Anita

Freedom Tech. Founder Bitcoin for Fairness. Book: (L)earn Bitcoin. 🌍 Nomad. Africa & Europe

„Bitcoin is emancipation from financial patriarchy.“

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2026-02-26 21:44:51 CET

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Many of them do, they have a lot of privileges, but also high scrutiny. And they can see the exclusiveness of the system too., .. A golden cage.

2026-02-26 21:41:01 CET

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South Africa

2026-02-26 15:11:31 CET

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Told him about it in the section „money laundering“ 😆

2026-02-26 14:44:22 CET

Just introduced a banker (over 20 years in the profession) to Bitcoin.
Now he wants to obtain non KYC bitcoin, because he knows first hand how the regulatory regime is increasing costs, bureaucracy, exclusion of people, how it makes the wealthy richer and is ineffective.
One person at a time.

2026-02-25 14:12:46 CET

In 2025 we supported the founding of @npub1rm5…68pk, the first educational Bitcoin community in Mozambique.
Now we will travel to Maputo to run a series of workshops together with Bitcoin Famba.
Workshops for Civil Society, Journalists and Communities
will include:
Bitcoin – an introduction, how to install a wallet, and how to store, send, and receive Bitcoin safely
Nostr – earning Bitcoin for your content
@npub1yul…ncdu – obtaining Bitcoin without an ID to protect your privacy
Bitchat – communicating without an internet connection @npub12rv…85vg @npub1sg6…f63m
AI tools – using @npub10hp…dxkr and @npub16g4…kv4h to safeguard your privacy
BFF will co‑host the inaugural BitDevs meetup in Maputo with Bitcoin Famba on 7 March 2026. The agenda includes:
BitDevs – the history, goals, and mission of BitDevs meetups
Job and learning opportunities for Mozambican developers in the broader Bitcoin ecosystem
Ecash & Fedimint – secure community custody and offline payments
Visiting New Bitcoin Circular Economies
@npub1qqz…k2n7 at Maputo Skate Park
Lwandi Surf
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2026-02-24 18:57:33 CET

How coolias that. Tap to pay with bitcoin with your phone!
#nevent1q…dz65

2026-02-23 13:37:19 CET

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Would be even better if there were links instead of npubs
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2026-02-23 13:35:48 CET

Using bluestrbot by @npub18am…p424 to cross post from Nostr to Bluesky! 👍👍
Thanks @npub1qm7…74md for setting it up!
#note15aj…pnhn

2026-02-23 13:31:27 CET

I am already (on) Divine.
#note1a6j…397n

2026-02-22 13:02:48 CET

Whose agent is this?
#note14he…t4m9

2026-02-22 08:15:31 CET

Have been screaming for years, most people don’t listen.
#nevent1q…pkmx

2026-02-20 16:56:45 CET

Next stop Mozambique!
My first visit and the 9th African country we @npub1fqq…qzch are working in.
#nevent1q…8ftv

2026-02-19 18:37:47 CET

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Thank you!

2026-02-19 18:32:49 CET

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😂 good one

2026-02-19 10:26:02 CET

OpenAI and everything that Sam Altman touches is to be avoided. Just remember Worldcoin. Same founder, same ethics.
#note1s4f…3j66

2026-02-16 11:05:40 CET

In the hands of the unethical Worldcoiners now.
#nevent1q…sf9e

2026-02-11 15:38:43 CET

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It’s a hard earned privilege. Started working towards it 20 years ago.

2026-02-11 12:34:15 CET

One of the hardest things of being a digital nomad is that I have to work even in the nicest places.
Nature and beach are only 3 minutes away and I am still doing DNS entries for my newsletter tool and writing blog posts and and and…
Just a short rant.
My life is actually awesome.

