Cultivating #Bitcoin communities across Southern Africa through knowledge distribution. Founder @alesander97

Zimbabwe
Joined November 2022
The Bitcoin conference in Africa’s utopia. -@AfroBitcoinOrg
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The CLARITY Act Wasn’t a Bill of Rights. It Was a Bill of Restrictions. - @saylor The point is simple: if “freedom tech” is the goal, legislation should clearly define what people and companies are allowed to do, not bury a few rights beneath hundreds of pages of restrictions.
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How much of Bitcoin’s mining power is actually securing @Rootstock_io ? The Q2 2026 Merged Mining Report gives us the numbers. 83.96% of Bitcoin’s hashrate was contributing to Rootstock through merged mining. Here’s what that means.
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Before bitcoin:native Uptober. Before Moonvember. Before Ballcember. Watch the signs. ₿
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Bitcoin’s next cycle may be about more than price. The interesting shift: dollars don’t have to leave BTC anymore. BTC can stay locked as collateral while credit and liquidity are built on top of it. That’s Bitcoin amplification. @rootstock_io
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Security is not supposed to be instant. @rootstock_io 33–36 hour peg-out delay adds time, Proof-of-Work and multiple safeguards before BTC can move. Bitcoin provides the monetary base and security. Rootstock adds programmability and financial functionality.
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A security incident on @Liquid_BTC saw 4,000 BTC ($320M) withdrawn from the Federation wallet. No keys were stolen, a bug let unbacked LBTC get minted and peg out as if it were real. The sidechain is now paused while Blockstream investigates @rootstock_io is designed differently
Replying to @bensig
The problem is that Liquid is not a sidechain as defined in the original Sidechain paper.. Sidechains require proof-of-work. Rootstock forces a 36-hour delay for peg-outs, and that's good enough for the miners to stop mining Rootstock in case of a consensus failure. Rootstock is actually an HSM-enforced drivechain plus a federation majority approval requirement. Better than a drivechain and better than a federation.
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Bitcoin Reach retweeted
bitcoin:native is becoming financial infrastructure. Rootstock is the BTCFi layer helping build the rails around it.
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People who still use fiat currencies to store value.
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rBTC ≠ a new altcoin. It represents BTC on @rootstock_io The 1:1 peg means BTC is locked on btc L1 while an equivalent amount of rBTC is available on Rootstock for DeFi and smart contracts. When rBTC exits, it’s removed from circulation and the corresponding BTC is released.
How do you know that it can’t be minted or created out of thin air, my fool? Have you examined the code? What are the incentives for the various stakeholders involved?
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If Bitcoin block space becomes more expensive as demand grows, you don’t necessarily need to fight that.@rootstock_io exists for a reason. Bitcoin become the scarce settlement layer and move applications to layers built around it. Here’s why that matters in the BIP-110 debate 🧵
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Tip of the Day 🦡 Tired of stablecoins that can freeze your funds? Mint DoC directly with rBTC on @rootstock_io: • No KYC • No middlemen • 100% on-chain & Bitcoin-backed Stability + Bitcoin sovereignty in a few clicks. Do you know this?
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Bitcoin Reach retweeted
🧵To create awareness around dice rolling for stronger entropy, Bitcoin Reach is giving back 🧡 For every new person who joins the $1/day Bitcoin challenge, I’ll donate $1 to the Bitcoin Reach Geyser Fund. To give away a set of orange transparent dice to each new participant.
Building wealth on Bitcoin, starts with good financial habits. At @BitcoinReach , we’re intergrating @mary_imasuen challenge the $1-a-Day Bitcoin Challenge
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🧵To create awareness around dice rolling for stronger entropy, Bitcoin Reach is giving back 🧡 For every new person who joins the $1/day Bitcoin challenge, I’ll donate $1 to the Bitcoin Reach Geyser Fund. To give away a set of orange transparent dice to each new participant.
Building wealth on Bitcoin, starts with good financial habits. At @BitcoinReach , we’re intergrating @mary_imasuen challenge the $1-a-Day Bitcoin Challenge
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A beautiful and simple DCA challenge
Building wealth on Bitcoin, starts with good financial habits. At @BitcoinReach , we’re intergrating @mary_imasuen challenge the $1-a-Day Bitcoin Challenge
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Let’s Gerrrrrit ₿
Building wealth on Bitcoin, starts with good financial habits. At @BitcoinReach , we’re intergrating @mary_imasuen challenge the $1-a-Day Bitcoin Challenge
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Building wealth on Bitcoin, starts with good financial habits. At @BitcoinReach , we’re intergrating @mary_imasuen challenge the $1-a-Day Bitcoin Challenge
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Having as many members of our commitment to save just $1 in Bitcoin every day for one year.
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Recoverable Grants just launched on @geyserfund powered by @rootstock_io ⚡️ A new model for funding builders: → Zero-interest capital → Repay as you grow → Funds get recycled → Next entrepreneur gets funded Not charity. A system. This is BTCFi in action.
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Bitcoin Reach retweeted
Zoom out. The supply is smaller than it feels.
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Country + Dollar Risk Most people reduce currencies failures to “printing money.” But a currency reflects two forces: the strength of the country and the system it is plugged to Let’s step back into history of our once $100 trillion note, now a Global symbol of economic collapse
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What began as mismanagement evolved into modern-day tenderpreneurship, wanton looting without consequences, cadre deployment, and deep incompetence Is it really shocking that by the mid-2000s: • Inflation was exploding • Salaries meant nothing • Supermarket shelves were empty
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2008: The $100 Trillion Note Is it surprising that by 2008, Zimbabwe printed the infamous $100 trillion note the global symbol of economic collapse? Or is it simply the inevitable outcome of country risk.
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