Cool demo by @UNCLE ROCKSTAR and Bernard Parah (Bitnob) of a point of sale system that prints #bitcoin vouchers and activates/uses cards at the Africa Bitcoin Conference.
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Erik Hersman
whiteafrican@iris.to
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Tech, Africa, Bitcoin mining at Gridless. Kenya Relay: wss://nostr-1.nbo.angani.co
Back in Ghana for the Africa Bitcoin Conference.
Looking forward to some good African mining conversations and meeting new people at the African Bitcoin Conference in just 2 weeks. 
New hydro site going live this week. 
Rainy season is upon us. Means field visits get a little trickier. :) 
Busy day for the team.
New hydro site up yesterday.
Meanwhile I was off upgrading comms at another. 
Sometimes a new mining site in Africa has some surprising visitors!
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Ostrich time again… :) 
Soon… 
A bush walk with some Masai this morning. 
Good morning from safari 
Been a good few days of African bitcoin mining folks getting together! 
It begins! The early arrivals into Nairobi for the Africa mining summit are trickling in.
Full gas, no brakes, starting tomorrow! 
Nashville today!
Tennessee was good as always (back soon).
Now to “the Treasure State” of Montana. Never been, looking forward to it!
We’re two weeks away and things are coming together quite nicely for the inaugural Africa Bitcoin Mining Summit in Nairobi.
It’s really about miners in Africa being able to meet up in-person, learn from each other, share, and to build a community. 
Geothermal is pretty amazing energy tech. Not just the massive 200MW locations, but the small “non-viable for commercial” ones too. 
Next month I’m Nairobi we have the first African Bitcoin Miners Summit and have miners from African 9 countries represented. Should be fun!
Africa Bitcoin Mining Summit – Lusaka, September 25-26, 2025
Final thoughts on this.
Installing medium sized bitcoin datacentres at generation stations could solve this. Any/All of the datacentres can be switched off in seconds and the power immediately made available.
It’s like an inverse peaker plant that earns money + stabilizes the grid.
This is what the Chair of Kenya Power had to say (image): 
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12 hours with no power across Kenya due to a fault at a generation site.
That’s bad, but not nearly as bad as the international airport not having any power due to the backup generation there being down and flights being sent 4 hours away to South Africa. Embarrassing. 