The Surfer Kids Surf Series, event 3 of 4 is DONE!!! One more event to go for 2024. Judges were paid in sats. Prize money was paid in sats. Lunch was paid in sats. And all the winners received winners' cheques denominated in sats! Stoked!

Why not pay kids to learn about Bitcoin? We do. If you're gonna spend money on all kinds of other stuff raising kids, some of it pretty useless, why not spend it on making sure they understand the most revolutionary thing happening to their future? And at the same time, you're powering the circular economy. Those sats aren't being sold to Blackrock or Saylor when it's spent. It stay right here, in this community.

Boom! Our local tyre shop now accepts Bitcoin! Whether you need new tyres, wheel balancing, tyre repairs, or even to buy a vehicle you can now pay with Bitcoin. 🔧🚗✨ A big thank you to our project community leader @LuthandoSABTC🇿🇦 for making this happen. From now on, our cars will be rolling into Eden Tyres for all tyre needs. All paid in sats! ⚡ Let’s give a warm welcome to Eden Tyres as they join the Bitcoin community edentyres@blink.sv Find them on BTCmap:

Eden Tyres - BTC Map Merchant

Easily find places to spend sats anywhere on the planet.

Ready for the ultimate Bitcoin-powered journey along South Africa’s most scenic coast? Join us for the @Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town Road-Trip 2026!! Feb 1–5! #ABCPTroadtrip2026 Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town: 30 & 31 JAN 2026 Road-Trip: 1-5 Feb 2026 5 days - 6 circular economies!!! @Bitcoin Ubuntu ⚡ Bitcoin Ekasi @npub1gh69gf0k5cw5yh8cvc20hjz0j5vzrmffv9g75ddmhhfe930pptnsmn8pls Bitcoin Sedgefield @npub1k3zlpffzvr424t2xc44peepwzd2zq63gz7qfr6qy7lxsxzva6fwsmuydsu @npub1neu52lkuvk35asednf50qy9l864ln9nrzw7uv5eucj0rchmdfauqqqap7p Transport, guide & 4 nights hotel accommodation included: $1,200.00 Info & Details:

Road Trip | Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2026

Visit Circular Economies in South Africa

For bookings, email: roadtrip@bitcoinekasi.com Organized in cooperation with Unravel Surf Travel:

Unravel Surf Travel – Nature makes waves. You can’t stop it, but you can learn to ride it.

Another business has joined the Bitcoin family! Who needs to pack lunch when local spots are ready to serve you and accept sats? A big welcome to Embo Foods now proudly accepting Bitcoin! Show them some love and support: embofoods@blink.sv

Read why a filmmaker could no longer ignore Bitcoin (or dismiss it as a speculative gamble) once she heard the real stories behind it. https://sv25.adoptingbitcoin.org/blogs/why-im-making-a-film-about-bitcoin-communities Website: jennareid.xyz Email: jenna@jennareid.xyz Nostr: @npub134v5lfknd8wnzmd3sqjyzp8jqtnah6weye2jcwd097pug3f8qf8q65myxg

Everyday is a good day to be in the ocean, get fit, and learn surfing! Stoked with The Surfer Kids!

Bitcoin is everyday money. 298 transactions 3 months 8 countries Ghana 🇬🇭 South Africa 🇿🇦 Uganda 🇺🇬 Zambia 🇿🇲 Kenya 🇰🇪 Nigeria 🇳🇬 Burundi 🇧🇮 Tanzania 🇹🇿 Watch the highlight reel. 👇👇👇 Full list with links to original transaction videos: https://bitcoinekasi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/aug-pow-videos-summary.pdf Not all these projects are on Nostr (Not yet anyway...) The one that are, follow there here: @Bitcoin Dua @Bitcoin Ubuntu ⚡ @npub1yp5m...2pzn @npub1wkjv...z9p0 @Bitcoin Victoria Falls @Bitcoin Witsand @npub1gsff...hqlq @BTC Shule @Afribit Kibera @SowetoBtc @Bitcoin Arusha @Bitcoin Babies 🍼 @ Bitcoin Chama @SisonkeBTC @npub1tk59m73xjqq7k3hz9hlwsvspu2xq7t9gg0qj86cgp4rrlqew5lpq5zq7qp @npub1neu52lkuvk35asednf50qy9l864ln9nrzw7uv5eucj0rchmdfauqqqap7p

The irony of applying for yet ANOTHER European visa is that the bureaucracy is trying to prevent me from permanently staying, in a place where I have zero desire to permanently stay. Annoying, but kind of funny too. 😂😂😂

You cannot learn to surf (or overthrow the world's financial system) on an empty stomach. The Surfer & Bitcoin Ekasi, preparing 50 - 60 meals for hungry kids, every day, 5 days a week, all year-round. Thank you to The Lunchbox Fund for covering our food supply since 2020.

The Lunchbox Fund

We uphold a child’s right to an education. No child should be kept from learning by hunger or household food insecurity.

