I did something really cool with Bitcoin this week!

I sent more than 700 payments (to over 700 different individuals) across 8 different African countries in less than 40 minutes.

To do this I used the nostr:nprofile1qqsglefmxagcu0d7nw4jdkgj9ysqrk9cst0fg44hkz9kzhu39hyt7jsh9lfqf batch-payments feature.

Here's a guide:

https://bitcoinekasi.com/2025/08/03/the-complete-beginners-guide-to-blink-batch-payments/

No red tape, no forms, no documents, no permission needed from anyone.

All in all, precisely 2,100 sats were sent to each person, 778 people in total, spread out across the African continent.

That's a total 1,619,100 sats split between more than 700 people across eight different countries. With the entire process taking about 35 minutes. From beginning to end.

Oh. And and the transaction fees were practically zero. It cost basically nothing to do this. No banking fees. No commissions. No cut for the middle man.

Yes, it is custodial.

But.

Imagine trying to do this with the fractured fiat banking system.... โ˜ ๏ธโ˜ ๏ธโ˜ ๏ธโ˜ ๏ธโ˜ ๏ธ

This is all part of our ongoing efforts to help build Bitcoin circular economies across the continent, supported by Bitcoin Beach.

The recipients were selected by asking project leaders from more than 20 different African Bitcoin Circular Economy projects to collect wallet usernames for merchants, staff and project volunteers.

Herewith a breakdown of those projects and the number of recipients within each project:

Bitcoin Ekasi ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa โ€“ 84

Bitcoin El Zera ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa - 71

Bitcoin Githurai ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ช Kenya - 10

Bitcoin Ubuntu ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa - 16

Bitcoin Kampala ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Uganda - 27

Orphans of Uganda ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Uganda - 36

Soweto Btc ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa - 21

Bitcoin Loxion ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa - 13

Bitcoin Dua ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ญ Ghana - 40

Bitcoin Babies ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ช Kenya - 14

Afribit Kibera ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ช Kenya - 97

Bitcoin Karoo ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa - 24

Bitcoin Anambra ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Nigeria - 19

Bitcoin Calbar ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Nigeria - 63

BTC PLETT ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa - 44

Bitcoin Sisonke ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa - 11

BTC Shule ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฎ Burundi - 13

Bitcoin Arusha ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฟ Tanzania - 23

Bitcoin Witsand ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa - 23

Bitcoin Chama ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ช Kenya - 12

Bitcoin Vitcoria Falls ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Zambia - 117

And all i needed were wallet usernames. No proof of address, no ID documents. I didn't even need to know their real names.

Insanely cool! I absolutely love Bitcoin!

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Amazing! I spent 40 minutes trying to send one international bank transfer from Norway to Sweden and it failed..

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Legendary!!!!!

Moving in and out of custodial & non-custodial set-ups for different purposes makes sense & should not be controversial

This is cool!

This is the future!

For on-chain batched payments, consider using my non-custodial batched transaction coordinator https://coinjoin.nl ๐Ÿ•ถ๏ธ

Very easy to do using the BTCPay Server plugin.

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nice, are these custodial services?

Blink is custodial, yes.

Letโ€™s go ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿพ

So you made 700 bitcoin payments.

Canโ€™t you just zap a 1000 posts in 40 mins instead ? Itโ€™s not even limited to Africa.

Very few of those users are on Nostr, most are new to Bitcoin and have never heard of Nostr.

I had to test the dashboard imediatelly awesom!!!

Wow, thatโ€˜s great pow! ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿป