💡Spotlight on Chapsmart 📍Location: Tanzania 🇹🇿 About: Chapsmart is a Tanzania-based Bitcoin payments platform revolutionizing remittances, everyday transactions, and merchant adoption by bridging Bitcoin (especially Lightning Network) with Tanzanian Shillings (TZS) via M-Pesa. Some Key Objectives: 🔷Enable seamless Bitcoin remittances to Tanzania — Allow global users to send Bitcoin and deliver instant TZS via M-Pesa to family, friends, or recipients with low fees and real-time settlement, bypassing traditional high-cost services. 🔷Provide practical everyday Bitcoin tools — Offer airtime top-ups with sats (instant, no registration), buy sats directly with M-Pesa, and guide users on Lightning wallets for fast, low-cost transactions in Tanzanian life. 🔷Drive merchant and business adoption — Launch ChapSmart Merchant Pay for Tanzanian businesses, freelancers, and creators to accept Bitcoin from worldwide payers and receive instant TZS in M-Pesa—zero setup fees, non-custodial, hassle-free borderless payments. 🔷Integrate Bitcoin with mobile money ecosystems — Bridge Bitcoin/Lightning to dominant M-Pesa infrastructure for on-ramps (M-Pesa to sats), off-ramps (BTC to TZS), and utility features like bill payments, enhancing accessibility and financial sovereignty for unbanked/underbanked Tanzanians. 🔷Promote education and safe Bitcoin usage — Share guides on Bitcoin, Lightning payments, wallet choices, and security to build user confidence, while collaborating with communities to onboard more people into real-world Bitcoin adoption. Connect with Chapsmart: Website: https://chapsmart.com X handle: @chapsmart_tz 👇Explore the live directory for more African Bitcoin initiatives! https://directory.bitcoiners.africa

Today’s Readers’ Friday Book Club was a success! 📚⚡️ ​We tackled Chapter 14 of The Fiat Standard by , exploring Bitcoin as a superior savings technology and its power to "unbond" the world from debt-based systems. ​The clarity gained today was unmatched. Thanks to everyone who showed up!🧡 ​See you all next Friday. 🚀

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📚 Readers’ Friday Book Club Join us on Discord at 6 PM UTC as we dive back into The Fiat Standard by nprofile1qqsyx708d0a8d2qt3ku75avjz8vshvlx0v3q97ygpnz0tllzqegxrtgkklh5m.⚡️ Today, we’re summarizing Chapter 14, exploring Bitcoin banking, savings technology, and the concept of unbonding and demonetizing the world. Expect sharp conversations, new perspectives, and deeper clarity on money and Bitcoin. 👇 Bring your curiosity. https://discord.gg/uVD8C5Jurh

💡Spotlight on BitcoinSafariTz 📍Location: Tanzania 🇹🇿 About: BitcoinSafariTz is a leading grassroots Bitcoin-focused initiative empowering Tanzanians through education, developer training, tourism integration, and community building. Some Key Objectives: 🔷Deliver comprehensive Bitcoin education — Host in-depth sessions, workshops, and pitches on fundamentals (wallets, self-custody, Lightning Network), open-source resources, and practical usage to build financial literacy and sovereignty among students, plebs, and communities. 🔷Build and empower Bitcoin developers — Run programs like the Tanzania Devs Program (cohorts teaching Bitcoin protocol, Lightning, open-source contributions) to create the next generation of Tanzanian/African Bitcoin builders and innovators. 🔷Integrate Bitcoin with tourism and local economy — Leverage Tanzania's safari/tourism appeal to promote Bitcoin adoption (e.g., merchant listings, circular economy efforts) and highlight real-world use cases for visitors and locals. 🔷Foster community building and awareness — Organize events, meetups, hackathon prep, and content creation to connect Tanzanian Bitcoiners, celebrate adoption milestones, and grow a vibrant local/global network. 🔷Promote practical onboarding and tools — Guide on-ramps/off-ramps, wallet choices (custodial/non-custodial), and merchant acceptance to make Bitcoin accessible and usable in everyday Tanzanian life. Connect with BitcoinSafariTz: Website: https://bitcoinsafaritz.com X handle: @BitcoinSafariTZ 👇Explore the live directory for more African Bitcoin initiatives! https://directory.bitcoiners.africa

Ready to put your Bitcoin to work right here at home? Check out the Bitcoiners Map — your guide to local African shops accepting Bitcoin. Your sats matter, and every purchase grows our community stronger. Tap into the future of money and support merchants who believe in Africa's financial freedom. Where will you spend your Bitcoin today? 🛒👇 https://bitcoiners.africa/spend-bitcoin/bitcoiners-map/ #bitcoin #africa #localbusinesses #bitcoincommunity #spendbitcoin #financialfreedom

⚡Fun Fact Thursday! Most people don’t fail at Bitcoin because it’s hard. They fail because they never go deep enough to understand it. Bitcoin rewards those who take time to learn how money actually works. Stay curious.⚡

Watch Party Wednesday was a success!🚀 This week, we unpacked Davinci Jeremie's take on one of the biggest narratives in Bitcoin today: “Quantum computing will kill Bitcoin.” Reality check? — it won’t. 🔸We explored why: • Bitcoin’s security model is more resilient than most people think. • Unused Bitcoin addresses remain quantum-resistant. • The real risk is not Bitcoin, it’s altcoins with weaker cryptographic assumptions. 🔸The big takeaway? While others panic about the future, Bitcoin keeps proving why it’s built differently — engineered for adversarial environments, including what’s coming next. See you next Watch Party Wednesday!🧡

📺 Watch Party Wednesday — 2 PM UTC! Join us on Discord today as we watch, pause, and break down high-signal Bitcoin content from an African perspective. Bring your questions. Leave with clarity. 🔗 Join the watch. https://discord.gg/uVD8C5Jurh

☀️Stack Sats Saturday! Your financial future is built one sat at a time. While others hesitate, stackers accumulate. ₿

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Happy Workers’ Day! ✊🏾 Today we celebrate the builders, creators, and everyday workers powering Africa 🌍💪🏾 But it’s also a reminder: working hard isn’t enough if your money loses value. Bitcoin gives us a way to store the value of our labor, protect it from inflation and control, because you deserve to keep what you earn.⚡ Happy Workers’ Day. Keep building. Keep stacking. 🧡

How is Bitcoin Adoption Progressing in Tanzania? 🇹🇿 Bitcoin adoption in Tanzania is progressing in its early but accelerating grassroots phase, driven by education, remittances, and practical tools integrating with dominant mobile money systems. Some key projects driving this adoption: 🔷BitcoinSafariTz — A leading grassroots Bitcoin-focused initiative in Tanzania (primarily Dar es Salaam and beyond). It emphasizes education, developer programs, tourism integration, and community building to onboard people into Bitcoin. 🔷Chapsmart — Disrupts remittances and payments by offering direct peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange using Tanzanian Shillings (TZS) via M-Pesa. 🔷PROOF OF WORK ACADEMY (POWA) — Bitcoin education project focused on schools and communities in Kilimanjaro and Arusha Region, Tanzania. 👇Explore the live directory for more African Bitcoin initiatives! https://directory.bitcoiners.africa