Skhokho Waya Waya has been accepting Bitcoin payments since September 2022. Nelson, the owner, is a regular face at our Bitcoin Ekasi meetups, so much so that some people even assume he works with our team! He's seen the positive impact we're making in the community and believes in the long-term vision. Nelson is proof that this is just the beginning. More local businesses will follow his lead.

🌊🏄‍♂️🤩 EPIC trip with The Surfer Kids to watch the World Surf League JBayOpen!!! 🚐🌄😎 Thank you Unravel Surf Travel for letting us use your bus. Check them out 👉🏽

Unravel Surf Travel – Nature makes waves. You can’t stop it, but you can learn to ride it.

🏆🥇😃 JBay is back on the schedule next year, and we'll be there, for sure! 💪💪🫡 And one day, these kids will be there to compete. Enabled by a Discovery Grant from Block.

Impact Investment Portfolio - Discovery Grant - Bitcoin Ekasi, South Africa

Impact Investment Portfolio - Discovery Grant - Bitcoin Ekasi, South Africa

Discovery Grant recipient Bitcoin Ekasi’s goal is to create a bitcoin economy in the community of Mossel Bay.

🙏🙏🤗 @jack

I did something really cool with Bitcoin this week! I sent more than 700 payments (to over 700 different individuals) across 8 different African countries in less than 40 minutes. To do this I used the @Blink Wallet batch-payments feature. Here's a guide:

Bitcoin Ekasi

The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Blink Batch Payments

Effortlessly Send Bitcoin (SATS) and USD to Multiple Users Instantly on the Blink Dashboard Guide Created by: Watch the video here: Blink Batch Pay...

No red tape, no forms, no documents, no permission needed from anyone. All in all, precisely 2,100 sats were sent to each person, 778 people in total, spread out across the African continent. That's a total 1,619,100 sats split between more than 700 people across eight different countries. With the entire process taking about 35 minutes. From beginning to end. Oh. And and the transaction fees were practically zero. It cost basically nothing to do this. No banking fees. No commissions. No cut for the middle man. Yes, it is custodial. But. Imagine trying to do this with the fractured fiat banking system.... ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️ This is all part of our ongoing efforts to help build Bitcoin circular economies across the continent, supported by Bitcoin Beach. The recipients were selected by asking project leaders from more than 20 different African Bitcoin Circular Economy projects to collect wallet usernames for merchants, staff and project volunteers. Herewith a breakdown of those projects and the number of recipients within each project: Bitcoin Ekasi 🇿🇦 South Africa – 84 Bitcoin El Zera 🇿🇦 South Africa - 71 Bitcoin Githurai 🇰🇪 Kenya - 10 Bitcoin Ubuntu 🇿🇦 South Africa - 16 Bitcoin Kampala 🇺🇬 Uganda - 27 Orphans of Uganda 🇺🇬 Uganda - 36 Soweto Btc 🇿🇦 South Africa - 21 Bitcoin Loxion 🇿🇦 South Africa - 13 Bitcoin Dua 🇬🇭 Ghana - 40 Bitcoin Babies 🇰🇪 Kenya - 14 Afribit Kibera 🇰🇪 Kenya - 97 Bitcoin Karoo 🇿🇦 South Africa - 24 Bitcoin Anambra 🇳🇬 Nigeria - 19 Bitcoin Calbar 🇳🇬 Nigeria - 63 BTC PLETT 🇿🇦 South Africa - 44 Bitcoin Sisonke 🇿🇦 South Africa - 11 BTC Shule 🇧🇮 Burundi - 13 Bitcoin Arusha 🇹🇿 Tanzania - 23 Bitcoin Witsand 🇿🇦 South Africa - 23 Bitcoin Chama 🇰🇪 Kenya - 12 Bitcoin Vitcoria Falls 🇿🇲 Zambia - 117 And all i needed were wallet usernames. No proof of address, no ID documents. I didn't even need to know their real names. Insanely cool! I absolutely love Bitcoin!

Huge thanks to to @Praia Bitcoin Brazil⚡️ for the new Bitcoinize POS devices! Now, in every shop accepts Bitcoin, our kids can use their NFC cards to spend their rewards! Driving Bitcoin adoption and expanding our circular economy. Stoked!!

WTF is this? Had my VPN location set to the Netherlands and now X wants me to verify my age? To watch a video of someone spending sats at a rural shop in Kenya? Turned VPN off, and restriction is gone.

The more we progress with The Surfer Kids NPO, surfing bigger events and getting better results (as we have been doing these past 2 years) the more I realize what a fantastic avenue sport is for introducing people to bitcoin. If you can impress people with good results, which reflects real-world proof-of-work, and which everyone present understands, the Bitcoin questions naturally follow. And, when they ask first, it's a VERY different conversation. Below: 👇👇 Alfonso & Inam putting in the work, at the recent 2025 HURLEY JUNIOR SURF CLASSIC in Victoria Bay.

The people that wanna keep you dumb work 24/7. Therefore so should we. Bitcoiners dont' have office hours. Morning, evening, night & day, it's all about on-boarding shops, educating people and circulating sats.