Bitcoin Ekasi

What is Bitcoin Ekasi?

Bitcoin Ekasi is based in Mossel Bay, South Africa. The project aims to build a Bitcoin circular economy modeled after (and inspired by) Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador.

Bitcoin Ekasi is an extension of The Surfer Kids Non-Profit. The Surfer Kids is a registered non-profit organization, founded in 2010. The NPO is 100% donation-based and works to create youth-empowerment in an impoverished South African township.

Bitcoin Ekasi utilizes The Surfer Kids NPO as a well established and trusted community platform through which to create a Bitcoin circular economy by, first and foremost, paying ALL staff salaries 100% in Bitcoin only and, simultaneously, on-boarding shops in the township to accept Bitcoin as payment, so that coaches can spend salaries without converting to ZAR.

View from JCC Camp Township. which is The Surfer Kids’ recruitment base and home of Bitcoin Ekasi.
Mossel Bay, South Africa.

Why build a Bitcoin circular economy in a South African township?

First.
To expand upon The Surfer Kids existing youth empowerment programs, by introducing Bitcoin as a tool for wider financial empowerment.

Second.
To show that it’s possible. To change the narrative around Bitcoin. Because debates around ‘why Bitcoin cannot work’ all miss the point.

It is already working.