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Africa’s Bitcoin Education Engine: Joseph Tětek on Why Bitcoin Is Being Used as Real Money Across Africa

Bitcoin adoption is often measured through price, ownership, or exchange activity. Josef Tětek, the educator behind Trezor Academy, sees a different measure: whether people are actually using Bitcoin to solve problems. From local educators and community-led courses to circular economies and everyday payments, Trezor Academy is helping build Bitcoin adoption across Africa from the ground up.

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Bitcoin Babies’ Kimbo Circular Economy Is No Longer an Experiment. G-Max Supermarket Just Put It on the Wall

G-Max Supermarket in Kimbo, Kenya now carries a full-wall mural reading “Fix the Money, Fix the World,” painted by the Bitcoin Babies community that has turned it into the anchor of a functioning Bitcoin circular economy where mothers, merchants, and neighbours earn, spend, and clean up together.

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Bitcoin Githurai Opens a Physical Education Hub in Nairobi After Building a 16-Merchant Circular Economy Online

Bitcoin Githurai has opened a physical Bitcoin education centre in Githurai 45, Nairobi, after growing from one merchant to 16 accepting Lightning payments in just over a year. The team calls it Phase 4: Community Building.

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BTC Shule Announces the Nakamoto Hope Center, a Physical Bitcoin Education Hub in Rural Burundi

BTC Shule has announced the Nakamoto Hope Center, a nearly complete brick-and-mortar hub for tech training, digital skills, and Bitcoin education in Winteko village, Burundi. The centre supports an existing circular economy where 14 merchants and a hotel already accept Bitcoin through Cashu and Lightning.

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Namibia’s Bitcoin Builder: Okin Tjongarero on Teaching Through Experience, Not Theory

Okin Tjongarero did not start with ideology. He started with a payment problem. That practical beginning led him to build EasySats, onboard merchants in Windhoek, host Bitcoin Burgers and Beers events, and launch Bitcoin Mining Namibia, all grounded in one principle: people learn Bitcoin by using it, not by studying it.

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How AfriBit Kibera is Building a Bitcoin Circular Economy From the Ground Up in Kenya

AfriBit Kibera is a community-led Bitcoin circular economy in Kibera, Nairobi. Founded by Ronnie Mdawida, it pays waste collectors and supports local businesses in Bitcoin, then teaches residents to save and spend through Lightning, education, and self-custody.

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South Africa’s Bitcoin Township: Herman Vivier on Five Years of Turning a 2010 Surf Charity into Mossel Bay’s Working Circular Economy

Bitcoin Ekasi did not start with code or venture capital. It started with eleven years of community trust in a Mossel Bay township, then layered Bitcoin on top to pay surf coaches in sats and get spaza shops accepting them. Herman Vivier on five years of building Africa’s most recognised Bitcoin circular economy.

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