Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2024
2024-01-26..2024-01-28
Cape Town, South Africa
[Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2024, Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2025, Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2026]
who it's for
community organisers and activists, wallet developers, lightning developers, bitcoin protocol developers, ngo program managers, legal and policy advocates, researchers and educators
topics
taproot assets tokenization; Liquid sidechain tokenization; Lightning instant payments; SIM toolkit hardware wallets; OTC peer-to-peer marketplace; circular bitcoin economies; bitcoin for remittances; bitcoin and energy myths; jan3 AQUA wallet features; layer 2s for global south; bitcoin as digital commodity; bitcoin and human rights
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Poem | Masai Sepuru | 10m |
An impromptu poetry slam opens Day 2 with a mythic poem about a god sacrificing wings, a mother’s choice, and “hidden pages,” delivered after a last‑minute… | ||
| Understanding Why Bitcoin, Not Crypto | Dale Warburton | 22m |
Argues Bitcoin is a digital commodity with a fixed 21 million cap, proof‑of‑work mining and real energy cost of production, recognised by SEC/CTFC and now… | ||
| Fiat. Addiction. Bitcoin. | Hermann Buhr-Vivier | 22m |
Claim that debt-based fiat will die and the project already treats that as inevitable, fundraising in Bitcoin since 2021 and using those funds to pay salaries… | ||
| Taproot Assets | Oliver Gugger | 18m |
Taproot Assets defines a Taproot-based overlay to issue and track tokens on Bitcoin, claiming to make stablecoins Lightning-native so fiat can route through… | ||
| JAN3 and AQUA wallet | Ben Van Hool | 20m |
JAN3 launches the beta AQUA wallet (Jan 3, 2024) as a non-custodial mobile wallet with on‑chain BTC, Liquid BTC and Liquid USDt, Android/iOS apps, one 12/24… | ||
| CivKit | Ray Youssef | 24m |
CivKit is a Bitcoin‑centered protocol that aims to create an OTC peer‑to‑peer marketplace for any currency or payment method, pairing a marketplace with three… | ||
| The Legandary Super Saiyan | Kgothatso Ngako | 26m |
Demonstrates sending Bitcoin over GSM (SMS/USSD) with phone numbers as Lightning addresses like phone@83.mobi, uses Java Card / SIM Toolkit applets to make the… | ||
| Social Drivers of Bitcoin Adoption | John Endres | 23m |
South Africa faces sharp state failure—41% unemployment, GDP per capita down since 2008 and growth averaging 1.2%—driving private solutions: private schools… | ||
| Layer 2s: Fairer Bitcoin for the Global South | Byron Hambly | 18m |
Shows that Layer 2s cut real costs: onchain spikes hit 600 sats/vbyte (~$40 priority fees) while Liquid runs 1-minute blocks and confidential transactions with… | ||
| Poem on Debt | Masai Sepuru | 08m |
A spoken poem links personal discovery at a Bitcoin conference to the shame of debt, arguing financial institutions thrive by requiring indebtedness and that… | ||
| How Can We Underthrow Government? | Michael Strong | 22m |
Argues that freeing capital with Bitcoin and building private, competitive institutions actually shrinks government power: cites Bitcoin as legal currency in… | ||
| Currency of Change | Lorraine Marcel | 20m |
A nonprofit launched in 2021 called Bitcoin Dada trains African women in financial education and uses Bitcoin for remittances, privacy, micro-payments and… | ||
| Travelling 40 Countries Using Bitcoin | Paco | 25m |
Crowdfunded travel documents and on‑the‑ground receipts show Bitcoin used to pay for food, shoes, hotels and a replacement phone after a Johannesburg mugging… | ||
| Bitcoin & Energy - Debunking The Myths | Abe Cambridge | 16m |
Presents real-world data from Sun Exchange and claims one BTC can finance ~82 kW of solar, whose lifetime output (2.83 GWh) exceeds the embodied energy per BTC… | ||
| Bitcoin gives you the Keys to your own Kingdom | OKIN | 35m |
Shows a field-tested path: podcast monetized via Podcasting 2.0 and Breeze to get paid in Bitcoin; EasySats vouchers cut buy-in fees from ~300 ZAR to ~20 ZAR… | ||
| Bitcoin & Human Rights | Arsh Molu | 14m |
Human Rights Foundation describes concrete programs: the Bitcoin Development Fund disburses about $3.7M to 120 open source projects in 3.5 years (20% in… | ||
| Announcement: Circular BTC Fund | Hermann Buhr-Vivier | 08m |
Announcement reveals one Bitcoin donated by Bitcoin Beach to seed circular-economy pilots, with two named recipients — Bitcoin Victoria Falls (Zambia) and… | ||
| From the Philippines to El Salvador: the HODL Paradox | Rikki | 29m |
A pilot boots a Lightning-based payment network on Boracay with Pouch, onboarding 250 merchants and a branded office, but six months later less than half still… | ||
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