📍 Location: South Africa 🇿🇦
About:
BitcoinFriendlySA is a practical directory, educational hub, and Bitcoin-only online store that helps South Africans spend and accept Bitcoin with confidence in everyday life.
The platform maintains a curated, verified list of Bitcoin-accepting businesses (independent shops plus large chains reachable via MoneyBadger, Scan to Pay, and similar rails), runs the Academy with clear guides for both spenders and merchants, and operates a circular-economy store where customers buy local SA products (coffee, rooibos, biltong and more) exclusively with Bitcoin while partner merchants are paid in Bitcoin.
Key Objectives
1. Build and maintain a trusted, regularly updated directory of verified Bitcoin-accepting businesses, starting hyper-local in Cape Town and the Winelands and expanding nationwide.
2. Equip both consumers and merchants through the Academy with practical guides, wallet how-tos, real-world payment examples, and case studies so anyone can spend or accept Bitcoin confidently.
3. Onboard and support merchants — making it easy for local businesses to become Bitcoin-ready, get listed, and gain extra sales channels.
4. Grow genuine circular Bitcoin economies by running a Bitcoin-only online store that sources products from merchants who already accept sats and pays those merchants entirely in Bitcoin.
5. Drive real-world Bitcoin spending by connecting users with places to spend sats, highlighting adoption stories (including the Proof of Spend movement), and making everyday Bitcoin use visible and accessible.
Connect with BitcoinFriendlySA:
Website: https://www.bitcoinfriendlysa.co.za/
X handle: @BitcoinFrndlySA
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