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🌍 Project Spotlight: ZazaPay 📍 Location: Ghana 🇬🇭 About: ZazaPay is a Ghana-built Bitcoin-to-fiat payment platform that makes Bitcoin usable in everyday African money systems. A sender pays in Bitcoin over the Lightning Network; the recipient does not need a wallet, an exchange account, or any Bitcoin knowledge. The platform went live in early 2026 after founder built it in public through the usual hard parts of payments: webhooks, failed transactions, liquidity, and deployment. Key Objectives: 1. Make Lightning payments usable in daily life by settling Bitcoin invoices in seconds and converting them immediately into spendable local currency. 2. Bridge Bitcoin with mobile money and bank rails so recipients get paid the way they already receive money, especially MTN Mobile Money and bank accounts. 3. Cut the friction in local and cross-border transfers across Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, and additional African markets, without forcing the receiver onto digital assets. 4. Give merchants, freelancers, and families a practical off-ramp so global Bitcoin payments can become cedis, naira, or shillings without chargebacks or banking delays. 5. Widen financial access by letting people send value from anywhere and cash out into the payment systems already used across Africa. Connect with Zazapay: X handle: @zazapayofficial Website:

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📚 Readers’ Friday Book Club was a success! We discussed Chapter 14: “Centralizing Control” from Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver and Steve Patterson. Here are our key takeaways: 1. Open source does not mean no influence. A few developers can still have a lot of influence over Bitcoin’s software. 2. Funding matters. We discussed who funds Bitcoin development and how funding can create incentives or conflicts of interest. 3. The blocksize debate was also about Bitcoin’s future. Different groups had different ideas about how Bitcoin should scale and what it should be used for. 4. Developers can affect what gets built. Changes to Bitcoin’s code can make some uses easier or harder. 5. Bitcoin has different groups with different roles. Developers write the code, node operators choose what software to run, miners process transactions, and users decide what Bitcoin they use. 6. Disagreement can be healthy. Bitcoin needs people who can question decisions and challenge ideas. Thank you to everyone who showed up, shared your thoughts, and joined the conversation tonight. 🧡 See you next Friday! ⚡ View quoted note →

📚 Readers’ Friday Book Club! Tonight, we continue Chapter 14: “Centralizing Control” from Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver and Steve Patterson. This chapter digs into some of Bitcoin’s most debated questions: Who controls Bitcoin’s development? How does developer funding influence an open-source project? Can a small group of developers gain too much influence over the protocol? We’ll discuss the Bitcoin Foundation, Blockstream, developer incentives, governance, blocksize, OP_RETURN, and the tension between maintaining Bitcoin’s decentralization and controlling how the protocol evolves. 🕕 6:00 PM UTC 💬 Discord:

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🌍 Project Spotlight: College BTC 📍 Location: Ghana 🇬🇭 About: College BTC is a student-focused Bitcoin initiative building campus-powered circular economies across Ghana. College BTC runs hands-on education so students can receive their first sats, set up wallets, understand self-custody, and spend Bitcoin at nearby shops. The work is modeled on circular-economy efforts such as Bitcoin Beach and Bitcoin Ekasi, adapted to Ghanaian campus life. Key Objectives: 1. Teach students how Bitcoin actually works through campus classes, masterclasses, and practical wallet onboarding. 2. Grow Bitcoin communities across Ghanaian universities, campus by campus. 3. Host workshops, meetups, and technical sessions that move students from basics to building. 4. Create real circular economies on and around campus by helping students earn, spend, and accept sats. 5. Develop the next generation of African Bitcoin developers, advocates, and entrepreneurs. Connect with College BTC: X handle: @collegebtc Geyser:

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🤯 Fun Fact Thursday! Did You Know? Provable destruction is rarer than "lost" coins Researchers have only been able to confirm a few thousand BTC as truly, provably destroyed through known burn addresses. Everything else people call "lost" is really just educated guessing.

Watch Party Wednesday was a success! This week, we watched Warren Wheatley explore where Bitcoin and artificial intelligence are heading, and why Bitcoin is much bigger than its price. Key takeaways: 1. ₿ Bitcoin is not about price. Its deeper value lies in the financial infrastructure and new possibilities being built around it. 2. 🤖 Bitcoin and artificial intelligence are converging. As artificial intelligence agents become more autonomous, Bitcoin and Lightning can provide the open, programmable payment infrastructure they need. 3. 🏦 Bitcoin is becoming financial infrastructure. Banks, insurers and businesses are increasingly building systems around Bitcoin as collateral and a financial asset. 4. 💰 Bitcoin can unlock access to capital. Bitcoin-backed financing creates new possibilities for businesses, particularly in markets where access to affordable capital remains limited. 5. 🌍 The real opportunity is what gets built on Bitcoin. Payments, lending, artificial intelligence and financial infrastructure are opening entirely new use cases. The biggest takeaway? Bitcoin is far more than a number on a screen. It is infrastructure for a new financial and technological economy. Thanks to everyone who joined the discussion. 🧡 View quoted note →

