Bitcoin Adoptions.org

Our Compass

Peer-to-peer electronic cash, in real hands.

The Bitcoin-in-a-heart with two doves — our shared mark, our ethos, and the team that carries it into the neighbourhood.

Your keys. Your neighbour. Your economy.

True North

One bearing. Every decision navigates from it.

“A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.”
— Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin white paper (2008)

That sentence is our compass. Whenever a decision is unclear — which tool to use, which partner to back, which shortcut to refuse — we orient to that line. Directly from one party to another. No financial institution in the middle.

Three principles. That's it.

01

The Hero's Journey

Every person who walks out of permissioned money is a hero. They leave the old system, face the unknown, and come back with something real for their family and community. Our job is to walk beside them — first wallet, first sats received, first payment made.

02

Peer-to-peer, no trusted third party

The white paper's core: value moves directly from one person to another, with no bank, no processor, no permission slip in the middle. Every onboarding, every merchant, every payment we help with has to honour that line — or it isn't the work.

03

Self-custody as dignity

Your keys, your coins, your agency. Self-custody isn't a feature — it's the precondition for everything else we believe in. We don't onboard people into custodial wrappers and call it adoption.

Traits to embody

What we carry into every room.

  • Radical Accountability

    We carry the weight of our partners' outcomes — adoption, resilience, freedom — as if they were our own.

  • Unyielding Protective Instinct

    We stand between our community and fragile money, extractive systems, and isolation.

  • Proactive Decisiveness

    In a P2P circular economy, hesitation costs adoption. We ship, we onboard, we connect.

  • Deep Empathy

    Every business, individual, and merchant we touch is a neighbour — not a metric.

Failure modes

Named out loud, so we catch them.

  • Savior Complex

    We are a relay, not a rescuer. If the work depends entirely on us, we've already failed.

  • Tunnel Vision

    Never sacrifice the people in front of you for the mission behind them.

  • Sunk Cost Fallacy

    No matter how far down the wrong road you have travelled, turn back.

  • Compromising Tools

    You cannot use corrupt, unethical means to achieve a righteous outcome.

How we show up

Three ways the compass becomes work.

Our flagship — the First Sats Session — is how the compass becomes work in 30 minutes flat. See the program →

Onboard people to self-custody

Sit-down sessions to set up a self-custody wallet, back up the recovery words, and take a first peer-to-peer payment. No bank, no custodian, no KYC.

Promote Bitcoin businesses

We promote the Bitcoin merchants and services already serving the community — so the people who benefit most actually find them.

Use Bitcoin Starter as the rail

Bitcoin Starter is the product we deploy underneath the work — country-personalized onboarding, one-QR Lightning merchant acceptance, open-source education, verified merchant and ATM maps.