While having a meeting as Bitcoin Boma team in Malawi sometime ago, we discussed how important it is to target both rural and urban areas. And I being based in the rural, I got inspired to get the people around me orange-pilled, including farmers.

In my community, I’ve taken it upon myself to orange-pill farmers, who are often left out of the traditional financial systems. I started by having casual chats at the market, explaining how Bitcoin can help them preserve value and regain freedom.

What really sparked interest was showing them how easy it is to earn and spend sats. I demonstrated with custodial services like WoS and particularly simple tool Machankura, which works on basic phones via USSD. Suddenly, it clicked—no smartphones, no internet, no problem. Later, they'll hopefully start using self-custodial services. A few farmers began by accepting sats for their produce. One sold tomatoes; another, peanuts. I paid them in sats, then showed them how they could send those sats to a fellow farmer or use them to buy airtime.

Some were skeptical at first, but when they saw how fast and borderless sats moved, the excitement grew. We're trying to form a small sats groups, where they will support each other, ask questions, and explore more use cases. Today, some of them are confidently teaching others. The adoption continues, not through theory, but real, everyday use. It's slow but powerful. Sats will eventually become part of our local economy, one farmer at a time.