2026-02-10 13:34:42 CET

What a coincidence!
#nevent1q…frnr

2026-02-01 18:52:58 CET

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Do you have any that he did? He claims to be the central bank of bitcoin! 🙄

2026-02-01 16:45:28 CET

…and they made him the conference’s 2026 headliner - for the 4th time!
Paper Bitcoin are an attack on Bitcoin.
#nevent1q…su7u

2026-01-31 13:33:00 CET

@npub1ju2…ya32 „When people see that Bitcoin isn’t just something to learn about or hold, but something they can actually use to pay for goods, services, or support their communities, adoption shifts from theory to lived reality.“
#abct26
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2026-01-31 11:38:50 CET

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No.

2026-01-30 09:03:23 CET

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🧡

2026-01-29 13:54:23 CET

So what?? A „social“ network of bots?! 😂
#nevent1q…n63k

2026-01-29 13:05:50 CET

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@npub1nc0…z5pa ✌️

2026-01-29 11:08:06 CET

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No, it’s in closed testing and it will be for businesses incl KYC

2026-01-29 11:01:14 CET

Just tested a solution that converts EUR from a bank account into sats to a Lightning address within 5 minutes. Once set up, it just works.
#abct26 South Africa is an innovator in showing Bitcoin is money. #build

2026-01-29 10:25:26 CET

First Fedimint federation in South Africa running on Start9 machines presented at #abct26.
Federated custody in your own community, region, country instead of centralized custody.
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2026-01-28 09:36:44 CET

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Moltbot reminds me of Jörg Molt a Bitcoin scammer from Germany. He stole Bitcoin from a lot of people and went to jail.

2026-01-28 09:32:21 CET

WhatsApp never could be trusted in the first place.
Telegram is even worse. No end-to-end encryption at all. Only if you use private chats and they break every time you switch the device.
Signal, SimpleX and soon White Noise are the way to go if you want to protect your privacy.
#nevent1q…4l63

2026-01-27 09:44:42 CET

@npub12rv…85vg @npub1sg6…f63m Bitchat in Uganda: government is celebrating how they managed to contain bitchat. have you heard of this, anything true or just usual government speak?
https://nilepost.co.ug/news/315117/the-it-taskforce-behind-the-bitchat-block-ugandas-homegrown-cyber-defense-triumphs

2026-01-19 18:04:32 CET

Trump and Putin’s end goal is to split Europe between each other. Mark my words.
After WWII Austria was split into 4 zones. The northeast where my family comes from was occupied by Russia, the northwest by US. South by the British and west by France. I wouldn’t want to live in a Russian zone after what my grandparents told me about this time. But it was better than the Nazis.
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2026-01-18 20:50:06 CET

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There are dissenting voices, but they are few and they keep holding back, because every little criticism about the tribalism and all points you mentioned create such a push back that you simply give up. And I know many people, who for this reason left the space or will never have any interest in Bitcoin.

2026-01-17 18:53:39 CET

Is there a tool that takes a website RSS feed and posts long-form articles on Nostr automatically?

2026-01-10 20:38:48 CET

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I think it's really hard to test them all and to decide which ones to use. But I think these 2 are good too. Just heard of confer.to from Signal cofounder Moxie. Another one to test.

