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Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town (@abcptza) has reached a crossroads. For three years running, 2024, 2025 and 2026, we hosted three successful conferences, co-hosted by @Machankura8333 and ourselves, and run entirely by unpaid volunteers, without massive sponsorship. Pulling that off, three times in a row, is a significant milestone. We also achieved something we set out to do: reach large civil society organizations and, through them, reach their members. And we didn't know who those organizations would be, but they showed up. John Endres (@senderman) of the Institute for Race Relations (@IRR_SouthAfrica), Russell Lamberti (@RussLamberti) representing Sakeliga (@Sakeliga), and David Ansara (@DavidAnsara) of the Free Market Foundation (@FMFSouthAfrica) all spoke in 2024, 2025 and/or 2026. This list is not exhaustive. And these aren't fringe groups. They're among South Africa's largest and longest-standing advocates for free market policy. And they have fought an uphill battle for exactly the kind of direction this country needs. Our goal was to get them speaking to their audiences about Bitcoin, and that's happened. Both The Free Market Foundation and the Institute for Race Relations have since published papers, videos and/or podcasts on Bitcoin: freemarketfoundation.com/sta… dailyfriend.co.za/2026/03/05… While both organizations occasionally discussed Bitcoin prior to 2024, since then both groups have formalized and significantly expanded their public commentary on the topic. I'm not claiming we caused that single-handedly, but we definitely contributed to it, even if only in a small way. So why are we at a Crossroads? In 2026, the Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank dropped regulatory bombshells that were, to put it mildly, insane. The direction they want to take is a walled garden: you can hold Bitcoin, you can use Bitcoin, but only through a regulated intermediary they control, one that can force you to sell at a price of their choosing. Calling that a watered down version of Bitcoin is an understatement. It isn't a watered down version of Bitcoin. It's entirely fake. And yes, there's been a reprieve with the SA Government recently backing down under intense pressure, but it's clear that they'll attempt it again. That leaves us in a position where we have to decide: where does this conference go next? And the answer is right there in the name. Adopting Bitcoin. Adopting Bitcoin implies exiting fiat. You are not adopting Bitcoin if you are not exiting fiat. And if you claim to adopt Bitcoin while weaseling your way further into the fiat world, you are not adopting Bitcoin. It’s quite simple. But easy to lose sight of. "I'm into Bitcoin, but the fiat world is what it is, we have to play by their rules, we have to work with them, and we have to accommodate them." This may all be true. But it invariably turns into an excuse to not exit fiat. And that's not a position we're willing to keep entertaining. And if you don't get that, what are we doing here? To be clear, this isn't about refusing to talk to anyone. It's about being unambiguous about our goal. Adopting Bitcoin means actively and continuously looking for every opportunity to move further away from fiat. Adopting Bitcoin does not mean buying Bitcoin and settling into fiat more comfortably while the BTC/FIAT price goes up. This isn't a rebrand. It's a re-alignment, a return to where @abcptza was always meant to go, but were slowly pulled away from by the realities of running a conference. The companies that make real money are the ones that find ways to weave themselves back into the fiat system. It's brutally hard for a genuinely Bitcoin-only fiat-exiting company to turn a profit. The massively profitable players in this space are crypto casinos and pseudo-banks selling you the idea that gambling is good. That's just the world as it is. For that reason, funding a conference like this is genuinely difficult. When you're the one staring at a venue invoice, and you know half your speaker list won't show up unless you cover their flights, you end up working with people you'd rather not work with. Not because you sold out, but because there was no other way to pay for it. So yes, we drifted. Not on purpose, but because of the economic reality. But we never drifted so far that we've lost sight of where we're supposed to be. So are are we going? Bitcoin is a silent revolution. If you're not willing to be part of that, peacefully, but without compromise, then you're not adopting Bitcoin, and you're not exiting fiat. Bitcoin is a paradigm shift. Paradigm shifts are not easy, gentle, comfortable, or profitable. They are, by definition, disruptive, unfamiliar and unsettling for almost everyone. We don't know if this will work. We have no idea if we can even fund a conference like this going forward. And, if we take this stance, most of the sponsors who might have thrown us scraps will walk away. @abcptza becomes a genuine grassroots conference, funded by ticket sales or not funded at all. The sponsors left willing to stand with us will be few. And none of them are the biggest players in this space. But we'd rather attempt it that way, and fail, than keep drifting toward a place where the conference does not make it absolutely clear. Adopting Bitcoin is all about exiting fiat. And that is non-negotiable. Tickets for 2027: pretix.eu/abct/2027 Conference website: za27.adoptingbitcoin.org

Dude knows how to speak. Like it’s so good

Western empires spent generations laundering their crimes through schoolbooks, dressing conquest as civilization, slavery as opportunity, and massacres as unfortunate footnotes to their supposed greatness. They taught their citizens to imagine that literacy, science, innovation, and freedom arrived in our societies aboard the same ships that carried their chains. Then people raised on this carefully distorted history mistake their ignorance for superiority and ask, “Why do they hate white people?” Perhaps begin by asking why your education required so much silence about the people your national heroes enslaved, butchered, raped, robbed, and killed. You cannot teach generations to celebrate an empire and then feign bewilderment when its victims refuse to applaud. The elites defending these lies know exactly what an honest history threatens: their inherited estates, stolen artifacts, accumulated fortunes, and the “respectable” family namesattached to them. So they scream “anti-white racism” and recruit the poor and working class white people to defend wealth they will never touch, persuading the exploited to identify with their exploiters because they share a skin color. They inherited the spoils and handed you a flag to guard them and you do it so proudly and ignorantly. Correcting those history books is a responsibility to your children as much as to ours, because peace cannot rest on the continued humiliation of people expected to honor the lies told about their suffering. Call us bitter, call us victims, choke on your imperial nostalgia if you must. The truth will still demand an accounting and it will prevail.

We got your back, New York!

Creative checkpoint. There are 59 days left in 2026. What have you made this year that you’re genuinely proud of?

Excellent comment on this FT article about the Binance hack ft.com/content/1d4dd7b2-9dee…

You create the work. But who really owns your craft? In this episode of What’s Haute with Halima, @BigRpic joins @Im_so_false to explore ownership, creativity and where Bitcoin fits in. Watch the full interview below and join the conversation. piped.video/watch?v=PHgNxrQz…

WHEN THIS ARTIST HITS THE STAGE, THE ENERGY IS ON ANOTHER LEVEL. BUT WHO ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? The sound is unmistakable. The hits speak for themselves. The stage presence? Simply unforgettable. We have given you a glimpse, but kept the identity a secret. Think you can crack the mystery? Don’t just guess any name. Tell us WHO you think is about to set Blantyre alight! Drop your prediction below. 👇🏾 AfroBit Concert | Blantyre, Malawi | 4 December 2026 #AfroBitConcert #ABC2026 #ABCFest #Blantyre

30 DAYS TO GO! Blantyre, are you ready? The countdown to #ABC2026 is on! We look forward to welcoming you to Blantyre, Malawi! 2–5 December 2026 #ABC2026 #Bitcoin #Africa

🎯 - No helicopters either. My wife & I made a pact years ago.

You create the work. But who really owns your craft? In this episode of What’s Haute with Halima, @BigRpic joins @Im_so_false to explore ownership, creativity and where Bitcoin fits in. Watch the full interview below and join the conversation. piped.video/watch?v=PHgNxrQz…