🇿🇦₿ September 2026 Project Update! Another month of building Bitcoin as everyday money in Mossel Bay. From celebrating 15 years of The Surfer Kids to: ⚡ Bitcoin education in local shops 🤝 A Western Cape Fedimint federation ₿ Sats-denominated salaries 🌍 An international keynote in Lugano Read the full update 👇

September 2026 Project update! – Bitcoin Ekasi

#Spedn @cheru@blink.sv btcmap.org/merchant/27155 Why reward kids with Bitcoin? Because they don’t just learn about Bitcoin they experience it. Learn Earn sats Spend Save Teaching the next generation that Bitcoin can be everyday money.

The fun is growing at Bitcoin Ekasi! After the success of our first Picade, we’re building a second arcade game for the community. Bongani built the first Picade with the help of Jason & Eric and now he’s taking on the challenge of building Picade #2! Big thank you to Jason & @EricSirion for helping make the first one possible. More games, more fun, and more ways to put sats into people’s hands. #BitcoinEkasi #Bitcoin #Picade

Yeew!!!! @The Surfer Kids are done with day 2 of the SA Junior Championships at Jeffreys Bay. 4 / 5 of our kids are still in the competition, surfing in round 3 tomorrow!!! I feel this year's gonna be our best year yet! Aiming for quarter finals, maybe even a semi-final or finals finish!!

Last week’s MOLFA Heritage Tournament showed us another way to put sats directly into people’s hands. ⚽️₿ Three teams received Bitcoin prizes, giving us another opportunity to show that Bitcoin is everyday money. Next year, we want to host our own Bitcoin Ekasi Tournament and keep finding creative ways to put sats in people’s hands through the things our community loves. A big thank you to @Fedi for making the Bitcoin prizes possible and supporting the community! 🧡₿ This is the way Bitcoin in the hands of the people. #BitcoinEkasi #Bitcoin #MosselBay

📶⚡ CONNECT WITH SATS! ₿ Our Wi-Fi Hotspot in Joe Slovo Village is bringing Bitcoin into everyday life! 🌐 24 hours of unlimited Wi-Fi 📚 Study • 💻 Work • 📱 Chat • 🎥 Watch • 🌍 Stay connected. Huge thank you to @Fedi for the donation and for helping us get this started! 📍22 O Elles Street, Joe Slovo Village Bitcoin is everyday money. 🔥

It’s so good to see our Thrift Store getting busier! 🧡 The aim is to teach residents to use Bitcoin as everyday money buying real items with Bitcoin, with every item priced at just 200 sats. Bitcoin is not just something to hold. It’s something we use. ⚡️₿

Finals are here at the Heritage Soccer Tournament! ⚽️🔥 Team Bitcoin Ekasi is on the ground at Mossgas Soccer Field, bringing Bitcoin adoption to the community. ₿🧡 Big thank you to @Fedi for making this possible and supporting the tournament. The winning teams will receive their prizes in Bitcoin! 🏆₿

We’re here at the Mossgas Soccer Field for the Heritage Soccer Tournament! ⚽️🇿🇦 Thank you to @Fedi for making it possible for Team Bitcoin Ekasi to be here. The winning teams will receive their prizes in Bitcoin! ₿🧡 24 teams, one tournament, and another opportunity to bring Bitcoin adoption to our community. 🔥 #BitcoinEkasi #Bitcoin #Fedi #HeritageTournament

There's a Global Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit happening in El Salvador in November 2026!! Organized by Bitcoin Beach, this is the first Bitcoin Conference in El Zonte, ground zero for this movement. Join us there and support the effort to make Bitcoin every day money. 📅 November 19–20 🎟️ Limited spots: 👉

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Global Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit Nov 19 2026, 9:00 am | Satlantis

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#SPEDN zinyoka@blink.sv btcmap.org/merchant/3108 From the classroom to the local shop! See how students are spending sats using their @npub1mayq...hl50 powered by Bitcoin Ekasi to buy snacks seamlessly at Jabulani Shop No. 3. Huge gratitude to Bitcoin Moon Fund for supporting this mission and empowering our community! 🙌🧡 #SpendingSats

A light breakfast before the Turtles hit the water for a quick surf🏄‍♂️🌊 it was a bit chilly this morning. But the crew was frothing to get out there 🔥🔥 #tskweekend

The Surfer Kids Sharks High Performance Team has been working incredibly hard over the past couple of months—honing their skills, pushing each other, and putting in the work as they prepare for the 🇿🇦 South African Junior Championships as part of the Eden Surf Riders Junior Team. 🏄‍♂️🔥 We’re incredibly proud of these groms and everything they’ve achieved so far! Watch the full edit on our YouTube Page🎥🏄‍♂️ : #tskhighperformance

5 days a week, these groms make their way from the township to the beach. So much commitment, dedication and stoke from this young crew 🫶🔥 Can’t wait to watch them absolutely rip it up in a few years! 🏄‍♂️🌊 #tsksurftothrive

A mellow, fun day at Inners for the crew 🌊 The boys were taking it easy today and enjoying the fun surf and of course ripping🔥 Blessed with beautiful weather here in the Garden Route ☀️🏄‍♂️ #TSKWeekend

This is about more than a salary. It’s about planting a seed for the future. Our The Surfer Kids assistant coaches and Bitcoin Ekasi teaching assistants are still in high school. They are not permanent employees they are young people getting an opportunity to work part-time, earn an income, and learn valuable life skills. Their salaries are denominated in sats (satoshis). Instead of simply receiving a rand amount, their pay is calculated and paid in sats. Why do we do this? Because we want them to experience Bitcoin, not just learn about it. We want them to understand what it means to earn, save, and think long-term. If they choose to save some of the sats they earn today, what could those sats mean for them in 5 or 10 years? We don’t know what the future price of Bitcoin will be. But we can give young people the opportunity to start saving today and learn the value of thinking about tomorrow. One sat at a time. One lesson at a time. One future at a time. 🧡🇿🇦 #BitcoinEkasi #Bitcoin #Sats #BitcoinEducation

Community Focus Supporting local business and circular economies! 🌍⚡️ Visited the Thrift Store today—great clothes, awesome prices, and 100% Bitcoin accepted. 🛍️⚡️

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Hard work pays off! ⚡️ Cohort 6 has officially started, and our students just received their very first weekly attendance rewards for achieving a full 100% attendance rate in their class program this past week! Seeing the big smiles as they spent their Bitcoin at John’s Shop through the Lightning Network is what this journey is all about—learning, showing up, and experiencing real-world financial freedom firsthand. 🛒🍬 A massive shoutout and heartfelt THANK YOU to Bitcoin Moon Fund for sponsoring our organization and making these empowering rewards possible! 🧡🌐

The Surfer Kids were in action this past weekend at the Eden Junior Trials, at Vic-Bay and what a day it was! 🌊🏄‍♂️ With fun waves on offer all day, our surfers gave it everything they had, putting the hard work from training into practice. We're incredibly proud of every surfer who paddled out, showed courage, supported one another, and represented The Surfer Kids with pride. A huge thank you to Eden Surf Riders Association and organisers for the day. #TheSurferKids #EdenJuniorTrials #JuniorSurfing

Fun day in Victoria Bay watching The Surfer Kids compete at the local Junior Trials. First of two events to select a district team, to compete at the South African Junior Champs in September. The kids surfed well, we should get a decent number of kids in the team for Jeffreys Bay!