MoneyBadger Expands Bitcoin Merchant Payments Across South Africa
Bitcoin payment availability expanded across South Africa during July as MoneyBadger reached all 89 Bootlegger Coffee stores and integrated with Peach Payments. The developments connected Bitcoin payments to a larger base of mainstream merchants rather than isolated Bitcoin-only businesses.
During July 2025, South African Bitcoin payments expanded through a pair of related merchant-infrastructure developments involving MoneyBadger. BTC Map's July update documented Bitcoin acceptance across all 89 Bootlegger Coffee locations, while on July 28 Peach Payments announced that its partnership with MoneyBadger had gone live, allowing participating merchants using Peach's payments infrastructure to offer supported digital-asset payment options.
MoneyBadger's role was to bridge Bitcoin and merchant payment systems so customers could pay from compatible wallets while merchants received a conventional settlement experience. The Peach Payments integration was important because it moved the capability beyond individually integrated Bitcoin merchants and into a broader payment-service-provider channel. That reduced the amount of custom technical work a merchant would need to undertake to experiment with Bitcoin payments.
Together, the Bootlegger rollout and Peach Payments integration showed how Bitcoin-payment acceptance could scale through existing merchant infrastructure rather than through thousands of isolated integrations. Recognizable consumer businesses and a conventional payment-service-provider channel were being connected to Bitcoin spending while merchants retained familiar settlement processes.