Want to pay for coffee with #bitcoin? Bootlegger Sea Point has you covered, using the @MoneyBadger app

Rode the official training rode for 947 in Pretoria today, with my dad aged 80. It's probably his last 947 event. Good morning out 👍

Great South African beer mixed with a great South African sport

Have you ever wondered what Bitcoin actually is, beyond the headlines and jargon? This conversation with Walker America, host of one of the fastest-growing Bitcoin podcasts worldwide, breaks everything down into refreshingly simple terms that anyone can understand. Walker's own journey mirrors what many experience—dismissing Bitcoin in 2014, dabbling in cryptocurrencies at the 2017 peak, then finally grasping Bitcoin's significance during the 2020 pandemic. His candid admission that "I knew absolutely nothing about money or economics" before exploring Bitcoin resonates with anyone who's felt intimidated by financial systems designed to seem complex. @walker

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Straight, No Chaser • Walker America - When Two Podcasters Talk Bitcoin Magic Happens • Listen on Fountain

Have you ever wondered what Bitcoin actually is, beyond the headlines and jargon? This conversation with Walker America, host of one of the fastest...

Protesters, waving Palestinian flags, have disrupted multiple stages at @lavuelta, including today's final stage in Madrid. I'm not anti-protesting, but your rights to protest do not supersede the rights of others. This is the biggest race of the year for many teams. Its a chance to prove their worth to their sponsors and secure funding for the next season. This pays salaries of the many people employed by each team. Furthermore, there are performance bonuses that riders can earn. Riders themselves are also looking to impress teams to secure their futures, and that of their families. I'm fairly sure that if I walked into any one of those protesters offices on Monday morning, and kicked their desks over and threw their laptops put of the windows, they may feel differently about protesting. For people to feel entitled to stop riders and teams from earning their living, to make a statement about unrelated events is shocking. Those people need to be arrested and punished / fined.

The South African corporate world revolves around the King Report, Reports I, II, III and IV, created by the Judge Mervyn King during the King Commission and first released in 1994. It's all about corporate governance, sustainability, inclusiveness, stakeholders, etc. It's been lauded around the world as a foundational document for corporates to build on. It's probably as relevant as a harbour port manager in Durban writing a foundational document on how to run an efficient and profitable sheep farm in the Karoo.

Currency failures are sweeping the globe at an alarming rate. In August alone, we witnessed the North Korean Kwon collapse, Iran's real lose 99% of its value, and multiple countries hacking zeros off their denominations in desperate attempts to mask hyperinflation. These aren't isolated incidents—they're symptoms of a fundamental breakdown in the fiat system. @BitcoinEkasi @Ricki Allardice @OKIN

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Straight, No Chaser • Monthly Roundup 2: The Rise of Bitcoin Warlords • Listen on Fountain

Currency failures are sweeping the globe at an alarming rate. In August alone, we witnessed the North Korean Kwon collapse, Iran's real lose 99% of...

Currency failures are sweeping the globe at an alarming rate. In August alone, we witnessed the North Korean Kwon collapse, Iran's real lose 99% of its value, and multiple countries hacking zeros off their denominations in desperate attempts to mask hyperinflation. These aren't isolated incidents—they're symptoms of a fundamental breakdown in the fiat system.

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Straight, No Chaser • Monthly Roundup 2: The Rise of Bitcoin Warlords • Listen on Fountain

Currency failures are sweeping the globe at an alarming rate. In August alone, we witnessed the North Korean Kwon collapse, Iran's real lose 99% of...

Vibe coding is the most positive experience ever.

Many have heard about @BitcoinEkasi and the work being done there, but not many have heard the story that started it all - The Surfer Kids. Hermann talks about how this all began and how an informal township on the southern tip of Africa is showing that bitcoin is every day money.

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Straight, No Chaser • Bitcoin Ekasi - From Surfboards to Satoshis: How Hermann Vivier Built a Bitcoin Economy in South Africa • Listen on Fountain

The secret to true Bitcoin adoption isn't what you think. Meet Hermann Vivier, whose remarkable journey shows how Bitcoin transforms communities wh...

I swear, it's easier to run a lightning node on a Raspi Pi, than it is to use Linex. Linex has been around for 33 years and just installing an app is a hassle. As a freedom tech, non-dev, enthusiast I'm really trying here. But having to copy and paste lines of code to get a basic app to work?! What bitcoin devs have achieved in15 years is incredible. Nostr too. This is how we win. Keep on coding guys and gals. The rest of us desperately need you.

