If you're in Kenya...
Zapping bitcoin around...
How can I have it be a Kenyan shilling?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbPPzUfjReQ
Jusper Machogu shows the world just how easy it is to live entirely on bitcoin in Kenya with the Tando app:
Running Tando 
Appreciate the follow and the words of encouragement! 🙏
Come along as I buy a few items in a small shop in my Kenyan village using bitcoin with our Tando app & nostr:nprofile1qqstu8vf099ljt09m4jvres0dgk8ps2q4wkfjvjp3lhrp3wxxllfg7gpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq3qamnwvaz7tmw9ehkkvpwdaexwtcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuvrcvd5xzapwvdhk6tcn9w35w
Tando is bringing global mobile money to all of Kenya as a Medium of Exchange with a simple app for sats spenders that feels just like the Mpesa app everyone here is already used to. The only difference is you spend bitcoin instead of the local fiat.
You should come to Africa Bitcoin Conference in Nairobi in December to try it out! I heard nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgmwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxy6t5vdhkjmnsv9exktnrdaksz8rhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekh2arfdeuhwctvd3jhgtnrdaks9hhj2c and nostr:nprofile1qqsywt6ypu57lxtwj2scdwxnyrl3sry9typcstje65x7rw9a2e5nq8sprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvqydhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnzd96xxmmfdecxzunt9e3k7mgpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mq9hxafw are thinking of coming on a previous RHR.
Love how you're driving home the importance of Medium of Exchange!! It's highly motivating to us at Tando, so thank you. 🧡
Who else here on Nostr has experience with ECOWAS or has made a cross-border payment on the African continent using fiat currency?
I would love to hear about your experience.
#Nostr #Grownostr #Bitcoin #Ecowas #Remittances #Plebchain
https://video.nostr.build/2118f81f07461a45cd8dc0159cdd1858a709696cf70b4ba49874e1011d97d6e0.mp4
https://www.youtube.com/@AskaBitcoiner21Questions?sub_confirmation=1
Yesterday we had a person in Nigeria that needed to send money to a person in Kenya.
They entered the Kenyan recipients phone number into Tando's app, set the amount of KSH they wanted to send him, and then paid the lightning invoice the app generated, and within 15 seconds the Nigerian sent Kenyan shillings into Kenya. Thanks to magic internet money!
Pay Bill is another payment type we handle as well. These are typically for things like utilities where the company has their account number, but you as a customer have your own account number with them. Imagine a water utility or ISP that needs to credit your account payment to your balance.
Payment flow is almost identical to Till (ie Buy Goods) except there's one additional field to enter: your customer account number.
And lastly 3rd payment type is P2P, for mobile to mobile transfers. Paying friends, or buying street food etc from individual entrepreneurs/hustlers that don't have their own till number account. Boda-boda (local motorcycle taxi drivers) is a good example of a vendor that use this payment method primarily.
So ya, you can process every transaction type in the country paying with any bitcoin lightning wallet using Tando.
Stores apply for a business account with Safaricom -- the owner of the Mpesa mobile money network in Kenya. Safaricom assigns them a 6-7 digit till number, to which customers can send funds from their own mobile money accounts.
Yes customers would need our app, or eventually the PWA web version.
Our app gets a paid receipt string back from the mpesa service which we display in the app once funds are sent, and on the merchants end they see the same receipt string in their POS terminal. Customers will typically show that string to the cashier who verifies it matches the string (& amount) they were sent from Mpesa, and if they match, transaction is completed.
Merchants don't need to change anything about how they do business today.
At any store in the country I can just key in the bill amount and their 7-digit store ID, I get a lightning invoice to pay. Once I pay, they receive Kenyan shillings. Easy & Fast.
Yeah that's my leaning as well as a bitcoiner. But glad to hear others takes as well in case I'm too biased. 👍
Here's a video of someone in Kenya using the app to send his mom the local currency, but spending from Wallet of Satoshi.
Yo nostr:nprofile1qqsvfa085adgecmg84ffelcxx6zrn3ffu5jrc6cjtwng0zge3ptv43cprpmhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcxeljjn I've got an interesting question for you about BTCMap...
Is the intention to display all businesses that accept BTC?
OR
Is the intention to display all businesses where you can spend BTC?
The subtle difference there could open up many more listings. With apps like what we are building with Tando, or similarly Bringin, BitcoinJungle, Mt Pelerin, Opago, Lipa, etc.... we are seeing more tools that let people spend, but the receiver doesn't even know Bitcoin is being used by the payer.
In a few days, we will publicly launch Tando which turns all 100,000+ business in all of Kenya into a biz you can spend bitcoin at. From street vendors to shopping malls, spend sats anywhere, easily.
So the question is, how does that affect BTCMap when the entire country of Kenya is orange for sats spenders?
I imagine most users of BTCmap want to know where they can spend?
How it started. How it's going.
🔔Main Engine Start... another nostr:nprofile1qqstdhxam7rxw5586xjwscsdj24fqhp93kzsh7xvjg7nnhc7mlh9aeczqf2t4 update on our latest progress.
geyser.fund/entry/3402
Am I going crazy nostr:nprofile1qqszrqlfgavys8g0zf8mmy79dn92ghn723wwawx49py0nqjn7jtmjagpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchszyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekk7mf0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uynmh4h or were you recently offering an NWC workshop video? Did it happen? Did I miss it?
"The main goal of using Geyser is not fundraising, but getting visibility and validation for my project. "
nostr:npub17agje2sh6u9203uaeyd0h2qvth9nn2675pa34wgwtc7zkr7ugj7qv7v7xf, @npub1xlkpent6eytsxmta5mt30tjzwr45wxdl4wtpr5u3kr77yqe9gtqq9jftxl (Bitcoin Montevideo)
1000%
NGL, the sats are a huge motivator. To think someone else once held those precious sats, and bestowed them upon us in the hopes we push Bitcoin forward in our own way is the best kinda of burden and motivation to keep pushing!
