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South Africa’s Spendable Bitcoin: Carel van Wyk on Building MoneyBadger’s Lightning Bridge
On the debut episode of From the Founder’s Desk by African Bitcoin News, MoneyBadger founder Carel van Wyk discusses Lightning payments, Bitcoin adoption, regulation, and the realities of building spendable Bitcoin infrastructure in South Africa.
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