Fun Fact Thursday! Did you know? 👀 It is estimated that over 3 million Bitcoin are permanently lost, sitting in wallets with forgotten keys or discarded hard drives. That is nearly 15% of total supply, making every remaining sat more valuable.

🎙️ Join us for a landmark X Space celebrating incredible women driving Bitcoin adoption across the continent! We’re gathering pioneering women from around Africa to share their journeys, insights, and visions for how Bitcoin is shaping Africa’s economic landscape. Amazing Speakers like: 1. Janet Maingi 2. Sabina Gitau (@Sabina) 3. Tebo Makgakga 4. Mary Imasuen 🗓️ Date: Thursday, Dec 18, 2025 ⏱️ Time: 4 PM UTC [5 PM WAT | 6 PM CAT | 7 PM EAT] This is a conversation you need to hear. 👇 Set a Reminder!!! https://x.com/i/spaces/1eaKbjVajldKX?s=20

📢ATTENTION AFRICAN BUILDERS! The African Bitcoin Infographic data will be updated in Q1 2026! This update will feature more African Bitcoin projects, communities, & circular economies. 👇FILL THE GREAT BITCOINER SURVEY NOW to add your project!

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The Great African Bitcoin Survey - African Bitcoiners

This survey aims to comprehensively understand and document the landscape of Bitcoin organizations across Africa.

🎥It’s Watch Party Wednesday Join us at 2 PM UTC on Discord to learn by watching Bitcoin videos, sharing insights, and connect with the community. 🧡 👇 Join the community!

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💡Spotlight on Beyond Adversity BTC Podcast 📍Location: Kenya 🇰🇪 About:  A Bitcoin-powered podcast uplifting real stories of strength, hope, and financial freedom from underserved communities. This initiative aims to drive grassroots Bitcoin adoption and circular economy development through storytelling, distribution, merch, pitching, and hands-on education. Some Key Objectives: 🔹Amplify resilient voices from underserved communities via BTC-funded storytelling, helping listeners connect emotionally and economically to the ecosystem. 🔹Reward local artists, contributors, and designers with SATs distributions. 🔹Support small entrepreneurs through patronage & Bitcoin payments. 🔹Empower youth startups via ThriveTanks and micro-grants. 🔹Demonstrate Bitcoin's real-world impact through merchant onboarding and training. You can connect with Beyond Adversity BTC Podcast: Support:

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A Bitcoin crowdfunding platform where creators raise funds for causes, sell products, manage campaigns, and engage with their community.

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African Bitcoin Community Builders!🌍 Bitcoin adoption in Africa grows from the ground up through people, passion, and community. This is how we build a truly decentralized, African-led Bitcoin movement. 👇Learn more!

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🏅HONORING THE PARTNERS BEHIND THE MOST IMPACTFUL AFRICAN BITCOINERS 2025 Curating the Most Impactful African Bitcoiners of 2025 was a journey of discovery from every corner of this continent. But telling these stories required sponsors & partners who truly understand the mission. We are profoundly grateful to our sponsors for standing with us to honor these builders: 🔶Trezor Academy: Thank you for recognizing true impact. Your support to us for The Most Impactful African Bitcoiners of 2025 is a commitment to ensuring that the sovereignty these Bitcoiners are building can be secured and has also contributed to securing the legacy of African innovation. 🔶Plan B Network (@Plan ₿ Network): Thank you for valuing the power of knowledge. Your support to us for The Most Impactful African Bitcoiners of 2025 has helped to amplify the voices of educators who are using your resources to enlighten great minds across Africa. 🔶To all our partners: Thank you for seeing the potential in these amazing heroes and partnering with us on this continent-wide initiative. Your belief in the African Bitcoin ecosystem turns recognition into fuel for the next wave of adoption. We appreciate you more than words can say.🌍🧡 🔶And finally, to our super super wonderful African Bitcoin community, we say a huge thank you for your contributions, nominations and consistent support in building the African Bitcoin ecosystem. Together we are empowering the next generation with the right tools for financial liberation. Thank you all.🧡

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💥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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💥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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