Skhokho Waya Waya has been accepting Bitcoin payments since September 2022. Nelson, the owner, is a regular face at our Bitcoin Ekasi meetups, so much so that some people even assume he works with our team! He's seen the positive impact we're making in the community and believes in the long-term vision. Nelson is proof that this is just the beginning. More local businesses will follow his lead.

🌊🏄‍♂️🤩 EPIC trip with The Surfer Kids to watch the World Surf League JBayOpen!!! 🚐🌄😎 Thank you Unravel Surf Travel for letting us use your bus. Check them out 👉🏽

Unravel Surf Travel – Nature makes waves. You can’t stop it, but you can learn to ride it.

🏆🥇😃 JBay is back on the schedule next year, and we'll be there, for sure! 💪💪🫡 And one day, these kids will be there to compete. Enabled by a Discovery Grant from Block.

Impact Investment Portfolio - Discovery Grant - Bitcoin Ekasi, South Africa

Impact Investment Portfolio - Discovery Grant - Bitcoin Ekasi, South Africa

Discovery Grant recipient Bitcoin Ekasi’s goal is to create a bitcoin economy in the community of Mossel Bay.

🙏🙏🤗 @jack

I did something really cool with Bitcoin this week! I sent more than 700 payments (to over 700 different individuals) across 8 different African countries in less than 40 minutes. To do this I used the @Blink Wallet batch-payments feature. Here's a guide:

Bitcoin Ekasi

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Effortlessly Send Bitcoin (SATS) and USD to Multiple Users Instantly on the Blink Dashboard Guide Created by: Watch the video here: Blink Batch Pay...

No red tape, no forms, no documents, no permission needed from anyone. All in all, precisely 2,100 sats were sent to each person, 778 people in total, spread out across the African continent. That's a total 1,619,100 sats split between more than 700 people across eight different countries. With the entire process taking about 35 minutes. From beginning to end. Oh. And and the transaction fees were practically zero. It cost basically nothing to do this. No banking fees. No commissions. No cut for the middle man. Yes, it is custodial. But. Imagine trying to do this with the fractured fiat banking system.... ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️ This is all part of our ongoing efforts to help build Bitcoin circular economies across the continent, supported by Bitcoin Beach. The recipients were selected by asking project leaders from more than 20 different African Bitcoin Circular Economy projects to collect wallet usernames for merchants, staff and project volunteers. Herewith a breakdown of those projects and the number of recipients within each project: Bitcoin Ekasi 🇿🇦 South Africa – 84 Bitcoin El Zera 🇿🇦 South Africa - 71 Bitcoin Githurai 🇰🇪 Kenya - 10 Bitcoin Ubuntu 🇿🇦 South Africa - 16 Bitcoin Kampala 🇺🇬 Uganda - 27 Orphans of Uganda 🇺🇬 Uganda - 36 Soweto Btc 🇿🇦 South Africa - 21 Bitcoin Loxion 🇿🇦 South Africa - 13 Bitcoin Dua 🇬🇭 Ghana - 40 Bitcoin Babies 🇰🇪 Kenya - 14 Afribit Kibera 🇰🇪 Kenya - 97 Bitcoin Karoo 🇿🇦 South Africa - 24 Bitcoin Anambra 🇳🇬 Nigeria - 19 Bitcoin Calbar 🇳🇬 Nigeria - 63 BTC PLETT 🇿🇦 South Africa - 44 Bitcoin Sisonke 🇿🇦 South Africa - 11 BTC Shule 🇧🇮 Burundi - 13 Bitcoin Arusha 🇹🇿 Tanzania - 23 Bitcoin Witsand 🇿🇦 South Africa - 23 Bitcoin Chama 🇰🇪 Kenya - 12 Bitcoin Vitcoria Falls 🇿🇲 Zambia - 117 And all i needed were wallet usernames. No proof of address, no ID documents. I didn't even need to know their real names. Insanely cool! I absolutely love Bitcoin!

Huge thanks to to @Praia Bitcoin Brazil⚡️ for the new Bitcoinize POS devices! Now, in every shop accepts Bitcoin, our kids can use their NFC cards to spend their rewards! Driving Bitcoin adoption and expanding our circular economy. Stoked!!

WTF is this? Had my VPN location set to the Netherlands and now X wants me to verify my age? To watch a video of someone spending sats at a rural shop in Kenya? Turned VPN off, and restriction is gone.

