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

nprofile1qqs97ekh6cxykm34l0m5ddrlymhj9rxrys3jemtf90psy3nysum0lkcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsvc7rr8

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relay.damus.io

Author Public Key

npub1tand04svfdhrt7lhg6687fh0y2xvxfpr9nkkj27rqfrxfpeklldsp48sax

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Last Notes

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

2024-07-12 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 ?