🎬 Watch Party Wednesday! Join us today as we watch, discuss, and unpack a Bitcoin video together. Share your thoughts, ask questions, and hear different perspectives from the community. 🕑 2:00 PM UTC 📍 Discord:

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🌍 Project Spotlight: BitSpenda 📍 Location: Ghana 🇬🇭 (Spreading out across Africa) About: BitSpenda is a Lightning-powered Bitcoin payment rail that turns Bitcoin into everyday money across Africa. Instead of waiting for merchants to accept Bitcoin, it connects wallets directly to the payment systems people already use. Key Objectives: 1. Make everyday Bitcoin spending possible through local mobile-money and bank rails. 2. Bridge Lightning Bitcoin with Africa’s existing payment infrastructure. 3. Keep merchant, consumer, and remittance payments simple: invoice in, local cash out. 4. Increase Bitcoin’s real-world utility across Africa. 5. Drive adoption with instant, low-fee, no-account experiences people can actually use. Connect with Bitspenda: X handle: @bitspenda Website:

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₿ Stack Sats Saturday! You don't need to be rich to start stacking sats. You need consistency. 🚀Whether it's $5, $10, or whatever you can comfortably afford, the goal is to build a habit and stay focused on the long term. View quoted note →

🌍 Project Spotlight: Bitfiasi Initiative 📍 Location: Ghana 🇬🇭 About: Bitfiasi Initiative is a Ghana-based nonprofit that focuses on making Bitcoin useful in everyday life rather than treating it as speculation. The organization is building a practical Bitcoin circular economy, starting in Dodowa, where people can earn, save, spend, and keep value locally. Key Objectives: 1. Deliver practical Bitcoin and financial-literacy education to underserved communities, especially through structured programs for women across Ghana and monthly meetups open to everyone in Dodowa. 2. Empower women with knowledge of money management, savings, scam awareness, and Bitcoin so they can pursue greater financial independence and participate more confidently in the digital economy. 3. Run workshops, school sessions, and hands-on training that turn concepts into usable skills, covering wallets, everyday payments, digital marketing for youth, and safer financial habits. 4. Grow Bitcoin circular economies on the ground by helping local businesses accept and use Bitcoin, connecting trained youth to real work, and creating local loops where value is earned, spent, and kept in the community. 5. Increase African participation in the Bitcoin ecosystem by building trust through community-first outreach, merchant adoption, partnerships, and real-world use cases that show Bitcoin as a tool for earning, saving, and everyday trade rather than just holding. Connect with Bitfiasi Initiative: X handle: @bitfiasi Website:

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📚 Readers’ Friday Bookclub was a success! Tonight, we discussed Chapter 13, “Blocking the Stream,” from Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver and Steve Patterson. Here are some of our key takeaways: → Funding and governance are closely connected. How developers are funded can influence incentives and decision-making. → Open-source projects need sustainable funding. Bitcoin development has experimented with donations, foundations, companies, and other models. → Institutions can bring structure, but they can also introduce new risks. The Bitcoin Foundation’s history raised important questions about transparency, management, and governance. → Developer incentives matter. When organisations have commercial interests connected to Bitcoin infrastructure, questions about potential conflicts of interest naturally follow. → Bitcoin’s development is also a question of power. Who gets to influence the protocol, what changes are prioritised, and how consensus is reached can have consequences for the entire ecosystem. → Decentralisation is more than running nodes. The people and institutions funding, maintaining, and developing Bitcoin can also shape its trajectory. A thought-provoking chapter with plenty to debate. Thank you to everyone who joined us tonight, shared their perspectives, and contributed to the discussion. 🧡 Until next Friday. ⚡📖 View quoted note →

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📚 Readers’ Friday Book Club! Tonight, we conclude our reading of Chapter 13: “Blocking the Stream” from Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver and Steve Patterson. This chapter explores one of Bitcoin’s most contentious questions: who funds Bitcoin development, and how can funding influence the direction of an open-source project? We will discuss the Bitcoin Foundation, Blockstream, developer incentives, governance, and the broader question of how Bitcoin can remain resistant to capture. 🕕 6:00 PM UTC 💬 Discord:

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