As of today you can now spend #Bitcoin at 50,000 merchants in South Africa via money badger, no opt in required from the merchant. Payments are completely private and anonymous too.
Merchant presents customers a QR code for payment as usual, you can scan and pay with your Bitcoin wallet. @Zeus wallet added support for it in their latest release. Future is now.
Props to the Zeus team for consistently dropping HOT AF features and pushing the boundaries of what is possible. I'm always happy to give you my routing fees 🫡 🫡 🫡
#southafrica #moneybadger #zeus
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These are the kinds of bridges the world needs 🔥🧱🫂
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Epic!!
Sweet
How does this work from a technical perspective? I'm not sure sure what money badger is so I'm going to look it right now, but I was wondering if this is possible because of some open standards on their side? Thanks
Tldr using cashu and nostr. The qr code is for a service like venmo. Some random person online who wants to buy btc with venmo pays the QR code, you send the Bitcoin to them instead of the merchant. The merchant gets the venmo money they wanted, you get to pay in btc, someone gets to buy some BTC in a decentralized p2p manner.