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Attending the Bitcoin conference in Cape Town this weekend? Working on a Bitcoin project? There is one spot left in the 5-minute "PechaKucha" workshop on Saturday where you get the stage for 5 mins to share your work. More info: pretalx.com/abcpt-2025/tal…

Money⚡️Badger and Pick n Pay featured in this report on global adoption of "Bitcoin as Money", published by Breez ⚡ and 1A1z . Interesting insights!

Ever buy groceries with Bitcoin? Well, now you can. 🛒 AQUA Wallet now works with Money⚡️Badger at 2,204 Pick n Pay grocery stores across South Africa. 🇿🇦 We’re enabling the world to live on a #Bitcoin standard, nation by nation, integration by integration. ⚡️

I've been dreaming of this world for over a decade. Aqua added our tech voluntarily and now their users can spend at our merchants. No proprietary APIs used. This is only possible on a financial system built on open-source. Few.

Presidents are running crypto pump and dumps ✅ No one talks about the flippening anymore ✅ NFTs are just a distant memory ✅ Alt season is cancelled ✅ Hashrate is at ATH ✅ #Bitcoin maxis in 2025 :

The majority of SA social media represented in this clip.

If Bitcoin is only used as a treasury asset, I will consider it an abject failure. I still believe it can become the de facto currency of the internet, and then of the world, but success is not guaranteed. We need to put the work in.

Connect The World is one of the first podcast interviews I've done, and I really love these guys. Maybe it's because of my distant Dutch heritage. This one was also good, talking about the local opportunities and issues with crypto payments.

Bitcoin in the townships isn’t just about tech - it’s about transformation. Bitcoin Ekasi - a grassroots Bitcoin adoption initiative empowering South African townships, is reshaping how people earn, spend, and think about money. coincu.com/335913-bitcoin…

Holy Shit!!! 9.7% REAL yield on a payment network while holding the keys to their BTC the entire time!! Holy shitballs that is absolutely insane! This has to be the craziest thing to come out of the conference this year. I don’t think people will get how big of a deal this

The EU is pushing a plan to give police "lawful access" to encrypted messages. But there’s no such thing—without breaking the encryption. eff.org/deeplinks/2025…

South African govt REALLY hates Starlink. "That is the instruction we have done as an authority, so I would be more worried if anyone comes today and says that they do have evidence that somewhere in this country, somebody has been able to connect [to Starlink]".

Our youngest competitor from The Surfer Kids Non-Profit, Avethandwa (11) surfing at the final junior trials today, before district team selection. He's got a very good chance to be included in the team and will almost certainly compete at the South African Champs in Oct!

The average power in Bitcoin bubbles has declined in accordance with a power law of Bitcoin age and of index -0.83. The overall volatility has declined as one would expect simply by differentiating the power law behavior of price and adding a diffusion term from the (non power

I’m not sure you can possibly stop non-monetary use of the Blockchain, the endgame of fighting that would be that all txs look identical, although maybe that’s a good thing? But I think miners could curate to some degree to add friction. Would you want to pay those miners more?

This was lots of fun! We will be launching our plan very soon to host your own sponsored ฿itcoin meetup at a nearby Bootlegger.coffee