📚Another great edition of Readers' Friday Book Club is in the books! This week, we explored Chapter 5: The Blocksize Limit from Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver and Steve Patterson, unpacking one of the most pivotal debates in Bitcoin's history. 👇 Key takeaways: • The blocksize debate was about much more than transaction capacity, it reflected competing visions for Bitcoin's future. • Decentralization, security, and scalability require careful trade-offs. • The Lightning Network emerged as a scaling solution that preserves Bitcoin's decentralized nature while enabling faster, cheaper payments. • Understanding Bitcoin's history helps us better appreciate the design decisions that continue to shape the protocol today. A huge thank you to everyone who joined the discussion, shared thoughtful perspectives, and asked insightful questions.🧡 See you at the next Readers' Friday Book Club as we continue learning, questioning, and growing together. 🧡 View quoted note →

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📚 Readers' Friday Book Club! Join us today at 6:00 PM UTC on Discord as we dive into Chapter 5: The Blocksize Limit from Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver and Steve Patterson. Together, we'll explore one of Bitcoin's most significant scaling debates, examine the arguments presented in the chapter, and discuss how these events continue to shape Bitcoin today. Expect thoughtful discussion, diverse perspectives, and an engaging conversation with fellow Bitcoiners. Bring your copy, your questions, and your curiosity. See you at 6 PM UTC! 📖 ​🔗 Discord Community:

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💡Spotlight on Bitcoin Victoria Falls 📍Location: Zambia 🇿🇲 About: Bitcoin Victoria Falls is a Bitcoin circular economy, launched to drive real-world Bitcoin adoption through education, merchant onboarding, and community empowerment. Some Key Objectives: 🔹Build a Sustainable Bitcoin Circular Economy — Create a closed-loop system in Livingstone where Bitcoin earned locally is spent and saved locally keeping value circulating within the community and strengthening economic resilience. 🔹Drive Widespread Merchant Adoption — Onboard and support shops, markets, lodges, restaurants, tour operators, and service providers to accept Bitcoin and Lightning payments with minimal friction. 🔹Deliver Scalable Bitcoin Education — Run Bitcoin diploma cohorts, workshops, and community programs that equip youth, women, entrepreneurs, and rural residents with practical knowledge of Bitcoin as a tool for savings, payments, and long-term financial freedom. 🔹Enable Everyday Lightning Payments — Promote fast, low-cost Lightning transactions as the default for daily commerce, while bridging to local systems so anyone can spend Bitcoin without barriers. 🔹Advance Financial Inclusion & Bitcoin Tourism — Bring sound money and financial empowerment to underserved communities while positioning Livingstone as a premier global Bitcoin tourism destination where visitors can experience a full Bitcoin-powered trip. Connect with Bitcoin Victoria Falls: X handle: @BitcoinVicFalls Geyser:

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Hello Bitcoiners!🧡 You don't need to know everything about Bitcoin. You just need to stay curious long enough.

🤯 Fun Fact Thursday! Did you know? The more you learn Bitcoin, the more questions you have.🌀 Bitcoin doesn’t sleep… but you probably should!😂😴

💡Spotlight on Bitcoin for Aliyense 📍Location: Lusaka, Zambia (with activities spanning urban centres and rural communities across the country) 🇿🇲 About: Bitcoin for Aliyense is a grassroots Bitcoin education initiative dedicated to empowering women, youth, and underserved communities throughout Zambia through inclusive, practical Bitcoin education. The initiative makes Bitcoin knowledge accessible and relatable by focusing on real-world applications, self-custody, savings, and financial sovereignty. Some Key Objectives: 🔹Women-Focused Bitcoin Education — Deliver targeted, empowering education that equips women with foundational knowledge of Bitcoin, its technology, and practical use cases, building confidence and leadership in the space. 🔹Community Onboarding — Run hands-on workshops, bootcamps, and peer-led sessions to onboard new participants from diverse backgrounds, making Bitcoin education welcoming and easy to understand for beginners. 🔹Financial Literacy — Strengthen core financial skills by teaching the importance of savings, responsible money management, self-custody, and how Bitcoin can serve as a tool for personal and family financial resilience. 🔹Bitcoin Accessibility — Expand access to Bitcoin knowledge and tools for women, youth, and underserved populations in both urban and rural areas, reducing barriers and fostering greater participation across Zambia. 🔹Grassroots Empowerment — Drive sustainable, community-led change by developing local leaders, encouraging peer education, and supporting real-world application of Bitcoin for greater financial sovereignty and economic opportunity. Connect with Bitcoin for Aliyense:

