Building the Tools That Make Bitcoin Usable

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A usable Bitcoin flow: a live app called Tando lets people spend tiny amounts — a 15 shillings / 129 sats “taste” — then scale to big purchases (example shown: ~86,200 sats ≈ 10,000 shillings). Tando integrates with local mobile money (Empessa integration), produces instant receipts, and completes cross‑border sends (demo: 2k sent from South Africa to Kenya). Design notes: optimize for low‑end phones like an Infin Hot 7 and for daily, small, irregular incomes.

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1. 0:00Building Bitcoin tools
2. 1:26Why try Bitcoin first
3. 6:45Localizing Bitcoin
4. 13:14Device limits for adoption
5. 15:41Bridging Bitcoin use
6. 17:04Sending Bitcoin to Kenya

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