2026-01-10 15:23:44 CET

# Privacy AI Is Possible
Because of privacy concerns, I have been reluctant to use LLMs. I started experimenting in 2023 because I realized this is going to come either way - and I can make use of it, or be left behind.
## Power
I started with ChatGPT, as everyone does, but soon stopped using it for political and privacy reasons. Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI, is also a co-founder of the Worldcoin project. Worldcoin is a cryptocurrency that requires individuals to scan their iris to identify themselves. They have been rolling out their product aggressively on the African continent by paying anyone who signed up $25 in exchange for their biometric data. In Kenya, Worldcoin became the subject of a 2025 court case and was rightfully instructed to delete all data.
I don’t want to share my data with companies showing no regard for dignity and privacy, and taking advantage of unequal bargaining situations.
So no ChatGPT for me.
## Agency
Claude was the first tool I used on a regular basis. Since I understood that if you use the free plan on ChatGPT your conversations might end up in Google Search - and this might be the same with other models - I decided to subscribe to a paid plan on Claude.
I am using it with a nym (a fake name and email), but of course my payment data is still associated with my account. That’s why I was looking for more private options.
The point for me is simple: I want to use AI, but I want to choose the terms. I don’t want “convenience” to mean “total surveillance.”
## Tools
### PayPerQ offers Bitcoin payments
@npub16g4…kv4h allows you to pay with Lightning Bitcoin, which increases your privacy because your real name is not associated with your searches. It offers a variety of LLMs for chat, image, video, audio, and DeepResearch, which makes it easy to experiment. At the same time, it increases the number of my experiments, because I want to know what different models produce and what is best.
I think it is essential to find out which tools are the right ones for your needs. Honestly, I haven’t found mine yet.
I like Claude Sonnet 4.5 for editing texts. DeepResearch is incredible for doing what its name says, although the depth of results can be overwhelming. Z.AI: GLM 4.7 was great for strategic thinking, but then it failed my expectations in text editing.
PayPerQ hides your identity in the purchasing process, but your prompts and conversations still land at the companies behind the models. I am not against them learning what I ask or the corrections I make - AI makes a lot of mistakes and it has a lot to learn from us. I actually want LLMs to crawl my work, but I don’t want them to save every little thing I do and mix it up with my private questions.
### Maple AI: privacy from sign-up to LLMs
@npub10hp…dxkr is the best solution I found. It runs on open source code and open models. It says it never uses your data to train AI, doesn’t log your chats, does zero data retention, and you can pay with Bitcoin. It offers many models (including OpenAI GPT-OSS — yes, OpenAI, but in a private way).
Maple AI states that communications are encrypted locally on your device before being transmitted, that their servers can’t read your data, and that even during processing the pipeline is designed with privacy as the priority.
I want AI as a tool, not as a trap.
#Daily #AI

2026-01-10 14:34:03 CET

The Finney Prize Laureate for the 2016-2020 area is Andreas M. Antonopoulos @aantonop.
Absolutely deserved! He shaped my thinking around Bitcoin and open source and has been influencing my work since the beginning. I am deeply grateful that I could conduct 5 interviews with him and was invited to translate two of his Internet Money books to German. Thanks to @nprofile…jrvw and @nprofile…s3wl foundation.
My last interview from 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGDdo3fcAGc

2026-01-09 18:57:34 CET

@nprofile…6av2 I am using Mullvad VPN and your website is blocking me!
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2026-01-08 16:54:52 CET

# Wealth, Not Capital
Capital is fleeting, Wealth is permanent.
Having enough is a choice. Choose wisely.
#Daily

2026-01-08 08:18:45 CET

I'd like to know too. @brugeman ?
#nevent1q…f5mz

2026-01-06 16:04:35 CET

# Bitchat: Enabling Agency
In 1997 my first Internet connection was installed. The modem worked slowly via landline. I knew nothing about how it worked, but I knew it would change the world. The opportunity to communicate globally unlocked possibilities.
In the decades since, the Internet has been captured by monopolistic corporations and government interests. The dream of online agency and self-determination briefly came true around 2010 culminating in the Arab Spring.
In March 2025, Zimbabwe's government throttled the Internet to suppress protests. I experienced my first Internet shutdown. Luckily, I had a Starlink receiver—though Zimbabwe-licensed units (required by law for locals) were likely shut down too.
Internet throttling on election days has become common in authoritarian countries. Under the guise of national security, governments stifle demonstrations and limit free speech. Uganda faced shutdowns during 2021 elections. Now, ahead of the January 15, 2026 election, opposition leader Bobi Wine is promoting Bitchat⁤⁣ to bypass government control.
Bitchat is an app that uses your phone's Bluetooth to send messages to people nearby. Each phone is a node in a spontaneous network. No centralized server, no mobile data or cellular service needed. Just a powered phone and Bluetooth.
The Uganda Communications Commission has warned that the government can disable Bitchat. I wish them luck. It's technically impossible to remotely shut down Bluetooth on individual phones without confiscating every device. The government could block app stores, but Bitchat is available on alternative platforms like Aurora Store and GitHub.
Bitchat's success depends on one thing: how many people download it. It gets stronger the more people participate, doesn't depend on permission from authorities, and puts power directly in people's hands.
Fun fact: In 1997 the name "Bluetooth" was proposed for the short-range wireless technology based on an analogy that it would unite devices the way King Harald Bluetooth united the tribes of Denmark in the 10th-century.
@npub1sg6…f63m @npub12rv…85vg
#Daily