I'm struggling to understand how auto-correct works. I thought these things were supposed to learn your messaging style and get better with time. No matter how many times I type 'Ill' it does not correct it to I'll. I always have to go back and manually change it. The same for 'I'm', Im is not even a word. I also get numbers added into my words - I know that's my fault, but why the phone thinks that a word and just accepts it is beyond me. The one time I do type an unusual word - Name of a company or product that has unusual spelling - autocorrect will insist on changing it so something else. And sometimes I get whole sentences that make absolutely no sense. It's like a total fail, on both side of the scale.

The Utility of Bitcoin I speak to many business owners about how bitcoin could be useful in their businesses. A common response is ‘but, what’s the utility value of bitcoin? What makes it valuable? I can’t see it or touch it.’ I enjoy this question because it means the person asking is trying to think of bitcoin as money, which is exactly what it is. But because the money everyone is used to working with has a physical aspect in the cash of cash, paper notes or coins, or gold & silver which has commercial applications too, this can make it hard to apply the same thinking to bitcoin. The answer to the question about utility value to is understand what bitcoin does: Bitcoin is a protocol that has a higher network uptime than any financial institution, bank, reverse bank, trading desk, etc. Bitcoin is issued every 10 minutes together with the new block of transactions added to the blockchain. Transaction blocks (the blockchain) cannot be altered. The full issuance schedule of bitcoin is already known from now until the last bitcoin is issued in over 100 years from now. Bitcoin is open source, and can be verified by anyone. Bitcoin can also be used by anyone, anywhere in the world, and at any time of the day. So, what am I saying here? Bitcoin is certainty. And who values certainty? Well, EVERBODY. The international businesses want to know they can invest in a foreign country at a large scale without having laws change, policy changes, wars, regime changes, etc that could affect their investments. Countries want to know that their trading partners can be relied upon to honour trade agreements. Financial sectors want stability. They want to know that no sudden changes to laws and regulations can be expected. Local businesses want to know that the tax laws and labour laws won’t change overnight, and that the price they paid for materials last month is the same price they can expect to pay this month. Citizens want to know the price of fuel won’t double overnight, or the price of food. Or that their savings and investments won’t be nationalised. Financial markets price in certainty. See how quickly stock exchange indexes adjust to even a rumour or hint of uncertainty – think tariffs for a recent example. So that is the utility value of bitcoin. Absolute certainty, all the time. It’s like building your house on the proverbial rock, as opposed to building on the shifting sands. Name one other thing that we depend upon to make our living and raise our families that that can give you that level of certainty. In a world that we know is changing, and more rapidly all the time, for the first time in human history we have certainty. Absolute certainty, forever.

@MoneyBadger legends strike again. Just paid my Temu customs invoice usin bitcoin! No more putting credit card details at risk. Absolutely made my day.

Bitcoin meetups are becoming the places to go!

Core 29 no longer the top version. Gap to Knots is tiny. Very interesting

So, only 5 episodes in and we have hit position no 158 in South Africa! Rock On!!

New episode just landed! Robert Botha, with 18 years in the diplomatic service, shares insights on global challenges and his hopes for his new-born granddaughter's future in a complex world.

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Straight, No Chaser • Robert Botha - From Embassy to Family: A Diplomat's Letter to His Granddaughter • Listen on Fountain

Robert Botha, with 18 years in the diplomatic service, shares insights on global challenges and his hopes for his newborn granddaughter's future in...

The first of our Monthly Round-Up episodes, where we cover highlights over the past 30 days in the Bitcoin space. This is all about Bitcoin, so strap in and enjoy. • Debating whether the Bitcoin four-year cycle will break this time around with ETFs now in the picture • Examining in-kind redemption applications for Bitcoin ETFs and whether they're truly meaningful • Discussing El Salvador's recent headlines about presidential term extensions and potential journalism crackdowns • Exploring the reality of quantum computing threats to Bitcoin after IBM's 5-bit encryption breakthrough • Analyzing the potential of Jack Dorsey's new BitChat app for disaster relief and mesh network communication • Questioning why we continue putting faith in political figures rather than following Bitcoin's "rules, not rulers" ethos • Contemplating how technologies like mesh networks might become mainstream without requiring disaster conditions

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Straight, No Chaser • Monthly Roundup 1: The Monthly Bitcoin Roundup Makes Its Debut • Listen on Fountain

We kick off our new monthly Bitcoin current affairs series where Nikolai, Herman, and Gavin discuss the most significant developments in the Bitcoi...

When toilet paper no longer has to be locked away like Gillette razor blades, maybe, just maybe there is still hope in South Africa