CD189: MONEYBADGER - BITCOIN PAYMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA

2026-01-23

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Carel van Wyk is the founder and CEO of MoneyBadger. MoneyBadger enables easy bitcoin payments at 650 thousand stores in South Africa. MoneyBadger on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqsz85k206vm3vqdmlvcy9l4kyfqchlnf4hnctasxufa3ph0ck9decgpk49rf MoneyBadger on X: https://x.com/MoneyBadgerPayWesbite: https://www.moneybadger.co.za/EPISODE: 189BLOCK: 933542PRICE: 1112 sats per dollar(00:03:26) What is Money Badger? Mission and merchant focus(00:05:13) Paying anywhere in South...

Carel van Wyk is the founder and CEO of MoneyBadger. MoneyBadger enables easy bitcoin payments at 650 thousand stores in South Africa.

MoneyBadger on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqsz85k206vm3vqdmlvcy9l4kyfqchlnf4hnctasxufa3ph0ck9decgpk49rf
MoneyBadger on X: https://x.com/MoneyBadgerPay
Wesbite: https://www.moneybadger.co.za/

EPISODE: 189
BLOCK: 933542
PRICE: 1112 sats per dollar

(00:03:26) What is Money Badger? Mission and merchant focus

(00:05:13) Paying anywhere in South Africa

(00:05:27) 650,000 locations

(00:07:04) Leveraging existing QR payment rails and the Pick n Pay breakthrough

(00:10:01) How the flow works: bridging proprietary QR to Lightning

(00:11:18) MoneyBadger app as translator vs. using any Lightning wallet

(00:13:04) Fiat settlement, volatility handling, and business model

(00:17:07) Why no Money Badger wallet? Integrations with Blink, Zeus, Aqua

(00:20:20) A clever LNURL/Lightning Address pattern to decode merchant QRs

(00:23:39) Pragmatic, a bit hacky, and works across wallets

(00:28:04) Replicability beyond SA: Kenya’s M‑Pesa, Ghana, Latin America

(00:32:10) Creating demand: Bitcoin Ekasi as proof-of-use for Pick n Pay