Everyday Bitcoin.
Afribit Pay is a non-custodial Bitcoin wallet that speaks M-Pesa. Buy sats with the money you already have, hold your own keys, and pay any till or Lightning invoice from one app.
Pre-launch · Built in Kibera, Nairobi
WTotal balance
125,500sats
≈ KES 1,255
It is live. Tap the scan button.
Spending Bitcoin here still takes two apps.
You buy sats in an exchange app. Then you cash out through a second app to actually pay for anything, because the duka, the matatu and the water point all run on M-Pesa.
Two logins. Two balances. Fees on the way in, fees on the way out. And the whole time, your coins sit in someone else's custody, not yours.
App one
The exchange
App two
The money app
Afribit Pay
One app. Both rails.
Buy with M-Pesa, hold your own keys, and pay Lightning or a till number from the same balance. The rail becomes a detail.
Every screen, in motion.
Eight screens, one wallet. Scroll and each one steps up to the camera.
WTotal balance
125,500sats
≈ KES 1,255
Detected automatically
Mama Njeri · Till 832 445
Toi Market · KES 250
Paying
Mama Njeri
M-Pesa till 832 445 · Toi Market
You send
25,000 sats
They receive KES 250
Hold for one second to settle
Paid. Settled.
Mama Njeri · KES 250 · 25,000 sats
1.4 seconds · Lightning → M-Pesa
The till got shillings. You never gave up your keys.
To
Try one
Anyone can pay you at this address
You pay with M-Pesa
KES500
≈ 50,000 sats
01 · 08
Your money, at a glance
Sats and shillings in one balance. The scan button is the whole interface.
Pay a till with sats. Right now.
This is not a video. Every screen is the real flow, wired up. Pay Mama Njeri's till, then try Send, Receive and Buy from the home screen. The balance remembers everything you do.
Demo data · Confirmation and settlement screens designed in-system
WTotal balance
125,500sats
≈ KES 1,255
Live demo
You holdthe keys
Non-custodial is not a feature on a list. It is the whole deal. Money that answers to you alone, on a phone in your pocket, in a neighbourhood where trust is earned face to face.
Keys live on your phone
The wallet generates your keys on your device and they never leave it. Afribit Pay is an app, not an account.
We never touch your sats
There is no company balance sheet holding customer coins. Nothing for us to freeze, lend out, or lose.
Walk away whenever
Your twelve words restore your money in any standard wallet. Loyalty should be earned, not locked in.
Your twelve words · not ours
Written on paper, kept at home. If your phone drowns in the rains, your money does not.
Built where it gets used.
Afribit did not arrive in Kibera with an app. It arrived with classes, market days and patient conversations, onboarding merchants and paying sats for real work long before this product had a name.
Afribit Pay is that experience, folded into software. Every screen answers a question someone actually asked at a stall, in a chama meeting, or over mandazi and chai.
Photography from the community is being gathered now
Everyday Bitcoin is almost here.
Nothing to download yet, and that is the point. Get in before launch and help shape what ships.
Goes straight to eddie@afribit.africa