Tando.me

https://tando.me/

Tando lets you easily spend bitcoin anywhere in Kenya. As easy as M-Pesa, but cheaper! ⚡

Public Key

npub1tand04svfdhrt7lhg6687fh0y2xvxfpr9nkkj27rqfrxfpeklldsp48sax

NIP-05 Address

Tando.me@tando.me

NIP-57 Address

tando@geyser.fund

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs97ekh6cxykm34l0m5ddrlymhj9rxrys3jemtf90psy3nysum0lkcvrgxmd

Author Public Key

npub1tand04svfdhrt7lhg6687fh0y2xvxfpr9nkkj27rqfrxfpeklldsp48sax

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2025-04-14 11:04:39

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Kindly send me your lightning address for a refund.

2025-04-14 10:11:06

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Kindly send us your app ID & we’ll look into it

2025-04-03 06:20:23

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It's a fairly simple concept.
1. User inputs local fiat amount and recipient info.
2. Tando computes BTC amount from users fiat input amount, and generates lightning invoice.
3. Once invoice is paid, we dispurse the fiat amount to the recipient.
4. Provide a receipt.
Done.

2025-04-01 18:42:50

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Not currently. But we’re happy to answer any questions, our DMs are open⚡️

2025-03-31 09:49:58

Tando just smashed 10,000 completed transactions🥳! To celebrate this achievement we’re giving away 10,000 sats⚡️
Here’s how to enter:
1. Follow us if you haven’t already
2. Like & Repost this post
3. For an extra chance to win, share a screenshot of your Tando transaction with the hashtag #Tando10K.
4. Tag 2 friends in the comments who need to start spending #bitcoin!
⚡️ Let’s GO!⚡️ Huge love to the Tando community, you’re making bitcoin spending a movement. This is just the beginning!
If anyone outside of Kenya wants to participate, you too can download Tando and just send a small amount of sats to the phone number: 717006925
Let's run it back turbo to 21,000🚀
Happy New Week💚
#10k #bitcoin #milestone
https://m.primal.net/PzNP.mp4

2025-02-18 15:28:47

Were you really at @nprofile…vrpg if you didn’t spend some bitcoin at Pick-n-Pay? Huge shoutout to the @nprofile…49rf team and @nprofile…lfqf for making this possible, it’s so smooth and honestly addictive!
We’re super bullish on any Bitcoin product that integrates seamlessly into daily life and makes bitcoin spending effortless⚡️🧡
And a big shoutout to @nprofile…4gce from @nprofile…w90h for this dope track🔥
Stay Bullish⚡️
https://m.primal.net/PBiI.mov

2025-01-28 12:51:56

We had the pleasure of sharing our story at the @nprofile…y34w.
Our presentation focused on Bitcoin as a Medium of Exchange across Africa... 🧵👇
https://image.nostr.build/b40df1b8e93b85be0c1e8e583bc4964c807d147bae80b0626d3f55584ae321aa.jpg
...and emphasized the importance of Listening and not Lecturing when talking to people about Bitcoin. https://image.nostr.build/7b57a95e7a5bbf103738c38674f260aebdd3dbb76461f754c44b7e6abd89a318.jpg
Tando was born from this very act of listening during our efforts to orange-pill Kenyans. At the time, we made it a habit to tip service providers in Bitcoin. Without fail, there was one question we kept hearing after the bitcoin hit their wallet: “How can I spend it?” https://image.nostr.build/dc7283f4902a2893598ca338ca75b0b84aad9101a7834e0ab0ba7a3ddec07522.jpg
We didn’t lecture them with responses like “HODL, don’t spend it!” or “You don’t spend your Bitcoin!” https://image.nostr.build/44db530a2146f876325b5a88360d7f199a5b6c9a27a9ebb2a649742b3a20278f.jpg
Instead, we listened, and what they were really asking for was an easy way to turn their bitcoin into basic necessities, a way to spend it. That’s how Tando came to be. https://image.nostr.build/9f56344403b4d427539126786f5a627670fdcd1e71fdca99a14bcd07cecb5f25.jpg
If you can only receive Bitcoin but can’t _easily_ spend it, then you’re trapped in the classic “chicken and egg” problem https://image.nostr.build/20181757ea9b1afb4c56b1818296521597dacecd3f5b2bff3724e75daa920aec.jpg
To break out of that eggshell, you need a tool that lets anyone easily spend their bitcoin, to transform into a fully grown chicken (aka a bitcoin circular economy). That’s where Tando comes in. https://image.nostr.build/a175fc9fd4b469044c8c600107619c633cb3f9cd71d2f479f131c6f00429643b.jpg
If Bitcoin is to become an everyday money, we need solutions that make spending it simple just like people simply spend their day-to-day fiat money. https://image.nostr.build/fcb9801634edf292fe8a4be753650dacf4f1562795dd6ea2545e90cc49e7a404.jpg
As bitcoiners, we need to listen instead of lecturing if we truly want to accelerate Bitcoin adoption. People are telling us what they need, all we have to do is listen! https://image.nostr.build/0caadc27c65de732be00aaaa2103725436a80973be567657af66b8c64385851f.jpg

2025-01-17 19:46:59

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Appreciate you!

