Big news for the local Bitcoin scene: you can now spend bitcoin pretty much everywhere that shows a Zapper QR code online or in-store, by using the Money Badger app with your bitcoin lightning wallet. Zapper is one of SA’s leading payment processors, trusted by a network of over 31,000 businesses, so this instantly unlocks […]
If you have bitcoin and would like to actually spend it instead of trade it for Rand on an exchange, there are a few ways you can do that. These days it is getting easier to find stores that accept bitcoin payments directly, and there is also the option of buying vouchers that you can […]
The lightning network The lightning network is an off-chain layer2 network, that aims to scale the bitcoin network to be able to handle millions to billions of transactions per second, instantly, through the power of smart contracts. Nodes can connect to each other and form the Lightning network. Connecting to another node means opening a […]
