steve Patterson. We’ll explore the events surrounding Bitcoin’s 2017 scaling debate, the SegWit2x controversy, and the competing visions for Bitcoin’s future. 🕕 6:00 PM UTC 💬 Join us on Discord:

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Bring your questions, disagreements, and thoughts. Let’s dive into the chapter and have an engaging discussion! See you there! ⚡

🌍 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT: EasySats 📍 Location: Namibia 🇳🇦 About: EasySats is a Bitcoin-only initiative that makes Bitcoin practical and accessible for everyday Namibians and Africans. It focuses on removing the usual barriers, exchanges, complex setups, and custodial risks, so people can easily understand, earn, obtain, and self-custody their sats. EasySats also works hands-on with local businesses (restaurants, bars, and other service providers) to help them accept Lightning payments, while running education efforts, community events, and supporting the growth of a local Bitcoin circular economy. Key Objectives: 1. Make Bitcoin acquisition simple and accessible: Enable people to obtain Bitcoin as easily as buying mobile airtime through voucher systems that can be redeemed via Lightning or on-chain, reducing reliance on traditional exchanges or bank accounts. 2. Enable businesses to accept Lightning payments: Help service providers and merchants integrate fast, low-cost Bitcoin payments so everyday transactions become seamless. 3. Promote education and self-custody: Teach Namibians how to earn, spend, and securely store their own sats through tutorials, events, and hands-on demonstrations so people learn by using Bitcoin rather than just hearing about it. 4. Support local businesses and circular economy growth: Give service providers tools and support to accept Bitcoin, creating more places where people can spend sats and strengthening Namibia’s Bitcoin economy. 5. Drive broader Bitcoin adoption: Build practical infrastructure, community events and real-world use cases that make Bitcoin useful in daily life across Namibia and contribute to wider African adoption. Connect with EasySats: X: @EasySats_ Geyser:

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📬 Get The Inside Track on Bitcoin in Africa! Africa’s Bitcoin ecosystem is evolving, with new projects, innovative tools, and community-led initiatives emerging across the continent. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest African Bitcoin news, ecosystem updates, educational resources, and opportunities shaping Bitcoin adoption in Africa. Stay informed. Stay connected. 👉

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🤯 Fun Fact Thursday! Did you know? Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, mined the very first Bitcoin block on 3 January 2009. While the genesis block’s 50 BTC reward can never be spent, researchers estimate that approximately 1 million BTC mined in Bitcoin’s early days are associated with Satoshi. Most of these coins remain unspent to this day, though the exact amount and ownership have never been conclusively verified. Over a million Bitcoin estimated. Most untouched. A mystery that continues to fascinate the world. 👀

How is Bitcoin Adoption Progressing in Namibia? 🇳🇦 Namibia’s Bitcoin ecosystem is steadily growing, with local builders developing practical ways for people and businesses to use Bitcoin. Key projects Driving Adoption: 🔷 EasySats: A Namibia-based platform helping service providers accept Bitcoin through Lightning payments, making everyday Bitcoin payments faster and easier. 🔷 Bitcoin Mining Namibia: A local initiative helping individuals and interest groups access Bitcoin mining hardware and participate in Bitcoin mining. From payments to mining, Namibia’s Bitcoin ecosystem is building the infrastructure for broader adoption. 👇 Explore more African Bitcoin initiatives on the live directory:

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🎬 Today’s Watch Party Wednesday was a success! We explored how the women of Afribit Kibera, Kenya, are turning unwanted clothes into bags, dolls and crochet wear while earning and saving in Bitcoin. Here are our key takeaways: → Education builds trust. Independent Bitcoin education helped turn scepticism into understanding. → Financial access matters. Bitcoin offers an alternative for people who face barriers to opening traditional bank accounts. → Spending makes Bitcoin real. Being able to earn, spend and receive sats helps people understand Bitcoin as money. → Bitcoin creates opportunities. Women and teen mothers are learning to earn, save and plan for their children’s future. → Circular economies start locally. Waste collectors, boda boda riders and upcycling women are connected through a growing local economy. A huge thank you to everyone who joined, shared their perspectives and contributed to the discussion! 🧡 The lesson? Real adoption grows through education, practical use and opportunities that solve everyday problems. Until next Wednesday, Bitcoiners! 🧡 View quoted note →

🎬 Watch Party Wednesday! Join us for a Bitcoin-focused watch party, followed by a discussion of the key takeaways, questions, and hot takes. Come curious. Leave with new insights. 🕑 2:00 PM UTC 📍 Join us on Discord:

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🌍 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT: Mwasi na Bitcoin 📍 Location: Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩 About: Mwasi na Bitcoin is a community-led initiative dedicated to empowering Congolese women through Bitcoin education and grassroots microfinance. By providing practical financial education and introducing women to Bitcoin as a tool for saving and economic empowerment, the initiative is helping make the Bitcoin ecosystem more inclusive and accessible. Key Objectives: 1. Deliver accessible Bitcoin education to women across the DRC. 2. Promote financial inclusion through grassroots community engagement. 3. Encourage saving and wealth preservation using Bitcoin. 4. Support women's economic empowerment through Bitcoin-based microfinance initiatives. 5. Build a strong network of women participating in the growing Bitcoin ecosystem. Connect with Mwasi na Bitcoin: X handle: @mwasi_na49644 Website:

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🚨 Africa’s Bitcoin ecosystem just lost 11 projects in a single quarter! In Q4 2026, the African Bitcoin Live Directory recorded a decline in listed projects. Most of the removals were projects inactive for over six months. But how much is the ecosystem really growing, and where are projects thriving or disappearing? We built the African Bitcoin Ecosystem Growth Tracker to answer these questions by tracking quarterly changes in project numbers, countries, sectors, additions and removals. We’ve also made the underlying data accessible through the African Bitcoin Live Directory API, enabling developers, researchers and organisations to analyse trends and build tools using real ecosystem data. 📊 Explore the Growth Tracker:

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🌍 Today, on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, we are reminded that everyone deserves the opportunity to live with dignity, achieve financial security, and reach their full potential. At African Bitcoiners, our vision is Freedom in Africa, an Africa where every person has an equal opportunity to reach their full potential. We believe Bitcoin can contribute to this future by expanding access to savings, payments, and a global financial network. Bitcoin brings access to financial tools, education, and opportunity which can help people build better futures. A freer Africa starts with opportunity for everyone.✊

🌍 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT: Gwensas Mining 📍Location: Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩 About: Gwensas Mining is a Bitcoin mining company specializing in energy valorization through Bitcoin mining. The company has developed mining infrastructure across multiple countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its operations near the Virunga region demonstrate how Bitcoin mining can convert surplus or underutilized energy into economic value while supporting infrastructure development and local growth. Key Objectives: 1. Monetize surplus and stranded energy through Bitcoin mining. 2. Demonstrate sustainable, energy-backed Bitcoin mining in Africa. 3. Support investment in local energy and digital infrastructure. 4. Create economic opportunities and technical employment in the region. 5. Strengthen the DRC's role in the global Bitcoin mining ecosystem. Bitcoin mining is more than securing the network, it can also unlock the value of untapped energy resources and accelerate local economic development. Connect with Gwenssas Mining: X handle: @GwensasM Website: https://www.gwensas.com/ 👇 Explore more African Bitcoin initiatives on the live directory:

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