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Watch Party Wednesday was a huge success!⚡ This week, our community came together to watch "Seeding Bitcoin" by Trezor Academy, a powerful documentary highlighting how Bitcoin is transforming lives across Africa. Together, we explored: 🟠 Why Bitcoin is becoming a financial lifeline for the unbanked. 🟠 The real-world impact of grassroots Bitcoin education. 🟠 The critical role local educators play in accelerating adoption through the Trezor Academy program. 🟠 How African communities are embracing Bitcoin as a tool for financial freedom and opportunity. A big thank you to everyone who joined us, and to Trezor Academy for producing this documentary, and supporting initiatives that inspires builders across Africa. You definitely do not want to miss next session. See you next week!🧡 View quoted note →

🎥 Watch Party Wednesday! Join us today at 2PM UTC on Discord as we break down Bitcoin content together, learning, questioning, and connecting in real time.⚡️ Expect sharp insights, practical lessons, and meaningful conversations with the community. Bring your curiosity. We’ll handle the rest!👇

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💡Spotlight on Bitzed 📍Location: Zambia 🇿🇲 About: Bitzed is a homegrown Zambian platform that provides non-custodial Bitcoin buying and spending infrastructure by connecting local mobile money rails directly with the Lightning Network. Users can purchase Bitcoin instantly using popular Zambian mobile money services and spend Bitcoin for everyday payments through fast, low-cost Lightning transactions that settle directly into mobile money wallets. Some Key Objectives: 🔹Deliver accessible Bitcoin on-ramp services — Allow Zambians to buy Bitcoin seamlessly with local mobile money, removing traditional banking or KYC-heavy exchange barriers and bringing Bitcoin within reach of everyday users. 🔹Integrate deep Lightning Network functionality — Enable instant, low-fee Bitcoin transactions and payments using the Lightning Network, solving Bitcoin’s scalability challenges for real-world use cases in Zambia. 🔹Achieve true mobile money interoperability — Bridge the Lightning Network with Zambia’s dominant mobile money ecosystem so Bitcoin can flow directly in and out of local wallets (e.g., MTN MoMo, Airtel Money) without friction or intermediaries holding funds. 🔹Enable practical, real-world Bitcoin payments — Support everyday spending, from buying goods at markets to paying for services, by letting users pay with Bitcoin via Lightning, with immediate settlement into the recipient’s mobile money account. 🔹Drive everyday Bitcoin accessibility and financial inclusion — Lower the technical and economic barriers so ordinary Zambians can adopt Bitcoin as a tool for savings, payments, and value transfer, fostering grassroots financial sovereignty and broader Bitcoin adoption across the country. Connect with BitZed: Website:

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🚨 What have we been building in 2026? Instead of telling you, we'd rather show you. Here's everything African Bitcoiners accomplished in the first half of the year. 👇 1️⃣ We Launched ZapAds — a new product powering AI agent-to-agent commerce. 2️⃣ We Built Africa Bitcoin News — a Bitcoin-only news platform dedicated to telling Africa's Bitcoin story. 3️⃣ We Launched the Live African Bitcoin Directory — making it easier to discover Bitcoin projects, companies, and communities across the continent. 4️⃣ We Built the Lightning Dev Marketplace — connecting African Bitcoin developers with opportunities. 5️⃣ We Trained 200+ Lightning developers through bootcamps across six African cities. 6️⃣ We Expanded our educational resources to help more Africans learn about Bitcoin at every stage of their journey. 7️⃣ We Hosted Builder Conversations to connect founders, developers, and community leaders across Africa. 8️⃣ We Launched our Francophone initiatives — including the first cohort of the French Bitcoin Academy and educational programs serving the continent's growing French-speaking Bitcoin community. Every one of these initiatives exists for one purpose: to make it easier for Africans to discover, learn, build, and contribute to the Bitcoin ecosystem. This is our Proof of Work for the first half of 2026, and we are just getting started.🚀 None of this would have been possible without our incredible sponsors, partners, contributors, volunteers, and community members who continue to believe in our mission and build alongside us. Thank you for being part of this journey. Here's to an even bigger second half of 2026.🥂 Let's keep building, educating, and advancing Bitcoin adoption across Africa, together.🧡

