Active
Dated activity within 12 months of our last check.
The operator's Nostr account posted a payment at a Soweto café on 3 August 2026 (checked 28 October 2026).
Dated activity 3 August 2026Checked 28 October 2026
A Soweto project that teaches young people about Bitcoin, runs an after-school programme and pays local businesses such as a café and a community farm in Bitcoin.
- Operator
- SowetoBTC
- Funding
- No funding model is stated.
- Adoption, as the operator reports it
- Operator notes show payments at named local businesses, but no total merchant count is published.
- What the figures don’t show
- The payment posts are chosen by the operator and do not show how often residents pay in Bitcoin.
- How sure we are
- Medium for operator-dated payment notes; counts not published.Our confidence in reading the source — not a rating of whether the claim is true.
- Source
- njump.me/npub16v6zr28ae067lmjf9vfnk2ckawjdclnna4frqfzy2yavz6htg6nqyq8jefWhere on the page: “profile (Soweto youth and businesses) / 2026-08-03 #Spedn note (Zwakala Cafe) / 2026-03-24 after-school farm purchase / Bitcoin Beach summit list: Bitcoin Soweto” · checked 28 October 2026
- Dated activity source
- njump.me/828519de56da0898901d403402827db41fffce2fe8938ab72dcea3d23699d364
Status history
| Snapshot | Status | Source last checked |
|---|---|---|
| Added after the 1 October 2026 snapshot; its first snapshot is 1 November 2026. | ||
The pulse has the whole history.
Cite this record
Billasaari Bitcoin Places Register (2026). SowetoBTC [sowetobtc-za], v0.6.0. https://billasaari.com/atlas/sowetobtc-za/. CC BY 4.0.