2026-01-06 12:02:41 CET

When bitcoin over bitchat? @nprofile…v72v @nprofile…3r3l
(in an easy way not sending txs via text)
Is it on the roadmap? #nevent1q…dtrq

2026-01-04 16:57:00 CET

# Daily on Nostr
It's early January 2026 and this is my experiment. I will publish one note per day. On #nostr first.
Nostr stands for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays". It's a new and open protocol, imagine a new life form of the Internet. It lives on decentralized servers (called relays) that anyone can run without permission. It's censorship resistant, no one can keep you from expressing your opinion or change or delete what you wrote. You can use any app and switch in between apps, as all content belongs to you, and unlike X, Facebook or YouTube you don't lose your content when you switch. You can decide what you want to see in your feed, there is no algorithm (yet) and if it were, you can just switch to another app. You don't have to upload your ID, no one can block or freeze your account as there are no accounts on Nostr. Ownership of your data is secured by crypto-graphical keys (long strings of random letters and numbers that are mathematically impossible to guess).
Does this sound familiar? These are Bitcoin's foundations. Nostr is for content, what Bitcoin is for value. Bitcoin doesn't need Nostr and Nostr doesn't need Bitcoin, but they work brilliantly together. You can send "zaps" (bitcoin micropayments) directly to content creators in seconds. Bitcoin and Nostr are the Swiss Army knife of financial expression and free speech. Tools that give agency back to people. Tools that enable the civil society to uphold their important function of being a check on power. That's why I am going all in on Nostr and publish my daily posts on Nostr first.
PS: As it's already Jan 4 the experiment has failed before it even started. I missed day 1 and 2, here is my post from Jan 3: #nevent1q…6045
Nonetheless - the best day to start with anything that gives you practice and agency is today.
#daily

2026-01-03 21:49:40 CET

On Jan 3, 2009 the Bitcoin network went online with the first public block being mined. Today on Jan 3, 2026 the USA under President Trump went to war against Venezuela to "run the country" and "make it great again". Just ten days before the USA bombarded parts of Nigeria to take out ISIS militants and protect Christians. Coincidentally both countries are rich in oil and natural resources. Trump also said: “American dominance in the western hemisphere will never be questioned again.”
It's the usual interventionism that they sell us as "in the name of peace - to install democracy" when in reality it's an imperialistic power grab financed with your tax money, in your name.
This is possible with state money. Non-state money like bitcoin in self-custody gives agency back to the people. Bitcoin is an exit strategy, and this is what it was made for - money that can't be taken away from us to finance their wars.
#daily

2025-12-29 14:50:30 CET

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Here it is, not fully published yet, but this link should work. https://youtu.be/VJLPkapxNRw?si=uSYutdO1-EmCIRpp

2025-12-27 10:49:40 CET

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There’s no way around when you want to use Android Auto on GrapheneOS.
Ok, your answer might be: don’t use Android Auto.
I need a Navi and the Graphene option is better than right out Google Maps on Google.

