💥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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🌍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

💡 Celebrating Gridless Compute as the African Bitcoin Miner of the Year, 2025!  We are thrilled to honor Gridless Compute as the African Bitcoin Miner of the Year. Led by co-founder and CEO Erik Hersman, Gridless is dismantling the myth that Bitcoin consumes energy; they are proving that Bitcoin is an engine for energy abundance and infrastructure development in Africa. Gridless pioneers a symbiotic model where Bitcoin mining acts as the essential "Buyer of Last Resort" for renewable energy providers. This model provides guaranteed, predictable revenue, enabling new mini-grids to secure financing and infrastructure from day one. This directly subsidizes the cost of power, making electricity more affordable for local residents. In 2025, their expansion demonstrated the power of this blueprint: they achieved significant Geographic Expansion, scaling operations beyond Kenya into Malawi and Zambia, thereby driving infrastructure development across new regions. This led to Direct Electrification, enabling hundreds of families and businesses to gain reliable electricity access for the first time, spurring small-scale economic activity. Furthermore, Gridless showed Technical Leadership by actively sharing their open-source blueprint and leading the Green Africa Mining Alliance (GAMA) to encourage replication of this model across the continent. Finally, they focused on Decentralized Innovation, developing ways for small-scale solar operators (like local farmers) to monetize their excess energy directly through Bitcoin mining. Gridless proves that Bitcoin mining, when strategically deployed, is the most powerful tool for solving Africa’s fundamental challenge: reliable, affordable power. We salute your vision!