💥Celebrating Nigerian Abubakar Nur Khalil as our #1 Most Impactful African Bitcoiner of 2025!🇳🇬 Our #1 crowns the visionary @Abubakar Nur Khalil, Nigerian trailblazer illuminating Bitcoin's open-source frontier for the Global South. As CEO of @btrustteam and @rcrsvcapital, he's a force decentralizing development, arming African devs with elite training, grants, and unbreakable conviction to code the future, while spreading adoption through multilingual resources, youth mentorship, and cross-continent collaborations that onboard thousands to self-sovereign finance. In 2025, Abubakar's impact was profound: appointed full-time CEO of Btrust after interim leadership to accelerate open-source empowerment, including Bitcoin Core reviews for v30.0 backports and rc3 while refreshing the board for sustainable growth; launching Btrust Builders tracks like "Mastering Bitcoin" and "Rust for Bitcoiners" to skill up developers for protocol advancements and core contributions; distributing Q3 Developer Grants to six innovators including four Africans enhancing Bitcoin Core and Lightning tools with his own long-term grant fueling full-time work on fee estimation, Cluster Mempool, and package relay; securing starter funding for Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK) to author and review dozens of pull requests boosting wallet interoperability and efficiency, and inspiring young stackers through Digital Assets contributions on Africa's Bitcoin evolution. We deeply appreciate everything Abubakar and his unstoppable team are doing to Bitcoinize Africa. Africa celebrates and extends unreserved appreciation. Thank you! 👇Learn more about Abubakar Nur Khalil our 1st Most Impactful African Bitcoiner 2025!

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The Most Impactful African Bitcoiners of 2025

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💥Celebrating South African Carel Van Wyk as our #2 Most Impactful African Bitcoiner of 2025!🇿🇦 Our #2 is transformative Carel Van Wyk, CEO and co-founder of MoneyBadger, pioneering secure Bitcoin payments for merchants continent-wide, leveraging his Luno and SnapScan foundations to fuel everyday adoption and circular economies. In 2025, Carel's impact was profound: expanding MoneyBadger's network covering half of South Africa's Bitcoin payments infrastructure and integrating 1,600+ retail points for QR-based Lightning acceptance; developing a merchant API for seamless ZAR settlements, processing 19,536 transactions worth R7.7M in H1, a 46% surge while partnering with Peach Payments for e-commerce scalability; launching the Universal Translator via Scan to Pay integration, enabling Bitcoin spending at 650K+ stores and shifting users from hoarding to utility amid rising adoption, advocating Bitcoin's open-source resilience in high-inflation contexts positioning Africa as an innovation hub. We deeply appreciate everything Carel and his incredible team are doing to promote Bitcoin adoption within and across Africa. We appreciate your undeniable efforts and you are greatly recognized by the continent. 👇Learn more about Carel Van Wyk our 2nd Most Impactful African Bitcoiner 2025!

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The Most Impactful African Bitcoiners of 2025

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💥Celebrating South African Hermann Vivier as our #3 Most Impactful African Bitcoiner of 2025! 🇿🇦 Our #3 is pioneering Hermann Vivier, founder of Bitcoin Ekasi, creating thriving township circular economies that empower communities with practical Bitcoin adoption and financial resilience. In 2025, Hermann's impact was profound: onboarding 30+ merchants in Mossel Bay townships for Lightning transactions in sats on essentials like groceries and utilities, boosting local spending and fiat independence, generating 20 tech jobs for youth and embedding Bitcoin skills in daily life, circulating sats locally for economic stability; inspiring replications in Zambia and Kenya, fostering youth empowerment and global visibility, and driving Mossel Bay's evolution from pilot to scalable operation, positioning South Africa as a hub for inclusive Bitcoin growth. We deeply appreciate everything Hermann and his incredible team are doing to promote Bitcoin adoption across Africa. We value and celebrate you greatly. 👇Learn more about Hermann Vivier our 3rd Most Impactful African Bitcoiner 2025!

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The Most Impactful African Bitcoiners of 2025

Uncover the stories of the top 21 African Bitcoin trailblazers revolutionizing Bitcoin and financial liberation in Africa. Their passion for Bitcoi...

🌍Celebrating Btrust Builders as the African Bitcoin Project of the Year for 2025! We are honored to recognize @Btrust Builders as the African Bitcoin Project of the Year. They have fundamentally shifted the narrative from "adoption" to "creation," giving African engineers the keys to the repo. In 2025, their impact was structural and profound. As The Talent Engine, they forged a continent-wide network of open-source contributors, producing several heavyweights. For Funding the Future, ₿trust disbursed over $1 million in grants this year alone, fueling the hackathons, stipends, and fellowships that keep the open-source ecosystem alive. Through Global Leadership, and building on the strategic acquisition of Qala, they proved that Africa isn't catching up, but leading the development of Bitcoin and Lightning at the protocol level. We deeply appreciate Btrust Builders for ensuring that the revolution is being coded by the people it serves. You are the backbone.

💥Celebrating Bitcoin Ekasi as the African Bitcoin Circular Economy of the Year, 2025! 🇿🇦 We are profoundly honored to celebrate @BitcoinEkasi founded by Hermann Vivier and led by Luthando Ndabambi as the African Bitcoin Circular Economy of the Year. Based in a township (ekasi) in Mossel Bay, they are proving that Bitcoin is the ultimate tool for financial sovereignty and community upliftment, directly bypassing the barriers of the inflationary Rand. In 2025, their model reached maturity, transforming a local community. This transformation included establishing a 100% Bitcoin Payroll for all 21+ staff and coaches of The Surfer Kids NPO, ensuring their income is sound money. They achieved significant Merchant Adoption by onboarding over 32 local shops, vendors, and spaza shops to accept instant, low-fee payments via the Lightning Network, creating a robust, self-sustaining economy. For Community Integration, they deepened their partnership with T.M. Nanda Primary School, demonstrating Bitcoin’s power to maximize impact: donated funds spent locally in Bitcoin achieved three times the work compared to traditional fiat donations. Furthermore, the Education Hub at the Bitcoin Ekasi Center remains a vital walk-in spot for financial literacy, ensuring self-custody and technical know-how are accessible to everyone. Bitcoin Ekasi is the definitive blueprint for how to truly Bitcoinize Africa from the ground up by building trust, driving utility, and prioritizing the people who need it most. We salute their relentless service and incredible vision! https://file.nostrmedia.com/f/0780b32ad406598bc4f3b79c07a90063ac6fb618e692151628eb2acff934b515/55d22df792d57379cc0bcd431c99311388ac1193435cdf9b390dbc30770f28f6.png34trffrfrrr 44444

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