2025-01-17 10:32:10

Murungi, on a road trip across East Africa from Tanzania 🇹🇿 to Uganda 🇺🇬 takes a pit stop in Kenya 🇰🇪 to gas up the car.
He pays for the fuel with bitcoin using Tando.
Digital energy money to pay for liquid energy. It's happening here in Kenya! https://video.nostr.build/567ff1a9e7f4a8dea2d5ca6fc149c017f56ff95e130b398b5b6f3de49c852e2f.mp4

2025-01-11 17:42:52

A clip from episode BTC216 where @nprofile…9dyf interviews @nprofile…wexp & @nprofile…8984 about the African Bitcoin Conference that took place in Nairobi, Kenya in December of 2024.
Erik explains how Tando makes it easy to spend bitcoin anywhere in Kenya and in doing so demonstrates that bitcoin can be used as a global money and infuse local economies with more revenue from this growing asset.
https://video.nostr.build/edc490f8851379d95498b7e7b582a71bbb9cb60fddf2b3652607fed6c960f2dc.mp4
See: https://tando.me/
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twdXOUbyMh8

2025-01-08 21:16:14

New version of Tando is now in app stores - version 1.1.9 - please upgrade at your earliest convenience!
What's new?
🔶Payment Confirmation screen improvements including:
🔸Show date & time of transaction (s/o @nprofile…fczh for this request)
🔸Fix a time zone bug when copying payment info to clipboard.
🔸A new Orange-Pill graphic to better communicate to merchants that bitcoin was the method of payment (s/o @nprofile…u3rp for this brilliant idea!). It's another “Proof of Spend” touch-point as @nprofile…vqfk likes to call it.
🔸Improve layout to organize the information better.
🔸Increase clarity of the successful status of payment
(s/o to the @bitcoin.design event at the ABC Conference for connecting us with a local designer to work on these improvements!)
🔶Redesign Transaction History to use cards (instead of a table) adding more information at a quick glance.
🔶Fix QR scanner bug
🔶Fix phone number input bug
🔶Add support for the newer phone number formats starting with 01
🔶Improved app performance monitoring
🔶Further improve payment reliability
🔶Server improvements & optimizations
https://image.nostr.build/3e8df644d901cc6921d8b4ba4fab9fba98c569ea05470062978d37cad819bceb.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/f542265b24232d84a2a7770aa5b5ab83ee68ed084b087bae254f237861efeaad.jpg

2024-12-31 10:41:39

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You did all that with a thick coat of fur and sunglasses!?! Impressive.

2024-12-31 10:36:58

Naomi visited the village last week and wanted to spend some bitcoin, so she went to the nearest shop. Of course, they don’t accept bitcoin directly (yet), but luckily, we have @nprofile…540s! Watch how easy it is to spend bitcoin anywhere in Kenya! 🇰🇪
https://video.nostr.build/37e03725173e6299401f44df45bdef28be51c3cdd5d57ab13e61455b93762a57.mp4

2024-12-30 11:40:08

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Thanks for the invite! 😠😅

2024-12-29 18:08:53

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A lil something like this perhaps
@#note1rrp…wepf

2024-12-29 15:08:30

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Interesting. Can't even search for the item:
#naddr1qq…2tk2
https://image.nostr.build/b766e7bb4b705108ad703c9b8989b7f2baedbaa975955488c2b02f24a1208c77.jpg

2024-12-29 15:00:16

#asknostr
Wrote this note/reply using Amethyst
#note16mu…2mep
Scrolling @npub1yzv…rf8q and the reply wasn't showing (about an hour later) as a comment on the original post:
#nevent1q…hsnv
If I search for it using the note ID I can see it. Relays should all be the same, as I'm using the same account in both.
https://image.nostr.build/40841d6d569401901d921ce4c65f2e6bddf25a197ab35397572302422f2a56f1.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/0db3d67451248f17a696f828e4ac3ba4b1630fd70175e0c1586d2af3fe3b3c03.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/c902d7fb2804248db69a8797b8e1b488c6ff02c6e96063ff014a3e6640416e7e.jpg

2024-12-29 13:11:19

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Firewood you say?? You just gave me an idea!
#nevent1q…c30s

2024-12-28 18:13:26

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I don't have fiat. Don't need it anymore.

2024-12-28 12:19:04

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Having flashbacks.

