Active
Dated activity within 12 months of our last check.
The operator surface carries 2026 project updates (checked 23 September 2026).
Dated activity 2026Checked 23 September 2026
The Surfer Kids pays its staff in Bitcoin and onboards the township shops around them, for staff, shops and residents in Mossel Bay.
- Operator
- Bitcoin Ekasi / The Surfer Kids
- Funding
- A donation-backed nonprofit; merchants take ordinary Bitcoin payments.
- Adoption, as the operator reports it
- An operator page says more than 500 people use Bitcoin daily, weekly or monthly. It gives no population denominator.The figures are undated at the source.
- What the figures don’t show
- The 500+ figure is the operator's own undated claim, with no denominator or audit.
- How sure we are
- High for displayed operator claim; not independently audited.Our confidence in reading the source — not a rating of whether the claim is true.
- Source
- support.bitcoinekasi.comWhere on the page: “opening project statement: more than 500 people use Bitcoin” · checked 23 September 2026
- Record
bitcoin-ekasi-zaLocality: Wikidata Q995615
Status history
| Snapshot | Status | Source last checked |
|---|---|---|
| 1 October 2026 | Active | 23 September 2026 |
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Cite this record
Billasaari Bitcoin Places Register (2026). Bitcoin Ekasi [bitcoin-ekasi-za], v0.2.0. https://billasaari.com/atlas/bitcoin-ekasi-za/. CC BY 4.0.