Monthly Round Up 6: We Really Should Not Be Listening To These People

We share hard-won lessons from Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town: live Lightning demos that clear cross-border in minutes, cafés running BTCPay, and African builders shipping useful tools without permission. We dig into agentic AI, offline comms, the fiat circus, and why self-custody is a peaceful opt-out.

• stand-out moments from a builder-led, Bitcoin-only conference 
• real-time Orange demo: EU, UK, Nigeria to SA in minutes 
• how Lightning stitches local bank rails across borders 
• BTCPay Server running tickets and food with tiny costs 
• human stories from African circular economies 
• AI agents for product specs and microservices paid in sats 
• BitChat offline messaging when networks fail 
• Money Badger QR across Blink and Zeus wallets 
• inflation, empires, and the werewolf analogy of elite coordination 
• the case for opting out with self-custody and local community

https://x.com/abcptza

https://x.com/BitcoinEkasi

https://x.com/OKIN_17

https://x.com/OrangeSaaS

https://bitcoinonly.io/

https://www.useorange.com/

https://btcpayserver.org/

https://btcpay386617.lndyn.com/login?ReturnUrl=%2F

Links:

www.bitcoinforbusiness.io

X: @gavingre

X: @BTC_4_Biz

Primal: GavinBGreen@primal.net

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