2025-12-27 10:25:32 CET

Google has changed its sign up process (maybe not news, I haven't tried for a while). No more receiving to one time numbers, now you have to send a text message to them from your phone.
Everything step we take is kyc-ed.
Preserving one's privacy is getting harder and actually impossible as most countries do not allow burner numbers. https://image.nostr.build/80dea7ba7f0d4cff689e88ed9866d4bd61efd9ac9255311c9a56b331f042ab2a.jpg

2025-12-08 18:15:19 CET

Incredible impressions over Mauritius.
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2025-12-03 17:45:07 CET

Good news.
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#nevent1q…uxtz

2025-11-28 16:10:23 CET

I wrote a letter to The Guardian in response to their editorial which opens with:
> The key to understanding crypto is that it has no “value” in any economic sense.
My answer was not published, but I want to share it here.
**Bitcoin Is Not Crypto**
I've spent years in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Zambia learning about people's real financial problems. What I've seen is completely different from what The Guardian describes.
I've met teachers saving their wages when their currency collapses, farmers receiving remittances without losing 20% to corrupt middlemen, and human rights activists whose bitcoin can't be frozen by authoritarian governments like their bank accounts. For them, Bitcoin isn't speculation or gambling. It's a way to survive when traditional money fails.
The Guardian writes from a privileged place where state-backed money is somehow stable. That's not the reality in much of Africa. When your national currency gets manipulated and becomes worthless, Bitcoin's volatility looks very different.
Bitcoin is not crypto. Crypto is a caricature of Bitcoin. Stop conflating them, they're not the same. Bitcoin was created after 2008 as an alternative to a broken financial system—one built on cheap credit and endless growth that makes the rich richer and ruins our environment. Crypto enriches creators through insider deals and scams.
I agree: Trump's World Liberty coin is a pump-and-dump scheme. Meme-coins are gambling. Worldcoin harvests biometric data from Africans for profit. Solana and similar projects are centralized. Crypto-trading to get rich quick is a losing game for regular people.
But Bitcoin is different. No one controls it. Anyone can use it without asking permission. It can't be censored. New monetary technology takes decades to stabilize—maybe 50 years to reach mass adoption. These price crashes are part of that journey, but it's still the best-performing asset of the past decade.
Exploiting people through crypto is wrong. That's not Bitcoin's fault—that's what bad actors do with open technology.
https://anitaposch.com/bitcoin-not-crypto

2025-11-19 19:23:22 CET

„Bitcoin für die Zivilgesellschaft“ my keynote at an event for nonprofits in Vienna.
Around 80 people showed up. I was demonstrating how Bitcoin supports human rights and is an irreplaceable tool for civil society and democracy especially in authoritarian regimes. Also showing how @npub155m…dcvg can be used to collect donations.
Went very well, audience learned about the other side of Bitcoin outside pure hodling and speculation.
@npub16tc…5jkf thanks for organization.
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2025-11-13 11:51:53 CET

I really did not think that the Danish are so authoritarian leaning.
#nevent1q…q7py

2025-10-31 09:49:59 CET

Happy Bitcoin Whitepaper Day!
17 years ago Satoshi published the concept for Bitcoin.
https://anitaposch.com/bitcoin-whitepaper
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2025-10-21 10:48:20 CEST

My new article captures the current state of Bitcoin in Zimbabwe. The country had six currency collapses since 1980.
Bitcoin hasn't solved Zimbabwe's broader economic problems. It won't fix corruption, infrastructure, or international sanctions, but for people willing to learn, it offers something Zimbabwe's government cannot take away: financial sovereignty.
I'm sharing the story of a farmer, because too many Bitcoin discussions stay theoretical. Critics dismiss it as speculation; maximalists oversell it as a panacea.
The truth is more practical: in countries with broken monetary systems, Bitcoin provides tools that actually work - if you're willing to learn and adapt. Ethan's farm isn't running on ideology; it's running on math and incentives that align with reality.
Full article:
https://anitaposch.com/bitcoin-business-zimbabwe

2025-10-15 11:33:39 CEST

@npub1ajl…zx3q please add more African currencies!
I want to onboard communities in Zambia and Mozambique their currencies are missing, which makes it understandably hard for them to use it.
Bitcoin includes, not excludes.
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