African Bitcoiners on Nostr: 🌍 Project Spotlight: BitSpenda 📍 Location: Ghana 🇬🇭 (Spreading out across ...
🌍 Project Spotlight: BitSpenda
📍 Location: Ghana 🇬🇭 (Spreading out across Africa)
About:
BitSpenda is a Lightning-powered Bitcoin payment rail that turns Bitcoin into everyday money across Africa.
Instead of waiting for merchants to accept Bitcoin, it connects wallets directly to the payment systems people already use.
Key Objectives:
1. Make everyday Bitcoin spending possible through local mobile-money and bank rails.
2. Bridge Lightning Bitcoin with Africa’s existing payment infrastructure.
3. Keep merchant, consumer, and remittance payments simple: invoice in, local cash out.
4. Increase Bitcoin’s real-world utility across Africa.
5. Drive adoption with instant, low-fee, no-account experiences people can actually use.
Connect with Bitspenda:
X handle: @bitspenda
Website:
https://www.bitspenda.app/👇Dive deeper into the African Bitcoin economy!
https://directory.bitcoiners.africa/ 
Published at
2026-09-08 19:28:25 UTCEvent JSON
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