The more we progress with The Surfer Kids NPO, surfing bigger events and getting better results (as we have been doing these past 2 years) the more I realize what a fantastic avenue sport is for introducing people to bitcoin. If you can impress people with good results, which reflects real-world proof-of-work, and which everyone present understands, the Bitcoin questions naturally follow. And, when they ask first, it's a VERY different conversation. Below: 👇👇 Alfonso & Inam putting in the work, at the recent 2025 HURLEY JUNIOR SURF CLASSIC in Victoria Bay.

The people that wanna keep you dumb work 24/7. Therefore so should we. Bitcoiners dont' have office hours. Morning, evening, night & day, it's all about on-boarding shops, educating people and circulating sats.

Mbasa, Sammy & Inam. 22 years surfing experience with The Surfer Kids between the three of them.

You can't surf hungry, and if you surf, you'll know how hungry the ocean makes you. Feeding 14 kids and 6 adults, every day, 3 times a day, for 12 days straight is no joke. Food logistics is the heart and soul of every surf trip. So blessed to have had an epic time in Jeffreys Bay for the World Surf League Championship Tour, stop no. 10, the JBay Open.

Awesome week in JBay with The Surfer Kids watching the World Surf League JBay Open !!! Epic finals day with all-time conditions, a goofy foot final and a first-time Championship Tour winner in Connor O'Leary!!!

Good morning!

I feel like a proud dad, watching The Surfer Kids rip JBay during the World Surf League #JBayOpen off days!! Just getting waves among that crowd is no joke. And I've never seen them surf this good before. It only took 15 years to get to this point. But more importantly, it all really started coming together when we abolished fiat and adopted Bitcoin, in 2021. If we were a fiat charity, assuming our fundraising efforts were equal in fiat terms, there would have been little improvement between then and now, as was the case for many years. But instead, funds that were raised, a year ago, or two years ago, which weren't 100% depleted, and kept in BTC reserves, can now afford to cover so much more. The difference is night and day.

Boom! Another local business now accepts Bitcoin, thanks to @LuthandoSABTC🇿🇦 our Project Community Leader. Let’s keep spreading the sats and growing Bitcoin adoption, one shop at a time!✊

Good morning!

This dude hodled that JBayPro jacket since July 2008, just before Satoshi published the white paper, what a legend!

Good morning!

Our kids competed in the Steven Jeggels invitational, prior to the start of the JBay Open, and they ripped!!! We were treated to cooking waves, great vibes and pure stoke. So proud of our crew, they all absolutely smashed it. 🏄🏾‍♂️U14 Boys - 2nd, 3rd & 4th place 🏄🏾‍♂️U16 Boys - 3rd place SUPER STOKED!!!

In all of the 15 years we've operated The Surfer Kids NPO, this is definitely one of the coolest things we've been able to do! We're in JBay for 12 days, with 14 of our best up-and-coming surfers, to watch the JBay Open, stop no. 10 on the World Surf League Championship Tour! The kids are beyond stoked to see the best surfers in the world, live and in person! 🌊🏄🏾‍♂️ 🤩 Plus, as fate would have it, Jordy Smith, the only South African on the Tour is currently ranked no.1 !! The forecast looks epic!! Lots of swell and offshore wind for the next two weeks. The kids will also be competing in some side events, specifically for young grommets, prior to the start of the main event. Enabled by a Block,Inc. Discovery Grant!!

Impact Investment Portfolio - Discovery Grant - Bitcoin Ekasi, South Africa

Impact Investment Portfolio - Discovery Grant - Bitcoin Ekasi, South Africa

Discovery Grant recipient Bitcoin Ekasi’s goal is to create a bitcoin economy in the community of Mossel Bay.

@jack 🙏🏽🧡

The thrift shop (now moved to a new improved location!) is still one of my favourite mechanisms for circular economy building! 1. Get old clothes donated. 2. Build a 'shop' where you 'sell' donated clothes for token amounts of sats. 100 sats for a pair of pants, 50 sats for a shirt, etc., etc. 3. Invite people to come and 'buy' some clothes, on the condition that they bring small change, in fiat, which must first be converted to sats before any purchase can be made. 4. They pay for clothes with their time and attention, because making a purchase involves learning how to use a basic Bitcoin wallet.

We paint shacks because it helps our circular economy project. It gives us a constructive channel through which to circulate sats into the local economy. Residents of painted shacks receive a stipend of 7,000 sats/week, which they only receive as long they: 1. Do not convert to fiat, whether they choose to save or spend, it must happen with sats. 2. Keep the area clean, and free from rubbish and pollution. No regular cleaning, no sats. It also brings some colour to a bleak environment. It adds some pride to otherwise unimpressive living conditions. It draws attention to our project, and makes for great photos and videos when people visit. We have many reasons for doing this. And. As a happy side effect, it also helps promote some really cool Bitcoin projects, like @SeedSigner !!