💡Spotlight on BitJR Academy and Space 📍Location: Zambia 🇿🇲 About: BitJR Academy and Space is a non-profit Bitcoin initiative based in Livingstone, Zambia, that brings Bitcoin education to children aged 6–17 through fun, age-appropriate interactive learning. By combining games, workshops, and real-world Bitcoin activities, the program helps kids develop a practical understanding of money while participating in a safe kids’ circular economy. Some Key Objectives: 🔹Delivering engaging, age-appropriate Bitcoin education to children aged 6–17 through games and interactive workshops. 🔹Building a safe kids’ circular economy where children can earn, save, and spend sats responsibly via Lightning-powered tools. 🔹Promoting practical financial literacy and responsible money habits through real-world Bitcoin transactions and experiences. 🔹Empowering youth with Bitcoin knowledge to foster financial independence, creativity, and long-term preparedness. 🔹Driving community-centered Bitcoin adoption by engaging parents, schools, local merchants, and the wider Livingstone ecosystem. Connect with BitJR Academy and Space: X handle: @BitJracademy Geyser:

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How Bitcoin Adoption is Progressing in Zambia? 🇿🇲 Bitcoin adoption in Zambia is steadily evolving through a mix of grassroots education, youth-focused initiatives, Lightning infrastructure, developer communities, podcasts, and circular economy experiments. Some Key Projects Driving Adoption: 🔹BitJR Academy and Space — BitJR Academy and Space introduces Bitcoin education to children aged 6–17 through interactive learning and practical exposure to Lightning payments. 🔹Bitzed — Bitzed provides Bitcoin buying and spending infrastructure through mobile money integration on the Lightning Network. 🔹Bitcoin for Aliyense Zambia — Bitcoin for Aliyense focuses on educating and empowering women through Bitcoin education and grassroots community engagement. 🔹Bitcoin Victoria Falls — Bitcoin Victoria Falls is building a Bitcoin circular economy centered around education, merchant onboarding, and financial empowerment. 🔹Bitcoin Zambia — Bitcoin Zambia is a grassroots community dedicated to expanding Bitcoin awareness through workshops, meetups, and educational initiatives. 🔹BitDevs Zambia — BitDevs Zambia supports the technical side of Bitcoin adoption by bringing together developers, builders, educators, and technically curious participants. 🔹Bantu Bitcoin — Bantu Bitcoin is a Bitcoin-only podcast delivering educational content in both English and Bemba to make Bitcoin discussions more accessible to local communities. 🔹Bitcoin Campus Zambia — Bitcoin Campus Zambia is a student-led initiative focused on educating youths and students about Bitcoin, financial independence, and responsible Bitcoin usage. Together, these initiatives are helping create a stronger foundation for long-term Bitcoin adoption across Zambia. 👇Explore more inspiring Bitcoin initiatives across Africa:

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​📚 Readers' Friday Book Club ​Join us today at 6 PM UTC on Discord as we discuss Chapter 4: Store of Value vs Medium of Exchange from Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver and Steve Patterson. ​Get ready for sharp insights, honest critique, and lively debate. Bring an open mind and your boldest opinions. ​See you there! 🚀 ​🔗 Discord Community: discord.gg/mWt628TA4k

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🤯 Fun Fact Thursday! Did you know? If you forgot the password to your Bitcoin wallet, nobody on Earth can reset it for you ⚡ Not a bank. Not a government. Not even the creators of Bitcoin. That’s because Bitcoin ownership is controlled entirely by cryptographic keys, not names, emails, or identity documents. This means that you fully control your money, but it also means responsibility matters.