Good morning! It's a beautiful day in the Southern Cape!

We're migrating our monthly kids' rewards system to our own self-hosted @BTCPay Server instance, using @Blink Wallet and Boltcards!!

An interesting new add-on to this year's road-trip (following Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town) was a visit to two primary schools, to see what they're doing with Bitcoin Adoption. One of those two schools had their entire first rugby team kitted out in a brand-new "STUDY BITCOIN" kit! As things stand now, Volschenk Primary School will attend the Oakdale and Willie Le Roux Rugby Events, lining up with their new kit, facing thousands of spectators. All-in-all, in 2025, they will play more than 40 matches against neighboring schools, and some of their opposition teams will be sponsored by large South African banks. It's not uncommon to see Absa, FNB and Standard Bank on the uniforms of schools' sports' teams. I will definitely attend at least one of those games to see the crowd's response. If you wanna help this brave team of little giants do more for Bitcoin adoption, please consider supporting them here:

Vollies Rugby & BTC Awareness

A Bitcoin Circular Economy is a geographically concentrated effort (an effort that is focused on a relatively small area/population) that promotes the use of bitcoin as an everyday form of money, without, as far as possible, converting to and/or touching the fiat system in any way, whatsoever. This includes services where Bitcoin is used to make purchases, but where the merchant never sees any sats. These services are preferable to using fiat on both ends, but they're not ideal. Ideally we want both the customer and merchant interacting directly with one another, and directly with Bitcoin only. These services can however be (and very often are) an ideal stepping stone and should be treated as such. A Bitcoin Circular Economy promotes using bitcoin to pay salaries, make grocery purchases and do everything with bitcoin that would otherwise normally be done with fiat, in a way that is p2p and direct, as far as possible. The idea first emerged in Arnhem, in the Netherlands, in 2014, with ArnhemBitcoinstad, but really exploded with the founding of Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador, in 2019. We (Bitcoin Ekasi) and others, like @Praia Bitcoin Brazil⚡️ and @Bitcoin Jungle , copied the Bitcoin Beach model and adjusted for local context, starting around 2021. Several more projects have followed. @npub1l00k...nypq is, in part, an effort to track, catalogue and provide a blueprint of the various circular economies and their different models, so that the idea may spread even further and be more easily and widely adopted. Ultimately, we're all working towards the same thing: To establish Bitcoin as global money, and we believe the best way of doing that is through establishing circular economies. The separation of money and state, which is perhaps the only thing Bitcoiners can agree on, is, in essence, nothing more than a global Bitcoin circular economy, which, in turn, is nothing more than countless smaller interlinked circular economies. These do not have to be formal projects. In fact, many aren't. All it needs to be is an attempt to solve both ends of the adoption equation: Who will spend the sats? And where will they spend it?

We're in @npub1k3zl...ydsu for the @Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town road trip!

Always hugely appreciate the interest people show in coming all this way to learn about our project. And, in this case, despite the pumping wind and rain. It's a humbling experience. Thank you to everyone that made the post-conference road-trip! Hopefully the sun shows its face for @npub1k3zl...ydsu tomorow !

Self-costudy workshop for beginners with Cole Tuckett | Southern Bitcoin happening in the B Trust room.

Can confirm, senior members and former senior members of major and oppositional polical parties, some of them in government, will be speaking at @Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town in 2025. Bitcoin may be making its way into national political debates this year.

One of my favourite moments from @Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2024 This proves the point. Bitcoin is for anyone. 👇 👇 👇 Left: Toyota Landcruiser, 80-series, year model: 1994, half a million kilometers on the clock. Africa's work horse. Right: Lamborghini Urus

If you're coming to @Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town join us for a pre-conference film screening! Come and watch: Unbankable: Can Africa Save the West? https://unbankablemovie.com Ger your tickets here:

Unbankable - Film Screening

Thu, Jan. 23, 2025

WTF?! I just followed a new account on Nostr, using Primal web interface, and this resulted in me un-following all the other accounts I had been following. How did this happen? I had such a great follow list, and now it's all gone.

#asknostr Is there a way to schedule posts, here on Nostr, like one would on twitter? If there is, I don't see it. I'm using Primal and Amethyst. Trying to use Nostr more to promote @Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town On twitter I can schedule a bunch of speaker announcements, all at once, and the posts go out, at the right times, while I'm doing other things. Not being able to do it on Nostr makes it tough to use this network as much as I'd like to, for this conference.