Thread by @vryfokkenou

Africa is ripe for #Bitcoin adoption.

This is my friend (and former colleague) Jorge using @bitrefill and @MuunWallet in Mozambique, where only about 30% of the population have formal bank accounts, but 70% have mobile internet access.

Jorge lives in Bomba, Praia do Tofo, in the Inhambane province. We worked together when our business @UnravelSurf was still operating surf trips there. Until the covid lockdown clownery. Below is Jorge (center back) welcoming a tour group in 2014, with open arms, literally.

His income was entirely based on tourism in Tofo, and he got destroyed. So in mid 2020 I started helping him, but (as is always the case) the fees on remittance services were ridiculous.

So I introduced Jorge to #Bitcoin and the #LightningNetwork⚡️

I started sending him lightning payments in mid 2021. Once received, he'd use the sats to buy phone credit on @bitrefill which he'd sell to people in his local village, effectively converting between ZAR and MZN, while using the lightning network to transfer that value.

At first he was very skeptical, he had no idea what Bitcoin was and could see little use for it where he lived, but I think he's coming around. He's beginning to understand the value of a permissionless network.

And, as far as I can tell, he's the first person in Tofo to do so.

If you're keen to help Jorge spread Bitcoin in his village, you can support him by sending a small lightning payment to his @walletofsatoshi, using LNURL.

LNURL1DP68GURN8GHJ7AMPD3KX2AR0VEEKZAR0WD5XJTNRDAKJ7TNHV4KXCTTTDEHHWM30D3H82UNVWQHHXMMPDD5KUEMHD9H8GETJXGMQY0R70Z

This is not about collecting big amounts of money, it's about demonstrating the power of what this network can do.

100 small payments would be more effective than 1 large payment equal to double the size of the other 100 combined.

And having a bit of fun in the process 😉🤩😃