It's not all fun and games at The Surfer Kids. We make serious effort to teach these kids many other skills, including lifesaving. What does it take to avoid a crisis situation in the ocean? And if it cannot be avoided, what does it take to respond to a crisis situation in the ocean?

We had a local hip-hop dance crew at the Bitcoin Bowl today, filming part of their upcoming music video, will have some of the kids featured in it too! Super cool!

Kids are ripping the Bitcoin Bowl! 🔥🔥🔥

Kids' rewards are back! February was The Surfer Kids first full month of operations in 2025, and all children who attended at least 80% of the sessions earned their monthly reward in sats! This is also the first time we're using our new cards, in combination with our own self-hosted @BTCPay Server instance! Thanks to @openoms and @El Flaco for helping us set it up! A brief overview of The Surfer Kids' program stats for February: Total surf sessions: 17 Total active recruits: 64 Average attendance / day: 30 children Average attendance / child: 8 sessions (49%) Total number of children earning rewards, with at least 80% attendance: 8

Little Avethandwa (11) getting a little head dip barrel, he was stoked! 🤩😅😂🤩🧡🤩

Stoked to see The Surfer Kids represent at today's Eden Surf Riders Trials! It's been a 15-year journey (buckets of blood, sweat, and tears) to get their surfing ability to this point. And we're only getting started.

Avethandwa (11) skates the Bitcoin Bowl almost every day!

Absolutely love watching these kids improve, surfing better and better every day!

Stoked with our first surf series competition this weekend! Over 50 surfers from the local Eden district surfing federation pulled in, and surfed for prizes, all paid in sats!

Recruiting gr. 6 & 7 pupils from our local primary school (TM Ndanda) for the next Bitcoin Diploma course. Looking to graduate our current cohort in March and start with a new one in April.

While competitive success is not The Surfer Kids' primary objective, we do want to give those kids who are hungry for it the best chance at success. But there aren't enough local surf comps for the kids, and so, when they're at the big events they struggle with nerves. They're not used to dealing with the pressures of competition. To fix this, we're launching our own little surf series and inviting all members of the local Eden surfing federation to come and compete. First event is this weekend. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Movie night tomorrow night! Next three months will be special El Salvador Movie nights, where we'll screen various documentaries on Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador, starting with: Follow The Money - Bitcoin in El Salvador, by @Peter McCormack @LuthandoSABTC🇿🇦 , Ms Nomsa, and Lukhangele will also use the opportunity to share with their community the experience they had visiting El Salvador and Bitcoin Beach, earlier this year!

Makes me happy to see kids learning to surf. Makes me even happier to know their coaches earn 100% of their salaries in Bitcoin.

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 @BitcoinWitsand 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 @BitcoinWitsand tomorow !