2024-12-28 12:01:21

Just Yakihonne'd a video. Curious to see how it shows up in other nostr clients. #naddr1qq…2tk2

2024-12-28 10:44:51

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@nprofile…fslc or @nprofile…9dyf do you know anyone that can chime in here on @nprofile…5zx8 pricing in Kenya? Would like to support the project you lightly shill... just at the same price as everyone else. 😄

2024-12-28 10:24:22

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Y'all have 6-legged goats in TZ?? On my way!

2024-12-28 10:22:58

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Incredible! Would love to learn more. What are some other examples in which Tando has made trade easier for you, and opened doors?

2024-12-28 09:36:19

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For reals??? That's soo cool!

2024-12-28 09:35:49

Why we do what we do!
#nevent1q…5k6e

2024-12-28 09:34:00

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Pretty easy, right?

2024-12-20 05:20:46

Considering @npub12vk…pugg premium for video uploads, why ya gotta do us dirty like that @npub16c0…6nvr ? 😂
just kidding. I'm sure it's probably just some 3rd party currency conversion API gone rogue.
$80 USD vs $92 USD/KES
https://m.primal.net/NBPW.png
https://m.primal.net/NBPX.png
https://m.primal.net/NBPY.png

2024-09-04 11:53:39

Swag status.
https://image.nostr.build/342273c0ff7980e1dfe43c99e76dda8205676a4ca539bcb224e87273cebeef46.jpg
https://geyser.fund/project/tando/posts/view/3469

2024-08-31 13:38:41

Running Tando https://image.nostr.build/09fef1f3bb05a6c4bbe6fc1c3bad4472a2231fef53b357e53301e81f57d80372.jpg

2024-08-21 11:40:28

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Yesterday we had a person in Nigeria that needed to send money to a person in Kenya.
They entered the Kenyan recipients phone number into Tando's app, set the amount of KSH they wanted to send him, and then paid the lightning invoice the app generated, and within 15 seconds the Nigerian sent Kenyan shillings into Kenya. Thanks to magic internet money!

2024-08-17 20:12:13

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Pay Bill is another payment type we handle as well. These are typically for things like utilities where the company has their account number, but you as a customer have your own account number with them. Imagine a water utility or ISP that needs to credit your account payment to your balance.
Payment flow is almost identical to Till (ie Buy Goods) except there's one additional field to enter: your customer account number.
And lastly 3rd payment type is P2P, for mobile to mobile transfers. Paying friends, or buying street food etc from individual entrepreneurs/hustlers that don't have their own till number account. Boda-boda (local motorcycle taxi drivers) is a good example of a vendor that use this payment method primarily.
So ya, you can process every transaction type in the country paying with any bitcoin lightning wallet using Tando.

2024-08-17 20:00:55

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Stores apply for a business account with Safaricom -- the owner of the Mpesa mobile money network in Kenya. Safaricom assigns them a 6-7 digit till number, to which customers can send funds from their own mobile money accounts.
Yes customers would need our app, or eventually the PWA web version.
Our app gets a paid receipt string back from the mpesa service which we display in the app once funds are sent, and on the merchants end they see the same receipt string in their POS terminal. Customers will typically show that string to the cashier who verifies it matches the string (& amount) they were sent from Mpesa, and if they match, transaction is completed.

2024-08-16 20:21:55

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Merchants don't need to change anything about how they do business today.
At any store in the country I can just key in the bill amount and their 7-digit store ID, I get a lightning invoice to pay. Once I pay, they receive Kenyan shillings. Easy & Fast.
https://youtube.com/shorts/tky6_rB2M4M

2024-08-16 11:58:54

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https://media1.tenor.com/m/AwL3at9ZKNAAAAAd/picard.gif

2024-08-16 11:53:11

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Yeah that's my leaning as well as a bitcoiner. But glad to hear others takes as well in case I'm too biased. 👍

2024-08-16 11:51:04

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Here's a video of someone in Kenya using the app to send his mom the local currency, but spending from Wallet of Satoshi.
https://x.com/Bitcoinchama/status/1824008899030098062

2024-08-16 09:48:00

Yo @nprofile…ljjn I've got an interesting question for you about BTCMap...
Is the intention to display all businesses that accept BTC?
OR
Is the intention to display all businesses where you can spend BTC?
The subtle difference there could open up many more listings. With apps like what we are building with Tando, or similarly Bringin, BitcoinJungle, Mt Pelerin, Opago, Lipa, etc.... we are seeing more tools that let people spend, but the receiver doesn't even know Bitcoin is being used by the payer.
In a few days, we will publicly launch Tando which turns all 100,000+ business in all of Kenya into a biz you can spend bitcoin at. From street vendors to shopping malls, spend sats anywhere, easily.
So the question is, how does that affect BTCMap when the entire country of Kenya is orange for sats spenders?
I imagine most users of BTCmap want to know where they can spend?
https://image.nostr.build/07f8fc830c144905ecf66cc6b9840f44284e8939dc2c03c34a761f87326033ce.jpg

2024-08-14 13:31:44

How it started. How it's going.
https://image.nostr.build/eb40fe866120c6519411e9f5f37af826be755106ecb277af727d4d3d4d119669.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/1c4179c024722a6ace8f58a674dfc22b7dc54ec413c88361daab3aff995e61e2.jpg

2024-08-08 17:57:48

🔔Main Engine Start... another @nprofile…f2t4 update on our latest progress.
geyser.fund/entry/3402

2024-08-01 09:36:46

Am I going crazy @nprofile…mh4h or were you recently offering an NWC workshop video? Did it happen? Did I miss it?
https://supertestnet.org/workshops.html

2024-07-30 10:12:34

1000%
NGL, the sats are a huge motivator. To think someone else once held those precious sats, and bestowed them upon us in the hopes we push Bitcoin forward in our own way is the best kinda of burden and motivation to keep pushing!
#nevent1q…jjec

2024-07-29 13:24:25

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That was amazing! Gary is such a good teacher.

2024-07-29 09:57:16

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Since you asked, we release the first public version of Tando to a small group of testers and they went absolutely wild, running tests we ourselves had not even tested yet!
They all successfully spent bitcoin in Kenya at businesses that don't even accept BTC (yet)! It's real! 🥹
Greasing up the flywheel of the bitcoin circular economy!
https://image.nostr.build/2941a66aa17eff3dd1edb4c9cbe090d45ba97021bcfed2f78856526d40eefff5.jpg

2024-07-24 13:57:39

Is anyone working on a nostr based customer support ticket system? Like a ZenDesk or FreshDesk, but nostrized?

2024-07-18 11:15:11

GM.
We're getting ⚠️ dangerously close ⚠️ to having an app that will let ANYONE spend bitcoin ANYWHERE in Kenya. Exciting AF!
Latest progress update:
https://geyser.fund/entry/3358
Project campaign page:
https://geyser.fund/project/tando

2024-07-13 10:27:26

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Confirmed!
So cool. 🙏🏿 https://image.nostr.build/240a3a1ed56e3b579794ff612055f460897c33a5bc7a4273cfbfd34b1ff6070f.jpg

2024-07-13 10:24:53

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GM. It's giving Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves vibes, from Porto 🇵🇹
https://image.nostr.build/cc8f2365839746e7d81c016a2cb5e775bd3d53bbd587d68c849614fb2d977ae1.jpg

2024-07-13 10:18:31

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Just connected our Geyser lightning address as our zap address to test.
https://geyser.fund/project/tando for more info

2024-07-12 07:57:45

Feeling grateful!! Today Tando nearly broke into the Top 10 of African projects on @nprofile…a4h6 . Just 387,621 sats away from being in the Top 10. Feeling blessed to be in the company of so many other legends! Let's do this fam!
https://geyser.fund/project/tando
Thanks to all contributors!
https://image.nostr.build/c9b7ad6e597932b20a908742c61f2092c126e34fae9677ad2d547f9d8e13b4b4.png

2024-07-10 19:11:02

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One of the more creative formats for a podcast! 👏

2024-07-05 04:03:21

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Someone more clever than me on X dubbed them sauerkraut hands. 🇩🇪

2024-06-15 07:43:22

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Hop down to Nairobi, much cooler. Or better yet, come hang in December for Africa Bitcoin Conference!
https://afrobitcoin.org/

2024-06-09 11:36:39

Tando Progress Update 001
https://geyser.fund/entry/3216

2024-05-29 14:39:54

One of our @npub1kmw…xqk9 rewards is an in-app shoutout. Here's a mockup of what it might look like with a few of the first contributors listed.
https://image.nostr.build/0ffed92c46c65ed9ad32d242f7d779cd9d76ee96b02c86a334bd477a0c940cc8.jpg
Feedback?
@npub1epn…d0hm, @npub1f8k…aaju, @npub1ekq…q22r
Who else should be listed? 🤔😉
Claim your spot here!
geyser.fund/project/tando

2024-05-09 11:57:17

Aaaand we're live on @npub1kmw…xqk9!
Turning Kenya orange! Tando.me is an app that lets anyone spend bitcoin ANYWHERE in Kenya!
Check it out: https://geyser.fund/project/tando
M-pesa is the most dominant mobile payments network in Africa with over 90% of the population using it for day-to-day spending. Tando will let anyone send sats over M-pesa payment rails.
✅ Bitcoin as a Store of Value
✅ Bitcoin as a Medium of Exchange
Check out the campaign to see our progress so far, and if you can contribute sats, we'd greatly appreciate your support!

2024-04-25 20:36:50

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I thought that was the idea behind CivKit @npub1vtl…jrhd ?